Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney says Microsoft wants to lock PC game distribution and commerce with Universal Windows Platform, urges industry to fight it
Microsoft wants to monopolise games development on PC. We must fight it — Developers must oppose this, or else cede control of their titles
San Bernardino DA says seized iPhone may hold “dormant cyber pathogen”
He says iPhone might be “a weapon” to trigger some nefarious worm of some sort. — The San Bernardino District Attorney told a federal judge late Thursday that Apple must assist the authorities in un...
Meerkat Is Ditching the Livestream — And Chasing a Video Social Network Instead
Two weeks ago, Meerkat CEO Ben Rubin sent an email to his company's 48 investors laying bare an observation that he'd made peace with months earlier: Meerkat, the livestreaming app that played the rol...
New experimental feature allows select local businesses to display custom content directly in Google search as cards below its website result
Google Experimenting With Local Business Cards In Search Results — Google is experimenting with new “Local Business Cards” in search results.
Amazon reverses course, says it is bringing back support for device encryption to tablets running Fire OS via a software update due this spring
Amazon reverses course on encryption for its Fire tablets — It's been only one day since — in the midst of a debate over encrypted devices …
As Bitcoin approaches its 1MB block size limit, transaction processing takes 10+ hours for some, while transaction fees rise several times
Bitcoin's Capacity Issues No ‘Nightmare’, But Higher Fees May Be New Reality — While bitcoin may not be facing a “nightmare” scenario as indicated by the media …
Source: Microsoft EVP Qi Lu pushed for deal to acquire Slack for up to $8B, but Bill Gates and Satya Nadella rejected plan, favoring adding features to Skype
Source: Microsoft mulled an $8 billion bid for Slack, will focus on Skype instead — Mar 4, 2016, 8:37 amMar 4, 2016, 3:39 pm
Inside the Cunning, Unprecedented Hack of Ukraine's Power Grid
It was 3:30 p.m. last December 23, and residents of the Ivano-Frankivsk region of Western Ukraine were preparing to end their workday and head home through the cold winter streets. Inside the Prykarp...
Sources: Samsung has reduced jobs at Milk Music, likely to shut down service soon
Janko Roettgers / Variety :
Tinder is testing a button that lets you directly share other people's profiles via text message; links expire after five clicks or 72 hours
Tinder is testing a ‘share button’ that lets you play matchmaker — Tinder is testing out a “share” button that lets you send someone's Tinder profile to a friend.
Avegant Glyph review: solid design, bright and clear display, but high price of $699 and nausea issues make it hard to recommend
Review: Avegant Glyph delivers on “personal theater” promise — It's a nice HDMI screen for your face—but it's got one big problem.
Samsung says it has no plans to buy Tidal
Samsung Says It Won't Buy Tidal (EXCLUSIVE) — Samsung has no plans to acquire Jay Z's Tidal music service, the company told Variety Friday. — “The rumor of Samsung acquiring Tidal is not true,” sa...
Twitter Editorial Director Karen Wickre Is Leaving the Company
Twitter's editorial director, Karen Wickre, is leaving the company after more than four years. — Wickre made the announcement in a Medium post Friday. She ran Twitter's editorial teams, which inclu...
Pictures and specs of HTC 10 leak: 5.15-inch QHD display, Snapdragon 820, 4GB of RAM, 12MP camera
Kellex / Droid Life :
How Snapchat brings celebrities millions of views and offers advertisers a young audience
Advertisers want the $16 billion social network's young users
Sources: Facebook revenue in UK will no longer be routed through Ireland, will pay millions of pounds more in UK tax
Kamal Ahmed / BBC :
Barnes & Noble to close Nook App store, Nook Video, and UK Nook Store March 15
Nate Hoffelder / The Digital Reader :
Google will extend right-to-be-forgotten to all Search domains for searches from EU country where request was filed, beginning next week
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
Sources: Microsoft to detail plans to open the Xbox platform to developers at Build on March 30, unveil universal Xbox apps
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Source: Snapchat raises $175M more from Fidelity at same $16B valuation as a year ago
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New research shows slowdown in productivity growth since 2005 not the result of unmeasured gains from information technology
Tyler Cowen / New York Times :
Intuit sells its Quicken business to private equity firm H.I.G. Capital
Larry Dignan / ZDNet :
Accel Partners: as of 2015 VCs invested $7B+ in total in at least 110 firms based on open source
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Wall Street Journal :
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