Microsoft announces 7,800 job cuts mostly in phone business, writes off $7.6B from Nokia deal
Microsoft Announces Restructuring of Phone Hardware Business — REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft Corp. today announced plans to restructure the company's phone hardware business to better focus and align ...
Satya Nadella email to employees on sharpening business focus
Over the past few weeks, I've shared with you our mission, strategy, structure and culture. Today, I want to discuss our plans to focus our talent and investments in areas where we have differentiati...
Apple orders between 85M and 90M units of upcoming iPhone models, around 10M more than last year; new models expected to have Force Touch technology
Apple Plans Record Number of New iPhones — Apples asks suppliers to make up to 90 million of the expected next models by year-end
Judge voids $533M award in Apple vs. Smartflash patent case, orders new trial on damages
New trial on damages ordered in Apple, Smartflash patent dispute — A federal court in Texas has ordered a new trial on damages in a patent infringement dispute between Apple and Smartflash …
Apple Music review: discovery features are great but the app lacks polish and simplicity, difficult to recommend over Spotify
Apple Music Review: Behind a Messy Interface Is Music's Next Big Leap — Despite glitches and a confusing interface, Apple Music stands to make as big an impact as the iPod
Microsoft details Project Westminster, one of four bridges for converting apps on other platforms into Universal Windows apps
Microsoft plugs Westminster as one of its four bridges to the future of Windows Universal Apps — Project Westminster is a way of converting web-based apps into Windows 10 apps.
Project Fi Review: Google Masters Wi-Fi Calling, but Needs Better Phones
Can the search giant change the wireless business like it's changed high-speed Internet? — For millions of us, Google is the backbone of our digital lives. So it's a little incongruous that to get ...
Google Maps iOS update now lets you share locations on Facebook and Messenger
Owners of iOS devices, rejoice: Sharing pins with your friends will now get a little easier. An update from Google Maps now allows you to share your location to more apps, including Facebook and its ...
Court rejects Intellectual Ventures appeal in Capital One case, citing ‘unpatentable abstract ideas’
Todd Bishop / GeekWire : … The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled against Intellectual Ventures in a dispute with Capital One Financial, finding that two of the company's patents...
China car hailing app Didi Kuaidi raises $2 billion as Uber rivalry intensifies
China's dominant mobile car-ride hailing company Didi Kuaidi said it raised $2 billion in a fundraising round as competition with U.S. rival Uber Technologies Inc heats up on its home turf.
Senate Intelligence Committee approves bill requiring social media services to report postings by suspected terrorists
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Google starts testing self-driving cars in Austin in first expansion outside California
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Consumer group files FTC complaint against Google, seeking to extend right to be forgotten to US
Group demands that Google offer users the ‘right to be forgotten’ — A group on Tuesday filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) arguing that Google should allow users …
How China's stock market drop affects tech companies
Unless you've been living under a rock recently, you're probably aware that all is not well in China's stock markets. After hitting an all-time high in mid June, China's markets have dropped by nearl...
Facebook Announces Fifth Data Center, Located In Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth Star-Telegram is pleased … WFAA-TV : Facebook is one part of Fort Worth's ‘biggest July’ Sandra Baker / Fort Worth Star-Telegram : Facebook data center could have far-reaching impact on For...
17-year-old Lizard Squad hacker convicted in Finnish court of 50,700 charges related to computer crimes, receives two-year suspended prison sentence
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DigitalOcean Raises $83M Series B Round Led By Access Industries
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Confluent Closes $24M Series B Round For Its Apache Kafka-Based Stream Data Platform
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Netflix announces schedule for seven original feature films, the first to debut Oct. 16
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Facebook tests floating videos, so you can scroll and watch at the same time
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GoPro hires former Hulu original series chief, Charlotte Koh, as head of features and series for content push
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Sony's video game streaming service, PlayStation Now, gets its own Netflix-like UI
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EMC Sells Cloud Sync And Share Product Syncplicity To Private Equity Firm
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Mozilla's plans for Firefox: More partnerships, better add-ons, and faster updates
We posted a summary of what to expect from Firefox in the future: Mozilla / Future Releases : What to Look Forward to from Firefox Gregg Keizer / PCWorld : Firefox for Windows 10 planned as Mozilla ra...
Mobile Maker Jolla Splits In Two, With Sailfish OS Its First Order Of Business
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Gigaom Research is relaunching under new owner Knowingly; existing subscriptions to be extended four months
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Square's head of communications describes the cyclical nature of media coverage of tech companies
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