Apple announces record $1.1B App Store sales during holiday season, $20B during 2015, and has paid developers $40B since 2008
Record-Breaking Holiday Season for the App Store — App Store Has Now Paid Developers Nearly $40B and Continues to Drive Incredible Job Growth
Jack Dorsey likens additional text in tweets to text screenshots, affirms the value of the 140-character constraint, predicts most tweets will still be short
At its core Twitter is public messaging. A simple way to say something, to anyone, that everyone in the world can instantly see. We didn't start Twitter with a 140 character restriction. We added that...
Sources: Apple has cut order forecasts to iPhone suppliers in past several months
Apple Scales Back Orders for Its iPhones — Component suppliers that rode the iPhone's boom are now bracing for lower sales — BEIJING— Apple Inc. is scaling back orders for its iPhones …
Pre-orders open for Oculus Rift consumer edition, on sale for $599, shipping in March
Virtually a reality: Oculus Rift goes on sale for $599 — Pre-orders are open ahead of March ship date for consumer version — After dozens of trade-show demos, two publicly available development ki...
Casio's Android Wear watch is drop and shock resistant, will have up to a month of battery life, coming April for about $500
Casio's First Android Wear Watch Will Be Ruggedized And Have Up To A Month Of Battery Life — Most of the Android Wear devices out there are similar takes on the same use case …
Samsung's new Notebook 9 laptops take “thin-and-light” to a beautiful extreme, with the 13.3-inch model weighing just 1.85lbs, the 15-inch 2.84lbs
Samsung's Notebook 9 laptops take ‘thin-and-light’ to a beautiful extreme — Before Intel coined the term “ultrabook” …
Lumosity to Pay $2M to Settle FTC Charges Over ‘Brain Training’ Ads
The company that created the Lumosity “brain training” program has agreed to pay $2 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers into believing that its mind games cou...
Samsung's Galaxy TabPro S is a Windows 10 2-in-1 with dual-core Core M processor, 2560x1440 display, thinner than iPad Pro at 6.3mm thick, to ship in February
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Twitter's “Beyond 140” feature is a plan to host content inside its walled garden, instead of linking to blogs and other websites
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Flurry Report: Mobile app usage grew 58% in 2015, led by emoji keyboards, news, and productivity apps
Media, Productivity & Emojis Give Mobile Another Stunning Growth Year — In the seven years that Flurry has been reporting on mobile app usage, we have seen nothing but growth, and this year continue...
Sources: Facebook giving some developers access to chat SDK to build bots in Messenger for shopping, booking travel, more
Facebook's Secret Chat SDK Lets Developers Build Messenger Bots — M won't be the only artificial intelligence on Facebook Messenger.
Double Robotics unveils a faster telepresence robot with an attachable camera
Double Robotics has introduced the next generation of its telepresence robot for the enterprise. Called the Double 2, this $2,499 robot comes equipped with better controls for navigating around commo...
Study: Automakers dominate tech companies in number of driverless car patents; Google, the tech company with the most patents, ranks 26th
Automakers, not Silicon Valley, lead in driverless car patents: study — Automakers, not technology companies, are in the driver's seat in developing self-driving …
Samsung's Family Hub refrigerator, available May in US, offers grocery ordering from built-in 21.5-inch touchscreen using MasterCard-created shopping app
Samsung's new fridge can order Fresh Direct groceries from its humongous touchscreen — Samsung is really, really eager …
Apple to build another data center adjacent to its existing campus in Reno
Apple Doubling Down on Data Center Construction in Reno — Apple has filed for approval to build another massive data center campus adjacent to the existing Apple data center site in Reno, Nevada, lo...
Intel Says Its Button-Sized Curie Will Ship In Q1, Costing Under $10
Computing devices are getting smaller by the day, and today at CES in Las Vegas Intel's CEO Brian Krzanich announced new details about one of its big (little?) efforts in the space. Curie, Intel's bu...
President Obama instructs Defense Department, the Justice Department, and DHS to research and regularly review smart gun technology in executive action
Obama embraces smart guns, thrilling proponents of the controversial technology — Proponents of smart guns say President Obama's executive action …
Cyanogen OS 12.1.1 With Cortana Integration Is Rolling Out To The OnePlus One
Cyanogen Inc is rolling out Cyanogen OS 12.1.1 for the OnePlus One today, and it's not just any update. This is the first version of Cyanogen OS with support for Microsoft Cortana baked right in.
Sources: Verizon to auction off 48 data centers to focus on core business, hopes to raise $2.5B+
Exclusive: Verizon launches auction to sell data centers - sources — Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) has started a process to sell its data center assets, hoping to fetch more than $2.5 billion …
Dish releases Hopper 3 set-top box, can record 16 HD shows simultaneously, introduces HopperGo, a portable, $99 battery-powered storage device
CES 2016: Dish offers a DVR for the stream-and-binge generation — Dish Network's Hopper 3 set-top box can record programs on 16 channels simultaneously …
PlayStation 4 sales now total 35.9M units after 5.7M game consoles are sold in the fall
PlayStation 4 sales top 35 million after a huge holiday — If you had a hunch that the PlayStation 4 would keep up its gangbuster sales rate through the holiday season... well, you guessed correctly.
Snapchat is shutting down its lens store on Friday, only two months after its launch
Snapchat is killing its lens store — We barely knew Snapchat's lens store, and it's already time to say goodbye. The social media platform is shutting down the store on Friday, only two months afte...
Cloudability buys data visualization startup DataHero
Cloudability, a startup with a tool that helps companies track their spending on public cloud infrastructure, is announcing today that it has acquired DataHero, a startup with an easy-to-use data-visu...
David Chaum, known for inventing cryptographic protocols, introduces PrivaTegrity, an encryption scheme for messaging with a “carefully controlled backdoor”
The Father of Online Anonymity Has a Plan to End the Crypto War — It's been more than 30 years since David Chaum launched … Tweets: @csoghoian , @dalytics , @ridt , @da_667 , @hakantee , @a_greenber...
Sources: Snapchat is building an ad API, and reaching out to potential ad partners
Snapchat is building an ad technology platform — Snapchat is working on a crucial part of its growing digital ad business: an application programming interface (API) that would let partners start bu...
Nikon unveils KeyMission 360, a waterproof, action camera that can capture 360-degree footage in 4K, coming spring 2016
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Dutch government backs strong encryption, condemns backdoors
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Withings unveils Go activity tracker with e-ink display for $70, runs 8 months on a button cell battery, can be clip-on or wrist-worn, available Q1 2016
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Toshiba's 12-inch Windows 10 DynaPad available for pre-order today, will be available in stores late January, prices start at $570
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
Twitter's new “conversational ads” let users respond to ad tweets by choosing between multiple preselected hashtags and then tweeting them
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch :
Panasonic and Facebook develop freeze-ray cold storage system; Facebook to deploy 300GB disks this year, companies working on 500GB and 1TB disks
James Niccolai / PCWorld :
Court documents show FBI hacked 1000+ computers in child pornography sting
Joseph Cox / Motherboard : Tweets: @eilah_tan Tweets: Nathalie V Raemdonck / @eilah_tan : Instead of shutting it down, FBI seized Tor Child Porn site for 2 weeks, obtained 1300 IP addresses through h...
Huawei Mate 8 review: excellent battery life and performance, while display and camera leave room for improvement
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Oracle Buys Audience Tracking Firm AddThis For Around $200M
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HumanEyes announces Vuze 360-degree 3D 4K camera, preorders begin March, priced around $800
Mark Hachman / PCWorld :
LastPass launches first major release since LogMeIn, lets you grant account access to people during emergencies, and provides a new way to share passwords
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Interview with Steve Patrizi, Imgur's vice president of marketing and revenue, on how the image-sharing site plans to make money with Promoted Posts
Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider :
Justice Department drops criminal probe of two former HubSpot executives
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Amazon now lets third-party websites and apps embed Kindle book previews
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With global expansion efforts nearly complete and a $5B programming budget, twice as large as HBO's, Netflix will focus on bigger profits
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg Business :
Yahoo, Google, Facebook, and Dropbox eased up on “acquihires” in 2015
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