Jury finds Apple infringes University of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation patents on chip technology, faces $862M in damages
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Uber launches on-demand delivery service UberRush, goes live in Chicago and San Francisco
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Twitter appoints former Google chief business officer Omid Kordestani as executive chairman
Twitter names Omid Kordestani as executive chairman — Twitter named Omid Kordestani, Google's chief business officer, as its new executive chairman on Wednesday.
Skype for Business iOS app comes out of preview, Android public release later this year
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How Apple designs, prototypes, and tests Macintosh accessories inside its Input Design Lab
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Aurous sued by Universal, Sony, and Warner for copyright infringement three days after launching its Popcorn Time-like streaming music service
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Loan Platform Kabbage Raises $135M At A $1B Valuation, Grows Credit Line to $900M
Kabbage — the online platform that loans money to businesses and individuals using a wide set of online data and algorithms to measure credit-worthiness — is growing once more.
Microsoft's Groove music app gets exclusive iHeartRadio integration on Windows 10
Earlier this year, Microsoft relaunched its Xbox Music product as Groove, and since then, the company has been making improvements and adding new features, including support for Sonos speakers.
The implications of mobile operating systems controlled by Apple and Google succeeding the neutral web browser as the primary platform for Internet services
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EverString raises $65M to deliver predictive analytics to B2B
One of the more generously funded areas in the technology industry is predictive analytics. Depending on your perspective that is either a frothy bubble just waiting to burst or an indication of a ma...
Study finds Uber displacing cabs in Manhattan, supplementing them in outer boroughs, not increasing city congestion
Uber Is Taking Millions Of Manhattan Rides Away From Taxis
LivingSocial Lays Off 200, 20% Of Staff, As It Shifts From Deals To ‘Experiences’
Its been crunch time for daily deals sites for a while now, and today one of the bigger and older of those platforms is announcing a round of layoffs as it looks to cut costs, reorganise its operation...
Google registers two drones with the FAA that sources say are related to project Titan
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SAP rolls out Cloud for Analytics to surface and analyze data from multiple on-premise and cloud stores
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Toshiba's new DynaPad 2-in-1 with stylus is a thinner, lighter, less powerful rival to Microsoft's Surface 4, coming to US in Q1 2016
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Blocks modular smartwatch quickly exceeds Kickstarter goal of $250K, plans to ship May 2016, core module is $195, core plus four modules $250 and up
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Facebook now lets you filter out bad memories by date and people's names to better control what is surfaced in On This Day, Year in Review nostalgia posts
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Facebook argues privacy regulations pursued in EU may hurt its ability to protect users against hacking and fraud
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Microsoft's Patch Tuesday addresses critical remote code execution flaw in Internet Explorer that affects all versions of Windows since Vista
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Intel Q3: beats expectations with $14.5B revenue, $3.1B net income, despite weak PC market, with data center group revenue up 12% YoY to $4.1B
26.9%, up 0.9 point from expectations
Google acquires web-hosting company Divshot, which will join the Firebase team and shut down in December
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Alibaba Rival JD.com Opens Its First U.S. Office In Silicon Valley
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Study of 20K Android devices finds 87% vulnerable to security bugs due to manufacturers' failure to deliver patches
report Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start up: inside a content factory, US reacts to Safe Harbour sinking, why Surface?, Android lemons and more Liam Spradlin / Android Police : Device Art Generato...
Oracle wins $50M in damages against Rimini Street in copyright infringement lawsuit
After plenty of name calling … Thanks: @zackwhittaker
Dollars entering the VC ecosystem are probably reaching a cyclical peak, and what this means for GPs, LPs, and founders
Manu Kumar / K9 Ventures : Tweets: @setonrog , @nrag and @mims Tweets: Sean Seton-Rogers / @setonrog : “I wouldn't be surprised if you start to see “new LPs” reneging on their capital commitments to ...
Facebook tests dedicated feed for watching videos, video bookmarking, floating videos for in-app multitasking
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Zendesk acquires cloud business intelligence startup BIME Analytics for $45M
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