Twitter partners with Square to let users in US make political donations through a tweet
Political donations, now through a Tweet — When people have conversations about politics, they have them on Twitter. It's what voters learn and share in these conversations that routinely motivates...
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 to support 600 Mbps LTE-Advanced, LTE-U, and Quick Charge 3.0 spec which is up to 27% faster at charging than Quick Charge 2.0
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 packs 600Mbps LTE and smarter charging — Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 hype train is getting to be a bit much …
Flickr demonstrates 360-degree panoramic photos on Oculus, hopes to roll out initial stages of Flickr VR by 2016
Flickr wants you to explore photos in VR — Some day you could be flipping through your vacation photos while wearing a VR headset. At the XOXO Festival taking place in Portland …
Facebook is working on a standalone video app that will support 360-degree footage; launch details uncertain
Facebook Looks to Bring Virtual Reality to Mobile Devices — 360-degree video app would allow users to change viewing perspective by tilting their phones
Cisco routers in at least 4 countries infected by highly stealthy backdoor
More than a dozen routers in four countries infected with fully featured implants. — Researchers have uncovered active and highly clandestine attacks that have infected more than a dozen Cisco route...
Salesforce Announces New Internet of Things Cloud, As Dreamforce Opens
When you think of Salesforce.com, you probably don't think about the burgeoning Internet of Things, but Salesforce wants to help customers make sense of all of the data coming from the growing number ...
The Obama administration to invest $160M in a new “Smart Cities” initiative aimed at building apps to better tackle issues like traffic congestion and crime
Obama pledges $160M to develop ‘Smart Cities’ apps — The Obama administration earmarks $160 million to help entrepreneurs …
Verizon, AT&T Get Own Spaces Inside 250 Best Buy Stores
Once again, Best Buy is carving out a section of its stores to serve as a dedicated showcase for brands willing to foot part of the bills. — This time it is Verizon and AT&T that are getting a store...
Facebook will work with Germany to combat anti-refugee hate speech
Facebook this week said it will work with the German government to crack down on hate speech and xenophobia online, following calls from the country's justice minister to do more to combat hateful spe...
How ad blocking could accelerate the shift to native advertising and publishing directly to social networks and platforms
Welcome to the Block Party — In a 1997 segment on the short-lived tech TV show The Site, host Soledad O'Brien sits at a bar in front of a laptop computer …
Indian Cab-Hailing Firm Ola Is Raising Over $500M At A Valuation Of Around $5B
It looks like yet more fuel is about to get poured on the already-hot transportation app market in Asia. India's Ola is raising $500 million+, at a valuation that we've heard is around the $5 billion...
EFF project “Let's Encrypt”, with Mozilla and Cisco, releases its first free HTTPS certificate
'Let's Encrypt' project issues its first free certificate — Last year, the Electronic Frontier Foundation along with Mozilla and Cisco launched an initiative called “Let's Encrypt” …
LG Is Having An Event On October 1st, Probably To Announce The Dual-Display V10
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How apathy and inconvenience led to decline of peer-to-peer markets for low-cost products
The “Sharing Economy” Is Dead, And We Killed It — Five years ago, everybody was excited about the idea of using tech to borrow things like power drills. In practice, though, not so much. Tweets: @m...
Uber and Lyft get state approval to operate in Nevada but face uncertainty over proposed local business regulations in Clark County
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Google violated antitrust laws by requiring Android manufacturers to pre-install its services, Russian regulator rules after investigating Yandex complaint
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US appeals court rules copyright owners must consider fair use before issuing takedown notices, siding with EFF
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Compass Raises $50M At An $800M Valuation Led By IVP To Supersize Its Real Estate Platform
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Qualcomm acquires Capsule Technologie, a firm linking medical devices with hospitals, which has 1.9K hospital customers in 38 countries
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Stripe announces Relay, a set of tools for retailers to enable instant purchases in third-party apps, with Twitter as a launch partner
Today, mobile e-commerce websites … Wall Street Journal : Stripe Simplifies Mobile Purchases on Twitter Street Fight : Street Fight Daily: Stripe's New Mobile Commerce Tool, Can Google Keep Up With Ch...
Zynga acquires Rising Tide, a free-to-play social casino game firm created by former Zynga and Playtika executives
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Why iSight assembled a team of top cybersecurity experts to prioritize preemptive threat intelligence over reactionary alerts
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Adrian Wong, the Google Glass engineer who defected to Facebook, quietly rejoined Google
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