Facebook responds to GOP Sen. Thune on Trending Topics, says investigation found no systematic bias, cannot rule out unintentional bias, plans improvements
Last week we met with Chairman of the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee John Thune to describe our investigation in response …
KGI: Apple to release MacBook Pros with Touch ID and an OLED touch bar replacing function keys above keyboard in Q4, plus a 13-inch MacBook model
According to a new note from reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo at KGI Securities and corroborated by our sources, Apple plans to introduce …
Twitter won't count photos, videos, @names in replies toward 140 characters “in the coming months”, will allow self-retweets, touts improved onboarding metrics
Over the past decade, the Tweet has evolved from a simple 140-character text message to a rich canvas …
Starting in September, Netflix will be exclusive US pay TV home for new releases from Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and Pixar
Summertime = Movies. Well, on Netflix, anytime = movies...but we do see about a 20% increase in movie watching by our members in the US around Memorial Day weekend.
New $99 Pebble 2 and $169 Pebble Time 2 smartwatches add heart rate tracking; the $69 Pebble Core is a clip-on Spotify-streaming device for runners
After two successful crowdfunding campaigns, Pebble is back for a third try. — Pebble returned to Kickstarter today to rack up preorders …
A look at the design process behind Pebble Core: an untethered music-streaming accessory with two programmable butttons, GPS, and optional cable-less charging
The Pebble Core lives on your keychain. It plays music and tracks your run. But it won't give you the time of day.
Facebook's Continuous Live Video removes 90 min. limit on streams, but does not allow for replay or rewind, lets broadcasters target viewers by location and age
Live mobile video is evolving beyond selfie-stream rants and citizen journalism. Facebook will now allow non-stop …
Apple, Microsoft and Google hold 23% of all U.S. corporate cash outside the finance sector
Apple, Microsoft and Google are the top three cash-rich U.S. companies across all sectors of business, not including banks and other financial institutions — holding a combined $391 billion in cash …
Facebook Live video player will include a graph indicating engagement volume, so you can skip ahead to the good parts
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AMD, ARM, Qualcomm, IBM, Huawei, Mellanox, Xilinx agree to develop an interconnect to allow their CPUs, accelerators, and networks to coherently share data
On Monday, seven technology companies announced that they had reached an agreement to develop and implement an interconnect …
eBay buys Spain's Ticketbis for $165M to expand StubHub into Europe, Latin America, Asia
While EBay continues to build out its core marketplace for physical goods, it's also investing to expand its other businesses and brands, too. Today the company announced that it has acquired Ticketb...
Samsung's rugged Galaxy S7 Active, available in June from AT&T, to have microSD slot, 4GB of RAM, and 4000mAh battery, 15% larger than last year's model
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Former employees describe what went wrong with Disney's video game initiative: strong aversion to risk and little understanding of the game industry
The world's largest entertainment company doesn't make its own video games anymore. — Disney — the folks behind “Star Wars,” Mickey Mouse … Tweets: @techinsider , @mightylauren and @jherraez . Thank...
Oracle's closing argument implores jury to think in basic terms: “You don't take people's property”
Joe Mullin / Ars Technica :
Some startup employees and shareholders invoke an obscure Delaware law to open up financials and value shares, as some firms push employees to waive that right
Delaware law is potentially valuable tool for employees and investors who now question their shares' worth Tweets: @conorsen and @mims Tweets: Conor Sen / @conorsen : “Some companies are now pushing e...
Libre VR, creator of Revive tool used to play Oculus games on Vive headsets, circumvents Oculus' new DRM in under 24 hours, making it easier to pirate games
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VW invests $300M in Uber rival Gett in new ride-sharing partnership
The on-demand transportation service continues to heat up, and today the spotlight is shining on a New York startup whose business is based primarily in Europe. Gett, a cab-hailing startup with opera...
Amazon stops honoring partial refunds on items that drop in price after purchase, except TVs, amid entry of startups like Earny that track item prices
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Google plans to bring password-free logins to Android apps by year-end via Project Abacus
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NBC Sports announces a video livestreaming service, Playmaker Media, to compete with companies like MLB Advanced Media, with Olympic Committee as first client
“PLAYMAKER MEDIA” Taylor Soper / GeekWire : NBC Sports launches streaming platform in time for Olympics, will compete with MLBAM Tweets: Nbc Sports Pr / @nbcsportspr : NBC Sports Digital will live str...
Filing shows in 2015 Spotify had $2.18B in revenue, losses of $194M, and 98% year-over-year ad revenue increase to $219M
but it's making a lot of it too Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE : Spotify matches Apple Music family plan price as report reveals company lost $173.1m in 2015 Matthias Verbergt / Wall Street Journal : Spo...
Sources: China's Tencent seeks majority stake in Clash of Clans maker Supercell, in early stage talks with SoftBank
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Trello says it has 1.1M daily active users and 14M signups to date, adds 150K new users each week
Alex Konrad / Forbes : Thanks: @thealexknapp
Wickr Foundation invests in Whistler, an app dedicated to helping activists and citizen reporters
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Reporter spends month paying only with digital wallet services, finds it burdensome and alienating
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed : Tweets: @kantrowitz , @cwarzel , @johnpaczkowski and @ajs Tweets: Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz : Reporter then meets knife-toting bandit on foggy road, offers chip as tri...
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