RadioShack's Bankruptcy Could Give Your Customer Data to the Highest Bidder
The phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and shopping habits of more than 100 million customers are part of RadioShack's bankruptcy auction … The remnants of RadioShack's retail empire went on the auction...
Sources: YouTube plans to relaunch live streaming service this year with a focus on gaming, taking on Twitch
YouTube to relaunch livestreaming service with focus on esports and gaming — YouTube is preparing to relaunch its livestreaming platform with a renewed focus on live gaming …
Google is working on a project that lets users receive and pay bills with debit or credit cards from Inbox app and Gmail, to debut in fourth quarter
Google Working on Project to Let You Receive and Pay Bills Directly Inside Gmail — Google's mission to organize the world's information is now targeting your physical mailbox.
Apple Watch sales training encourages employees to build trust with customers, so they can serve as fashion advisors during sale
Apple's sales overhaul for Apple Watch will focus on building trust, offering fashion views, upselling bands — The job of Apple Retail Store employees will begin changing in profound ways next month...
Apple Acquires Durable Database Company FoundationDB
Apple has acquired FoundationDB, a company that specializes in speedy, durable NoSQL databases, TechCrunch has learned. — A notice on the FoundationDB site notes that it's no longer offering downloa...
PS4 update brings suspend and resume, external HD backups, improved social features, and more
PS4 System Update 2.50 Available Tomorrow, Features Detailed — Tomorrow, PlayStation 4 will get an update to system software version 2.50, codenamed “Yukimura,” which will bring an onslaught of feat...
Facebook F8 App Confirms Messenger As A Platform, Parse For IoT
A notification just sent out by the official app for Facebook's F8 conference later today reads “The Garage and Demo areas are now open! Just revealed: Parse for IoT, Messenger as a Platform, and the...
Amazon blasts FAA for slowness on drone regulation, claims its recently cleared drone is already obsolete
Amazon blasts U.S. FAA for slowness on drone regulation — (Reuters) - E-commerce power Amazon.com blasted federal regulators on Tuesday for being slow to approve commercial drone testing …
Y Combinator's Sam Altman rebuts talk of bubble with a public wager that three tech portfolios will appreciate sharply by 2020
Bubble talk — I'm tired of reading about investors and journalists claiming there's a bubble in tech. I understand that it's fun to do and easy press, but it's boring reading.
Review: Fantastical 2 for Mac graduates to a full calendar replacement w/ Yosemite widget+extension, much more
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac :
Microsoft: Office will be free for devices under 10 inches
Microsoft drew a line in the sand on Tuesday, as its Office 365 chief said that editing and viewing documents on small-screen devices would continue to be free—likely killing off the idea of a small-s...
Microsoft tweaks browser strategy for Windows 10: Spartan will include Edge rendering engine, while IE 11 will include Trident
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet :
47 Startups That Launched At Y Combinator Winter 2015 Demo Day 2
Y Combinator got so big, it had to split its Demo Day in two. During today's second wave we saw a variety of promising biotech, marketplace, enterprise, and financial tech startups. Yesterday we chr...
Tennessee sues FCC for its right to enforce law preventing municipal broadband expansion
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :
Hands on with Hyundai's BlueLink car companion app for Android Wear: requires paid subscription and cumbersome PIN, voice commands offer limited functionality
Can A Smartwatch Make Your Car Smarter? A Week With Hyundai's BlueLink For Android Wear — If you own a reasonably modern car …
Nextdoor, the social network for neighbors, is becoming a home for racial profiling
As Meredith Ahlberg ushered friends into her home in East Oakland's Ivy Hill neighborhood for a party on a Saturday in early March, she noticed that her phone was lighting up with notifications. Tweet...
‘Threat-sharing’ cybersecurity bill introduced in U.S. House
Patricia Zengerle / Reuters :
FAA streamlines approval for some commercial drone use
David Morgan / Reuters :
Google Fiber announces Salt Lake City expansion, making it the eighth location to get the service
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :
Telefonica announces deal to sell British telcom O2 to Hong Kong's Hutchison Whampoa for £9.25B cash, with an additional £1B if cash-flow targets are hit
Wall Street Journal :
HP dumps Apple's Beats audio, partners with Bang & Olufsen
Bang & Olufsen audio on its machines Chris Burns / SlashGear : HP teams up with Bang & Olufsen for audio tuning
Facebook introduces On This Day, a Timehop-like page that shows you posts, photos, other content that happened on this day in the past, offers notifications
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Ars Technica obtains the Oakland Police Department's database of 4.6M license plate scans through a public records request
Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica :
Intuit acquires Playbook HR for QuickBooks Online Self-Employed
Rachel King / ZDNet :
Lexmark Buys Software Maker Kofax at 47% Premium in $1B Deal
Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily :
HubSpot acquires Google Ventures-backed social graph startup ReKindle; service closing today
Dennis Keohane / BetaBoston :
Facebook is in talks with several media firms, including Vice, The Onion, and Vox Media, to produce high quality short-form sponsored videos
The Information : See also Mediagazer
AI-powered law for startups
Soxton automates startup legal so founders can move faster and sleep better. We handle incorporation, advisor, employment and commercial contracts. Join the waitlist for early access!
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.