Apple Pay is now available in Canada with American Express, UK Apple Pay adds Tesco Bank and TSB
As expected, Apple Pay is now available in Canada. You can use use eligible American Express bank cards to make mobile payments at a whole host of retailers that support the NFC technology across Can...
Rdio to shut down its service, file for bankruptcy, with Pandora acquiring key assets for $75M in cash
then Apple, Google, and Microsoft showed up Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica : Rdio shutting down, and Pandora will buy its technology Shawn King / The Loop : Pandora acquires ‘key assets’ from Rdio, will l...
Oxford Dictionaries selects “face with tears of joy” emoji as 2015 Word of the Year
Oxford Dictionaries Selects an Emoji as Word of the Year — The Oxford Dictionaries has chosen its Word of the Year for 2015: An emoji depicting the “face with tears of joy.”
Google And ASUS Launch The $85 Chromebit, A Chrome OS Desktop On An HDMI Stick
Earlier this year, Google and ASUS announced the Chromebit — a full Chrome OS-based computer on an HDMI stick. Today, the two companies are officially launching this new way of using Chrome OS on any...
Microsoft to create a Cyber Defense Operations Center and an Enterprise Cybersecurity Group, with security experts for rapid response to security threats
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Netflix open sources Spinnaker, its cloud resource management tool for AWS, with support for Google Cloud Platform and Cloud Foundry, Azure support coming soon
Netflix launches open source project ready for Amazon, Google clouds — Additional deployment support for Microsoft Azure was said to be …
Pandora plans subscription-based on-demand service because its ad revenue is not enough to offset content costs
Pandora Bought Rdio Because Ads Aren't Enough to Offset Content Costs — Content Acquisition Costs Growing at Faster Clip Than Ad Revenue — Pandora is acquiring key assets of Spotify rival Rdio for...
MetroPCS introduces new plans that exempt music streamed from over 30 different music services from data caps
MetroPCS gets its own versions of Music Freedom and Binge On — Hot on the heels of T-Mobile's Binge On announcement, T-Mo is showing some love to its MetroPCS customers.
Online lender Earnest raises $275M Series B led by Battery Ventures and has originated $400M in loans this year
Online Lender Earnest Raises $275 Million; Has Originated $400 Million In Loans This Year — Earnest, one of the new online lenders using smart algorithms to serve millennials …
Nvidia's Shield Tablet is back on sale for $199 after fire hazard recall
Nvidia called its Shield Tablet the “ultimate tablet for gamers” upon announcement last year, but the company had to backtrack hard this summer when it issued a recall for every single unit due to a p...
UK To Create £165 Million DARPA-Like Fund For Cyber Security Startups
The British government has announced a bold series of new programs to boost its cyber security defences, including a new, £165 million ($250 million) fund that will see the government buy or invest in...
Sources: Google wearable tech group Project Aura working on three prototypes, one with screen, and two without that rely on bone conduction like original Glass
Google Glass Successor Dumps Some Glass — So much for the screen. We've learned that Google's revamped Google Glass project …
Foursquare Joins Apple Maps Data Sources As Company Builds Out Ecosystem
Apple continues to improve its mapping product by adding new features and content, albeit often under the radar. Last year, reviews and content from Booking.com and TripAdvisor began to show for loca...
Are the container wars back again? CoreOS and Docker roll out container security offerings
It might seem like a lifetime ago, but it was only last December when Silicon Valley startup CoreOS dropped a bit of a bombshell with a full-frontal assault on Linux container kingpin Docker's hegemon...
With Rdio Buy, Pandora Envisions Apple Music Model for New Service
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Carl Icahn sells all his eBay shares in Q3, keeps PayPal stake, now valued at about $1.65B, according to SEC filing
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What media firms can learn from the PC video game industry's embrace of freemium models, remixes, mods, and crowdsourcing
Lessons from the PC video game industry — The future of media is here—it's just not evenly distributed — The success or failure of tech and media products depends … Tweets: @cdixon and @joshelman ...
NBC offers free trial of its streaming comedy service SeeSo December 3 ahead of January's $3.99/month launch
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Chinese drone maker DJI opening its flagship retail store in a Shenzhen shopping center next month
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Twitter is testing multiple emoji reactions to tweets
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Liberty Global to buy Caribbean pay-TV provider and ISP Cable & Wireless for $5.3B, valuing the company at $8B including debt
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Apple SIM gains Japanese network support through KDDI's ‘au’ brand
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YouTube Shopping Ad Formats Now Available To All AdWords Advertisers
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Leaked images of Samsung's new flip phone reveal a 64-bit octa-core Exynos 7420 processor, 3GB RAM, 16 MP rear camera, and two 3.9" Super AMOLED displays
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Google's natural language search gets smarter, can now handle superlatives, ordered items, time based, and more complicated queries
complex questions welcome Yahoo Tech : Google voice search starts understanding complex questions Emily Reynolds / Wired.co.uk : Google search now understands syntactically complex questions Justin Lu...
Home Services Marketplace Angie's List Rejects IAC's $512M Acquisition Offer
this time for $512 million Business Wire : Angie's List Board Unanimously Determines Not to Pursue IAC Proposal Associated Press : Angie's List says that its board has rejected a $512 million … Erik H...
AT&T selling Microsoft Lumia 950, Samsung Galaxy View Nov 20
Live life on your own terms with the Lumia 950 XL. Matthew Benson / Android Authority : AT&T has the Samsung Galaxy View LTE in its sights, releases November 20th Rich Edmonds / Windows Central : Lumi...
Datto, a provider of data backup and recovery services for SMBs, raises $75M Series B led by Technology Crossover Ventures
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Uber is testing a new feature for drivers to pick up riders headed in the same direction as them, in the Bay Area
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HP partners with Movado on $695 Bold Motion, analog smartwatch that uses LEDs and haptic feedback for alerts, a second wearable in “Engineered by HP” program
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Facebook Now Using Google App Indexing To Drive Visitors From Search Into Its App
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German watchdog probes Apple and Amazon audiobooks agreement
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