Facebook launches Sports Stadium, a hub for real-time chats, live scores, and more
Heads Up, ESPN: Facebook Built Its Own Game Hub for Live Sports Stats — Facebook has long argued that it's a great place to talk about live TV while watching live TV, including big-time sporting eve...
Apple to create first European iOS Development Center in Italy, plans to expand this program to other countries
Apple to create first European iOS Development Center — Apple is opening a dedicated iOS app Development Center in Italy, the company announced today …
iOS cookie theft bug that allowed hackers to impersonate users fixed by Apple after 2.5 years
iOS cookie theft bug allowed hackers to impersonate users — Apple fixes vulnerability 2.5 years after receiving private report. — Apple has squashed a bug in its iOS operating system …
ACLU coordinates with lawmakers to help introduce 30 bills across 16 states to improve digital privacy
ACLU Takes Consumer Privacy Battle To The States — Lawmakers from 16 states and D.C. introduced 30 new privacy laws Wednesday as part of a bipartisan, state-led effort …
Sources: Foxconn offers $5.3B to take over Sharp, as Sharp reviews $2.56B offer from government-backed Innovation Network
Taiwan's Foxconn Offers $5.3 Billion to Take Over Sharp — Innovation Network Corp. of Japan also has competing offer for electronics maker
App Annie 2015: Google Play saw 100% more downloads than the iOS App Store, but Apple generated 75% more revenue
In 2015, Google Play saw 100 percent more downloads than Apple's App Store. Double the number of downloads is a huge achievement. In 2014, the figure was 60 percent …
Uber says it's expanding full UberEats service, including dinner, and its dedicated UberEats app to 10 US cities in Q1, including NYC, LA, Chicago, and Austin
Uber to Ring the Dinner Bell in 10 U.S. Cities — Customers in Los Angeles, New York and elsewhere will be able to use dedicated UberEats app
Verizon beats Q4 expectations with earnings of $4.4B on revenue of $34.2B, adds 1.5M customers
Verizon Adds 1.5 Million Customers in Q4, Tops Earnings Esitmates — Verizon on Thursday posted slightly stronger-than-expected revenue and earnings as it added 1.5 million customers last quarter.
General Motors announces Maven, a new brand unifying its car-sharing services: City in Ann Arbor, Residential in Chicago, Peer-to-Peer in Germany and Campus
GM Unveils Maven, Its Big New Play In Car-Sharing Services — General Motors has taken the wraps off its latest move to put itself …
Cybersecurity firm ForeScout raises $76M round led by Wellington Management at a $1B valuation
ForeScout Raises Funding at a $1 Billion Valuation, Holds Off IPO — The cybersecurity company will wait on going public amid the recent market volatility.
Canada's iNovia Capital Raises C$175 Million for New Venture-Capital Fund
Company draws money in spite of weaker Canadian dollar — TORONTO—iNovia Capital Inc. said it raised 175 million Canadian dollars (US$120.2 million) for its latest venture-capital fund, overcoming th...
Kickstarter-hired journalist concludes makers of failed Zano drone were overconfident but not fraudsters
here's what he found Rory Cellan-Jones / BBC : Probe into Zano drone scandal released Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web : Torquing's $3.5m Zano Kickstarter campaign failed because it couldn't build a d...
IBM Confirms Acquisition Of UStream, Forms New Cloud Video Unit
IBM confirmed that it has acquired video conferencing service UStream this morning. With several cloud video acquisitions in tow, the company also announced it was forming a new cloud video services ...
AliCloud, an Alibaba subsidiary, partners with Nvidia to develop GPU-based computing cloud platform in China
South China Morning Post :
Google rolling out “Real-time ads” allowing pre-planned ads to appear at specific times, first for select brands, then more broadly later this year
Kelly Liyakasa / AdExchanger :
Weibo to expand its 140-Chinese-character limit on messages up to 2K, trial starts January 28, rolling out to all 500M users on February 28
He Huifeng / South China Morning Post :
Citrix appoints former Microsoft executive Kirill Tatarinov as CEO and president, effective Jan. 25
Rachel King / ZDNet :
Interview with Travis Kalanick on anti-Uber alliance, Indian regulators vs other countries', and Uber's focus in India
Times of India :
Malwarebytes, a cybersecurity startup headed by 26-year-old CEO Marcin Kleczynski, raises $50M from Fidelity
Robert Hackett / Fortune :
Digital ordering and delivery startup Olo raises $40M from The Raine Group
Katie Roof / TechCrunch :
Machine learning company Maluuba raises $6.2M Series A, plans to broaden its voice search technology, expand into automotive and IoT sectors
Ronny Kerr / VatorNews :
FireEye buys cyber intelligence firm iSight Partners for $200 million
Instart Logic Raises $45M Series D Round For Its Application Delivery Platform
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Yik Yak launches web client for its anonymous, location-based social network
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch :
Cumulus Networks raises a $35M down round with returning investors Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, Sequoia Capital, others
Jordan Novet / VentureBeat :
Urban transport app Citymapper raises $40M Series B from Index, Benchmark, Yuri Milner, others to ramp up hiring in major cities internationally
Announcing our fundraise and the future of Citymapper Sam Shead / Business Insider : Citymapper has raised £32 million for its urban navigation app Mark Kleinman / Sky News : Citymapper Charts Path To...
Honor, a marketplace for senior care, is switching from contractors to employees with benefits including equity for full timers
Brian Solomon / Forbes :
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