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 ...
Yahoo Talent Exodus Accelerates as Marissa Mayer's Turnaround Flounders
The departures of a number of high-profile executives at Yahoo has accelerated in recent months, so much so that many inside the company are becoming worried about strategy and execution of key initia...
Hands on with the modular smartphone Fairphone 2, which ships in December for €525
Fairphone 2 hands-on: Modular phones are finally here — AMSTERDAM—With more and more similarly priced and specced Android smartphones arriving on the market, unique selling points are becoming incre...
Moov Now review: $100 wearable with 6-month battery life is useful for real-time workout coaching, less so for all-day activity tracking
Moov Now review: A personal workout coach on your wrist — The Moov is an activity tracker, but rather than counting metrics like steps and distance …
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 …
Inside the Unicode Consortium and how it decides which emojis to officially support
How Emojis Find Their Way to Phones — An obscure organization that standardizes the way punctuation marks and other text are represented by computer systems has in recent years found itself at the f...
Sources: Toshiba is close to selling its image sensor business to Sony for $165M
Toshiba Said Near $165 Million Sale of Sensor Business to Sony — Companies said to announce deal as early as next week — Toshiba selling assets after $1.3 billion accounting scandal
Playful, founded by early Oculus backer Paul Bettner, raises $25M, announces VR-game Lucky's Tale, debuting with consumer launch of Oculus Rift in 2016
Playful Raises $25 Million, Launches a Game for Oculus VR — Science-fiction enthusiast Paul Bettner had been dreaming of virtual reality …
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.
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 …
Joomla CMS patched on Thursday to fix critical SQL-injection flaw affecting millions of websites
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Y Combinator's and AngelList's recent announcements of large 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...
Android compatibility document mentions forthcoming car infotainment OS
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District court dismisses Wikimedia v. NSA internet surveillance case brought by ACLU for broad coalition, says plaintiffs failed to show they were monitored
HTC and Under Armour delay fitness tracker again, with HTC promising suite of related fitness products in early 2016
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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
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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
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch : Tweets: @caseynewton , @rafat and @delrey Tweets: Casey Newton / @caseynewton : Team from spammy contacts app Brewster acquired by Burger King, turned into startup incuba...
Palantir adds $105M to latest round that closed in July and gave company a $20B valuation
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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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