Obama unveils $19B Cybersecurity National Action Plan, asking Congress for 35% increase in cybersecurity funding
Obama unveils $19 billion plan to overhaul U.S. cybersecurity — President Obama on Tuesday unveiled an expansive plan to bolster government and private-sector cybersecurity …
Amazon launches free cross-platform 3D game engine Lumberyard, with Twitch integration
Amazon takes on Unity et al with Lumberyard, a free cross-platform game engine — Amazon has unveiled two new products aimed squarely at the professional game-developer fraternity: Lumberyard …
Kickstarter just hit 100,000 successfully funded campaigns
Kickstarter hit a big milestone overnight: the successful funding of a 100,000th campaign. It's taken Kickstarter nearly seven years to reach 100,000 funded projects, but the rate at which projects a...
French data protection authority gives Facebook three months to stop tracking non-users and halt some transfers of personal data to US
French data privacy regulator cracks down on Facebook — The French data protection authority on Monday gave Facebook three months …
Twitter introduces First View, new video ads placed at the top of users' timelines
Timing Is Everything: Twitter Unveils First View Ads, Videos At The Top Of Your Timeline — Twitter has been in the spotlight for the past several days over allegedly imminent (longstanding) plans to...
Zenefits CEO Parker Conrad resigns amid compliance issues, COO David Sacks becomes CEO, Josh Stein named Chief Compliance Officer
The CEO of one of Silicon Valley's hottest startups has suddenly resigned — Parker Conrad, cofounder and CEO of high-flying Zenefits …
CBS Says Super Bowl 50 Broke Streaming Records With 3.96 Million Unique Viewers
CBS reported earlier this morning that its live stream of Super Bowl 50 broke all prior streaming records for the big game. Now the network has released numbers to back up that claim: according to an...
Apple open sources benchmarking suite for Swift
Apple today announced in a post on its Swift blog that it is open sourcing the Swift benchmark suite. This announcement comes two months after the company made the Swift programming language open sou...
1Password for Android jumps to version 6, adds Material Design, fingerprint sensor support
The Android version of popular password manager 1Password has received a big update to version 6. In addition to a full Material redesign, the app now has support for Marshmallow's fingerprint unlock...
Amazon Is Building Global Delivery Business to Take On Alibaba
New unit would connect Chinese factories with U.S. shoppers — Strategy will turn FedEx and UPS into Amazon competitors — In recent weeks, speculation has mounted that Amazon.com Inc. plans to laun...
Google will stop running Flash display ads on January 2, 2017
Google today announced that the Google Display Network and DoubleClick Digital Marketing are completely ditching Flash for HTML5 next year. More specifically, advertisers will no longer be able to up...
Google CEO Sundar Pichai awarded 273K Alphabet shares worth about $199M, vesting in quarterly increments through 2019, SEC filing shows
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Hackers leak names and contact details of over 9K DHS staff, claim DOJ is next
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Instagram version 7.15 enables switching between up to five accounts on iOS and Android
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Source: Verizon enlists AOL CEO Tim Armstrong to explore possible bid for Yahoo assets
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Profile of the FCC's general counsel Jonathan Sallet, helping to create and defend rules shaping TV and the Internet
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Wired to start offering ad-free version of its website for $3.99 a month from Feb 16, will block visitors using ad blockers
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Slack, Honor, Gear VR, Stewart Butterfield, Bill Gurley win at the 9th Annual Crunchies
And The Winners Of The 9th Annual Crunchies Are... Silicon Valley is getting dressed up tonight to celebrate startups, their founders and CEOs, VCs and angels, and the products they make during … Twe...
As Its Market Grows, Nigerian E-Commerce Startup Africa Internet Group Raises $83 Million
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SEC filing shows PayPal CTO James Barrese to resign April 1, Sri Shivananda to take over the position
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Lulu, The App That Lets Women Rate Men, Acquired By Badoo
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Recruitment marketplace Hired raises $40M in a Series C round led by Lumia Capital, acquires Jobbop in Australia, Breaz in France, and Zlemma in US
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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 …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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.