Dating site for cheaters AshleyMadison hacked, data of 37M users potentially compromised
Online Cheating Site AshleyMadison Hacked — Large caches of data stolen from online cheating site AshleyMadison.com have been posted online by an individual or group that claims to have completely c...
Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 Available for Download
Today, I am excited to announce that Visual Studio 2015 and .Net 4.6 are available for download! — These releases are the next big step in the journey we outlined last November to bring the producti...
Samsung announces 8-inch and 9.7-inch Galaxy Tab S2 tablets with new form factor and 4:3 2048x1536 displays, available in August
Samsung Announces The 8.0" and 9.7" Galaxy Tab S2 Tablets — Today Samsung announced the Galaxy Tab S2, the followup to last year's Galaxy Tab S tablets.
Microsoft will start testing Cortana in Japan, Australia, Canada, India, Brazil, and Mexico this year via Windows Insider program
Cortana brings Cultural Savviness to New Markets — Our teams in Redmond have been working hard on the upcoming launch of Windows 10.
Spotify's ‘Personalized,’ Computer-Generated Playlists Are Here, and They're Pretty Good
I was worried about the Minions. But it turned out to be okay. — Last week Spotify told me it was rolling out a new feature — a weekly “personalized” playlist, automatically generated by the music ...
Behind eBay's split from PayPal and a look at the challenges ahead for both companies
Inside the tech divorce of the decade: PayPal and eBay start a new life without each other — eBay CEO John Donahoe was visibly agitated one March afternoon in 2014, as he slowly paced the length …
PayPal Shares Pop 8.3 Percent Following eBay Split Valuing PayPal At More Than $50 Billion
Everybody expected PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) to be worth more than eBay following its split with its parent company (NASDAQ:EBAY), but not that much. After a short period of trading on a “when issued” …
Shopping site Jet, facing steep losses and looming competition from Amazon, is looking to raise hundreds of millions at a $3B valuation by year end
Frenzy Around Shopping Site Jet.com Harks Back to Dot-Com Boom — Despite steep losses and looming competition with Amazon.com …
Once outcasts, three Canadian researchers now lead the deep learning efforts at Google, Facebook and IBM
Welcome to the AI Conspiracy: The ‘Canadian Mafia’ Behind Tech's Latest Craze — In the late '90s, Tomi Poutanen, a precocious computer whiz from Finland, hoped to do his dissertation …
Online food delivery ordering is about to overtake phone ordering in the US
Getting your dinner to your door is now easier than ever, and thanks to the internet, almost no human interaction is required. — While phone orders dominated delivery only five years ago …
Vroom Secures $54M to Accelerate Online Car Dealership
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Sling Media announces $199 Slingbox M2 set-top-box, makes mobile apps for it free, introduces pre-roll video ads
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Three months after Apple Watch's debut, lack of apps from major players like Facebook reflects skepticism about the platform
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Microsoft reportedly buying Israeli cloud security startup Adallom for around $320M
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John Markoff on slow pace of automation, shorter term bets from VCs and government, future of transportation, AR as the next big platform, more
The Next Wave — A Conversation With John Markoff — This can't be the end of human evolution. We have to go someplace else. — It's quite remarkable. Tweets: @philiped , @bigdata , @dangillmor , @c...
Survey of 121 universities in US and Canada shows CS graduates are 4% black and 7.7% Hispanic, much higher rates than hired at major tech companies
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Uber Says Spain Legal Case Has Been Referred To The European Court Of Justice
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
In Asia, 46 startups raised $100M+ rounds and 11 achieved $1B+ valuation in the first half of 2015, compared to North America's 48 startups and 19 unicorns
Paul Mozur / New York Times :
A look inside Jeff Bezos' Amazon Studios as it makes its push into original movies
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Facebook Builds A Rough Road Back For Those Booted By Its “Real Name” Policy
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Asus Chromebook Flip review: great design and build quality starting at just $250, but compromised by cramped keyboard, mediocre performance
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica :
China's Xiaomi Building Patent ‘War Chest’ in Preparation for U.S. Launch
Ina Fried / Re/code :
Why the Islamic State leaves tech companies torn between free speech and security
Washington Post : Tweets: @mcandrew . See also Mediagazer Tweets: Andrew McLaughlin / @mcandrew : Remarkably deep & rigorous piece by @nakashimae & @ScottHigham1 on conundrums of free speech & propag...
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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 …
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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.