New Voicemail Transcription For Google Voice And Project Fi Reduces Errors By 49%
Sometimes Google's voicemail transcription is good enough to get the point across, and other times it's a seemingly random collection of words that only make sense when you're under the influence of r...
Square Said to File Confidentially for Initial Public Offering
Square Inc., the mobile-payments company founded and led by Jack Dorsey, the interim chief executive officer of Twitter Inc., filed confidentially for an initial public offering, people with knowledge...
FCC OKs AT&T-DirecTV merger with conditions lasting 4 years: expand fiber internet to 12.5M new customers, submit interconnection agreements for review, more
FCC Approves AT&T-DirecTV Merger — AT&T and DirecTV's merger cleared its final federal regulatory hurdle on Friday, garnering the votes at the FCC for approval.
Slack now integrates with Google Calendar, allowing users to receive reminders in any channel
Google Calendar Reminders Come to Slack — As a user of Slack, you're organized, you're on the ball, and you're well connected to your team. Every once in a while though, something falls through the...
Nintendo shutting down Wii U TVii service in August
Nintendo TVii, the service for Wii U that lets its users find, watch and interact with television content through the console's GamePad controller, is shutting down on Aug. 11, Nintendo announced in a...
Nike, Apple agree to $2.4M settlement in suit over false FuelBand claims, Apple to pay nothing
Consumers who purchased a Nike+ FuelBand between 2012 and 2015 might be eligible for a small payment from Nike after the sports brand, alongside co-defendant Apple, agreed to settle …
Airbnb Hires Blackstone's Tosi as CFO of Home-Sharing Network
Airbnb Inc. hired Blackstone Group LP's Laurence Tosi as chief financial officer of the home-sharing startup, filling a position left vacant since Andrew Swain departed last year. — “L.T.'s expertis...
Technicolor to Buy Cisco's Set-Top Box Unit for About $600 Million
The deal signals the priorities of Cisco's incoming CEO, who assumes the role on Monday — SAN FRANCISCO— Technicolor SA has agreed to buy Cisco Systems Inc.'s TV set-top business for about $600 mill...
Google, Amazon, Verizon, and at least 11 others will help NASA devise the first air-traffic control system to coordinate small, low-altitude drones
Google Wants to Be the Air Traffic Controller for Drones … Google Inc., the company that brought order to the Internet …
China to End Ban on Videogame Consoles
Gamers in China have turned to mobile and computer entertainment — BEIJING—China will lift a ban on making and selling videogame consoles in the country, paving the way for foreign companies like So...
Cisco ends Invicta storage hardware line, a business it entered with $415M Whiptail acquisition in 2013
How to waste two years and lose $415m: Cisco's now-dead Whiptail deal — A sorry story of whipped tales, angst and attrition — Exclusive + analysis Cisco has confirmed …
Chrysler recalls 1.4 million cars at risk of being remotely hijacked
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Unclaimed and inactive Google+ pages linked with Google My Business to be shut down July 28
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New patent group threatens to derail 4K HEVC video streaming
It's better than H.264, but it's going to cost more than H.264 too. — A new industry group called HEVC Advance is threatening to demand royalties for the new HEVC video codec that could halve the ba...
Sources: MCX's CurrentC mobile payment app to begin limited trial in stores next month as deals keeping Apple Pay out of stores expire
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Unlocked Surface 3 LTE now on sale in the US at AT&T and Microsoft stores, arrives at T-Mobile July 31
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Flipboard Confirms New $50M Funding Round From JP Morgan
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US Consumer electronics company Vizio files for IPO with plans to raise up to $172.5M
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Pandora Q2 sales grow 30% YoY to $285.6M, local ads up 67% to $58.9M, mobile now 80.4% of revenue, listener growth only 3.9% YoY
Glenn Peoples / Billboard :
With a market cap of over $247B and a 55% rise in stock price this year, Amazon is now worth more than Wal-Mart
Kevin Kingsbury / Wall Street Journal :
Verizon's mobile video service Go90 will launch late this summer, initially for free, with full TV show episodes from select networks on tap
Janko Roettgers / Variety :
Comcast discussing deals with several online publishers including Vice, BuzzFeed, and Business Insider, and has talked about increasing its 14% stake in Vox
Liz Hoffman / Wall Street Journal :
YouTube CEO says big publishers opting out of YouTube's paid subscription service may be dropped from the ad-supported service
Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal :
Facebook defeats shareholder suit that had alleged inadequate pre-IPO disclosures in 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters :
Yahoo Quietly Acquired Germany's Media Group One For $23M In Q1
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