Samsung to use Touch ID-like fingerprint sensor in Galaxy S6 instead of swipe-based sensor
Exclusive: Samsung opts for a touch-based fingerprint sensor for the Galaxy S6 — A smartphone is one of the most personal devices a human being can own, and it's one of those devices where compromis...
Elon Musk planning low-orbit Internet satellite system to compete with OneWeb, based out of SpaceX's new Seattle office
Revealed: Elon Musk's Plan to Build a Space Internet — Because he doesn't have enough going on, Elon Musk—he of Tesla Motors, SpaceX, SolarCity, and the Hyperloop—is launching another project.
CIA review panel exonerates CIA personnel who searched Senate Intelligence Committee computers
CIA Review Board Clears Spy Agency of Wrongdoing in Senate Hack — The new report contradicts earlier statements from the agency. — A CIA review panel announced Wednesday it had cleared …
Sources: Google is interested in buying mobile payments company Softcard, price could be less than $100M
Google Is In Talks With Mobile Payments Company Softcard — Apple has Apple Pay, and now it looks like Google may be fattening up its own wallet.
Google makes it easier to buy tickets for live events, straight from search results and Maps
Google has inked a deal with live event companies Ticketfly, Ticketmaster and AXS to integrate sales for live shows into its Search and Google Maps search results on mobile or desktop, as well as with...
How Google Search is using Knowledge Graph, Voice Search, and Google Now to transition to the mobile dominant world
How Google Search Dealt With Mobile — Google's flagship product has been part of our lives for so long that we take it for granted. But Google doesn't.
Facebook Messenger tests Google Voice-style transcriptions for sound clips
Another victory in the war against voicemail — Voicemail is one of the least efficient ways of communicating, and yet a form of it survives in many messaging apps. Facebook added voice clips to Fac...
DoJ acknowledges DEA kept records of Americans' international calls, suspended program in September 2013
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Alibaba is beta testing DingTalk, a communications app for small and medium sized businesses
Alibaba's latest mobile messaging effort: social networking for businesses — (Reuters) - China's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N), the world's biggest e-commerce company …
Republicans introduce net neutrality legislation which would strip rule-making power from the FCC, avoid a major reclassification of broadband service
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Palantir was valued at $15B in November, making it the third most valuable VC-backed company
Palantir Raising More Money After Tagged With $15 Billion Valuation — Palantir Technologies, one of the more secretive companies in Silicon Valley, was valued at $15 billion in November …
UK and US to stage “cyber attack war games” involving commercial banks to test critical national infrastructure
Obama backs call for tech backdoors
President Obama wants a backdoor to track people's social media messages. — The president on Friday came to the defense of British Prime Minister David Cameron's call for tech companies to create ho...
As Xbox One leads December console sales in US, Microsoft drops price to $349 again
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AT&T closes $2.5B deal for Mexican wireless carrier Iusacell
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NY Gov. Cuomo proposes broadband expansion program offering up to $500M in public funds to ISPs willing to match the state's investment
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Holtzbrinck Ventures Closes $331M Fund To Back More Consumer And E-Commerce Startups
One of the more prolific VCs in Europe with close ties to e-commerce startup factory Rocket Internet has closed another fund — its biggest yet — to back more consumer internet businesses in the region...
Carpooling.com Teams Up With Uber In Germany For First And Last Mile Rides
Uber, the fast-growing, sometimes-controversial car-service business, has been no stranger to trouble in Germany, last year getting banned from operating certain services in big cities over regulatory...
Yahoo combines ad products into one unit, to be led by Prashant Fuloria, former executive at Google, Flurry, and Facebook
Giving Mobile-Focused Flurry Execs More Power Gina Hall / bizjournals : Yahoo shakes up advertising team to build more cohesive ad service Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch : Author Nicholas Carlson Tells U...
Sprint's Virgin Mobile launches new prepaid shared data plans at Walmart, with option for unlimited data in select apps for $5/month
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Facebook open sources deep learning tools; head of AI research pledges to “start building things in the open”
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Google joins PricewaterhouseCoopers in $2B bid to update US DoD's electronic-health-records system
Are patients getting the online tools they need? EHRintelligence.com : Google Joins PwC in Bid to Modernize DOD's EHR Infrastructure Jcurtis / cloudpro.co.uk : Google for Work set for US Department of...
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