Microsoft announces worldwide release of Office 2016 for Windows and Mac
The new Office is here — Today's post was written by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office Client Applications and Services team. — It's here! Today is the worldwide release ...
iPhone 6s review: 3D Touch is fun and useful, terrific camera and great performance, but battery life could be better
iPhone 6S review — Big screens won. — For the past three years, the most meaningful change to the iPhone has been the size of its screen.
Office 2016 review: minor updates to desktop apps, solid real-time co-authoring, great cross-platform functionality with Office 365
Microsoft Office 2016 review — Today's release of Office 2016 marks almost three years since the last major version of Microsoft's productivity apps.
Apple automatically refunding all purchases of Marco Arment's ad-blocking app Peace
Apple refunding all purchases of Peace — Apple notified me this afternoon that they'll be proactively refunding all purchases of Peace. It will probably take a few days to process.
Netflix-like e-book subscription service Oyster to shut down; part of team moving to Google Play Books, including CEO and co-founders according to sources
Oyster, a Netflix for Books, Is Shutting Down. But Most of Its Team Is Heading to Google. — Oyster, a company that provides …
Office 2016 arrives with collaboration features, real-time co-authoring, Cortana integration, and improved search
Office 2016 arrives with features meant to take on Google (and everyone else) — Office 2016 is out of preview today, and in a sentence, it represents Microsoft's …
Groupon Is Laying Off 1,100 At A Cost Of $35M, Shutters Operations In 7 Countries
Some significant downsizing is underway at Groupon, the daily deals and local-commerce site. The company is today announcing that it will be cutting 1,100 jobs and taking a pre-tax charge of $35 mill...
Xiaomi launches Mi 4c in China with Snapdragon 808, 5-inch 1080p display, and USB Type-C for $205
Xiaomi's new $200 Mi 4c has everything you need in a smartphone — Earlier this year, Xiaomi introduced the Mi 4i for India, and today it's launching the Mi 4c for China.
Starbucks mobile ordering now blankets the U.S., with coverage in San Francisco, New York and more coming today
Tricia Duryee / GeekWire : … Starbucks new mobile ordering service, which allows customers to skip the line by ordering in advance from their phone, is launching nationwide today to bring on board …
RIAA finds streaming revenues grow 23.2%, downloads fall 4%, vinyl sales grow 51.3%, in first half of 2015
Record Label Revenue Flat in First Half of 2015 — Big gains in paid digital access and ad-supported streaming services kept things from going underwater.
Kim Dotcom extradition hearing begins in New Zealand
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Formlabs debuts $3,499 Form 2 3D printer with better resolution and smarter prints
It's estimated that the 3D printing market will grow to $16.2 billion by 2018, a compounded annual growth rate of 45.7 percent over the five year period. One company eagerly looking to capture …
Crowdsourced hardware maker Quirky files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, will sell off its Wink smart home platform, likely to Flextronics for $15M
Quirky files for bankruptcy, will sell off its Wink smart home platform — As part of a voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing …
Senate Intelligence Committee drops efforts to force social media companies to report postings by suspected terrorists
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Udacity expanding to India, to offer nanodegrees and scholarships in partnership with Google and Tata Group
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Texas man Trendon Shavers pleads guilty to securities fraud in $4.5M bitcoin Ponzi scheme
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Google Wallet updated for iOS with focus on sending money between users
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Music streaming service Deezer plans IPO by end of the year, could be valued at about €1B
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Sources: Apple designates electric car project Titan as “committed”, with a target ship date of 2019, gives permission to triple 600-person team working on it
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21 Inc. announces its first product, a $400 bare-bones computer for developers with a mining chip and Linux OS customized for Bitcoin
Today we're announcing a new kind … Sophie Curtis / Telegraph : This $400 mini-computer lets you mine Bitcoin and sell digital goods Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web : 21's $400 computer lets you mine...
Target partners with Techstars on a retail-focused startup accelerator in its hometown of Minneapolis
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Video of fourth gen Apple TV shows UI details, Siri remote, support for Bluetooth headphones, and “night mode” that reduces volume for everything but speech
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CloudFlare raises $110M round led by Fidelity, includes Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and Baidu
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Why modern encryption techniques must adapt to resist attacks by quantum computers
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Simple.tv to launch ShowDrive, a cloud DVR to store/stream up to 1K hours of TV, in UK within weeks, cost £1/month for 100 hours, £5/month for 1K hours
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Meditation startup Headspace raises $30M from The Chernin Group, Allen & Company, Breyer Capital, Jessica Alba, Jared Leto, Ryan Seacrest, Jeff Weiner, others
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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.