Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan pledge 99% of Facebook shares, now worth $45B, to Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, an LLC to promote equality for next generation
A letter to our daughter — Your mother and I don't yet have the words to describe the hope you give us for the future.
Yahoo board to meet Wednesday for three days to plan future after Starboard increased pressure on company to sell core business last month
Yahoo Board to Weigh Sale of Internet Business — Board to discuss whether to proceed with a plan to spin off its investment in Alibaba …
Google Deceptively Tracks Students' Internet Browsing, EFF Says in FTC Complaint
EFF Launches ‘Spying on Students’ Campaign to Raise Awareness About Privacy Risks of School Technology Tools — San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a complaint today …
Sources: Yahoo board to discuss Alibaba spinoff and selling off some units, said to back Marissa Mayer
Despite Wall Street Noise and Sale Rumors, Yahoo Board Backs Mayer — As the old saying kind of goes, reports of the impending demise of CEO Marissa Mayer at Yahoo are greatly exaggerated.
Zuckerberg intends to remain Facebook's controlling stockholder for foreseeable future
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SEC charges former CEO of Bitcoin mining firm, GAW Miners, with conducting a Ponzi scheme that defrauded up to 10K people of about $19M
SEC Charges GAW Miners CEO Josh Garza With Securities Fraud — The US Securities and Exchange Commission has charged former GAW Miners CEO Josh Garza …
Airbnb shares anonymized data for New York City, shows median host income is about $5K per year
Airbnb Releases Trove of New York City Home-Sharing Data — Airbnb has had a rough history with regulators in New York City. Now the company is playing nice.
A review of Apple Watch 220 days in: apps ecosystem seems stalled, perhaps because the watch is so reliant on iPhone
Half a year later, the Apple Watch feels like a stalled platform — Seven months later, my Apple Watch is still the second thing I put on every morning. (Glasses first.)
Consumer SSDs and hard drive prices are nearing parity
The prices of mainstream consumer SSDs have fallen dramatically every year over the past three, and by 2017 they are expected to be within 11 cents of the per-gigabyte price of hard disk drives (HDDs)...
Postmates partners with Starbucks, debuts pilot service in Seattle, promising delivery in less than an hour for a $5.99 fee, available only on iOS
Your coffee is here: Starbucks and Postmates launch delivery in Seattle, and this is what it's like
Samsung launches Internet for VR, its web browser for Gear VR, with Gaze Mode for UI navigation, on-screen keyboard, voice controls, more
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App Annie: Spotify top-ranked music streaming app worldwide in Q3 2015, Pandora retains lead in US on iPhone and Android
Spotify Claims Streaming Music Throne Worldwide, But Pandora Is Still Top Service In U.S. — Spotify is the world's top streaming music service in terms of active users …
Debian GNU/Linux now supported on Microsoft's Azure
Microsoft is adding Debian GNU/Linux to its list of supported Linux distributions available on its Azure cloud. — Microsoft has added Debian GNU/Linux to its list of supported Linux distributions on...
Texas firm sues big names in retail and tech, claiming HTTPS sites infringe crypto patent; Scottrade and others settle, Netflix, Charles Schwab fight back
Patent troll claims HTTPS websites infringe crypto patent, sues everybody — Netflix and others are fighting back while Scotttrade and others are settling.
Google now lets you star images and add them to collections from image search, only available in the US; collections are not public
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Sketch joins parade of developers abandoning Mac App Store in favor of direct sales
ahem — greener pastures Kevin Tofel / ZDNet : Sketch, another popular Mac app goes it alone, highlighting Apple's Mac App Store problems Romain Dillet / TechCrunch : Another Popular App Leaves The Mac...
Lending startups Branch, InVenture look at borrowers' phone usage to assess creditworthiness as they look to disrupt lending in the developing world
The fact can no longer be avoided: You are your phone. PYMNTS.com : What Does Phone Usage Say About Creditworthiness? Aaron Mamiit / Tech Times : Lending Startups In Developing Countries Looking At Sm...
China-based attackers use Dropbox for malware communications, targeted Hong Kong media outlets in August
Autodesk announces Forge development platform and launches $100M fund
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Cyber Monday Beat Forecasts With A Record $3.07 Billion In Sales, 26% From Mobile Devices
these 7 major items drove sales ($TGT) Adobe : Adobe Data Shows Cyber Monday Largest Online Sales Day in History with $3 Billion Ben Fox Rubin / CNET : Cyber Monday nabs sales record again, but perhap...
Mozilla wants to split off its Thunderbird email/chat client to focus on projects like Firefox that have an “industry-wide impact”, says Mitchell Baker memo
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Tiger Global Closes $2.5 Billion More To Continue Its Startup Investment Spree
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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.