Ashley Madison had approximately 31M male members, 5.5M female members, but likely only 12K women actively used the site
Almost None of the Women in the Ashley Madison Database Ever Used the Site — When hacker group Impact Team released the Ashley Madison data, they asserted that “thousands” of the women's profiles we...
IDC: In Q2, Apple Watch shipped 3.6M units with 19.9% market share, just behind Fitbit with 4.4M units for 24.3% market share
Apple Debuts at the Number Two Spot as the Worldwide Wearables Market Grows 223.2% in 2Q15, Says IDC — In its first appearance in the wearables market …
iPhone 6S will animate UI with Apple Watch-like Motion wallpapers
Apple is preparing to bring some motion from the Apple Watch to the iPhone 6S. One of the new device's differentiators over its predecessor will likely be a spiced up set of animated wallpapers, acco...
iPhone 6S camera: 12 megapixel photos, 4K video recording, flash for selfies
One of the marquee upgrades to the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus will be a major revamp to the camera system. For the first time since the iPhone 4S launch in 2011, the iPhone camera's megapixel count...
Leaked images reveal Microsoft's 5.2-inch Lumia 950 and 5.7-inch 950XL, to launch in October
Leaked images reveal Microsoft's new flagship Lumia phones — Microsoft is preparing to launch two new Lumia flagship devices at an event in October. While we've seen some images emerge along …
Sources: Amazon lays off dozens of engineers, scales back and reorganizes its hardware-development center Lab126 after Fire Phone failure
Amazon Curtails Development of Consumer Devices — Amazon is scaling back its efforts to develop consumer devices, laying off dozens of engineers …
Ex-Apple CEO John Sculley unveils two sub-$200 Android Obi smartphones for Asia, Africa, and Middle East markets, will be available October
Former Apple CEO John Sculley launches a line of stylish smartphones — Like most consumer items, the lower the price point of a phone, the less exciting the design.
Facebook testing M, an AI-based, human supervised virtual assistant inside Messenger that can complete tasks such as purchasing on your behalf
Mobile Payments? Aaron Mamiit / Tech Times : Facebook's New Digital Personal Assistant M Learns From Human Behaviors: How It Works Dave Lee / BBC : Facebook M: The call centre of the future Carly Page...
In-Flight Wi-Fi Prices Jump as Demand Surges
During a Tuesday-morning flight in April from Los Angeles to New York, Christine Lu's smartphone web browser loaded an unpleasant surprise: Gogo, the in-flight Wi-Fi provider, wanted to charge her $27...
Evernote Food apps for iOS and Android to be retired September 30
Evernote to end support for Evernote Food apps — Two years ago, we created Evernote Food to help people chronicle the universal experience of enjoying great food. Food's most popular features were ...
Y Combinator has funded over 940 companies so far, eight of which have a valuation over $1B
YC stats — We get asked (a lot) for statistics on the YC portfolio about valuation and fundraising. Although these are very imperfect indicators of success, here they are.
Germany's domestic intelligence agency BfV got XKeyscore software from NSA in exchange for German surveillance data
A Dubious Deal with the NSA — Internal documents show that Germany's domestic intelligence agency, the BfV, received the coveted software program XKeyscore from the NSA - and promised data from Germ...
How Facebook's M virtual assistant's artificial intelligence works
Facebook's Human-Powered Assistant May Just Supercharge AI — Face it: Siri sucks. So often, she has no clue what you're saying. And when she does, there's a pretty good chance she'll respond with ...
Qasar Younis, former Y Combinator graduate and creator of Talkbin which was acquired by Google in 2011, named Y Combinator COO
Meet Y Combinator's New COO — To appreciate the rapid growth at Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator, consider this: In 2009, it shepherded 42 startups through its boot camp.
Google Denies Europe's Antitrust Accusations
Google on Thursday rejected claims from the European Union's top antitrust official that the company favored some of its own search results over those of rivals, saying there was significant competiti...
Chinese Drone Startup Yuneec Grabs $60M In Funding From Intel
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TSMC wins Spy Case against a Former Employee who gave Secrets to Samsung that helped Win Apple's Chip Business
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Sources: Uber China closes $1B round, valuing the unit at $7B
Uber China closes $1 billion fundraising round: sources — Uber Technologies Inc's [UBER.UL] China arm has closed its $1 billion fundraising round early, according to two people with knowledge of the...
Google's Container Engine For Running Docker Containers On Its Cloud Platform Is Now Generally Available
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Asset management company BlackRock acquires automated wealth management startup FutureAdvisor
Five years ago FutureAdvisor set … Leena Rao / Fortune : Blackrock buys a robo advisor Ian Kar / Quartz : BlackRock's FutureAdvisor acquisition is a ringing endorsement of robo-advising Stephen Foley ...
China targets Astrill and other anti-censorship VPNs ahead of celebration marking the 70th anniversary of end of WWII
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Amazon to offer its live streaming service to Prime members in Japan beginning Sept. 2 for no additional fee
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Agora, the Dark Web's biggest marketplace for drugs, pauses operations over Tor vulnerability that could expose IP addresses of servers
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Yahoo Announces New Tumblr Sharing Tools And Native Video Ads For Developers
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Pushbullet's file sharing app Portal now available for iPhone; allows transfer of files from computer to iOS over WiFi
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Mobile video combined with autoplay and social media's reach bring unexpected horror to users' feeds
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Hybrid cloud startup Velostrata comes out of stealth, announces $14M Series A from Norwest and Greylock
Barb Darrow / Fortune :
Google confirms it triggers recruiting tool when people search for specific programming terms
Mark Bergen / Re/code :
Intercom, maker of business-to-consumer software, raises a $35M Series C led by Iconiq Capital
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch :
Lenovo Begins Merging Mobile Business Group Into Motorola Mobility
Manish Singh / NDTV Gadgets :
Pocket updates web, Android, and iOS apps to 6.0 with recommendations tab
Kait Gaiss / Pocket Blog :
Adobe's new mobile Photoshop app, dubbed Project Rigel, will launch in October free on iOS, integrate with Creative Cloud subscription
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