Sources: Apple working on wireless charging tech for iOS devices that works over a distance, may be released as soon as next year
Apple Said Developing Wireless-Charged Phone for as Soon as 2017 — Technology could power devices further away than charging mats
Cardless ATMs coming to Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Chase this year, enabling customers to perform transactions with their smartphones
Bank of America will allow ATM transactions using smartphones this year — The Charlotte-based bank joins rivals who are also planning to roll out similar technology
Facebook to shut down Parse, the toolkit for mobile developers it acquired in 2013; developers will have year-long window to migrate their data
Facebook to Shut Down Parse, Its Platform for Mobile Developers — Facebook acquired Parse, a toolkit and support system for mobile developers, in 2013.
Earnings Release FY16 Q2: Microsoft Cloud Strength Highlights Second Quarter Results
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Microsoft says it only sold 4.5M Lumia devices last quarter, a 57% drop year-over-year
Windows Phone is dead — Windows Phone started off life as a promising alternative to Android and iOS five years ago. Microsoft positioned its range of Windows Phone 7 handsets as the true third mob...
Microsoft Q2: Surface revenue up 29% YoY to $1.35B; Windows Phone revenue down 49% YoY
Microsoft's Q2 2016: Surface strong and Lumia phones weak — Microsoft has published its Q2 fiscal 2016 earnings report, and the company has made $6.3 billion in net income on $25.7 billion in revenu...
LG patches vulnerability discovered in Smart Notice, a preinstalled app on the G3 affecting an estimated 10M phones
LG closes data-theft hole affecting millions of G3 smartphones — Bug allows attackers to embed malicious code in data fed to phone. — LG is closing a security hole …
Amazon.com Announces Fourth Quarter Sales up 22% to $35.7 Billion
And Analysts Aren't Happy? Kerry Flynn / International Business Times : Amazon Inc. (AMZN) Q4 2015 Earnings: Retail Giant Fails On Estimates, Sending Stock Down By 13 Percent Shaun Nichols / The Regis...
Amazon misses Q4 expectations with $35.75B in revenue, best-ever net income of $482M; stock down over 8%
Amazon Reports Best Quarterly Profit Ever — Shares, though, tumble as results fall below analyst expectations — Amazon.com Inc. reported the largest quarterly profit …
Google releases AdWords app on iOS so marketers can track campaign performance, change bids, and adjust budgets on the go
iPhone Users, The AdWords App For iOS Has Arrived — The AdWords app for iPhone users is finally available for everyone. Google announced Thursday that the AdWords app for iOS is now available globa...
Sony Posts $1B Profit For Q3 2015 But Feels Pinch From Slowing Mobile Market
Another quarter of promise for Sony. The Japanese tech giant just released its Q3 2015 financial results, posting net income of 120.1 billion JPY ($1 billion) on total revenue of 2,580.8 billion JPY ...
Microsoft beats expectations with $25.7B in revenue, $6.3B in net income; stock up more than 3% on strong cloud revenue
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Watchup launches Apple TV news app for personalized, on-demand TV newscasts from 160 sources including CNN, Fox News, CBS, and Tribune Media
Apple TV Launches Watchup Video-News App (Exclusive) — Startup delivers personalized, on-demand TV newscasts from 160 sources including CNN, Fox News and CBS News
SourceForge Media acquires Slashdot Media; sources say longtime Slashdot employees are being replaced by inexperienced, less costly staff
SourceForge and Slashdot Have Been Sold — Breaking News — Editor's note: This breaking news story was updated on Thursday, January 28 …
Google to FCC: testing of transmitters at high altitude, likely related to Project Loon, fits within current rules and poses no health or environmental risks
Google tells feds its secret plan to conduct high-altitude wireless tests across the US is not dangerous
Amazon Prime memberships grew 51% worldwide in 2015; 47% in U.S.
Taylor Soper / GeekWire :
Facebook extends ability to share live video to all iPhone users in the US, rest of the world over coming weeks, Android users soon
Next, the World Mark Wilson / BetaNews : Live video streaming spreads to all mobile Facebook users Brittany A. Roston / SlashGear : Facebook expands Live Video to all iPhone users in US Lisa Eadicicco...
You can now add friends with a personalized Snapchat URL
Owen Williams / The Next Web :
Apple says it has acquired LearnSprout, a startup that creates software for schools and teachers to track students' performance
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Microsoft updates firmware for Surface Book and Surface Pro 4, but power, display, and boot issues appear unresolved
but didn't fix the big problems with it (MSFT) Daniel Rubino / Windows Central : Microsoft pulls in an impressive $1.35 billion in revenue for Surface line Brad Bourque / Digital Trends : Lumia who? M...
Metadata can be scraped from your messages even when you use PGP encryption
Ever since the Snowden revelations, more and more people have been educating themselves on how to use encryption. One of the first programs people might turn to is Pretty Good Privacy, or PGP …
T-Mobile adds Amazon Video, Fox News, others to Binge On, makes it easier to disable throttling, says users streaming twice as much video than before service
Chris Welch / The Verge :
Fraud Prevention Service Pindrop Raises $75M Series C Round Led By Google Capital
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Yahoo Downsizes In Latin America, Closes Mexico And Argentina Operations
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Tinder Makes Messaging More Fun With GIFs & Bigger Emoji, Finally Lets You Upload Photos Directly
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Profile of Giphy, a GIF search engine that quadrupled unique visitors to 95M/month in 2015 and is working with advertisers, movie studios, political candidates
Adam Satariano / Bloomberg Business : Tweets: @activitydata Tweets: Activity Data / @activitydata : 95 million people visit @Giphy each month, 4X more than a year ago http://www.bloomberg.com/...
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