Apple to update iPhone trade-in program to give credit for units with damaged displays, will offer screen protector installation
Apple launching new broken iPhone upgrade, screen protector installation programs — Apple is gearing up to launch a pair of new retail initiatives centered around …
“Error 53” fury mounts: iPhone 6 users claim iOS 9 installation bricks phones with Touch ID sensors repaired by third parties
‘Error 53’ fury mounts as Apple software update threatens to kill your iPhone 6 — housands of iPhone 6 users claim they have been left holding …
Nintendo's Quality of Life sleep tracking device, planned for release in March, shelved indefinitely
Nintendo Puts Its Sleep-Tracking Gizmo on Hold Indefinitely — Nintendo will sleep on its so-called “quality of life” health tracking device, it said this week.
Chrome's Safe Browsing feature now warns users about sites with deceptive embedded content, like fake download buttons
No More Deceptive Download Buttons — In November, we announced that Safe Browsing would protect you from social engineering attacks - deceptive tactics that try …
Android Wear adds new gestures, speaker support, and ability to send messages using your voice
Android Wear: Designed for your wrist — You're walking to meet a friend with coffee in hand. Or maybe it's really cold outside, so you're rocking a pair of mittens. Or maybe you're in the middle o...
Epic's Unreal Editor now allows game developers to create environments through a VR headset
The Unreal Engine now lets you build games inside virtual reality — Epic's Unreal Engine has supported making virtual reality games for some time. Now, it supports making games in virtual reality t...
LinkedIn plunges 40% in early trading, erases $10B in market cap
LinkedIn shares plummet 20% on lower guidance — CNBC's Julia Boorstin reports a disappointing cut in guidance at LinkedIn. — Shares of LinkedIn plunged as much as 40 percent at the market open Fri...
LinkedIn provides weak guidance but company beats expectations with $862M in Q4 revenue
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Keybase debuts an open-sourced filesystem with end-to-end encryption that ties users' identities from across services to make sharing easy, now invite only
The Keybase filesystem — Big news, everyone. — Alpha releases of the Keybase app are starting to come with a cryptographically secure file mount.
Visa opens up its global payments network to developers with launch of Visa Developer
Visa Opens its Global Network with Launch of Visa Developer — Today in San Francisco Visa announced the launch of Visa Developer, a milestone that transforms the world's largest retail payments ne...
OpenSignal Global State of LTE Report: US ranks 55th in terms of LTE download speeds
just 55th in the world Karl Bode / DSLreports : U.S. 55th in Terms of Average LTE Wireless Broadband Speed Jules Wang / Pocketnow : Singapore has fastest LTE, South Korea has best coverage Brandon Rus...
LinkedIn says it has acquired Connectifier, a job candidates search tool; some of the Connectifier team “freely pursuing their next adventure”
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Apple Pay is now available in 2M retail locations, coming soon to Crate & Barrel, Chick-fil-A, Zappos, and Au Bon Pain
Yet another tech company's stock is getting hammered … Rajesh Pandey / iPhone Hacks : Apple Pay now supported by over 1,000 issuers in the United States Rian Boden / NFC World+ : Apple Pay available i...
General Catalyst Raises $845 Million Venture Fund
Firm announces eighth fund, bringing total to $3.75 billion — General Catalyst has invested in Airbnb, Stripe, Snapchat — General Catalyst Partners, a backer of technology startups such as Snapcha...
Rocket Internet Sells Food Startups In Spain, Italy, Brazil, Mexico For $140M To Just Eat
The takeout shakeout continues apace. Since going public in 2014, Rocket Internet has been trying to simplify and reorganize the tangle of e-commerce startups funded and grown by the Berlin-based inc...
Symantec announces $500M investment by Silver Lake for stock buybacks, plans to cut costs by $400M and give investors special dividend of $4 per share
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AltspaceVR, an app that allows multiple users to meet in virtual spaces, launches on Gear VR
AltspaceVR Social Platform Launches On Samsung Gear VR — Virtual reality can sometimes appear like it's a pretty isolating platform. Visually, people experiencing VR certainly …
Mozilla to end Firefox OS smartphone support after version 2.6, no staff involvement beyond May
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The quality and reliability of Apple's apps on iOS and OS X have gradually degraded over the past few years
It's been a while since I posted here. Jonny Evans / Computerworld : ‘Mac is key for any modern enterprise’ — SAP Rene Ritchie / iMore : Breaking down Apple's ‘app problem’ Jim Dalrymple / The Loop : ...
How prioritizing enterprise clients has sown conflict between employees and management at GitHub, which has lost nine executives in recent months
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Driving analytics company Zendrive raises $13.5M led by Sherpa Capital
Ken Yeung / VentureBeat :
Software supply chain manager Sonatype raises $30M led by Goldman Sachs
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