Nintendo President Satoru Iwata Dies At 55
Nintendo has just issued a short statement announcing that president Satoru Iwata has passed away at the age of 55. — The statement reads: … Iwata was forced to skip last year's E3 due to his poor h...
Comcast announces Stream, a $15/month web TV add-on for its internet subscribers with broadcast networks and HBO, available in select markets later this year
Comcast Offers Its Alternative to Cable TV, Using the Web — Comcast, the country's largest cable operator …
Microsoft plans multi-million Windows 10 ad and marketing campaign, fan-focused launch
Microsoft plans a fan-focused Windows 10 launch kick-off — Microsoft's multi-million-dollar Windows 10 ad and marketing campaign will be focused on ‘upgrading the world’ to the coming operating syst...
Two major pharmaceutical companies, GlaxoSmithKline and Purdue Pharma, are considering Apple's ResearchKit for drug R&D
Big Pharma Eyes iPhone For Drug R&D — Pharmaceutical giants like GlaxoSmithKline and Purdue Pharma are considering Apple's ResearchKit platform for gathering medical research data.
Reddit is fatally broken, should rebuild by hiring or contracting top 100+ moderators to align mod motivations with the company, kill controversial subreddits
The Death of Reddit — [edit July 12: when you're done here, I wrote a followup for you: Fixing or Replacing Reddit, some quick thoughts — take a look! chuq]
China's Tianhe-2 Supercomputer Is Still the World's Most Powerful
Sorry, America, but the most powerful computer on the face of the planet still resides in China. — That's the pronouncement of researchers who assembled the twice-a-year Top500 list of the world's t...
Microsoft to expand Surface distributor count from ‘couple hundred’ to a few thousand
Microsoft is opening up its Surface distribution channel to help prime the pump for its Surface tablets ahead of the start of the Windows 10 rollout. — Microsoft is continuing to gradually expand …
Welcome to Voat: Reddit killer, troll haven, and the strange face of internet free speech
And Why It Isn't Digg All Over Again Therese Poletti / MarketWatch : Creator of surging Reddit rival Voat: We will avoid same mistakes Patrick Hogan / Fusion : Angry Redditors are forming a new commun...
Java Zero-Day Used in Attacks on NATO Member, US Defense Organization
A notorious cyber espionage group has been using a Java zero-day exploit in attacks aimed at the armed forces of a NATO member country and a defense organization based in the United States, Trend Micr...
Exploits for two more Flash vulnerabilities found in Hacking Team leak; Adobe expected to patch the flaws this week
again— to new 0-day attacks Chris Williams / The Register : Flash HOLED AGAIN TWICE below waterline in fresh Hacking Team reveals Kafeine / Malware don't need Coffee : CVE-2015-5122 (HackingTeam 0d tw...
Wealthfront markets itself as the anti-Wall Street, but still charges a 0.25% compound fee, far worse than Vanguard VTI's 0.05% fee
Silicon Valley Tech at Wall Street Prices — Somewhere in the Bay Area, a developer teeters on the edge of insanity. — For the last 60 hours …
Many Obama campaign and administration alumni are moving to Silicon Valley to join tech firms
The city on the hill(s) for Obama alums — San Francisco and its tech firms are a prime destination for aides leaving the administration. — Getty — SAN FRANCISCO — Sipping a cup of cold-pressed c...
Development of anti-surveillance device ProxyHam and its DEF Con talk mysteriously cancelled, existing units destroyed
Privacy talk at DEF CON canceled under questionable circumstances — Anti-surveillance tool ProxyHam will never see the light of day
Google Photos continues syncing photos when app has been deleted from device; stops only when settings in Google Play Services have been changed
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CircleUp Raises $22M To Invest In Consumer Brands On Its Crowdfunding Platform
As crowdfunding sites like Tilt and GoFundMe and lending site Funding Circle raise large rounds to take their businesses to the next level, a startup that sits in the same area of web-based fundraisin...
Apple created music videos in-house with Drake, Pharrell, Eminem, and M.I.A. for Apple Music
Amy Phillips / Pitchfork :
Negative App Store reviews involving iOS and OS X betas aren't fair to developers; Apple should filter or prevent them, and users should send feedback privately
Federico Viticci / MacStories :
Microsoft launches Cortana Analytics Suite with Power BI, Azure Machine Learning, and more in a monthly subscription
Jordan Novet / VentureBeat :
Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike raises $100M round led by Google Capital
Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times :
Google has received over 281K right to be forgotten requests to remove 1.1M links, deleted 602K of them
Katherine Rushton / Daily Mail :
New study finds 90% of tech patent lawsuits in first half of 2015 were filed by patent trolls
Joe Mullin / Ars Technica :
Behind the new Crypto War: governments and tech companies face off over encryption backdoors
Eric Geller / The Daily Dot : Tweets: @matthew_d_green . Thanks: @ericgeller Tweets: Matthew Green / @matthew_d_green : Excellent, detailed history of crypto backdoors and CALEA, including how it tur...
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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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