Samsung Q2 profit down 8% YoY, fifth straight quarterly profit drop as Galaxy S6 falls short of market expectations
Samsung Profits Hurt By Smartphone Price Declines — Cheaper smartphone models from China and India could fuel further price cuts — SEOUL- Samsung Electronics Co …
Wi-Fi Sense in Windows 10, used to share access to Wi-Fi networks with contacts, requires opt in, encrypts passwords, and is easily disabled
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Microsoft execs speak about how they dealt with feedback for Windows 10, unifying platforms
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Sources: NBCUniversal close to investing $250M in BuzzFeed at a $1.5B valuation, also investing in Vox Media at a $850M valuation
NBCUniversal Poised to Make Big Investments in BuzzFeed and Vox Media — NBCUniversal is close to a deal to invest $250 million in BuzzFeed …
Windows 10 Solitaire requires a subscription to remove ads
Windows 10—which is out now, by the way—comes, as it used to in the pre-Win8 days, with Solitaire preinstalled. The Microsoft Solitaire Collection, in fact, which bundles the classic Klondike with ot...
Microsoft launches Office Mobile for Windows 10 tablets, with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote built for touch
Office Mobile apps for Windows 10 are here! — Today's post was written by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office Client Applications and Services team.
Uber to lease cars directly to UberX drivers with Xchange Leasing pilot program, which includes unlimited mileage and limited early termination fees
Uber now offers its own car leases to UberX drivers — As Uber continues to evolve beyond just dominating on-demand rides …
GitHub raises $250M Series B at a $2B valuation, led by Sequoia Capital
GitHub Raises $250 Million at $2 Billion Valuation — Capital raise puts company's total funding at $350 million — Software is transforming industries from agriculture to automobiles.
Hammertoss: Russian hackers target the cloud, Twitter, GitHub in malware spread
FireEye says a new virulent strain of malware buries itself in network traffic to avoid detection. — The newly-discovered Hammertoss malware strain uses network traffic noise from sources including ...
Max Levchin resigns as chairman of Yelp's board to focus on his lending startup Affirm
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Sony Posts $780M Profit On Strong PlayStation And Sensor Businesses
Sony today reported a $780 million operating profit for Q1 2015, up 39 percent annually, as the company's camera sensor business and PlayStation 4 arm pushed it past analyst expectations.
Facebook Beats In Q2 With $4.04B Revenue, User Growth Slows To 3.47% QOQ To Hit 1.49B
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Yelp stock drops 28% following grim earnings; company cites rising talent costs amid competition with “unicorns”
Yelp Admits the Unicorn Bubble Is Hurting Its Profits — Yelp debuted “surprise losses” on its earnings yesterday, causing its stock to plummet 28 percent by the next day.
Study: Shutdown of Google News and other aggregators in Spain hurt news sites' traffic and ad revenue, particularly for new and smaller publishers
Study Of Spain's ‘Google Tax’ On News Shows How Much Damage It Has Done — As you may recall, governments across Europe … See also Mediagazer
Obama's New Executive Order Says the US Must Build an Exascale Supercomputer
Creating a National Strategic Computing Initiative The White House : Advancing U.S. Leadership in High-Performance Computing Tyler Lee / Ubergizmo : Obama Wants To See The US Build An Exascale Superco...
Facebook mobile ads accounted for $2.9B in revenue, roughly 72% of total Q2 sales
Mobile advertising propels Facebook revenues — Facebook revenues soared by nearly two-fifths in the three months to June as advertisers increasingly turned to the social networking group's mobile ap...
Google signs deal with Sri Lanka to bring internet to the entire country via Project Loon
Android vulnerability silences phone and kills screen, affects Android 4.3 and above, and can be exploited by a malicious website or app
bad guys can turn your device into a brick Dan Goodin / Ars Technica : New vulnerability can put Android phones into permanent vegetative state Soulskill / Slashdot : Maliciously Crafted MKV Video Fil...
T-Mobile beats estimates in Q2 with profit of $361M, revenue of $8.2B, and strong subscriber growth
Roger Cheng / CNET :
An inside look at Zazzle, which expects $250M+ revenue and a gross margin of 45% this year, larger than Amazon's recent 35% gross margin
The anti-Amazon that's making money: Zazzle — Amazon.com became the world's most valuable retailer by selling everything imaginable at virtually no profit. Tweets: @cnbc Tweets: @cnbc : This anti-Am...
Sources: Caller ID app Truecaller looking to raise around $100M at a $1B valuation
Caller ID App Truecaller Is Raising $100M At A $1B Valuation — Communications apps that strike a chord with users across different markets are hot property these days, and it looks like another …
StubHub lets eventgoers call an Uber from its app
Edgar Alvarez / Engadget :
Google Translate's App Now Instantly Translates Printed Text In 27 Languages
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Alibaba says it will invest another $1B into its Aliyun cloud computing arm to take on AWS
Volkswagens with CarPlay and Android Auto will begin arriving in showrooms this week
Mark Sullivan / VentureBeat :
Amazon starts selling its Dash Buttons to all Prime members for $4.99 each
Jared Newman / TechHive :
Sonos speakers now work with Microsoft's Groove music service
Tom Warren / The Verge :
Mobile Video Ad Firm Jun Group Raises $28 Million in New Funding
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal :
Equity Crowdfunding Platform Seedrs Raises $15.6M To Launch In US
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch :
Grooveshark lacked the music rights deals and the funding to compete against other services
Stephen Witt / The Verge : Tweets: @reckless Tweets: Nilay Patel / @reckless : A tragedy borne of ambition. Why Grooveshark failed http://www.theverge.com/...
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