Microsoft's new Atom-based Surface 3, starting at $499, to hit in May
Summary:Microsoft's coming Surface 3, an Intel Atom x7-based Surface, is the new little sister to the Surface Pro 3. — Microsoft is adding a new Surface tablet to its line-up — one aimed at students...
Jay-Z relaunches Tidal with $9.99/month standard and $19.99/month high-quality tiers, with top artists as co-owners
Jay Z relaunches Tidal with music's biggest artists as his co-owners — At a press conference in New York City this afternoon, Jay Z and a huge group of musical stars took …
Gmail for Android updated with unified inbox view, conversation view for non-Gmail accounts, smarter search
All your mail, together in one place — These days, many of us have more than one email address. If you're a student, you may have one account for school, one for a campus group you lead, and one fo...
WhatsApp for Android now allows all users to make voice calls, iOS coming soon
If you've been wondering when, oh when, someone will ring you via WhatsApp so you'll get its new voice calling feature, you won't have to sit by the phone any longer. — Updating to WhatsApp version ...
Microsoft's Surface 3 is a $499 tablet that could be a full Windows laptop
Microsoft is back with a brand new Surface 3 tablet, but this time things are a little different. While the original Surface RT and Surface 2 tablets didn't let you run traditional Windows applicatio...
Tidal is dead on arrival because listeners are cheap, it lacks a critical mass of both users and musicians, and the market is crowded
Tidal — Now let me get this straight...piracy can be eradicated if artists just band together in the name of money? That's what this is all about, cash.
HP Sues Autonomy Co-Founder Lynch in U.K. for $5.1 Billion
(Bloomberg) — Hewlett-Packard Co. escalated its more than two-year-old battle with Michael Lynch, suing the Autonomy Corp. co-founder, as well as a former chief financial officer, for $5.1 billion.
Belgian data regulator finds Facebook tracks logged out, explicitly opted out, and unregistered users, thus breaching EU privacy law
Facebook ‘tracks all visitors, breaching EU law’ — Exclusive: Social network even sets a new cookie to track untracked EU users who have explicitly opted out of tracking, report says
Two former federal agents charged for stealing bitcoin during Silk Road investigation
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Amazon's new Dash Button hardware offers instant orders for staple products; Prime members can request an invite to get the hardware for free
Amazon's New Dash Button Hardware Offers Instant Orders For Staple Products — Amazon has new hardware called the Dash Button that allows …
Microsoft rolls out first Windows 10 preview with ‘Spartan’ browser
Summary:Microsoft has released to testers a new Windows 10 Desktop preview build, the first to include the coming new ‘Project Spartan’ browser. — Microsoft is making available to its Windows Inside...
AT&T launches gigabit fiber in parts of Cupertino, with prices from $110/month, $40 more than it charges in cities where it competes with Google Fiber
AT&T's newest fiber customers to pay $40 more than Google Fiber users — There's no $70 Google Fiber in Cupertino, so AT&T can charge what it wants to.
Andreessen Horowitz invests another $52M in security startup Tanium at a $1.75B valuation, bringing the total invested by the VC firm to $142M
Andreessen Horowitz Invests Another $52 Million in Tanium at $1.75 Billion Valuation — Security and systems management startup Tanium said today …
US Used Zero-Day Exploits Before It Had Policies for Them
Around the same time the US and Israel were already developing and unleashing Stuxnet on computers in Iran, using five zero-day exploits to get the digital weapon onto machines there, the government r...
Jama Software secures $20 million venture round, begins hiring surge
Anticipating growth, Jama Software has just moved into bigger downtown offices, occupying 35,000 square feet in the former Bally's Total Fitness site at Southwest Second and Taylor in downtown Portlan...
Former DEA agent who worked on Silk Road case charged with acting as paid mole for Ross Ulbricht; second agent charged with pocketing $800K in bitcoin
DEA Agent Charged With Acting as a Paid Mole for Silk Road — Nearly 18 months after the Silk Road online drug market was busted by law enforcement …
Twitter Publicly Launches Curator, Its Real-Time Search And Filtering Tool For Media Outlets
Twitter this morning is publicly launching Curator, its new product that lets media organizations, publishers, and broadcasters identify, filter and display tweets and Vine videos on any screen in rea...
How Drew Houston ensures that Dropbox keeps thriving while competing with Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Tencent
Dropbox versus the world — The new tech war is a battle to own your digital data. Dropbox's 32-year-old CEO thinks he can thwart the world's most formidable titans. Tweets: @dropbox , @jjmccorvey ,...
Huawei's 2014 net profit rises 33 percent to $4.5B, revenue rises 21% YoY
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IBM plans $5B Internet of Things push, lures The Weather Channel away from AWS
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Raptr Launches Instagram for Gamers, Raises $14 Million to Expand Service
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Google makes photos and videos from Google+ Photos available in Drive
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US International Trade Commission to investigate Apple after it allegedly infringed Ericsson's LTE wireless technology patents
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Facebook moves into its new 430,000-square-foot Menlo Park building designed by Frank Gehry
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GreatFire says China is behind the DDoS attacks on GitHub and its website in new report
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Google Cloud Platform launches mobile console for Android; iOS console in the works, but release date not yet revealed
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SEC filing shows Fitbit likely paid at least $17.8M to acquire Fitstar
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Microsoft to roll out mobile device management to Office 365 commercial customers over next six weeks
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Handy raises $15M and hires CTO Ken Little, former VP of product at Tumblr
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Some Uber customers report fraudulent charges after news of accounts being sold on dark web; company maintains no evidence of breach
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Hollywood turns to new encryption tools, monitoring systems, and secure collaboration software after Sony hack
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Facebook's new Event subscribe button offers notifications of nearby events, incentivizes musicians to set up Facebook Events
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DHS subpoenas Reddit for personal data on users involved with defunct dark-web marketplace Evolution
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Messaging services like Facebook Messenger, Slack, and WeChat could expand into platforms superseding even Android and iOS
Economist : Tweets: @sgendzel and @csoghoian Tweets: Sheera Gendzel / @sgendzel : WhatsApp handled more than seven trillion messages last year, about 1,000 per person on the planet - http://www.econo...
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