Report: 68% of US adults now own a smartphone, up from 35% in 2011, 45% own a tablet, no growth in ownership of other digital devices in recent years
Technology Device Ownership: 2015 — 68% of Americans have smartphones; 45% have tablet computers. Ownership of other digital devices has not grown in recent years.
Apple plans to start selling the iPad Pro on November 11th
Apple plans to start selling the 12.9-inch iPad Pro on Wednesday, November 11th via both its physical retail and online stores, according to multiple sources. Apple previously only said that the larg...
Huawei hires former Apple creative director Abigail Brody as chief user experience designer
Huawei hires Apple's former creative director Abigail Brody — Chinese smartphone maker Huawei is hires a former Apple creative director as it plans to set up a user experience design studio in the U...
Instagram Builds Its Own Version of Snapchat Live Stories
Instagram is taking cues from Snapchat and Twitter with its latest update — curated content streams for specific events, in this case, Halloween. — If you open the Instagram app in the U.S. on Satur...
Google's new invite-only “Who's Down” app for Android and iOS shows which of your friends are free to hang out
Google's new 'Who's Down' app shows which of your friends are free to hang out — Google has just quietly released a new app on the Play Store, called “Who's Down”.
Motorola launching the Droid Turbo 2 as the Moto X Force in Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific regions in November
Moto X Force: A shatterproof Android phone for outside the U.S. — Consumers around the world will be able to get Motorola's ShatterShield tech with a non-Droid version of the Turbo 2.
Inside GM's fight against Google to win the multibillion-dollar race for driverless cars
Inside GM's fight to get to the future first.
Meg Whitman seeks reinvention for HP as the company splits into HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise on Sunday
Meg Whitman Seeks Reinvention for HP as It Prepares for Split — PALO ALTO, Calif. — When Meg Whitman, Hewlett-Packard's chief executive, was preparing to cleave her company in two …
Amazon to exit daily deals, closing the Amazon Local platform on December 18
Amazon To Exit Daily Deals With Closure Of Amazon Local — Amazon is exiting the daily deals space. According to a message now being displayed on the Amazon Local homepage, the company's deals platf...
TalkTalk: hackers accessed fewer than 1.2M email addresses, names, and phone numbers, 21K unique bank account details, 28K obscured credit, debit card details
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Amazon stops offering its Local Register credit card reader, will end support for it on February 1
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With rating systems, companies like Uber and TaskRabbit turn customers into ruthless middle managers
The rating game — Soon, you'll be able to go to the Olive Garden and order your fettuccine alfredo from a tablet mounted to the table. After paying, you'll rate the server.
Hands-on: Facebook M, powered by humans, excels at carrying out real-world tasks, unlike pure AI virtual assistants like Siri or Cortana
Hands-on with Facebook M: the virtual assistant with a (real) human touch — There's something eerie about realizing you live in a time people once considered a sci-fi fantasy.
Amazon Launches ‘Pay With Amazon’ Buttons for Mobile Apps
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Top YouTuber PewDiePie: YouTube Red exists to counter ad blocking, which can devastate smaller channels
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Facebook tweaks real name policy: starting in December, users will be allowed to provide context when Facebook requires their name be “confirmed”
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Amazon removes all Apple TV, Chromecast listings from its website, including those from 3rd-party resellers, following plans announced earlier this month
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US State Department will not classify “cyber products” as munitions in export control list
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Google's acquisitions in the first nine months of 2015 totaled $250M, the lowest since 2009
Google slammed the brakes on its acquisition machine, with the lowest deal-making since 2009 — Google has idled its mergers and acquisition machine, with the company reporting the lowest deal activi...
Facebook testing “Local Market” section, surfacing Groups for buying and selling items
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Snapchat rolls out sponsored lenses, a new ad option that puts a brand alongside selfies
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Facebook kills off its experimental sidebar status updates
In April, Facebook began testing sidebar status updates — quick, disposable messages that in some ways mimicked the carefree away messages of social networks past. But the company quietly killed off ...
German mobile carrier Deutsche Telekom plans to charge startups for “guaranteed good transmission quality” of Internet under Europe's new net neutrality rules
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