Facebook rolls out Reactions to all, adding Love, Haha, Wow, Sad, and Angry buttons to Like; each button has same impact on News Feed ranking for now
Facebook Enhances Everyone's Like With Love, Haha, Wow, Sad, Angry Buttons — Humanity has been boiled down to six emotions.
Apple plans Siri for Mac as tentpole feature for this fall's OS X 10.12 launch
Apple currently plans to use its next major release of the Mac operating system, known as OS X 10.12, this fall to continue to expand Siri across its product lines. Last year, Apple implemented Siri ...
Source: Apple to argue that code should be protected as speech under First Amendment in FBI case
Apple-FBI Fight Asks: Is Code Protected as Free Speech? — IPhone maker is seeking to use First Amendment as a defense — Case may set precedent for considering software as expression
Pro-encryption lawmakers Ron Wyden, Zoe Lofgren on House support for backdoor bans, McCaul-Warner commission plans, Apple vs FBI as a chance to educate Congress
DOJ seeking ‘help’ with 12 other iPhones Steven Musil / CNET : Bill Gates hedges on FBI demand for iPhone access David Goldman / CNNMoney : Apple vs. the FBI ... in 2 minutes Tweets: Marco Arment / @m...
Microsoft launches Hub Keyboard for Android with app content sharing, built-in translation, multi-item clipboard, and contacts integration
Microsoft Hub Keyboard Brings App Content Sharing to Android — Microsoft Garage this week released a new keyboard replacement app for Android called Hub Keyboard.
Behind Facebook's decision to narrow Reactions down to a set of six, the design of the icons, and their layout in posts
Facebook Reactions, the Totally Redesigned Like Button, Is Here — Your News Feed is about to get a lot more expressive. After months of user testing in a handful of countries …
Xiaomi launches Mi5 with 5.15" Full HD display, Snapdragon 820, 4GB RAM, and 16MP camera for $413, only available in China for now
Xiaomi's Mi5 flagship looks like one of the best phones on the market — Xiaomi Mi5. Image by Xiaomi. — Xiaomi today announced the launch of the Mi5, the company's latest flagship smartphone.
WordPress.com sites now automatically support Google's AMP to speed up mobile page loading; self-hosted WordPress sites can enable AMP with a plugin
WordPress Sites Now Support Google's AMP To Make Mobile Pages Load Much Faster — Google has some big plans when it comes to making the web faster on your mobile phone.
Lightroom Android 2.0 launches, becoming the first mobile app to support RAW photo capturing using DNG format on devices with the capability
Lightroom on Android 2.0 is the World's First End-to-End Mobile RAW Photo App — Adobe today launched Lightroom on Android 2.0, the world's first end-to-end RAW mobile photography solution.
Google Starts Highlighting AMP Pages In Its Mobile Search Results
Smartphones and networks are constantly getting faster, but somehow the mobile web now feels slower than it ever did. That's largely thanks to all the ads and trackers that most sites now use (and ma...
SoundCloud Pulse, A Dedicated App For Music Creators, Arrives On iOS
SoundCloud Pulse, the music streaming service's dedicated app for artists and creators, is now available on iOS. In an odd move in a market where apps tend to release on iOS first, Pulse first debute...
ASUS settlement with FTC over router flaws from 2014 requires 20 years of security audits
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Technorati, former Web 2.0 darling that raised $32M in its heyday, acquired for $3M by Buffalo advertising monetization service Synacor
Synacor Buys Technorati For Just $3M To Build Out Its Mobile And Ad Tech Business — Yet more consolidation underway in the ad tech business …
Etsy reports Q4 revenue of $87.8M, up 35% QoQ, gross merchandise sales up 21% YoY, stock up over 6%
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Sources: Time interested in Yahoo's core business, heard pitch from Citigroup bankers on potential Yahoo deal
Yahoo Inc. is on the block. Again. Steven Davidoff Solomon / New York Times : Yahoo's Decision to Explore a Sale Exposes a Weak Board Mike Epstein / Digital Trends : Once threatened by Yahoo, Time In...
German government approves the use of trojans to monitor personal computers and smartphones of citizens, subject to court order
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Eero's multi-device approach to Wi-Fi offers superior coverage and ease of use, but is very expensive with a single unit costing $199, $499 for a three-pack
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Google launches Project Shield, a free DDOS mitigation service, to all non-state news sites
Google Wants to Save News Sites From Cyberattacks—For Free — Mehdi Yahyanejad thought that after Iranians voted on June 12, 2009, he would finally get some rest.
After nine years without ads, Pocket experiments with sponsored content in Recommended feed; Premium subscribers will remain ad-free
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Telegram reports that 100M people use the free encrypted messaging app every month, up from 60M people last May
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RealtyShares Raises $20 Million For Its Real Estate Investment Marketplace
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Zynga plans to sell and lease back its San Francisco headquarters, originally acquired for $228M
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Sources: Whole Foods investing undisclosed sum in Instacart, signs new five-year deal, making Instacart exclusive delivery partner for its perishable business
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Spotify to transition its service from its own servers to Google Cloud Platform over the next 18 months
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Robinhood launches Robinhood Instant to eliminate the 3-day wait for deposited money to appear, fronts new users $1000 to buy stocks, already over 70K sign-ups
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Famous, formerly the controversial people-trading app Stolen, hits Android after App Store ban
that app for ‘buying’ people — is trying to find redemption Nick Statt / The Verge : Apple bans the successor to controversial app Stolen from the App Store Casey Newton / The Verge : Controversial ga...
Twitter releases Fabric mobile app for iOS and Android with real-time alerts and analytics
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