Sources: Apple has a new unit in Taiwan working on display technologies that is staffed by former AU Optronics and Qualcomm display engineers
Apple Opens Secret Laboratory in Taiwan To Develop New Screens — Engineers developing LCD, OLED technologies for devices
Seattle Will Allow Uber and Lyft Drivers to Form Unions
SEATTLE — Seattle's city council voted unanimously to approve a bill allowing drivers for Uber, Lyft and other ride-hailing apps to form unions. — The passage of the ordinance, the first legislation...
MacKeeper Leaks 13 Million Mac Owners' Data, Leaves Passwords Open To Easy Cracking
Anti-virus provider MacKeeper is known for pushing the message Apple Mac owners need protection. It needed some extra protection of its own today, after a white hat hacker discovered …
Netflix re-encoding its entire catalog to improve quality, save users up to 20% of data
Inside Netflix's Plan to Boost Streaming Quality and Unclog the Internet (Exclusive) — The company is on a quest to re-encode its entire catalog — Over the past few months …
Latest Hue Bridge software update ends support for unapproved third party bulbs using ZigBee wireless protocol
Philips Hue cuts support for third-party bulbs — Citing “an increasing number of interoperability issues,” Philips is changing its policies and locking out third-party smart bulbs until …
Android Pay now works in mobile apps, with discounts in select apps including OpenTable, Lyft, and DoorDash to encourage use
Android Pay Now Works In Mobile Apps — Following its launch this fall, Google's Apple Pay rival known as Android Pay is taking another notable step this morning …
Apple buys 70K-square-foot former chip fab building in North San Jose for $18.2M, likely for research and development
Exclusive: Apple buys former chip fab in North San Jose — Apple Inc. has snapped up a former chip fab in North San Jose, the latest real estate play …
Sources: Saks Fifth Avenue owner Hudson's Bay nears deal to buy Gilt Groupe for about $250M
Hudson's Bay Near Deal to Buy Online Retailer Gilt Groupe for $250 Million — Saks Fifth Avenue owner would pair online luxury retailer with Off 5th Business — The Hudson's Bay Co. …
Facebook Takes On Angie's List And Yelp With New Site For Finding Top-Rated Local Businesses
Facebook is quietly testing a new feature that will direct users to the best-rated and reviewed local service providers in their area. At the easy-to-access URL Facebook.com/services …
Microsoft starts rolling out a preview of Office 365 Planner, a new lightweight project-management tool
Microsoft starts rolling out Office 365 Planner preview — Microsoft has started rolling out its lightweight project-management tool, Office 365 Planner, to participants in the First Release testing ...
Microsoft's Project Oxford has released previews of its Speaker Recognition and Video APIs
As promised a few weeks ago, Microsoft is giving software developers a chance to check out early APIs from its Project Oxford machine learning efforts. Specifically, the company …
Sources: DHS is working on a plan to scrutinize social media posts during visa application reviews
Or Should — Internet Companies Do To Fight Terrorism? Christina Majaski / Digital Trends : Perceived addiction the reason Facebook users quit, but often return Re/code : Here Are the Politicians Pushi...
Micron to buy the 67% stake in Taiwan's Inotera Memories it doesn't already own for $4.1B
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Samsung Asks Supreme Court to Take Up Its Apple Patent Case
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RIAA wins default judgment and $17M+ in fines against unidentified Grooveshark clone; judge tells CloudFlare to disconnect any new clones if notified by labels
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Google's Inbox now allows you to share trip bundles, add emails to a trip bundle, view trip info offline, attach multiple photos easier
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Facebook, Google, Twitter agree to delete hate speech in 24 hours: Germany
Germany said on Tuesday that Facebook, Google and Twitter have agreed to delete hate speech from their websites within 24 hours, a new step in the fight against rising online racism following the refu...
Salesforce Has Acquired MinHash, Creators Of The AILA Virtual Marketing Assistant
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Facebook announces Parse SDKs for Apple Watch and Apple TV, and Embedded Video Player API, oEmbed support
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Wolfram Language and development platform to be available as a free cloud service
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