Apple issues AC adapter recall for Macs and iPads sold in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Europe, New Zealand, and South Korea between 2003 and 2015
Apple Is Issuing A Recall For Some Of Its Wall Plug Adapters — Today in power cord plug wall-adapter news, Apple is announcing …
Google's AlphaGo becomes the first AI to beat a professional player in the board game Go, uses both deep neural networks and tree search algorithms
In a Huge Breakthrough, Google's AI Beats a Top Player at the Game of Go — In a major breakthrough for artificial intelligence …
Sources: Apple likely to debut iPad Air 3 at event the week of March 14, alongside iPhone 5se and new Watch models
Apple likely to debut iPad Air 3 at March event; new Apple Watch models revealed — Apple is planning to introduce new iPad hardware at an event in mid-March …
Oracle announces Java browser plugin will be deprecated in JDK 9, scheduled for release March 2017
Oracle says goodbye to Java browser plugin in JDK 9 — Oracle will finally deprecate its Java browser plugin in the next release of the Java SE Development Kit, JDK 9, which is scheduled for release ...
Facebook Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2015 Results
here's what the analysts are saying Chris Mellor / The Register : SanDisk struggles to fatten itself up ahead of WD takeover Greg Sterling / Marketing Land : Mobile Ad Growth Of 81% Drove Facebook's H...
Australian startup Unlockd partners with Boost Mobile in the US to offer Android users ads on their lock screen in exchange for discounts on monthly phone bills
Unlockd signs US deal with Boost Mobile worth up to $100 million — A Melbourne startup which offers a “freemium” …
Microsoft Office Online now allows real-time co-authoring on documents stored on cloud services like Dropbox, Box, and Citrix ShareFile
New cloud storage options for Office mobile and Office Online — Today's post was written by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office team.
FCC to propose new rules giving cable and satellite customers more choice over set top boxes, 40 telco and media groups are expected to oppose the plan
FCC to Propose Overhauling Rules on Set-Top Boxes — Measure, aimed at cutting cable bills, likely would let consumers choose among competing devices
Chrome will flag unencrypted websites as insecure, displaying a red “x” over a padlock in the URL bar
Google Will Soon Shame All Websites That Are Unencrypted — Google wants everything on the web to be travelling over a secure channel. That's why in the future …
Facebook's revenue per user up 29.8% to $1.22 in developing world; DAUs hit 1.04B up 2.97% YoY; full year revenue of $17.93B, up 44% YoY
Facebook Climbs To 1.59 Billion Users And Crushes Q4 Estimates With $5.8B Revenue — By courting users and ad dollars in the developing world, Facebook continued its growth streak.
Facebook Hits 100M Hours Of Video Watched A Day, 1B Users On Groups, 80M On Fb Lite
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Facebook beats estimates with revenue of $5.84B, up 52% YoY, net income of $1.56B, 1.59B MAUs, mobile advertising revenue up 69% YoY; stock up 12%+ after hours
Rachel King / ZDNet :
Alibaba beats estimates for December quarter, revenue up 32% to $5.2B, profit of $1.92B
Alibaba Beats Profit, Sales Estimates on Rural China Push — Gross merchandise value surges 23% driven by mobile spending — Mobile monetization rates increased to 2.88% in quarter
Samsung reports Q4 operating profit of $5.05B but net profit down almost 40% year-over-year, will focus on better mobile software, displays
Samsung will focus on better mobile software and futuristic displays after tough quarter — Samsung Electronics made an operating profit …
Survey finds telcos use Facebook's Free Basics for retaining users already paying for data, not first time internet users
Here's How Free Basics Is Actually Being Sold Around The World — If you watched TV in Bolivia or read a newspaper in Ghana or listened to the radio in Panama …
Venmo announces users can make payments within third-party apps, begins with Gametime and Munchery on iOS
Update Jim Dallke / Chicago Inno : Venmo Now Lets You Pay for Concert Tickets and Food Delivery Harrison Weber / VentureBeat : PayPal spikes 7% as company teases future of Venmo, adds 6.6 million acti...
Juniper Q4 results top expectations, but forecast misses estimates; CFO resigns, will be replaced by Senior VP for Finance Ken Miller
Cromwell Schubarth / Silicon Valley Business Journal :
Spotify Is Raising Another $500M In Convertible Notes With Discounts On IPO Shares
A week after streaming music company Deezer announced that it had raised another $109 million from existing investors, news has leaked out that its bigger rival Spotify is raising again, too.
Newest Wikimedia board trustee Arnnon Geshuri steps down after 290 editors vote for removal
Joe Mullin / Ars Technica :
Google partners with Movidius to bring latest chip tech to handsets, improving real-time image recognition and deep learning on devices
Don Clark / Wall Street Journal :
Qualcomm reports profits fell to $1.5B, sales down to $5.78B, and weak guidance indicating increasing competition and a slowing smartphone market
Ian King / Bloomberg Business :
PayPal reports revenue of $2.56B, up 17% YoY, GAAP net income $367M, up 28% YoY; stock up over 5% after hours
Katie Roof / TechCrunch :
Amazon Appstore VP Steve Rabuchin now head of engineering and business teams of Alexa, including the Alexa App Store
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
eBay reports Q4 revenue of $2.3B, flat from year earlier, net income falls to $477M; stock down over 9% after hours
Major telcos including Verizon and AT&T join Facebook's Open Compute Project, in a challenge to network vendors like Cisco and Juniper
James Niccolai / PCWorld :
State-owned Indonesian telecom giant Telkom blocks Netflix citing lack of permit and objections to content
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Quora, with over 80M monthly users, debuts Knowledge Prizes, sponsored bounties for great answers
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
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Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements
2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
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Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.