Twitter now lets you add a comment of up to 115 characters when you retweet on iOS and web, coming to Android soon
Twitter is finally fixing the Quote Tweet button — Twitter is finally fixing one of the worst things about its services: the “Quote Tweet” button.
FTC asked to investigate YouTube Kids for deceptively targeting toddlers with ads
MOUNTAIN VIEW — Prominent consumer and child advocacy groups Tuesday will ask the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google's new YouTube Kids application, arguing that the search engine giant is...
Andy Rubin joins Redpoint as a venture partner
Andy Rubin Joins Redpoint — Most people know Andy Rubin as the creator of Android. I know Andy as a twenty-something engineer at WebTV who had built a sleeping loft above his cubicle so he didn't h...
Andy Rubin's hardware incubator Playground Global raises $48M from Google, HP, Foxconn, others, and will provide support in exchange for equity, not capital
Android Creator Andy Rubin Launching Playground Global — Firm to provide support, advice to tech startups making devices
Tim Cook: Apple employees will get 50% off Apple Watch, 1000+ apps submitted
Apple CEO Tim Cook today sent out a memo to all employees ahead of the Apple Watch's retail try-on kickoff this Friday. Cook thanks employees who have worked on the Apple Watch by saying, “congratula...
HBO Now launches in US on Apple TV, iPhone, and iPad for $14.99 per month
HBO Now Arrives On Apple TV, iPhone And iPad — The HBO Now app has made its way to the Apple TV and iOS as of today. The HBO Now channel was promised for availability ahead of the Game of Thrones p...
Apple Acquired Search Startup Ottocat To Power The ‘Explore’ Tab In The App Store
Apple has slowly been making changes to improve how people search and navigate the App Store. Part of the way it does that is via small acquisitions — some of which stay under the radar for years.
Square launches tools to help brick and mortar businesses create and track the effectiveness of email marketing campaigns
Square Brings Accountability To Email Marketing — Square is in the process of building up a series of products and services that use its payments platform as a foundation.
10 Years of Git: An Interview with Git Creator Linus Torvalds
Ten years ago this week, the Linux kernel community faced a daunting challenge: They could no longer use their revision control system BitKeeper and no other Software Configuration Management (SCMs) m...
Vivendi confirms takeover bid for DailyMotion, unofficial reports put value of deal at $272M
Vivendi Makes Offer for DailyMotion — French media giant Vivendi has a made a takeover bid for online video company DailyMotion, Vivendi confirmed April 7. Terms of the offer were not disclosed …
Kleiner general partner Matt Murphy, who fired Ellen Pao, to leave KPCB
Kleiner Partner to Leave After Trial — Matt Murphy says he will look for a new opportunity — Venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers will move on from its three-year legal battle …
FCC fines CenturyLink $16M and Intrado $1.4M for 911 outage in 2014
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Dozens of Connecticut towns are on a path towards installing wholesale fiber networks
At Least One State has a (Fiber) Backbone — Who's on track to get citizens high-speed Internet? Hint: it's the only state with the word “connect” in its name. — Maybe you remember Sir Boss … Twee...
Samsung estimates $5.4B operating profit in Q1, a decrease of 31% from a year ago, beating analyst expectations; forecasts 12% sales decline YoY
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In Snowden interview, John Oliver makes surveillance debate relatable by avoiding civil liberty hypotheticals, focusing on NSA's ease of access to “dick pics”
Exposures — John Ellis (Jeb) … Nathaniel Mott / PandoDaily : John Oliver interviews Edward Snowden Andrew Desiderio / Mediaite : John Oliver Travels to Russia to Tell Edward Snowden It's All About t...
Viacom cites “changing media consumption habits” in $750M writedown
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Apple Maps now includes hotel reviews from TripAdvisor and Booking.com, indicating the end of Yelp exclusivity
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Intel Compute Stick now available for pre-order: Linux version starts at $110, Windows at $150
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Nvidia wins Markman ruling, a pretrial claim construction decision, in patent suit against Samsung/Qualcomm
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US Department of Justice announces first e-commerce antitrust case, against a third-party seller on Amazon Marketplace
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HTC's preliminary earnings show net profit of $11.6M on $1.3B in revenue for Q1 2015, compared to net loss of $60M on $1.06B in revenue in Q1 2014
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New South Wales Attacks Researchers Who Found Internet Voting Vulnerabilities
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Update for Windows 7 and 8.1 silently installs Windows 10 downloader
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Hulu launches GIF search engine for its TV shows, powered by Tumblr and shareable on Twitter, Pinterest or via email
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Intel changes its accounting practices, will no longer report mobile group losses
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Flash storage device maker Pure Storage hires Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Barclays in preparation for IPO
CoreOS raises $12M in a round led by Google Ventures, launches enterprise-focused Tectonic platform with Google's Kubernetes
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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.