LG Announces A Fancy Touch-Enabled Cover For The G5 Before The Phone Itself
LG is really excited about the G5. So excited, in fact, that they just can't wait until Mobile World Congress later this month. To tide themselves over for the next few weeks, the PR folks have offi...
Microsoft Says 74 Android OEMs Now Pre-Installing Its Apps; Acer Joins List
Microsoft's Windows Phone may have lost the battle to Android in capturing substantial market share, but it doesn't mean that there won't be footprints of the company's services and apps on your Andro...
Mark Zuckerberg says Marc Andreessen's comments are “deeply upsetting” and do not represent thinking of Facebook or himself
I want to respond to Marc Andreessen's comments about India yesterday. I found the comments deeply upsetting, and they do not represent the way Facebook or I think at all.
Source: Google to expand right-to-be-forgotten link removal to all domains when viewed from EU, starting February
Google Will Further Block Some European Search Results — Google is about to change how people view its search results in Europe. — The American technology giant …
Chrome 49 for Android will notify users of nearby smart beacons, Google announces IoT research pilot
A part of Google's Internet of Things approach involves placing low-energy Bluetooth beacons in the world that can communicate with smartphones. Starting with version 49, currently in beta …
Twitter's problem isn't that it stopped growing; it's that people expect it to keep growing
Twitter, to Save Itself, Must Scale Back World-Swallowing Ambitions — Twitter is the world's most important social network. — That might sound like the ravings of an addict …
Twitter Q4 revenue up 48% YoY to $710M, company lowers revenue guidance for Q1 to between $595M and $610M
New report claims Airbnb manipulated statistics when it released NYC dataset in December
How Airbnb's Data hid the Facts in New York City — On December 1 2015, Airbnb made data available about its business in New York City, with much fanfare. This report shows that the Airbnb data rele...
Twitter reports 320M total MAUs, no change from previous quarter, but MAUs excluding SMS fast followers declined to 305M in Q4 from 307M in Q3
at last Matt McGee / Marketing Land : Twitter's 2016 Roadmap: Live Video Ads, Easier Replies, Expanding Moments & More Marty Swant / Adweek : Twitter's User Growth Stalls for the Second Quarter in a R...
ViaSat announces Boeing partnership and ViaSat-3 satellites, capable of 1 Tbps, equal to the combined network capacity of all existing commercial satellites
New 1-Terabit internet satellites will deliver high-speed internet to remote areas — US-based satellite company ViaSat is teaming …
Alcatel OneTouch Idol 4S packaging will double as VR goggles
EXCLUSIVE: — For the fifth largest cellphone brand in North America — up from 13th as recently as 2014 — Alcatel OneTouch isn't nearly the household name that competitors Huawei and ZTE have become.
Google announces People API to streamline how apps gather contact data, will eventually replace existing Google+ API and Google Contacts API
Google People API Lets Devs Poke Through Users' Contacts — Google today announced the People API, a single API it hopes will eventually be able …
Time Inc Acquires Viant, Owner Of Myspace And A Vast Ad Tech Network
It looks like Myspace is becoming a big-media property once again. Today during its quarterly earnings report, Time Inc announced that it has acquired Viant, a profitable company that has built a lar...
App Annie report: cheap smartphones to propel app spending to $101B in 5 years, as userbase of smartphones and tablets slated to hit 6.2B by 2020, up from 2.6B
Cheap Smartphones to Propel App Spending Past $100 Billion — Mobile app store spending set to more than double by 2020
Identity thieves obtain 100,000 electronic filing PINs from IRS system
again Greg Otto / FedScoop : Identity thieves attack IRS E-File system Sean Michael Kerner / eWeek : IRS Confirms It Was a Victim of an Automated Attack Jonnelle Marte / Washington Post : We're only o...
SEC filing shows Amazon board approves new $5B stock buyback program
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HBO Now has 800K paying subscribers 10 months after launch, short of predicted 1-2M subs
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Sources: Andreessen Horowitz and Founders Fund sold $148M in Lyft shares to Saudi Arabia's Prince al-Waleed bin Talal and his Kingdom Holding Co. last December
Thursday, February 11 Mike Isaac / New York Times : Facebook Rejects Marc Andreessen Comments on India, and He Apologizes Tweets: Sarah Lacy / @sarahcuda : great scoop WSJ! question is: bearishness on...
New report reveals of 10,238 venture deals from 2012-2014, only 24 involved black women founders, who raised $36K on average; white male average raise is $1.3M
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Cisco beats Q2 estimates with $11.8B in quarterly revenue, up 2% YoY, announces $15B share buyback plan, stock up over 6% after hours
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Storyful Managing Editor Aine Kerr to join Facebook to manage journalism partnerships
Delivery startups like DoorDash and Postmates struggle with driver churn, high operating costs in quest to capture untapped market
Mike Isaac / New York Times : Tweets: @shiraovide , @mikeisaac , @mikeisaac and @mikeisaac Tweets: Shira Ovide / @shiraovide : Good @MikeIsaac piece that makes me wonder if delivery startups are just...
Google Forms gets templates, support for Google's Apps Scripts and add-ons like in Docs, Sheets
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Facebook debuts auto-captioning for video ads, says having captions can increase video view time by 12%
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Y Combinator Absorbs Edtech Accelerator Imagine K12, Creating Specialized Vertical
We are excited to announce that Imagine K12 … Erin Hobey / Crowdfund Insider : Y Combinator + Imagine K12: Together ‘Making Something People Want’ Betsy Corcoran / EdSurge : Imagine K12 Merges with Y ...
Yahoo announces first round of layoffs as it trims 15 percent of workforce
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