New Facebook and Messenger apps launched for Windows 10; Instagram comes to Windows 10 Mobile, with video support
Introducing Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram Windows Apps — There are many people using Facebook, Messenger and Instagram on Windows, so today we're excited …
The first Apple CareKit health apps are out, and CareKit becomes available on GitHub today
Apple's First CareKit Apps Are Here — Developers can use CareKit to build apps that track patients' health between doctor's visits. — How often do you visit your doctor's office? Three, four time...
Comcast to Buy DreamWorks for $3.8 Billion
DreamWorks shareholders to get $41 in cash for each share they own — Comcast Corp. on Thursday said it agreed to buy DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. for about $3.8 billion, in a deal that could make t...
Elon Musk and Sam Altman's OpenAI releases Gym, a toolkit for developers to test reinforcement learning algorithms
Elon Musk's Artificial Intelligence Group Opens A ‘Gym’ To Train A.I. — In any scientific arena, good research is able to be replicated.
Comcast announces it will raise data caps from 300GB to 1TB on June 1; unlimited data will cost an additional $50 per month
A Comcastic miracle: Data caps will go from 300GB to a terabyte — Going over the cap will be harder, but also more expensive.
Oculus releases a version of Minecraft for Gear VR headsets in the Oculus Store for $6.99
Minecraft enters virtual reality on Samsung's Gear VR headset — It's time to move beyond the smartphone screen and into the world of Minecraft. — Microsoft has launched Minecraft: Gear VR Edition ...
HP announces ultra-thin Chromebook 13, the first with an Intel Core M processor, starting at $499
HP today unveiled its all-new Chromebook at an event in New York. — The new HP Chromebook 13 sports a 13.3-inch screen and comes replete with a QHD+ (3200 x 1800) resolution display …
Facebook Reports First Quarter 2016 Results and Announces Proposal for New Class of Stock
Samsung reports Q1 net profit of $4.6B, reversing 40% dip in previous quarter, helped by early release of Galaxy S7
Samsung Profit Beats Estimates as Early S7 Smartphone Release Pays Off — Latest smartphone model fuels gains in net income, sales — Common, preferred share repurchase of 2.03 trillion won
Priceline CEO Darren Huston resigns due to relationship with employee, gets replaced temporarily by Chairman and former CEO Jeffery Boyd
Priceline CEO Resigns After Relationship With Employee — Huston was CEO of both Priceline Group and Booking.com — Chairman Jeffery Boyd replaces Huston as interim CEO
Facebook announces it will add a new class of non-voting stock for the company that will help keep Zuckerberg in control
Facebook is adding a new class of stock that will help keep Zuckerberg in control — Facebook today, as part of its earnings release, said it would add a new class …
Facebook reports Q1 revenue of $5.38B up 51% YoY; net income of $1.51B, up from $512M last year; 1.65B MAUs, adding 60M from Q4; stock up over 9%
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Microsoft buys 10M strands of synthetic DNA from Twist Bioscience to experiment with long-term data storage
Microsoft is buying 10 million molecules of custom DNA from a San Francisco startup — Microsoft is buying 10 million strands of long oligonucleotides — laboratory-made molecules of DNA …
Oracle buys Textura for $663 million, eyes engineering, construction cloud services
The move highlights how it's becoming increasingly important to target cloud services at specific industries. — Oracle said it will buy Textura, which provides contract and payment cloud services …
Steam is now accepting bitcoin payments through processing service BitPay
Stan Higgins / CoinDesk :
Email Privacy Act unanimously passes House, requiring a warrant before asking companies to hand over emails, heads to Senate with strong bipartisan support
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Sources: Snapchat hits 10B daily video views, up from 8B in February; over a third of daily users create Stories
Snapchat User Content Fuels Jump to 10 Billion Daily Video Views — More than a third of daily users said to create snap stories — Daily video views increase from 8 billion in February
Samsung announces Artik Cloud service that allows businesses to collect and analyze data from the internet of things; service is free for hobbyists
Agam Shah / PCWorld :
Nintendo FY16 misses forecast as profits plunge 60%, NX console to launch in March 2017
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
Sony reports FY15 revenue down 1.3% to $71.1B due to declining smartphone sales; net profit up 666.7% to $2.7B thanks to stellar PS4 sales
Sam Byford / The Verge :
Shopify announces Shopify Capital, a program that lets eligible merchants get cash advances, following in the footsteps of PayPal and Square
Jason Del Rey / Re/code :
Spotify buys photo aggregator CrowdAlbum to build more marketing tools for artists
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
FBI confirms it won't send method used to hack San Bernadino iPhone to a government review that could have forced FBI to share info about the method with Apple
Chris Strohm / Bloomberg :
PayPal beats expectations with Q1 net income of $452M, up from $353M last year, and net revenue of $2.54B, up 19% YoY
Ryan Mac / Forbes :
Netflix to add in-app billing to Android app over the next few weeks, won't charge customers extra for subscriptions
Janko Roettgers / Variety :
Twitter's user growth problems become ad revenue issue as firm struggles to compete with new products like Snapchat, lacks scale to take on Facebook, Google
Peter Kafka / Re/code :
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