Sources: Microsoft weighing multibillion-dollar revamp of Seattle campus to add more open work spaces
Microsoft Said to Weigh Multibillion-Dollar Headquarters Revamp — Skidmore, Owings & Merrill hired to design campus overhaul — Plan could create more open offices and add amenities
Facebook begins testing new, content-heavy, immersive mobile ad format
Facebook Is Testing Its Fancy New Mobile Ads — Facebook is testing a new, content-heavy mobile ad that wraps a lot of the company's existing ad formats like image carousels and autoplay video into o...
Man arrested for parodying mayor on Twitter gets $125K in civil lawsuit
Mayor concerned about being portrayed as drug abuser who hangs with prostitutes. — An Illinois man arrested when his residence was raided for parodying his town's mayor on Twitter is settling a civi...
Latest Chrome for Android brings “custom tabs”, a faster alternative to WebView for apps
Chrome custom tabs smooth the transition between apps and the web — Android app developers face a difficult tradeoff when it comes to showing web content in their Android app.
Announcing General Availability of Google Compute Engine Autoscaler and 32 core VMs
Our customers have a wide range of compute needs, from temporary batch processing to high-scale web workloads. Google Cloud Platform provides a resilient compute platform for workloads of all sizes e...
Human Rights Watch, Free Press and 15 other rights groups call on Twitter to restore API access to Politwoops
Human Rights Watch, Transparency Groups Condemn Twitter's Politwoops Ban — Last month, Twitter revoked access to its API from Politwoops, a network of sites that automatically archived the deleted t...
Microsoft phasing out support for Lumia camera-related apps on Windows Phone 8.1
Microsoft is dropping support and updates for a number of Lumia camera-related apps on Windows Phone 8.1 devices in preparation for the consolidated Windows 10 Camera and Photo apps.
Bing Pushes Microsoft's Edge Browser When People Search For “Chrome” Or “Firefox”
Tactic of using search for self-promotion is common, but it court hurt Microsoft's case that Google shouldn't favor its own products. — Searching on Microsoft's Bing search engine for the Firefox or...
Sources: feds open criminal probe over claims that HubSpot execs tried to get pre-release copy of book about the firm; cofounder fined, two execs have left
Feds open criminal investigation of HubSpot book incident — Federal law enforcement officials have opened a criminal investigation …
Amazon hiring staff for new restaurant division in Seattle, New York
Amazon.com Inc is adding staff for a new division dedicated to restaurants in Seattle and New York, with indications the unit is trying to rapidly expand a meal delivery service, according to posts on...
Man Behind Virus That Stole Millions, Infected NASA Computers Reaches Deal
Toyota to invest $50M in AI research at Stanford and MIT over five years, to develop “intelligent” car technology; Dr. Gill Pratt leaves DARPA to head effort
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Apple Planning Revamped iPad Keyboard, New Metal Finishes for Apple Watch
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Twitter adds “Who to follow” section in Android and iOS timelines that appears depending on how frequently you use the service
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Adobe survey: 61.9% of streamed pay TV, generally content owned by cable networks, is viewed on Apple devices
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune :
Etsy's Pulling The Plug On Grand St. At The End Of This Month
When Etsy bought Grand St. last April, the plan was to let Grand St. continue to operate its maker marketplace for tech hardware. But that's about to change. At the end of this month, Grand St. will...
Pwn2Own loses HP as its sponsor amid concerns of compliance with the Wassenaar Arrangement, an international treaty that has rules governing software exploits
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Sources: Uber to unveil e-commerce delivery program with retailers as early as this month, likely to roll out in NYC and partner with luxury stores
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Sources: Google plans to launch a special China version of Google Play as early as this fall, marking its re-entry into China, compliance with censorship laws
Amir Efrati / The Information :
Samsung unveils Car Mode for Galaxy phones with MirrorLink support, can also be used as a standalone app
Adam Shepherd / IT PRO :
Fiat Chrysler U.S. to recall 7,810 SUVs to prevent hacking
Radhika Rukmangadhan / Reuters :
Baidu's Student Q&A App Zuoyebang Lands Investment From Sequoia and Legend Capital
Baidu, China's largest search engine and an investor in Uber, is giving its Zuoyebang ‘after school’ service, which helps school students with their studies, wings of its own after it revealed …
LinkedIn Open-Sources FeatureFu, A Toolkit For Building Machine Learning Models
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Dave McClure's 500 Startups closes its third global fund with $85M, 15% below its original target
Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal :
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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 …
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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.