Twitter names Jack Dorsey permanent CEO, will remain Square CEO; Adam Bain promoted to COO, Dick Costolo to step down from board
IT'S OFFICIAL: TWITTER MAKES JACK DORSEY FULL-TIME CEO — Jack Dorsey, cofounder of Twitter and Square, has been named Twitter's permanent CEO.
Tim Cook: Apple will give developers access to Apple TV universal search with upcoming API
Tim Cook Talks Apple TV — In an interview with BuzzFeed News, Apple CEO Tim Cook talks about universal search, a key feature of the next-generation Apple TV. — Getty
Adobe unveils new mobile apps Fix & Capture, UX prototyping tool Comet, Photoshop updates, more
Today Adobe unveiled a flood of new apps and updates for creatives during its second major launch event of the year. — On stage during its Max conference keynote, the company showcased …
Facebook partners with French satellite operator Eutelsat to beam internet to Africa from space, starting in second half of 2016
Facebook reaches deal to beam internet to Africa from space — Social network's internet.org initiative reaches deal with French company Eutelsat that will see much of sub-Saharan Africa given intern...
LinkedIn agrees to $13M settlement in class action suit for spamming users' email contacts, will now warn members that it will send messages on their behalf
LinkedIn might have to pay you money for spamming your email contacts — If you just got a long email about LinkedIn …
Philips officially unveils Bridge 2.0, bringing Siri-powered HomeKit to existing Hue bulbs and lamps
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How some Zappos employees, now without a formal process for budgeting and raises, are struggling to adapt to Holacracy's lack of structure
A radical experiment at Zappos to end the office workplace as we know it — PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGG SEGAL — TONY HSIEH, the CEO of Zappos …
Amazon to target non-technical users with AWS data analytics service which features a faster method for moving data to AWS
Amazon Web Services to Add Analytics — Cloud-computing division enters field designed to make better use of collected data — Amazon.com Inc. 's cloud-computing division …
Wishbone, a polling app for teen girls, says it has 3.1M MAUs just 4 months after launching
There's a 4-month-old app that lets you poll your friends — and 3 million teen girls already love it — Teens are spending a lot of time on their phones and they're still bored.
Sources: Twitter backs out from 100K square foot expansion into 1455 Market St., site of Square and Uber HQs, potentially due to hiring slowdown
EXCLUSIVE: Twitter ditches S.F. expansion plan as growth lags — Twitter Inc. abandoned plans at the 11th hour for a big expansion into Uber …
The FAA Has Missed Its Congressionally Mandated Deadline to Regulate Drones
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Livestreaming social network YouNow raises $15M more in a round led by Venrock and Oren Zeev, with Comcast Ventures participating
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How Steve Jobs used Carly Fiorina's HP iPod deal to preinstall iTunes on millions of PCs and prevent HP from creating its own iPod competitor
How Steve Jobs Fleeced Carly Fiorina — The former HP CEO boasted of her friendship with Apple's leader—but he took her to the cleaners with the iPod Tweets: @stevenlevy Tweets: Steven Levy / @steven...
Tweets during shows, Snapchat's Live Stories, and other social tools are ushering in new communal viewing moments, and may transform TV business
Social Media Takes Television Back in Time — The actor Joshua Malina is one of those guys you know from TV. You may not recognize his name, but his boyish face would ring a bell. Tweets: @mgsiegler...
IBM scientists create tiny carbon nanotube transistors that could potentially replace silicon transistors in future computer processors
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Behind Bing Predicts, a statistical modeling tool that uses machine learning and big data from the web to forecast elections, sporting event results, and more
How Microsoft got so good at predicting who will win NFL games — In the second installment of the classic “Back to the Future” …
Didi Kuaidi buys stake in Indian ride-hailing group Ola
and could soon merge Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch : China's Didi Kuaidi Confirms Investment In India's Ola As Uber Rivalry Heats Up Michael de Waal-Montgomery / VentureBeat : Uber's China rival Didi Chu...
Amazon Fire review: flimsy build, slow performance, but good for $50 price if you're a Prime member
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Huawei Watch review: beautiful design, good battery life, but constrained by Android Wear's limitations
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GitHub Launches Support For U2F Security Keys
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Galaxy Note5 and Galaxy S6 edge+ reviewed: best Android phablets on the market with incredible displays, fast and efficient SoC, significantly improved TouchWiz
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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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