Walmart announces its mobile payment service, Walmart Pay, will be introduced in select US stores on Thursday and nationwide by the first half of 2016
Wal-Mart enters mobile payment with launch of Walmart Pay — Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) said it would launch 'Walmart Pay …
One month in, Apple TV App Store has 2,624 apps; largest category is games with 1,002 apps
Everything You Need to Know About the New Apple TV App Store — The long awaited Apple TV App Store opened about a month ago, and since we happen to be into apps that got us pretty excited.
Facebook testing news feed update on mobile that shows cached stories on slow connections, starts rolling out offline commenting
Facebook to show cached stories on poor connections, allow offline commenting — Facebook announced late Wednesday that it's testing tweaks to its news feed …
Samsung Electronics to form automotive team with initial focus on infotainment, autonomous driving
Samsung Electronics to form auto team in search of growth driver — * Initial focus on infotainment, autonomous driving — * Firm in need of growth driver as smartphones falter …
Apple's 2015 apps of the year include Periscope for iPhone, Robot Factory for iPad, HBO Now for Apple TV, Dark Sky for Apple Watch, and Affinity Photo for Mac
Apple Publishes Best of 2015 App Store Lists for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV — Early this morning …
Flickr VR app for Gear VR lets you jump into 360-degree immersive photos
Flickr has let people upload 360-degree photos for awhile now, but now it allows anyone to totally immerse themselves in them. — That's right. Starting today, you can experience Flickr in virtual r...
Twitter Widens Its Advertising Net, Tests Promoted Tweets With Logged-Out Users
It's been over a year since Twitter first said it planned to monetize logged-out users — that is, make money off the 500 million or so people who dip in and read Tweets without being signed in or even...
YouTube's new Trending tab shows you viral videos “as they take off”, on iOS, Android, and desktop
YouTube's new trending tab shows you viral videos ‘as they take off’ — YouTube has long showcased popular videos on its homepage. Now, the company's algorithm …
Google Photos gains shared albums on iOS, Android, and web
Google Photos' new shared albums aren't designed for a social world — Google is tired of Apple getting all the glory when it comes to photo sharing. Today, the company introduced a feature in its G...
Product Hunt launches redesigned iPhone app with 3D Touch, podcast playback, better discovery, more
Originally launched as a way to vote on new technology products, Product Hunt has since greatly expanded to include media like podcasts and books as well as games and other content.
SwiftKey Symbols, a symbol-based communications app for people with special needs, available for Android
SwiftKey launches SwiftKey Symbols: an assistive app for good — Today we're releasing SwiftKey Symbols, a symbol-based assistive communication app, running on Android, targeted at …
HipChat maker Atlassian stock begins trading at $27 per share, up over 30% from its starting price, valuing company at $5.6 billion
The hottest tech IPO of the quarter, Atlassian, just had a big pop out of the gate — The IPO market may be cooling down for a lot of tech companies …
Google launches new Data Loss Prevention tool for Google Apps Unlimited users to help keep sensitive information out of emails
New Google Apps Feature Helps Businesses Keep Sensitive Information Out Of Emails — Google is launching a new privacy tool for Google Apps Unlimited users today.
Microsoft open sources blogging tool Live Writer
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Cloud integration firm SnapLogic raises $37.5M from Microsoft, Silver Lake Waterman, and other investors
SnapLogic Survives Its Re-do and Raises $37.5 Million … Not all startups are allowed the luxury of redoing their products, and not all CEOs survive the process.
Data analysis firm Palantir Technologies reveals $129M in new funding at $20B valuation in latest SEC filing; funding is part of a round that now totals $680M
Data Analysis Firm Palantir Technologies Discloses $129M In New Funding — Palantir Technology, the data analytics firm whose clients include …
Senator Dianne Feinstein to seek legislation to “pierce” through encryption with warrant, working with Judiciary Committee Chairman Richard Burr, others
Patrick Howell O'Neill / The Daily Dot :
Yahoo's newly proposed spinoff plan could expose shareholders to a substantial tax bill and the company to a $3.7B capital gains tax
Allan Sloan / Washington Post :
Only three of YouTube's top 10 videos of 2015 were made by ordinary YouTubers
Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post :
The “Satoshi” PGP keys reported to be linked to Craig Wright were likely backdated, pointing to a hoax
points to a hoax (a possibility we state) http://motherboard.vice.com/ ...
Google publishes results for its D-Wave 2X quantum computer, says tests show it performs 100M times faster than conventional computing for some problems
Liam Tung / ZDNet :
Automattic releases new WordPress.com desktop app for Windows, says number of Windows users is twice that of Mac and Linux combined
Andy Weir / Neowin :
Rovio CEO Pekka Rantala steps down after just over a year on the job; Kati Levoranta, former chief legal officer, takes over
Andrew Webster / The Verge :
Verizon to start testing sponsored data in coming days, allowing a third party to pay for data consumed when accessing certain content, commercial launch in Q1
Ina Fried / Re/code :
Facebook's most talked-about global topics in 2015 include US Presidential Election, Paris attacks, refugee crisis, Nepal earthquake, Greek debt crisis
As the year comes to a close … Leo Olebe / Facebook Developers : Facebook's 2015 Games of the Year Martin Beck / Marketing Land : Facebook's Year In Review Is Heavy On Heavy News Jacob Siegal / BGR : ...
US district judge in San Francisco expands driver class-action lawsuit against Uber, ruling some arbitration agreements are unenforceable; Uber plans appeal
Dan Levine / Reuters :
Chris DeWolfe's mobile game company SGN buys game development studios Fat Rascal Games and Kiwi Inc.
Paresh Dave / Los Angeles Times :
Uber launches universal Windows app with Cortana support for smartphones, tablets, and PCs
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
Sling TV Suppliers Say The Company Has Less Than 500,000 Subscribers, Decelerating Signups
Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com :
Google to start sending search traffic to AMP pages as early as February, announces new partners including LINE, Viber, and Tango
Richard Gingras / Accelerated Mobile Pages Project :
RIAA and shuttered music streaming site Aurous settle piracy lawsuit for $3M
Ernesto / TorrentFreak :
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