Source: Apple disables Apple News in China, likely to avoid requirement to censor content
Apple Is Said to Deactivate Its News App in China — HONG KONG — Apple has disabled its news app in China, according to a person with direct knowledge of the situation, the most recent sign …
BlackBerry CEO says company needs to sell 5M phones a year to make business profitable, hints it may exit handset business if it doesn't meet that goal
BlackBerry CEO wants to sell 5 million phones a year — It's been a long time since BlackBerry was on top of the smartphone world …
Panos Panay says Microsoft is going after premium and aiming to reinvent categories with Surface devices to inspire OEMs
Microsoft's Surface chief wants a consistent design across devices — Microsoft's Panos Panay had a big week. Ever the entertainer, Panay appeared …
‘Steve Jobs’ buys into Silicon Valley's aggressive optimism, suggesting that unpleasant visionaries may be worth tolerating because of the products they create
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Surface's creative director Ralf Groene and Windows devices head Panos Panay on the evolution of the Surface Book's design
Inside the creation of the Microsoft Surface Book — No one saw it coming: The Surface Book, history's first Microsoft laptop (or notebook, if you prefer).
An extensive profile of Reid Hoffman, who believes Internet-enabled networks will change how the economic world works
The Network Man — Early on a Monday evening in June, Reid Hoffman, the founder and executive chairman of the business-oriented networking site LinkedIn, met Mark Pincus …
With Moments, Twitter reinvented the newspaper and has the potential to be the best newspaper in the world
Twitter's Moment — I try to save the most over-used of clichés for special moments, and that's exactly what this week feels like for Twitter.
How Seattle is trying to avoid the issues plaguing San Francisco, like surging home prices and less diversity, as its tech scene expands
Seattle, in Midst of Tech Boom, Tries to Keep Its Soul — SEATTLE — For years, business leaders here have closely studied the San Francisco region …
Eight-year-old video-on-demand service MUBI has survived in spite of Netflix by curating a selection of classic films and art house releases for $4.99 per month
How a small streaming site became the Netflix for indie film — In February 2007, about a month after Netflix began streaming movies online …
Inside the Matthew Keys case and why the government charged him under hacking laws
Why the Government Went After Matthew Keys — On October 4, 2012, two FBI agents visited the home of Matthew Keys, aged 25, in Secaucus, New Jersey. At the time, he was the deputy social media edito...
Interview with the creative team on the making of the new Steve Jobs movie, the lack of support from Apple, pressure from Laurene Powell Jobs, Sony hack, more
A Widow's Threats, High-Powered Spats and the Sony Hack: The Strange Saga of ‘Steve Jobs’ — Laurene Powell Jobs pressured …
The 33-year history of the Bloomberg Terminal, and how its current incarnation, the Bloomberg Professional service, processes 60B pieces of information daily
How the Bloomberg Terminal Made History—And Stays Ever Relevant — By definition, any computing platform invented in the first half …
The history of audio interface design, and how Microsoft is reworking Skype's iconic sounds
Inside the world of audio branding with Skype's new pings, bounces, and pops — The year that Skype launched its calling service, the world was in the midst of a sonic crisis: the ringtone.
Report: 65% of US adults now use social networking sites, up from 7% a decade earlier
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Twitter Is Planning Company-Wide Layoffs for Next Week
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Pinterest says nearly half of its users are outside the US, begins localizing search in France, Germany, Brazil, and Japan
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Amazon surveys employees daily about their jobs after critical reports on workplace culture
every single day Eugene Kim / Business Insider : Amazon is asking its employees to speak up about its work environment Adele Chapin / Racked : Amazon Tries To Improve Workplace Culture With Daily Surv...
For the first time, computer science is the most popular major for female students at Stanford; 30% of Stanford computer science majors are women
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Google Search app now indexes iOS 9 apps with deep links to open content surfaced from apps, Safari to also show app content by end of month
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
Period Tracker App Clue Gets $7M To Build A Platform For Female Health
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch :
Google promotes Neal Mohan to SVP for ads and Hiroshi Lockheimer to SVP for Android, Chrome OS and Chromecast
Mark Bergen / Re/code :
Yahoo, NHL Ban Employees from Paid Fantasy-Sports Sites
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Display Dock for Windows 10 mobile devices to cost $99, will launch alongside the Lumia 950 and Lumia 950XL
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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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