Alibaba's COO Daniel Zhang replaces Jonathan Lu as new CEO, as revenue increases 45%
Alibaba Names New Chief Executive and Reports Revenue Rise — HONG KONG — The Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba said Thursday that its revenue grew 45 percent compared with last year, meeting expectat...
US federal appeals court rules NSA's bulk collection of telephone metadata is not authorized by Patriot Act
Appeals Court Rules NSA Phone Program Not Authorized by Patriot Act — ACLU lawsuit argued the data collection should be stopped because it violates Americans' privacy rights
Cody Wilson, inventor of the 3D printable gun, files countersuit against US State Department claiming the blueprints are protected free speech
3-D Printed Gun Lawsuit Starts the War Between Arms Control and Free Speech — This week marks the two-year anniversary since Cody Wilson …
Kantar: phablets made up 21% of US smartphone sales in Q1, up from 6% a year ago, driven by iPhone 6 Plus sales
US phablet market soars — Phablets claimed 21% of all US smartphone sales in Q1 2015 - nearly quadrupling their 6% share from the first quarter of 2014 …
Actively exploited WordPress bug puts millions of sites at risk
XSS vulnerability allows attackers to take full control of unpatched sites. — Millions of websites running WordPress are at risk of hijacking attacks thanks to a vulnerability that is actively being...
Zero-Fee Stock Trading App Robinhood Nabs $50M From NEA To Go Global
In case you thought paying $7 to $10 to trade a stock in the US was bad, it costs $65 in Australia. So now that its zero-fee stock trading app is thriving stateside with hundreds of thousands of user...
Apple hasn't fixed or even acknowledged widely-reported networking issues on OS X Yosemite and iOS 8 related to discoveryd
discoveryd Clusterf**k — I usually keep things fairly clean on this site. I have a simple metric: would I be embarrassed if my Mom read this post?
Google posts I/O 2015 schedule: Android M, voice access, ATAP wearables, multi-screen Chromecast games, more
Digging into the Google I/O 2015 schedule: Android M, voice access, and more — Google just released the I/O 2015 schedule, and there is a lot of info inside.
LG G4 review: features a powerful camera, all-day battery, and a great display, but plastic back feels cheap and software is poorly designed
LG G4 review — In the world of smartphones, Samsung and Apple cast big shadows. Perhaps no company is more familiar with those shadows than LG …
Zynga to lay off 364 people, or 18% of its staff, within the next three quarters as part of the company's $100M cost reduction program
Zynga Narrows Focus, Will Cut 18 Percent of Staff — With Don Mattrick out and founder Mark Pincus reinstalled as CEO, what will Zynga's future look like?
Google to shut down its website optimization service PageSpeed on Aug. 3
Google Shuts Down PageSpeed Service For Accelerating Websites — Google is shutting down PageSpeed Service, its hosted solution for optimizing websites for faster delivery, on August 3.
Zynga beats estimates with Q1 loss of $0.01/share on revenue of $167M; shares up over 7% in after-hour trading
but it's cutting 364 jobs Salvador Rodriguez / International Business Times : Zynga (ZNGA) To Cut 364 Jobs As First-Quarter Earnings Beat Analyst Estimates Mike Futter / gameinformer.com : Zynga Lays ...
Some Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge units have Sony IMX240 camera sensors, others have Samsung's own ISOCELL sensors
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Mobile Justice CA app uploads all video footage as it's being captured to servers owned by ACLU, available for iOS and Android for now
Film the Police … Last month, video footage emerged that appeared to show something illegal: A U.S. marshal approached a woman who was filming him on duty …
Spotify in talks with companies that make content for YouTube and traditional media firms for new web video service
Spotify Laying Plans to Enter Web Video Business — Closely-held streaming service has been reaching out to companies that make content for YouTube
PayIvy is an open web marketplace for stolen account credentials and license keys using PayPal to carry out transactions
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security :
Comcast to offer 4K Xi4 set-top box this year and Xi5 set-top box with HDR in 2016
David Katzmaier / CNET :
SAP reveals HANA Cloud Platform for IoT and bolsters Intel and Siemens partnerships
Roland Moore-Colyer / V3.co.uk :
AMD's 2016-2017 x86 Roadmap: Zen Is In, Skybridge Is Out
Ryan Smith / AnandTech :
Facebook adds native ad tools to Audience Network, including templates, horizontal scrolling, and ranking of ads
Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider :
Work Management Platform Wrike Raises $15M Series B Round
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Sources: Microsoft to add TV recording functionality to Xbox One, probably this year
Paul Thurrott / Thurrott.com :
Mountain View city council allocates LinkedIn 1.4M of 2.2M square feet in North Bayshore, threatening Google's campus expansion plans
Nathan Donato-Weinstein / bizjournals :
Sources: Samsung to introduce Artik, new chip platforms to power IoT devices, next week
Shara Tibken / CNET :
Banjo raises $100M from SoftBank to build out software that detects world events in real time, using photos and videos uploaded to social media sites
Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal :
Sources: BMW, Audi, Mercedes-Benz, and Baidu preparing formal bid for HERE mapping service at “considerably more than €2B”
Wall Street Journal :
FAA expands drone testing in urban areas and beyond the sight of device operators
Jack Nicas / Wall Street Journal :
Meerkat Launches Developer Platform To Differentiate From Periscope
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
RockYou acquires PlayHaven as it moves deeper into mobile ad networks
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