Uber unveils SPOT, a LED color-coded lighting system that helps passengers and drivers find one another easily, available in Seattle only for now
Uber color coding experiment promises smoother pickups — If you've ever used a ridesharing service, you've probably had that moment where you had to guess which car was your ride.
Sources: YouTube seeks streaming rights for TV shows and movies to support its new subscription service Red
YouTube Seeks Streaming Rights to TV Shows, Movies — Efforts come as YouTube looks to bolster $9.99-a-month subscription service called Red — YouTube is seeking streaming rights …
Apple's Swift programming language is now open source
As promised earlier in the year, Apple's Swift team has now posted source code for the Swift compiler and standard library functions and objects. Open-sourcing Swift is a big win for the developer co...
Steve Ballmer: Microsoft should disclose profit margins and sales for its cloud and hardware businesses, not just the run rate
Microsoft Should Disclose Cloud Revenue, Margins, Ballmer Says — Former CEO says the company should provide hardware metrics — Ballmer comments at Microsoft's annual shareholder meeting
Yahoo revamps Messenger with group messaging, ability to unsend and like messages, send GIFs, and more, now available on iOS, Android, and the Web
Yahoo finally relaunches Messenger as an app aimed at families and groups — When Marissa Mayer became CEO of Yahoo in 2012 …
Sources: Andy Rubin has tried to recruit personnel to help build a new Android phone company
For Andy Rubin, Android Comes Calling Again — Andy Rubin, the father of Google's Android smartphone operating system, has recently talked about getting back in the Android phone business after more ...
Open Whisper Systems releases Signal Desktop in beta, available through Chrome Web Store, links to Android devices only for now
Signal Desktop — Today we're making the Signal Desktop beta available. Signal Desktop brings the trusted private messaging experience of Signal to the desktop …
How the Chan Zuckerberg LLC differs from a charitable trust: may lobby, can turn a profit, allowed to form joint ventures, avoids 5% annual spending rule
Four Reasons the Facebook Fortune Is Going Into an LLC — A for-profit charity is highly unusual, but it comes with big advantages.
KGI: 4-inch iPhone resembling iPhone 5S with A9 chip, curved glass edges, Apple Pay, and more, to launch early 2016
New A9-Based 4-Inch iPhone Expected to Launch Early 2016 With Apple Pay and Colorful Metal Casing — KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has issued a research note corroborating rumors …
Google finishes porting Songza's features to Google Play Music and will shut down Songza on January 31
Google will shut down Songza on January 31, 2016 — Google today announced the Songza website and app will be killed off on January 31, 2016. The Google Play Music team …
Sources: potential bidders for a Yahoo sale include Verizon, IAC/InterActive, with News Corp and Time Inc. likely interested in pieces of Yahoo
Bidders Emerge for Yahoo's Internet Business — Potential buyers range from media and telecom giants to private-equity firms
Amazon accounted for 35.7% of Black Friday 2015 online spending, followed by Best Buy at 8.23%, Macy's at 3.38%, Walmart at 3.35% and Nordstrom at 3.11%
Amazon Dominated 36% of Online Black Friday Sales, Says Slice — Slice Intelligence, which gathers e-commerce data from receipts linked …
Google releases limited preview of Cloud Vision API, an image recognition service for developers
Google Cloud Vision API changes the way applications understand images — Have you ever wondered how Google Photos helps you find all your favorite dog photos?
Samsung announces new A5, A7 smartphones with fingerprint readers and OIS cameras, and the cheaper A3; available in China first later this month
Samsung Announces Updated Versions of the Galaxy A3, A5, and A7 — Today Samsung announced that updated versions of their Galaxy A3, A5, and A7 smartphones are about to be released.
Institutionalization of seed investing, and higher volume of startups, have seen seed funds increase from $100K-$250K in early 2000s to $1M-$4M today
Venture Investors on the New Normal in Seed Funding … As growth-stage valuations in tech startups have ballooned recently …
BlueStacks hits over 109M downloads, 1B apps used per month, now supports multiple simultaneous Android apps on Windows
BlueStacks hits a billion apps used per month and launches new mobile platform — In 2011, BlueStacks was a small company when it debuted its virtualization platform …
Canada's national police force to create a cyber crime team with 40 new positions by 2020 at a cost of $22.5M
Canada's national police force launching cyber crime unit — Canada's national police force said on Wednesday it would create a team of cyber crime investigators …
Google adds two mobile ad formats: Trial Run ads that let users try apps for a minute without downloading and Interactive Interstitial swipeable ads
Google Brings Its App Streaming Technology To Mobile Ads — Last month, Google introduced a new way for web searchers to find the information they want …
Twitter Announces Digits for tvOS to Simplify the App Login Process
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Uber teams with Enterprise to pilot car-rental service for Denver drivers, costs include $210/week fee, $500 deposit, $0.25/mile if travel exceeds 90 miles/day
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Judge details why Cox not entitled to DMCA safe harbor protection in BMG copyright case, says it failed to terminate accounts of subscribers accused of piracy
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FBI launches eFOIA system, putting individual FOIA requests and results online for the first time, but limits requests to one per day
Try New eFOIA System — The FBI recently began open beta testing of eFOIA, a system that puts Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests into a medium … See also Mediagazer
HPE unveils Edgeline family of IoT gateways
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AT&T plans to phase out the DirecTV and U-Verse names starting in January
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Facebook to require Belgian users to log in to view pages in response to cookie privacy ruling
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Free Ad-Supported Google Play Music Radio Streaming Option Makes The Journey North To Canada
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Atlassian Now Helps Developers Deploy Code From Bitbucket Directly To AWS, Azure and DigitalOcean
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Facebook now lets you chat with businesses on their websites via Messenger's Page Plugin, adds events integration
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Target Corp. agrees to pay $39.4M settlement with banks and MasterCard issuers over 2013 data breach, after settling with Visa issuers for up to $67M last month
Uber debuts simple Ride Request Button for devs to include in iOS, Android apps, offers $5 for each new rider sign up, prohibits integrating competing services
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Box beats expectations with Q3 revenue of $78.7M, up 38% YoY, meets expected net loss with $55.1M, strong guidance
Update: Shares Now Up! Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code : Box Slightly Beats Street in Q3, Raises Full-Year Guidance Box - Investor Relations : Box Announces Record Third Quarter Fiscal 2016 Results Tweets: ...
Q&A with new Tidal CEO, former SoundCloud exec Jeff Toig, the startup's third CEO in under a year
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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
but there's a huge catch Kirsty Styles / The Next Web : Drink your Starbucks without getting dressed, but you may wait an hour to get it Ashlee Kieler / Consumerist : Starbucks Starts Delivery Test In...
Bluecore Marketing Automation Tool Secures $21M In Series B Funding
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The advantages of going public for Box show how Lyft could benefit from IPOing ahead of Uber
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