Nokia enters the digital health realm with $192 million acquisition of France's Withings
Nokia has today announced that it is acquiring Withings, the company behind a range of connected health products, including watches, fitness bands, sleep-trackers, thermometers, and scales.
Apple's Upgrade Program Now Available for iPhones Purchased Through Online Store
With the launch of the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, Apple introduced an iPhone Upgrade Program in the U.S. designed to let Apple customers pay a monthly installment fee for a new iPhone and trade it in afte...
Hundreds of Spotify users' credentials appear online, and users report accounts hacked; Spotify denies being hacked
Hundreds of Spotify credentials appear online - users report accounts hacked, emails changed — A list containing hundreds of Spotify account credentials - including emails …
Analysts expect Apple to post its first quarterly year-over-year revenue decline today since 2003, down about 10% to $52B, driven by shrinking iPhone sales
Apple is about to post its first quarterly revenue decline since 2003 — Apple's incredible growth streak is expected to officially come …
You can now flag abusive Twitter accounts by reporting multiple tweets at once
Twitter's processing for reporting abusive accounts has long been criticized as being clunky and ineffective. Until now, users who are subject to harassment have had to report every abusive tweet ind...
2016 MacBook review: Marginally better CPU, GPU and much better SSD than previous version, but expensive for features and performance it provides
Review: The 2016 Retina MacBook is a faster version of the same machine — Improved CPUs, GPUs, and SSDs are all welcome, but the core compromises remain.
Sources: Facebook is developing a stand-alone camera app with ability to livestream video, to encourage users to create and share more photos and videos
Facebook Developing Camera-First Format — Camera app to encourage users to create, and share, more photos and videos
Google updates Gmail app for Android with Microsoft Exchange support for all devices
Gmail for Android gets Microsoft Exchange support — Google today updated Gmail for Android with a very notable feature: support for Microsoft Exchange. You can download the latest version of the ap...
Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial closes the world's largest private fundraising round for an Internet company at $4.5B, giving it a roughly $60B valuation
Alibaba Affiliate Ant Financial Raises $4.5 Billion in World's Largest Private Tech Funding Round — China's Ant Financial raises fresh funds at a roughly $60 billion valuation
Google, Ford, Volvo, Uber, and Lyft join coalition to push federal action to help speed self-driving cars to market
Google, Ford, Uber join coalition to further self-driving cars — Alphabet Inc's Google unit (GOOGL.O), Ford Motor Co (F.N), the ride-sharing service Uber [UBER.UL] …
Charter-Time Warner Cable merger and Bright House Networks acquisition get regulatory OK in deals valued at $88B, with terms to protect streaming competition
Los Angeles Times :
Lionsgate to distribute more than 100 films on Steam, including The Hunger Games
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Sources: Apple is working on adding cell-network connectivity, faster processor to its next-generation Watch
So, Why Does It Feel Like A Bust? JC Torres / SlashGear : You may need your iPhone, but the Apple Watch 2 won't Tweets: Ben Bajarin / @benbajarin : Sadly, the millions of satisfied customers don't hav...
MakerBot to stop making its own 3D printers, will outsource manufacturing to Jabil, a contractor with facilities in China
Sean O'Kane / The Verge :
Techmeme now publishing its events list in iCalendar format, letting readers subscribe to it in Google Calendar, Outlook.com calendar, and more
You can now add Techmeme's events list to your own calendar — As tech news events and industry conferences proliferate … Tweets: @aziari , @morisy and @sbisson Tweets: Amy Ziari / @aziari : @techmem...
Sequoia-backed, India-based PepperTap to end grocery delivery operations, citing hasty expansion and unfeasible discounting, to pivot into logistics business
Itika Sharma Punit / Quartz :
Japanese Bitcoin exchange bitFlyer raises $27M Series C, led by SBI Investment and Venture Labo Investment
Pete Rizzo / CoinDesk :
Leaked Postmates financials show gross margins above 20%, doubling of revenues in six months ending Q1 2016
Leaked Postmates financials suggest company might be doing better than everyone thought — Postmates, the delivery app, has almost become the poster child for struggling on-demand businesses. Tweets:...
Critical Android bugs present in older devices now targeted by malvertising campaigns and other drive-by exploits
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica :
Researchers: cybercriminals used malware to subvert the SWIFT interbank messaging network and steal $81M from Bangladesh's central bank; SWIFT releases patch
Jim Finkle / Reuters :
BeautifulPeople.com Leaks Very Private Data of 1.1 Million ‘Elite’ Daters — And It's All For Sale
Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes :
Adobe announces new Document Cloud integrations with Box and Microsoft OneDrive
James Risley / GeekWire :
HTC Vive app arrives on iOS, lets you receive phone calls and text message notifications while using the Vive headset
Ben Lang / Road to VR :
Kamcord raises $10M Series C led by Time Warner to expand “app-casting”, livestreaming while you use mobile apps, beyond games; startup now valued at over $100M
Jon Russell / TechCrunch :
Augmedix nabs $17M to ‘rehumanize’ doctor/patient relations using Google Glass
and it may be coming to more hospital rooms Kshitiz Goliya / Reuters : Google Glass-based startup raises $17 million in funding Stephen Hall / 9to5Google : Glass isn't dead: Augmedix secures $17M as C...
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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.