Android Shipped 1 Billion Smartphones Worldwide in 2014
According to the latest research from our WSS (Smartphones) service, global smartphone shipments grew 30 percent annually to reach a record 1.3 billion units in 2014. Android accounted for 81 percent...
Jay-Z takes on Beats and Spotify with acquisition of music-streaming services Tidal and WiMP for $56M
Here's an interesting piece of acquisition news for a Friday morning: International rapping superstar Jay-Z is on the verge of buying Swedish company Aspiro AB — the firm that owns …
AOL To Lay Off About 150 People, Mostly In Sales; Folding Joystiq, TUAW Into Engadget
Some more details are emerging around AOL's reorganization plans. Sources tell us that the company will lay off around 150 people, with the majority in sales. As part of it, AOL is also consolidatin...
Google Agrees To Change Privacy Policy In Settlement With UK's Information Commissioner
While Google continues to work through the best implementation of Right To Be Forgotten legislation in Europe, some more developments in the area of consumer data and privacy.
Google's Q4 falls short of expectations with $14.5B revenue, on real estate purchases and slowing ad revenue growth
Google's fourth quarter misses mark — Summary:In what was supposed to be a strong quarter, Google's fourth quarter results missed the mark.
Google's search for sales, profit falls short
The search giant continues to pull in billions from its search and advertising business, even as the company looks for other ways to make money. — For the past few quarters, Google's finances have b...
China acknowledges targeting VPN services to foster the “healthy development” of the nation's internet, says VPNs are illegal
China Clamps Down Still Harder on Internet Access — BEIJING — Jing Yuechen, the founder of an Internet start-up here in the Chinese capital …
Secret Co-Founder Chrys Bader-Wechseler Steps Down Because It's Not About Design Anymore
One year after founding anonymish app Secret with fellow Googler David Byttow, Chrys Bader-Wechseler is leaving the company on amicable terms. He cites that Secret isn't about design and curation …
Prosecutors Trace $13.4M in Bitcoins From the Silk Road to Ulbricht's Laptop
If anyone still believes that bitcoin is magically anonymous internet money, the US government just offered what may be the clearest demonstration yet that it's not. A courtroom PowerPoint presentati...
Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile to collectively install a $32.5M 4G LTE upgrade to Chicago's subways
The big 4 carriers will bring LTE to Chicago's subways — 4G services are finally coming to Chicago's subways. Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile are collectively installing …
Verizon Wireless to Allow Complete Opt Out of Mobile ‘Supercookies’
Verizon Wireless, which has been under fire by privacy advocates since late last year, has decided to make a major revision to its mobile ad-targeting program. Users who do not want to be tracked wit...
Samsung may remove default add-ons from TouchWiz on Galaxy S6, make them downloadable instead
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Twitch hit 100M unique viewers in December 2014, more than double the 45M from a year ago
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OnePlus Will Reveal Details Of Its ‘Oxygen’ Android ROM On February 12
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Imgur introduces new tool to make high-quality GIFs from streaming video like YouTube
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FCC considers formal complaint process for reviewing paid peering deals
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FTC shuts down “revenge porn” operation, but imposes no fine
FTC blog posts don't usually come … The Huffington Post : U.S. Government Takes Unprecedented Action Against Revenge Porn Mike Masnick / Techdirt : Turns Out The FTC Was Paying Close Attention To Reve...
Delhi Uber passenger who alleges driver rape sues in U.S
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Facebook supplementing algorithms with direct questions to improve relevance of News Feed, currently testing with 600 people
Revealed: Facebook's Project to Find Out What People Really Want in Their News Feed — Every weekday beginning at around nine, 30 contracted white-collar laborers arrive …
The best Gmail app for the iPhone is now made by Microsoft
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FAA imposes 30-mile radius ban on drones around stadium hosting Super Bowl XLIX
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Amazon posts $214M profit, $0.45 EPS in Q4 2014 on $29.33B revenue; Prime membership grows 53% year over year
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Google's Nexus Player heading to Japan, its first market outside of North America
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Cyanogen's $70M+ round to include Microsoft as a minority investor
which hopes to take Android away from Google Bertel King, Jr / Android Police : Microsoft Invests Some Of Its Millions Into Cyanogen Inc. Phil Nickinson / Android Central : Microsoft reportedly invest...
CyLon, Europe's first cyber security incubator launches in London
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Spotify working with Goldman Sachs to raise $500M at possible $6B+ valuation; could delay IPO for another year
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VMware's vCloud Air to integrate Google's BigQuery analytics, Cloud Datastore, Cloud DNS, and Cloud Storage services
VMware And Google Cozy Up Dina Bass / Bloomberg Business : VMware Strikes Deal to Sell Google Cloud Services Its Customers Kevin McLaughlin / CRN : VMware, Google Teaming Up To Go After Microsoft's En...
The App Install Ad Boom Helps Tune Raise $27 Million
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Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements
2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
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