Twitter and Vine rebrand favorites as likes, replace star icon with heart
Hearts on Twitter — We hope you like what you see on Twitter and Vine today: hearts! — We are changing our star icon for favorites to a heart and we'll be calling them likes.
Gmail launches Smart Reply, suggests up to three responses to emails for quick replies
Computer, respond to this email: Introducing Smart Reply in Inbox by Gmail — Posted by Bálint Miklós, Software Engineer — With the holidays approaching and emails coming in at a furious pace, we c...
Amazon Books, the digital retailer's first brick-and-mortar store, to open in University Village Seattle on Tuesday with 5K-6K titles
Amazon opens first brick-and-mortar bookstore — at U Village — Two decades after it started selling books online, Amazon opens a shopping center storefront with books for sale on actual shelves.
Microsoft Kills Unlimited OneDrive Storage, Downgrades Paid and Free Options
At a time when many companies are expanding cloud storage options, Microsoft Corp. is shrinking its offerings. — Microsoft is ending unlimited OneDrive storage plans, citing user abuse, the company ...
Activision Blizzard to buy King Digital Entertainment, the company behind the Candy Crush games, for $5.9B
Activision to buy Candy Crush's King for $5.9bn — Activision Blizzard has agreed to acquire King Digital Entertainment, the London-based group behind the hugely popular Candy …
Official Plex app for Apple TV now available, offers local streaming, playlists, channels, more
The official Plex app for Apple TV is now available in the App Store. Plex is a media server for video, TV shows, music and photos. The app is fully featured, with quick access to search, playlists ...
OEMs to stop selling PCs with Windows 7 by October 31, 2016
Within a year, OEMs will only be able to ship PCs with Windows 10. — In February last year, Microsoft said that it would give a one year warning of when systems with Windows 7 preinstalled would no ...
Analysis: King generated massive but eroding profits, and like most mobile game makers, couldn't launch another megahit
Candy, Crushed. — What would you do if you found a gold mine? — Would you keep it to yourself and sell as much as gold as you could dig out, for as long as you could?
Sources: Google abandons plans for retail store in New York City after spending $6M in renovations, wants to sublease the space for $2.25M/year
Google abandons plan to open first-ever retail store in New York City but not before spending $6 million to renovate this SoHo space [Photos]
Open Whisper Systems releases Signal encrypted messaging app for Android to replace TextSecure and RedPhone
Open Whisper Systems, a provider of security-related technologies and apps for mobile devices, has started rolling out an Android version of its private messaging and calling iOS app Signal.
Maker of Polaroid cameras sues GoPro, claiming Hero4 Session violates its patent for the Polaroid Cube camera
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iPhone 6s and 6s Plus Review: A9 SoC is the best SoC in any phone today, 3D Touch is a user experience breakthrough, best phones on the market for video capture
The Apple iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Review — To be perfectly honest, this past year has been remarkably boring in the mobile segment.
Google Apps For Work Passes 2M Paid Users, Now Vets And Recommends 3rd Party Apps
Last month, Google made a bold move to win over more business customers using cloud-based apps by making Google Apps for Work free for any company that is still under contract with a rival like Micros...
Google's Project Wing lead David Vos says company aims to start commercial package deliveries by drone in 2017
IBM buys cloud brokerage software developer Gravitant
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Raspberry Pi Foundation And U.K.'s Code Club Merge For Global Push To Get Kids Coding
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Chef acquires German security startup VulcanoSec, launches new compliance product
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By making Star Trek exclusive to All Access, CBS shows it is serious about competing with Netflix, Amazon, others with its own streaming service
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Apple TV App Store adds Top Charts section, confirms popularity of games
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Samsung shipped 84M smartphones in Q3, up 6.3% YoY, rise in sales largely from cheap devices like Galaxy J, with 38% of the phones sold priced below $200
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LA-based domain registry XYZ.com, in deal with Chinese government, puts global block on domain registrations involving 12K banned words
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Internet cloud services firm Endurance buys e-mail marketing company Constant Contact for $1.1B
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Woman drops sexual assault case against Palantir and Formation 8 cofounder Joseph Lonsdale, who dropped counterclaims against her
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Takedown database Chilling Effects changes name to Lumen, broadens scope, expands globally with new partners in Italy, Brazil, and India
Lumen Blog : Tweets: @wseltzer . See also Mediagazer Tweets: Wendy Seltzer / @wseltzer : Chilling Effects becomes Lumen @lumendatabase, broadening scope to illuminate the online world for the next de...
T-Mobile announces new 4G LTE CellSpot, offering LTE signal from Wi-Fi wherever you want it
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Vulnerability in Baidu's Moplus SDK, integrated in 14K+ apps, may affect 100M users
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Inside BlackBerry's last-ditch plan to win you back with Android
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