Nexus 5X teardown shows many components are modular and can be replaced independently
Nexus 5X Teardown … Teardown — Teardowns provide a look inside a device and should not be used as disassembly instructions. — Featured Guide — This guide has been found to be exceptionally cool ...
Sources: Uber looking to raise close to $1B in new venture capital at valuation of $60B-$70B
Uber Said to Plan Another $1 Billion in Fund-Raising — Just three months after raising an enormous sum of money from investors, Uber is at it again. — The ride-hailing service is planning …
Joomla CMS patched on Thursday to fix critical SQL-injection flaw affecting millions of websites
Joomla bug puts millions of websites at risk of remote takeover hacks — Just-patched flaw allows outside hackers to gain administrator access. — Millions of websites used in e-commerce …
HTC and Under Armour delay fitness tracker again, with HTC promising suite of related fitness products in early 2016
HTC's Under Armour fitness tracker slips to Q1 2016 — In July we reported on HTC and Under Armour delaying the HTC Grip until later this year.
DoJ says courts should require Apple to decrypt data on iOS devices because software is “licensed, not sold” to customers
DOJ dismisses Apple's arguments against decrypting iOS communications — The U.S. government rejected Apple's arguments in federal court …
Android compatibility document mentions forthcoming car infotainment OS
Google details how to implement a car version of Android—which doesn't exist yet. — With every new version of Android comes a new version of the Android Compatibility Definition Document (CDD).
Amazon, Google, and Microsoft's strong earnings highlight the benefit of a head start in cloud services over legacy IT firms
The Cloud Is Raining Cash on Amazon, Google, and Microsoft — Each company's impressive earnings can be attributed to a shift in the industry that's punishing a slew of legacy firms.
District court dismisses Wikimedia v. NSA internet surveillance case brought by ACLU for broad coalition, says plaintiffs failed to show they were monitored
Court Dismisses ACLU Challenge to NSA Internet Surveillance — ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A federal district court granted the government's motion …
Y Combinator's and AngelList's recent announcements of follow-on funds, while disruptive to traditional VC, are nonetheless good for the overall VC ecosystem
AngelList and Y Combinator Continue To Shake The Trees — They say that “bad things come in threes.”
Google CEO Sundar Pichai Brings in Less Egotistical Leadership
Bruno Bowden describes Google's top ranks in a very Google-y way. With stats. — “In leadership at Google, you have to be three-plus standard deviations better than normal in technical ability,” sai...
Why distribution deals with unsigned artists are a good path to profitability for music platforms like Pandora and Spotify
Thinking Outside of Pandora's Box — “And you ain't get a coin, [Nas], you was getting f**ked then — I know who I paid, God - Serchlite publishing
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Twitter's first Promoted Moments native advertising campaign rolls out this weekend
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Microsoft adds an entry-level $1,699 Surface Book with Nvidia GPU and a $3,199 model with 1TB solid state storage and top-end specs to its lineup
Paul Lilly / Maximum PC :
Hong Kong-based REX Global buys a 64.9% stake in Yota Devices for $100M, invests $50M
US district judge rules against Pinterest in its trademark suit against Pintrips
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Brewster Contacts App Team Gets Acqui-Hired By Burger King Owner RBI, Brewster Lives On
We've heard a lot about software eating the world; now a company that has built its business around food is now eating up a software startup. Restaurant Brands International, owner of Burger King and...
Amazon completes acquisition of video processing company Elemental Technologies for $296M
Taylor Soper / GeekWire :
Microsoft restructures, changes leadership of some units within its Cloud and Enterprise division amid strong growth
Matt Weinberger / Business Insider :
Palantir adds $105M to latest round that closed in July and gave company a $20B valuation
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Wall Street Journal :
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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.