Sony merges PlayStation businesses into US-based Sony Interactive Entertainment
Sony has merged the entire PlayStation business into one new company called Sony Interactive Entertainment. As of April 1st, SIE's president and CEO will be Andrew House, and the business will be run...
Sources: Twitter no longer showing ads to some of its more valuable users in order to keep them engaged
Twitter Has Stopped Showing Ads to Some of Its Most Valuable Users — Twitter makes its money by showing ads to its users. — But not all of its users: For the past few months …
Marvin Minsky, Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88
Marvin Minsky, who combined a scientist's thirst for knowledge with a philosopher's quest for truth as a pioneering explorer of artificial intelligence, work that helped inspire the creation of the pe...
Confirmed: Twitter Appoints Longtime American Express Executive Leslie Berland as CMO
Here's some positive executive news coming out of Twitter: It has found its new chief marketing officer. — Twitter has appointed longtime American Express executive Leslie Berland to CMO …
Twitter's Nathan Hubbard Will Take Over Interim Media Job Amid Executive Changes
Small pivots aren't enough to fix … Dori Perrucci / TheStreet.com : Here's Why Twitter May Be Poised for a Rebound — Tech Roundup Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE : Twitter shares plummet as company confir...
Microsoft testing its Windows phone keyboard Word Flow for iOS with fanned layout for one-handed typing
Microsoft's iOS Word Flow Keyboard Supports A New One-Handed Layout — Share Tweet Pin it Reddit Share Share — A few days back, Microsoft began sending out invites to Insiders …
Periscope integrates with GoPro to bring live streaming to action cameras
Periscope just took its first steps away from the smartphone. The Twitter-owned live-streaming app announced an integration with GoPro that will let users broadcast to their followers from an action ...
LG shipped 59.7M smartphones in 2015, 15.3M in Q4, while losing $36M+ in mobile division, promises 2 new flagships in 2016
LG plans to launch two flagship phones in 2016 following 4th quarter mobile loss — LG announced its Q4 2015 earnings this morning and revealed that although …
Inbox By Gmail Gets Smarter Search With Quick Answer Cards
Inbox by Gmail, Google's next-gen email client for mobile and the web, is getting a nice little update today that will make it easier to find information like addresses, membership numbers and package...
Amazon is reportedly asking OEMs to integrate retailer's services into Android phones at a “factory level”, but Google's contracts may limit the possibilities
Amazon reportedly seeks a bigger hand in Android phone software — Amazon is reportedly in talks with OEMs to “gain a bigger backdoor to Google's Android.”
French drivers from taxi unions clash with police in nationwide strike calling for an end to ride-hailing apps like Uber
French taxi drivers clash with police in anti-Uber strike — French taxi unions have once again staged a nationwide strike, shutting down roadways across Paris …
Sprint beats Q4 estimates on revenue of $8.1B, net loss of $836M, adds 500K postpaid subs, loses 491K prepaid customers, raises revenue forecasts; stock up 11%+
Sprint Stock Rises on Narrower Loss, Upbeat Forecast — Sprint on Tuesday posted financial results ahead of expectations …
Sony agrees to buy Israel's Altair Semiconductor, maker of LTE communication chips for IoT, for $212M
Sony to Buy Chipmaker Altair in Internet of Things Push — Sony to pay $212 million, close deal in early February — Semiconductor firm makes chips for ‘Internet of things’
Canada's Vidyard raises $35M Series C at, source says, $350M valuation to expand its business video streaming and analytics platform
Canada's Vidyard Raises $35 Million to Help It Expand — Financing gives the video-software startup a valuation of about $350 million
Uber was sued 50 times in US federal court last year, way more than other gig economy firms: 17 suits filed by drivers, 15 by taxi companies, 12+ by customers
Uber is facing a staggering number of lawsuits — Last year, 50 lawsuits were filed against Uber in U.S. federal court.
200 Wikipedia editors call for removal of new foundation trustee, Arnnon Geshuri, due to his connection to anti-poaching case involving tech firms
Wikipedia editors revolt, vote “no confidence” in newest board member — As a Google HR exec, Arnnon Geshuri fired a recruiter who dared to call Apple.
Backblaze, the cloud backup service, will now loan you a hard drive full of your data
Backblaze, my preferred cloud backup service for a few years now, is today making it a bit easier and cheaper to restore all of your data if your computer should ever crash or get lost / stolen.
Waze announces Transport SDK to let apps integrate driver guidance data, launches with six partners including Lyft, JustPark, 99taxis
Waze to Scoop up More Data through New Partnerships — Waze changed how millions of people drive by convincing them to share their locations in return for real-time …
Google Offers More Details On Ads In AMP, Set To Launch In Search Next Month
With more than 20 ad tech vendors joining the initiative, publishers should be able to support most ad serving scenarios in AMP pages at launch. — Since Google announced that AMP (Accelerated Mobile...
OPPO Sold 50 Million Smartphones In 2015
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HopSkipDrive, The Ridesharing Startup For Kids, Grabs $10.2M In Series A Funding
Tuesday, January 26 Tracey Lien / Los Angeles Times : Kids ride services HopSkipDrive and Shuddle click with customers — and investors Street Fight : Street Fight Daily: AOL Merges All Publishing Prod...
Facebook expands its Audience Network ad product to serve the mobile web in addition to apps
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San Francisco's Yellow Cab files for bankruptcy citing lack of resources to pay for lawsuits, plans to continue operations and restructure debt
Therese Poletti / MarketWatch :
Female Founders Fund report finds only 16 of 204 Bay Area startups that raised a Series A in 2015 were led by women, down 30% year-over-year
Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal :
Foursquare releases Trip Tips, a new travel planner that lets friends weigh in on destinations and aggregates that data into a list with a map
The Foursquare Blog :
Spotify to roll out video to all Android users this week, iOS users next week, in US, UK, Germany and Sweden
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal :
Arista countersues Cisco alleging antitrust violations ahead of ITC ruling
Tuesday, January 26, 2016 Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily : Cisco Calls Arista Antitrust Suit ‘Bogus’ Shaun Nichols / The Register : Arista slaps Cisco with countersuit in network hardware row Tiernan...
Uber Using Smartphone Gyrometer Data To Monitor Speeding Drivers
Lucas Matney / TechCrunch :
Amazon Prime's US membership grew 35% to 54 million in 2015, research group says
Greg Sandoval / GeekWire :
Amazon tests selling Kindle gift cards for individual ebooks at Bartell Drugs stores in Washington state
Todd Bishop / GeekWire :
Google Pixel C review: superb build quality, but obvious connectivity issues and unfinished software should have delayed launch
AnandTech :
ParkWhiz Acquires BestParking, Announces $24M Raise
Lucas Matney / TechCrunch : Thanks: @lucas_matney
Instagram is showing a lot more ads: one ad network served 50M in August, 670M in December
Kurt Wagner / Re/code :
Adobe adds Portfolio website builder for designers to Creative Cloud, now competes with Squarespace and Wix
Nate Swanner / The Next Web :
Facebook's Sports Stadium, billed as a hub for chats, stats, and commentary, is hard to find and lacks user participation, for now
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