Peter Thiel acknowledges he spent around $10M to fund a team of lawyers to help Gawker “victims” like Hulk Hogan sue the company, in act of “deterrence”
A billionaire Silicon Valley entrepreneur was outed as being gay by a media organization.
HP goes big on gaming with new Omen laptops and desktop
HP gave us a brief taste of the legendary Voodoo PC gaming brand with its Omen laptop over nearly two years ago. Now, the company is bringing the Omen name to all of its gaming hardware — a new lineu...
Sources: Apple had preliminary discussions about buying Time Warner last year as spending on original content set to increase
A top Apple executive raised the prospect of the iPhone maker buying Time Warner at a meeting with the owner of HBO, CNN and Warner Brothers, according to three people who were briefed on it.
Foxconn replaces 60K factory workers with robots, denies that it means long-term job losses
Apple and Samsung supplier Foxconn has reportedly replaced 60,000 factory workers with robots. — One factory has “reduced employee strength from 110,000 to 50,000 thanks to the introduction of robot...
FCC formally fines Chinese firm $34.9M for selling illegal cellphone jammers and a Florida man $48K for using them
Two years ago the FCC announced its intention to fine a Chinese electronics maker $34.9 million and a Florida man $48,000 for respectively selling and using illegal cell-phone jammers.
Lenovo Q4 profit up 80% to $180M but revenue falls 24% to $9.13B YoY as PC demand slows
First-quarter profit up drastically, helped by cost cuts — HONG KONG—A year and a half ago, Lenovo Group Ltd. spent $5 billion to buy itself into growth sectors as the personal-computer market slowe...
Google releases Data Studio, a free version of its data visualization tool, Data Studio 360; tool only available in US for now
Google Data Studio integrates with AdWords, Analytics, YouTube and other data sources. — Google has released Google Data Studio, a free version of its new reporting …
Salesforce to spend $400M on Amazon Web Services over next four years according to 10Q statement and sources
We knew Salesforce and Amazon Web Services were getting cozy, ever since Salesforce's recent earnings call when its chief executive, Marc Benioff, effusively praised Amazon's cloud unit.
Source: Twitter curtails development of Buy button and product pages, moves commerce team to other projects
Jack Dorsey puts Dick Costolo-era project on backburner as Twitter refocuses on core product. — Twitter has curtailed product development on its ‘Buy’ button and product pages …
Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur
Reddit never let you upload images, until now. That could dismantle Reddit's informal alliance with image-sharing community Imgur. That's where Redditors would typically post their images or GIFs an...
Facebook to shut down its desktop-based ad retargeting exchange as company shifts focus toward mobile
Social platform redirecting advertisers to mobile — Facebook is shutting down Facebook Exchange and moving advertisers to newer products in a coordinated effort to focus more heavily …
Chrome 51 released with new APIs, including Credential Management API, more efficient page rendering; available for Windows and Mac, Linux coming soon
Google today launched Chrome 51 for Windows and Mac, promising that the Linux version will “ship shortly.”
HTC confirms it has stopped manufacturing Google's flagship tablet, the Nexus 9
Roger Cheng / CNET :
PayPal to discontinue mobile apps for Windows Phone, BlackBerry, and Amazon Fire on June 30
Chris Welch / The Verge :
Senior Indian government official says Apple must oblige by foreign retailer rules and sell 30% locally-sourced goods if it intends to open stores in India
Sources: Google is aiming to reduce Android fragmentation by pressuring carriers, OEMs into pushing out updates more quickly
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HP Inc. misses target, reporting Q2 results of $11.59B in revenue, down 11% YoY; personal systems sales dropped 10% YoY; guidance cut
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Report: Microsoft to announce a basic Chromecast-like Xbox streaming device and a more advanced option at E3
Tom Warren / The Verge :
Home WiFi startup Eero raises $50M led by Menlo Ventures, expected in Best Buy stores this summer
Dan Primack / Fortune :
Spain arrests 30 suspected of pirating pay TV content and then laundering money in six bitcoin mining centers; a small aircraft, luxury cars, more seized
Sarah White / Reuters :
Microsoft is laying off 1,850 to “streamline” its smartphone business, takes $950M charge
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Uber and Foursquare sign global, multi-year agreement to license Places data, meaning customers will no longer have to know the exact address of venues
What do Apple, Twitter, Pinterest … Horia Ungureanu / Tech Times : Uber Taps Foursquare Data To Make Places Easier To Find Without Typing Addresses Tim Hardwick / MacRumors : Uber Adds Foursquare Loca...
Canary Watch, EFF related site tracking NSA, FBI, other agency warrant requests, stops accepting submissions, monitoring canaries, says goals have been reached
Pinterest no longer has canary, sending “strong” signal that it received natsec request('s). http://www.techmeme.com/...
Magic Leap says it's integrating Twilio's services into the Magic Leap SDK and will give 10 devs early access
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