Google, Intel and TAG Heuer Partner on Luxury Smartwatch
Watch industry, consider yourself warned — Swiss watchmaker TAG Heuer is creating a smartwatch in partnership with American technology firm Google. The watch is an attempt to compete with devices b...
Apple Store retail plan for Watch: 15-minute appointments, at least 10 try-on stations, some employees dedicated to assisting Edition buyers
Apple Store retail plan for Watch: 15 min. appointments, 10+ try-on stations, Experts for Edition — Apple will introduce several major initiatives …
Target agrees to $10M settlement in class-action suit for 2013 data breach, up to $10K/person
Target agrees to pay $10 million to data breach victims — MINNEAPOLIS — Target has agreed to pay $10 million under a proposed settlement in a class-action lawsuit stemming from a massive 2013 data b...
Nintendo CEO talks about plans for smartphone games, says most will be developed in-house
Exclusive: Nintendo CEO Reveals Plans for Smartphones — It's official: Mario, Donkey Kong and Zelda will appear on smartphones and tablets at last—and that's just the start.
NYC has 14K cars affiliated with Uber, outnumbering 13.5K medallion cabs, 4 years after launch
More Uber cars than yellow taxis on the road in NYC — Black is the new yellow. — Uber has thrown down the gauntlet in the Big Apple taxi wars — overtaking the yellow-cab industry …
MSBuild Engine is now Open Source on GitHub
Today we are pleased to announce that MSBuild is now available on GitHub and we are contributing it to the .NET Foundation! The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is a platform for building application...
Windows 10 will come in 32-bit and 64-bit versions, supports phones up to 8 inches and requires that they have at least 512MB of RAM and 4GB of storage
Windows 10 hardware specs allow for huge phones and teeny tablets — If you thought the six-inch Lumia 1520 was a monster phone …
Alibaba's Jack Ma demos Smile to Pay app that validates mobile payments using facial recognition
Alibaba's Jack Ma shows off new ‘pay with a selfie’ technology — New facial recognition software is intended to buttress the fast-growing mobile-payments business.
French Government Starts Blocking Websites With Views The Gov't Doesn't Like
We had been noting, in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in France, how the country that then held a giant “free speech” rally appeared to be, instead, focusing on cracking down on free speech at ...
China Unicom & China Telecom will sell iPad Air 2, iPad mini 3 cellular models for first time
China Unicom and China Telecom announced today that they will start selling the iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3 to customers starting March 27. This is the first time the carriers …
Opera Buys SurfEasy To Add Secure VPN Services To Its Browser Software
Opera, makers of a suite of software for browsing the web on mobile and desktop devices used by some 350 million consumers, has made another acquisition to build out the services it offers to users.
Vine for iOS will now preload videos for you to watch while offline
When you open Vine, you want to see great Vines, fast. Devindra Hardawar / Engadget : Vine will now load videos faster on iPhone — even when you're offline Roberto Baldwin / The Next Web : Vine videos...
Slack launches app for Windows 7 and above
Press the Start Button: Slack for Windows Has Arrived — Every week, hundreds of thousands of people all around the world sign into Slack from a web browser on Windows. Each of them is (we imagine) ...
Guardian, FT, CNN, Reuters, and Economist launch new programmatic advertising alliance Pangaea to take on Facebook and Google
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Acer Chromebook 15 review: great trackpad, performance, and battery life, looks clunky and cheap
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Leap launches private luxury commuter bus line in San Francisco with Wi-Fi, USB ports, food, and drinks
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T-Mobile promises rates won't rise, now paying Verizon Edge & AT&T Next bills for switchers, more
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Skype for Business will offer phone numbers to Office 365 users, available in preview this summer
and this is only the beginning Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet : Microsoft taps Polycom for Roundtable tool on Skype for Business Chris Crum / WebProNews : What To Expect From Skype For Business Simon Sharw...
Former Facebook employee Chia Hong sues company for sex discrimination, sexual harassment, represented by law firm representing Ellen Pao in KPCB suit
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After Six Months of Rejections, Launcher Returns to the App Store
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Yahoo to close Beijing research center, its only office in China, and to lay off 350+ employees
Adrian Wan / South China Morning Post :
Ad tech firm AppNexus acquires rival Yieldex for $100M+ in cash-and-stock deal
Telis Demos / Wall Street Journal :
IBM's OpenPower project takes strides with first commercial server
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For coffee delivery, Starbucks will use Postmates in Seattle and baristas in New York City
Today is a big day for us at Postmates. Fred Wilson / AVC : Same Day/Same Hour Delivery Jason Del Rey / Re/code : Starbucks Delivery Is Real and It's Coming to Seattle and the Empire State Building Ka...
Amazon Will Shut Down Amazon Webstore, Its Competitor to Shopify and Bigcommerce
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Indian Music And Movie Streaming Firm Hungama Is Raising $100 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 …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.