Microsoft's Surface Pro 4, Band 2, and new Lumias set for October launch event
Microsoft is planning to hold a massive hardware launch event in October. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans tell The Verge that the software giant will use the event to unveil two new Lumia han...
Sony's SmartBand 2 monitors heart rate, is waterproof, will be available in September for $132
Sony's SmartBand 2 will monitor your heart rate and field your calls — Sony has officially unveiled its SmartBand 2 after accidentally publishing details about the activity tracker earlier this year...
Danish police arrest operators of two Popcorn Time guide websites that didn't link to any copyright-infringing material
Police Arrest Men For Spreading Popcorn Time Information — More than a year after its 2014 launch and the popularity of the now famous Popcorn Time video streaming application …
96.8 percent of new smartphones sold are either iPhone or Android devices
The latest quarterly smartphone sales data from Gartner is out today, and it tells a very familiar story. BlackBerry keeps shrinking, Microsoft is stagnating, and Google and Apple are tightening thei...
Pew: 70% of Facebook users log in daily, 36% of smartphone owners use messaging apps, Instagram and other social sites see increase in engagement
Mobile Messaging and Social Media 2015 — In today's world, people — particularly young people — are continually finding and adapting …
Amazon will no longer accept Flash ads on its site or advertising platform as of September
Amazon puts another nail in Flash's coffin — Adobe Flash is having a rough month. — Amazon said this week that starting in September, it will no longer accept Flash ads on Amazon.com …
Microsoft beats Google to the punch: Bing for Android update does what Now on Tap will do
Microsoft today is introducing a major new capability to its Bing Search app for Android. Now when you want more information on the people, places, and things you're reading about …
Google releases version 1.5 of its programming language Go, removes last vestiges of C from code base
Go, Google's C-killing programming language, hits version 1.5 — Six years and six updates later, Google's own programming language, Go, has reached version 1.5.
Ashley Madison's data breach could have profound consequences for users and will likely be catastrophic for the company
The mind-bending messiness of the Ashley Madison data dump — Massive data breaches have become so routine as to become background noise.
Ashley Madison's $19 ‘Full Delete’ Option Made The Company Millions
while inexcusably vulnerable — made millions promising to “fully delete” accounts http://www.buzzfeed.com/...
Sources: Google Express to shut down its two Bay Area delivery hubs, looks to outsource delivery to on-demand startups
Google Express Plans to Shut Down Its Two Delivery Hubs — Google Express, the search giant's same-day delivery service, is shutting down its two delivery hubs …
Twitter rebrands program for ads outside of Twitter as Twitter Audience Platform, adds video ads, allows advertisers to drive Tweet engagements and video views
Twitter Expands Its Program For Ads Outside Twitter — Twitter is unveiling several new features for advertisers who want their campaigns to go beyond Twitter itself.
New Spotify privacy policy says it can collect data on location, sensors, and photos from your phone
Location, Sensors, Voice, Photos?! Spotify Just Got Real Creepy With The Data It Collects On You — Spotify has updated its privacy policy, and users should be careful about what they agree to.
Mobile marketing automation startup Kahuna raises $45 million in Series B funding to grow its platform
Mobile marketing automation startup Kahuna raised $45 million in Series B funding Wednesday to grow its platform. — Tenaya Capital led the round with participation from previous investors …
Lightning strikes Google Compute Engine data center in Belgium; services disrupted and 0.000001% of data lost
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Social marketing firm Spredfast acquires competitor Shoutlet
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Report: BlackBerry Venice Android slider to launch on all four major US carriers in November
A series of Twitter posts … Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless : Report: BlackBerry's Android-powered device to launch in November on all 4 major U.S. carriers Leah Becerra / Gizmodo : Our First Good Loo...
Grand Rounds Raises $55M to Connect Patients With Specialists
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Apple launches “benchmark-sized” Australian dollar corporate bond issue, orders pass $1.2B in under two hours
Jonathan Shapiro / Sydney Morning Herald :
3-D Printer Maker Carbon3D Raises $100 Million From Google Ventures, Others
Ina Fried / Re/code :
Here Are The 52 Startups That Launched At Y Combinator Summer 2015 Demo Day 2
Hardware was the clear-cut theme of Day 1, but Demo Day 2 of Y Combinator's Summer 2015 was a bit more... eclectic. Moving services! Streaming services! Hotel booking, augmented reality, esports!
WhatsApp launches a desktop web app for iPhone users, can work in conjunction with mobile to mirror real-time conversations
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Web hosts and businesses in the gaming industry vulnerable to new DDoS attack abusing RPC Portmapper warns Level 3
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SF and LA District Attorneys amend complaint against Uber, claim murderer, sex offenders got through background checks, want tougher screening
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How Google's networking infrastructure has evolved over ten years and five generations to deliver more than 1 petabit/sec of total bisection bandwidth
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Meet Ring, the connected door bell company that just scored Richard Branson as an investor
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Alex Rampell, co-founder and former CEO of TrialPay which was acquired by Visa this year, joins Andreessen Horowitz as general partner
On behalf of the a16z team, I am excited …
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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 …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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.