Obama signs Executive Order authorizing targeted sanctions over cyberattacks
A New Tool Against Cyber Threats — It's one of the great paradoxes of our Information Age—the very technologies that empower us to do great good can also be used by adversaries to inflict great harm...
GoDaddy opens for trading at $26.15 per share, almost 31% above IPO price, raising $460M
GoDaddy's IPO Shares Surge in NYSE Debut — Web-hosting firm—known for its ads with Danica Patrick—seeks image makeover — Shares of GoDaddy Inc., a technology provider to small businesses …
Google announces an Asus-made Chrome OS HDMI stick called Chromebit for less than $100 and new ARM Chromebook laptops from Hisense and Haier starting at $149
“Get more done and worry less.” Larry Dignan / ZDNet : Google pushes the computer as an appliance theme with Chromebit, Chromebooks Sean Hollister / Gizmodo : Google's Chromebit Turns Any TV Into a Ch...
Galaxy S6 review: Samsung at its best with solid build quality, great specs, useful fingerprint sensor, and gorgeous 5.1 inch display; Edge not worth extra $100
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Anonymous messaging app Yik Yak is testing a photo feature
Yik Yak, the anonymous messaging app, is testing a new feature that would let users share photos, Mashable has learned. — Yik Yak is in the early stages of testing the feature on some college campus...
Galaxy S6 Edge's curved screen is ergonomically busted and incompatible with Material Design, prioritizing sci-fi aesthetics over function
Living life on the S6 Edge — Samsung is back atop the Android throne with its new Galaxy S6. The hotly contested title for Android's best …
GoDaddy prices IPO at $20 per share, above previously indicated $17-$19 range, seeks to raise $440M at about $4.5B valuation
Reuters David Hamilton / theWHIR.com : With IPO Priced Above Range, Web Host GoDaddy Raises $460 Million Jordan Novet / VentureBeat : Hosting company GoDaddy sets stock price at $20 per share in IPO J...
Meet the Asus Chromebook Flip, a $249 Chrome OS tablet with a 360-degree hinge
On Tuesday, Google announced the $249 Asus Chromebook Flip. As the first mainstream Chrome device to offer a 360-degree hinge, the Flip can function as a tablet as well as a laptop.
Atmel ARM-based microcontroller chip could extend battery life of small low-power devices to decades
New ARM-powered chip aims for battery life measured in decades — Atmel's 32-bit SAM L controllers, shipping soon, take low power to new extremes . — The number of things getting plugged …
Verizon Wireless Customers Can Now Opt Out of ‘Supercookies’
Verizon Wireless customers now have the ability to completely opt out of the phone carrier's controversial ad-targeting program that tagged users with undeletable tracking codes, which critics called ...
Google Maps celebrates April Fools by letting you play Pac-Man using real streets anywhere as your maze
Stop Everything: You Can Play “Pac-Man” In Google Maps Right Now — There goes your productivity for today. — Just in time for April Fool's Day, Google has rolled out a cool …
Sprint settles U.S. class-action lawsuit for $131 million
(Reuters) - Sprint Corp (S.N) has agreed to a $131 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit accusing the third-largest U.S. wireless carrier of defrauding investors about problems dating back to i...
NYT's Apple Watch app features custom one-sentence stories with images and bullet points; readers can use Handoff to continue reading on iPhone or iPad
The Times Rolls Out One-Sentence Stories on Apple Watch — The New York Times has developed a new form of storytelling to help readers catch up in seconds on Apple Watch.
Apple now inviting all third-party developers to submit Watch apps to the App Store
on a smartwatch Todd Haselton / TechnoBuffalo : Apple Watch app submissions underway ahead of launch Dave Mark / The Loop : Apple's call for Apple Watch apps, and “a small group of people” Lord Amhran...
Hands on with Microsoft's Project Spartan browser: touch support is lacking and extensions aren't yet available, but annotations and Cortana impress
A closer look at Project Spartan, Microsoft's Internet Explorer killer — The Spartan army was the centrepiece of an ancient Greek city-state …
A problem with Periscope and Meerkat: broadcasters struggle to keep up with the flood of real-time comments
The interesting problem with Periscope and Meerkat — Periscope and Meerkat are mobile livestreaming apps. Lots of tech people are talking about these apps, and using them feels like exploring a new...
Charter to buy cable operator Bright House for $10.4B contingent on approval of the Comcast-TWC merger; deal would make Charter the 2nd largest US cable company
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :
U.S. Supreme Court: GPS Trackers Are a Form of Search and Seizure
Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic Online :
How Wall Street Middlemen Help Silicon Valley Employees Cash In Early
Financial firms create ad hoc market where hot stocks of closely held technology companies trade largely out of sight of regulators — Hedge-fund manager Jonathan Sands gushed in a January email that...
Google Drive for Work and Google for Education get new security features including admin alerts, ability to set sharing settings by department
Scott Johnston / Official Google for Work Blog :
Intel quietly launches 14nm Braswell, Bay Trail's successor
Joel Hruska / ExtremeTech :
Most of RadioShack's 1,740 stores to be co-branded with Sprint and stay open, possibly saving 7,500 jobs
Flickr adds public domain and Creative Commons Zero designations
Megan Geuss / Ars Technica :
Etsy to sell 16.7M shares priced at $14-$16 in IPO, seeks to raise up to $267M at a valuation of up to $1.78B
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Indian government mandates that all systems used by its public sector are deployed on open source software
Eileen Yu / ZDNet :
Japan's SmartNews Raises Another $10M At A $320M Valuation To Expand In The U.S.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Slack update adds new channel info panels, lets users pin files or messages
Jordan Novet / VentureBeat :
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2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
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