Opera Now Has a Totally Free and Unlimited Built-In VPN
Dodging firewalls and masking your IP address usually requires firing up separate—often paid-for—software or plug-ins while you're browsing. Now, though, Opera has its own free VPN baked right into t...
Comcast announces Xfinity app will be available to subscribers directly through Roku devices and Samsung smart TVs, without requiring leasing of a set-top box
Comcast Fires Back at FCC by Making TV Service Available Without a Set-Top Box — Comcast's full TV lineup will be available on Roku, Samsung smart TVs for first time
How “dirty” term sheets protecting valuations will imperil founders, employees, and investors alike
On the Road to Recap: — Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous...For All Involved — In February of last year, Fortune magazine writers Erin Griffith …
Microsoft Translator for Android now translates text in photos, supports 43 languages offline
Microsoft Translator Adds Image Translation to Android — Today, we are announcing several new Microsoft Translator capabilities available for Android users, including instant translation of images.
Live TV listings coming to search results as Google announces new ad platform for video
Following big Google Cloud announcements at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show earlier this week, the company is announcing a new ad platform to monetize and personalize video content...
Report: political infighting between Apple's iCloud and Siri teams is holding back development; Apple working on building its own internal cloud infrastructure
iCloud and Siri Teams at Odds as Apple Seeks to Move Cloud Services In-House — Apple's efforts to move its cloud infrastructure …
Verizon Q1: $32.2B revenue misses estimates, adds 640K postpaid wireless subscribers, $195M IoT revenue
Verizon Q1 on track, $195 million in IoT revenue, 640,000 postpaid wireless additions — Verizon's wireless business hummed along as it aims to grow via investments in new businesses such as AOL and ...
PlayStation Network getting two-factor authentication, Sony confirms
Sony is making a long-awaited effort to shore up security on the PlayStation Network — the company is planning to add two-factor authentication to the service, Sony confirmed to Polygon today.
Facebook rolls out group voice calls in Messenger on iOS and Android globally
Facebook Messenger launches Group Calling to become your phone — Jump on the party line or hear the voices of your whole family with Facebook Messenger's latest feature. Rolling out globally over t...
Google expands AMP to News; site navigation, sidebar menus, and self-updating pages coming soon
AMP Articles Get Prime Real Estate in Google News — New AMP Features Like Site Navigation, Sidebar Menus and Self-Updating Pages to Come — Publishers Tout Content Management Systems As ‘Secret Sau...
Microsoft stops manufacturing new Xbox 360 consoles, will continue to sell remaining inventory and support existing consoles
Samit Sarkar / Polygon :
Microsoft stock surpasses 93% of the peak reached in December 1999, with cloud efforts as driver
How Microsoft Is Reclaiming Its Former Glory — As Microsoft's stock approaches its record, Thursday's earnings report could help the rally maintain its momentum
Snapchat comes under fire for ‘digital blackface’ filter that turns you into Bob Marley
and failed miserably Emily Dreyfuss / Wired : Marijuana Memo: Seriously, Guys. Do We Even Need 420 Anymore? Tweets: The Next Web / @thenextweb : Following Snapchat backlash, MSQRD's quietly removed it...
Google Keep gets label support for organizing notes, now lets you easily save web pages and images from Android, iOS, and desktop Chrome
Mario Anima / Google Docs Blog :
Lexmark to be acquired by consortium led by Apex Technology and PAG Asia Capital for $3.6B including debt
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Visa says EMV technology is reducing counterfeit fraud, up to 18% for some big merchants
Charisse Jones / USA Today :
Madrid-based Cabify raises $120M at a $320M valuation led by returning investor and Lyft-backer Rakuten to take on Uber in Latin America
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Tribune Publishing using new comment software that lets readers earn or buy points for prominent comment placement
News Sites Start Charging Readers to Comment on Articles — A startup thinks newspapers can profit by getting people to pay to elevate their rants—or advertisements—to the top of the comments section...
Verizon's AOL acquires VR studio RYOT, sources say for between $10-15M
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Quora testing ads on a small number of pages after being ad free for seven years, now has 100M monthly unique visitors
Ken Yeung / VentureBeat :
Qualcomm beats with Q2 operating income of $1.4B, up 6% YoY, on $5.6B in revenue, down 19% YoY, boosting high-end marketshare with Samsung Galaxy S7 chip deal
Ina Fried / Re/code :
Michael Arrington steps back from CrunchFund as Pat Gallagher is now the sole general partner on the firm's third fund
Dan Primack / Fortune :
Chrome for Android and iOS passes 1 billion monthly active users
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
Down to Lunch, which lets you schedule activities with your contacts, tops iPhone charts; developers “have turned away dozens of potential investors”
Vindu Goel / New York Times : Tweets: @nytimesbits , @puiwingtam , @bxchen and @m_delamerced Tweets: NYTimes Bits / @nytimesbits : The founders of Down to Lunch confront the perils of having the hott...
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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.