Apple Watch 2: Apple plans FaceTime camera, iPhone-free Wi-Fi, $1000+ models, similar battery
Two months after the initial launch of the Apple Watch, and only a day following the device's debut at Apple Stores, sources have revealed Apple's intentions for the 2016 release of a second-generatio...
New York City criticizes Verizon for slow FIOS rollout: 40K requests pending with 75% outstanding for over one year
New York City Criticizes Verizon on FiOS Delivery — Verizon promised New York City to deliver FiOS to anyone who wanted it by 2014 — New York City says Verizon …
Slice Intelligence research says 2.79M Apple Watches sold to date; IHS estimates $49 band costs Apple $2
Exclusive: Apple mines big profits from Watch band — Nearly 20 percent of Apple Watch buyers are not only shelling out hundreds of dollars for the timepiece but are springing for a spare band too …
Fitbit opens at $30.40 in market debut, 52% above their IPO price
Fitbit opens 52% higher in market debut — Fitbit CEO: We're more than just wearables — Fitbit co-founder and CEO James Park, shares how one customer got really into counting steps, and the company...
An Early Net-Neutrality Win: Rules Prompt Sprint to Stop Throttling
FCC's new net-neutrality rules went into effect Friday — The Federal Communications Commission's new net-neutrality rules are already having an effect. — Sprint, the third-largest U.S. wireless ca...
Fitbit prices IPO at $20/share, above top of its earlier heightened range, valuing the company about $4.1B
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Xbox 360 game-streaming is coming to Windows 10
As if backwards compatibility on the Xbox One wasn't enough, Microsoft's also going to let you stream and play those older games on Windows 10 PCs. In a private demo of the recently announced Xbox On...
Google, Microsoft, Mozilla And Others Team Up To Launch WebAssembly, A New Binary Format For The Web
Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and the engineers on the WebKit project today announced that they have teamed up to launch WebAssembly, a new binary format for compiling applications for the web.
Twitter's Project Lightning will make events easier to follow for logged-in and logged-out users
Twitter's Top Secret Project Lightning Revealed — The new tool will give the company a way to show the best of Twitter to both logged-in and logged-out users on a variety of platforms.
Sean Parker's Brigade App Enters Private Beta As A Dead-Simple Way Of Taking Political Positions
Sean Parker, who changed the music industry as a teenager and then went onto have an early and formative role in Facebook, has long had one frontier that he's wanted to change: American democracy.
Redesigned Nest app adds several new features, a simplified UI, and support for Nest Cam
One home. One app. — The Nest product people use most isn't the thermostat on the wall, the smoke alarm on the ceiling, or the camera on the mantle. It's the Nest app.
Nest's security camera Cam allows streaming 1080p video at 30 FPS to iOS 8, Android 4 devices, costs $200, allows saving footage with subscription service Aware
major redesigns, updates, a new cam and more Michael Brown / Macworld : Nest Labs revamps its entire product line: Goodbye Dropcam, hello Nest Cam Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch : Nest Launches A Camera: ...
SoftBank Lands $236M From Alibaba And Foxconn To Bring Its Pepper Robot To The World
Remember Pepper, the intelligent robot that SoftBank unveiled last year? Pepper goes on sale in Japan this coming weekend, but in advance of that launch SoftBank has revealed that Alibaba and manufac...
Ello's ad-free social network comes to the iPhone
When Ello came into the social networking scene late last year as an ad-free alternative to Facebook, it was pretty barebones in terms of features. That didn't stop it from gaining hundreds of thousa...
Vimeo overhauls Cameo into a simple video editor for iOS
Vimeo is today releasing a huge update to Cameo, stripping the app down to its core elements and making the entire experience about editing video. The new app doesn't resemble the old Cameo at all, a...
Many unicorns may fail, but as a group they are likely undervalued
Unicorns — The entire point of the name “Unicorn”, first coined by Aileen Lee in November 2013, is to describe something very rare: “U.S.-based software companies started since 2003 and valued at ov...
Google quietly acquired “app streaming” startup Agawi last fall that lets users access apps without downloading them first
Google's War Against Apps — Google's battle to erode the importance of apps is intensifying. — The search giant last fall secretly acquired an …
Reddit to fully encrypt traffic
Reddit, the self-described “front page of the Internet,” will start encrypting all of its traffic by the end of the month, joining other major Internet players that have made similar moves in recent m...
Why the California Ruling on Uber Should Frighten the Sharing Economy
This week a ruling from the California Labor Commission was made public because popular ride-sourcing company Uber appealed it. A San Francisco-based driver named Barbara Ann Berwick brought a case a...
BuzzFeed launches news app that focuses on serious reporting, notifications, and curation
Why BuzzFeed wanted everyone to know about its new news app — even before it launched — If you're reading this, then it's more likely than not that you're already aware of BuzzFeed's news app.
Qihoo Gets $9 Billion Buyout Offer From CEO
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LinkedIn's new Pulse app uses human editors and algorithms to deliver personalized news; Pulse to list reason for showing specific content above stories
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Oculus Rift and Touch hands-on: light, easy to wear, unobtrusive cable, audio similar to prototype, finger tracking unrefined, but shared play natural, engaging
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Google Trends now delivers real-time popular searches and trending stories; News Lab team will publish curated datasets to Github
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Judge tentatively sets Ellen Pao's court costs at $275,000 — less than one-third what Kleiner Perkins wanted
Biz Carson / Business Insider :
Samsung releases mobile gameplay recording app Game Recorder+ for any game available in Google Play or Galaxy App store for select Samsung devices
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Ad Tech Vet Ben Barokas Launches Sourcepoint to Block Ad Blockers
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Researchers find tens of thousands of mobile apps using default token security to protect data stored on services like AWS make private data vulnerable
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Oracle stock falls more than 7% in after-hours trading after Q4 profits and revenues fall short of expectations; company blames US dollar
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Microsoft's head of phones, Jo Harlow, has also left the company
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Cisco to Invest $10 Billion in China Over Next Few Years
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Twitter Acquires Machine Learning Startup Whetlab
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Snapchat says its Live Stories, which include multiple ads costing around 2 cents per view for advertisers, are viewed on average by 20M people per day
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Former Netflix CFO Barry McCarthy named Spotify CFO, will step down from Spotify's board
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Airbnb projects $900M+ revenue in 2015 as it readies to close $1B round valuing it at $24B
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Line Takes Aims At The U.S. Market With An Emoji Keyboard App For iOS
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