New OS X beta suggests iPad Mini 4 will be faster and support split-view apps
El Capitan file hints at faster iPad mini 4 with full split-view apps support — One of iOS 9's marquee additions is support for split-screen applications on the iPad. This allows users to operate t...
Inside the hookup culture accelerated by the rapid rise of Tinder and other dating apps
Tinder and the Dawn of the “Dating Apocalypse” — As romance gets swiped from the screen, some twentysomethings aren't liking what they see. — It's a balmy night in Manhattan's financial district …
Why Google's Alphabet Is Nothing like Berkshire Hathaway - and Much Riskier
Google's new structure has few historical precedents, in tech or outside it. — Before Apple's Steve Jobs died in 2011, he told Google cofounder and CEO Larry Page that his company was trying to do t...
Three pathways that Alphabet could take, based on analogues of Berkshire Hathaway, GE, and AT&T
Is the New Google More Like Berkshire Hathaway, General Electric or AT&T? — Google's decision to restructure is the strongest signal yet that it intends to be a 21st-century innovator …
Zirtual announces it has been acquired by startup launch platform Startups.co, and will resume service
Zirtual: What Happened and What's Next — First, let me start by telling you a story... Over four years ago I moved to San Francisco from Reno, Nevada, with a backpacker's pack …
Rdio to add 460 AM/FM stations owned and operated by Cumulus Media to its service Wednesday amid increasing competition
Rdio cues up traditional radio stations, hoping to get an edge on competition — The increasingly crowded streaming music industry is starting to look a little more like old-fashioned radio.
Inside SoftBank's Struggle to Turn Around Sprint
Two years after takeover, SoftBank's Masayoshi Son struggles to overhaul the U.S. carrier — Billionaire Masayoshi Son asked to speak with U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy right away one Sat...
Tinder's PR just went ballistic on Twitter over a Vanity Fair exposé
Tinder is not happy with Vanity Fair. — The tech company's PR just went on a 30+ tweet tweetstorm lambasting the magazine for a recent feature story in the September issue of Vanity Fair.
Lenovo shipped laptops with an “anti-theft” rootkit that reinstalled unwanted software, has issued manual, optional patch to remove the functionality
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8 of our favorite startups from 500 Startups' 13th batch
Check off another demo day by startup accelerator 500 Startups. — At the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., 42 startups — a mixture of early-stage and post-seed level — made their pit...
Fidelity National to buy software maker SunGard in $9.1 billion deal
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Google Launches New Site To Showcase Experimental Open Source Apps For Android And Android Wear
Google is launching Android Experiments today, the mobile apps counterpart to its Chrome Experiments site. — Just like with Chrome Experiments, the idea behind Android experiments …
Alibaba's Q2 revenue rose 28% YoY but misses estimates; $4B stock buyback planned over the next two years
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Neighborhood Car Service Companies Adopt Their Own Apps to Fend Off Uber
The chatty, frenetic dispatch hubs of neighborhood car services are getting quieter. — When the phone rings at High Class Limousine and Car Service in the Bronx, the conversation comes and goes in f...
Events Performance Monitor DoubleDutch Raises $45 Million In Series E Funding
DoubleDutch is hoping to make measuring the success of your event as easy as skipping rope, and now they've got some more cash to make it happen. — The company announced Wednesday that they had rais...
Ray Ozzie's startup Talko integrates with Slack, offers team calling on web and iOS, coming to Android soon
Talko + Slack — Team calling in Slack channels, for mobile & web. Recorded for replay of important moments. — Shortly after our launch we heard from several teams who were using both Slack and Ta...
Researchers hack a Corvette's brakes via an insurance dongle used in many modern vehicles to monitor speed, location; affected systems are receiving OTA updates
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Judge denies motion to dismiss in ZeniMax, Oculus VR lawsuit
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Source: unlocked Lumia 830 likely to be phased out, just 10 months after first going on sale
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Twitter says government information requests increased by 50% in first half of 2015, expands transparency report to include trademark and email practices
Twitter complied with 71% of them John Ribeiro / InfoWorld : Twitter sees surge in government requests for account information Napier Lopez / The Next Web : Twitter increases scope of its transparency...
Gnip Launches Full-Archive Search API To Provide Instant Access To Nine Years Worth Of Tweets
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Android Wear v1.3 update includes new watch faces “Interactive” and “Together”, which allows users to pair watches, share updates, pictures and activities
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Nine charged in SEC insider trading case that alleges Business Wire, PR Newswire, others were hacked over a five year period, leaking over 150K press releases
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Facebook is working on a Twitter-like app that lets publishers send mobile breaking news alerts to the masses
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The profusion of privacy-violating web trackers invalidates the already-shaky theory that ad-blocking violates an implied contract
@marcoarment http://www.marco.org/... @choire : All the dudes who made a great living off publishing (or republishing!) are now gunning to kill indie media - http://www.marco.org/... Ethan Marcotte / ...
iOS slips to 64% global enterprise share in Q2 2015, Android hits 32%, and Windows stays flat at 4%
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Oracle issues apology after retracting blog post written by its CSO that discouraged third party security research
I have been doing a lot of writing recently. Nick Farrell / TechEye : Oracle security boss throws her toys out of the pram Dave Lewis / CSO : Thoughts on Oracle's CSO blog post two step
Carlyle buys data storage biz Veritas from Symantec for $8 billion
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