Sources: Apple preparing new external 5K display as current model goes out of stock, may feature integrated GPU, could be announced at WWDC
The current $999 (!) Thunderbolt Display is showing its age to put it mildly, now significantly overshadowed by Retina MacBooks and iMacs in terms of screen resolution and quality.
Uber raises $3.5B from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, will add managing director of the fund to its board
SAN FRANCISCO — In its quest to build a global empire, Uber has turned to the Middle East for its biggest infusion of cash from a single investor.
Google starts suggesting unused apps for Android users to uninstall in Google Play Store to save space
Apps are getting big - that's one thing no one will deny. With some games reaching more than a gigabyte of space - LEGO Star Wars on my Nexus 6P is 1.17GB - it's becoming an issue …
IDC: 2016 worldwide smartphone sales expected to grow 3.1%, down from 10.5% in 2015; Android will grow to 84% of shipments with an average selling price of $218
According to a forecast update from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker …
Sources: Snapchat has 150M daily active users, higher than Twitter's estimated 140M
The four-year-old messaging app is said to have 150 million people using it each day. — Snapchat Inc. has 150 million people using the service each day, said people familiar with the matter.
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich planned, then cancelled, a Thursday night fund-raiser for Donald Trump; Trump to hold rally in San Jose instead
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Donald J. Trump would not be Silicon Valley's first choice as president. Or its second. Or maybe even its third.
Facebook announces Deep Text, an AI engine to understand meaning and sentiment behind posts, so the platform's content can be categorized, searched effectively
Today, Facebook announced Deep Text, an AI engine it's building to understand the meaning and sentiment behind all of the text posted by users to Facebook.
Yahoo publishes three FBI national security letters previously under gag order from 2013 and 2015, making it one of the first companies to do so
Yahoo has just published three national security letters, controversial government demands for information usually accompanied by a gag order and rarely made public.
Meeker report: global internet users surpass 3B but adoption rate flat except in India; voice assistants' word accuracy, latency, usage rates continue improving
The 2016 edition of Mary Meeker's annual Internet Trends report covers today's Internet growth and an in-depth look at the following:
Pebble's $99 Core music-streaming keychain fitness tracker will integrate Amazon's Alexa
The keychain computer will have Amazon's assistant. But Pebble first tested human concierges doing “anything that's legal” for users — Last week the smart watch company Pebble announced …
Microsoft announces general availability of SQL Server 2016, with deep integration of the R programming language
Microsoft today is announcing the general availability (GA) of its SQL Server database software. For more than a year now, Microsoft has been rolling out public previews …
Twitter and the NBA sign deal with Samsung for first 360-degree video Twitter Amplify ad campaign during NBA Finals pre- and post-game
As the NBA Finals tipping off Thursday night, get ready to see superstars Stephen Curry and LeBron James from every angle on Twitter …
A16z, USV lead $1.5M seed round in Mediachain, a startup building an open, blockchain-based tool to identify artists' works online
New York-based Mediachain has become the latest blockchain startup to join the portfolios of VC heavyweights Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures.
Sources: Cisco moves three engineers behind the company's “spin-in” R&D strategy to advisory roles
The people behind the company's “spin-in” R&D strategy. — Three members of a legendary four-person team of engineers at Cisco Systems who spearheaded …
Bloomberg hires Mark Gurman to cover consumer electronics starting this summer
Noah Kulwin / Recode :
IBM to acquire Israel-based application discovery firm EZSource to help developers better manage mainframe code via visualizations
Dan Richman / GeekWire :
Mary Meeker's Internet Trends Report: in 5 years 50%+ of searches will be through images or speech; both global internet adoption and economic growth slowing
Kathleen Chaykowski / Forbes :
Sheryl Sandberg says Peter Thiel will remain on Facebook's board and that Facebook had no knowledge of his actions against Gawker
Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch :
CoreOS launches Torus, a new open source distributed storage system
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Google will build an “off-the-record” Incognito-like mode into Home to help with privacy concerns
Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider :
IBM and Cisco ink IoT deal integrating Watson AI into Cisco edge routers
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Microsoft opens Windows Holographic, the platform behind HoloLens, for partners to create AR/VR devices, is working with Intel, AMD, HTC, Acer, and others
including the HTC Vive Tweets: Marcelo Calbucci / @calbucci : If Microsoft manages to pull off 10% of this vision, the world with VR/AR will be pretty amazing. http://www.techmeme.com/... Ben Riga / @...
Robinhood to offer commission-free US stock trading in China through Baidu's StockMaster app, joining a number of online brokerages bringing US markets to China
Robinhood expands to China through an integration … Zoë Henry / Inc.com : How This Hot Stock-Trading Startup Plans to Tackle the Chinese Market Thanks: @thejgr
Google brings Google Cast to Fiber TV boxes, enabling media and app streaming similar to Chromecast devices
Chris Welch / The Verge :
Salesforce buys Demandware for $2.8B, taking a big step into e-commerce
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Box Q1 revenue better than expected at $90.2M, but billings growth slows, shares down 8% after hours
Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily :
A look inside Twitter since Jack Dorsey's return, amid growth issues, high churn, sliding stock, including how Evan Williams pitched Medium to Twitter for $500M
Thursday, June 2, 2016 Maya Kosoff / Vanity Fair : TWITTER REFUSED TO BUY MEDIUM FOR $500 MILLION Avery Hartmans / INSIDER : Twitter cofounder Evan Williams wanted Twitter to buy his blogging platform...
Double Robotics unveils $249 camera mount to add 360 degree video support to its telepresence robots
Ken Yeung / VentureBeat :
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