Amazon unveils Tap, a $130 Alexa-enabled portable bluetooth speaker, and the $90 Echo Dot, which adds Alexa support to other speakers
Amazon adds the $130 Tap and the $90 Dot to the Echo family — Amazon's voice-operated command center Echo produces something close to modern …
Samsung ships the world's highest capacity SSD, with 15TB of storage
Samsung Electronics announced Wednesday that it is now shipping the industry's highest-capacity solid-state drive (SSD), the 15.36TB PM1633a. — Samsung revealed it was working on the drive last Augu...
Apple Launches Support Account on Twitter With Tips, Tricks, and Customer Service
Apple today created an official Twitter support account to provide customers with tips, tricks, and customer service regarding the company's product and services. One of the account's first tweets sh...
YouTube partners with UN to produce content that promotes gender equality, invests in videos by and about women at YouTube Spaces
YouTube Boosts Female Content Creators With Two New Initiatives — Both programs will focus on producing videos by women, for women, that discuss gender equality and other women's issues.
IBM's SleepHealth debuts as first ResearchKit app for IBM Watson Health Cloud, to study how sleep quality impacts daytime activities
SleepHealth debuts as first ResearchKit app & study to support IBM Watson Health Cloud — Almost one year after IBM announced Watson Health Cloud …
Amazon's Alexa will be able to control Nest and Honeywell thermostats this month
Last month Amazon started allowing its Alexa voice assistant to control smart home thermostats. Now, Amazon's virtual assistant will be compatible with two major brands: Honeywell and Alphabet-owned ...
LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner forgoes his annual stock package, sources say valued about $14M, and puts it into employee pool
LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner Is Passing His $14 Million Stock Grant to Employees — How do you perk up employees after your company's stock price falls off a cliff? More money!
Sources: Intel is working on an augmented-reality headset that uses RealSense 3D camera tech
Intel Working on Augmented-Reality Headset — RealSense 3-D camera technology would be used — Intel Corp. is joining the race to reshape reality. — The chip giant is developing …
HBO to launch its streaming services in Brazil and Argentina by year end
Move Over Netflix — HBO Is Coming For You — Mover over Netflix (NFLX - Get Report) — Time Warner's (TWX - Get Report) HBO is coming. — HBO CEO Richard Plepler announced that HBO is expanding …
Blippar raises $55M Series D led by Malaysian government to build out its AR tech that uses a phone's camera to identify objects
Blippar raises $54 million to continue its mission to ‘build something bigger than the internet itself’ — Blippar, the company best known for its augmented reality app …
Former Snapchat and Instagram exec Emily White creating personal concierge startup Mave
Ex-Snapchat COO Emily White Has A New Startup — Former Snapchat and Instagram executive Emily White has created a high-end personal concierge startup, Fortune has learned.
IBM sues Groupon, alleging infringement on four patents, court documents show
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PIN system used by IRS to protect 724K victims of 2015 breach relies on same Knowledge-Based Authentication tech used in original breach
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Facebook tests letting publishers like The New York Times and Washington Post collect email newsletter signups in Instant Articles
Facebook is letting publishers use Instant Articles to collect email newsletter signups — Facebook is letting some publishers test newsletter sign …
UberEATS food delivery app arrives in US, now available in LA for flat $5 fee, coming to other US cities by end of month
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Mercari, a consumer-to-consumer shopping app, has raised $75M Series D at a valuation of over $1B, becomes Japan's first pre-IPO startup unicorn
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Rhapsody's losses nearly doubled last year to $35.5M on revenue of $202M as costs of growth rose
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Google pilots Hands Free, a voice activated mobile payments system, at stores including McDonald's and Papa John's in San Francisco's South Bay area
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Pure Storage reports quarterly revenue of $150.2M, up 128% YoY, customer base up 120% over past year, stock up over 4% after hours
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The international business of Uber lost $237M during 2014 expansion, says company filing
Toby Sterling / Reuters :
GoTenna, the startup that lets you text without cell signal, raises $7.5M and launches with REI
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