Sources: Yahoo hires bank to auction off 3K patents, including original search patent, expects $1B+, sets mid-June deadline for preliminary bids
Yahoo has set mid-June deadline for preliminary bids and hired Black Stone IP to run auction — Yahoo Inc. has kicked off an auction …
New San Francisco legislation requires Airbnb to list only registered hosts or face daily fines of up to $1K
Short-term rental websites will have to play by a much tougher set of rules in San Francisco under legislation approved by the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday.
Slack calls feature no longer invite only, is now available on desktop and for iOS and Android devices
A simple, pleasant way to speak with your team — Typing is great. We love typing. And while there are many fine ways to communicate via typing—messaging in channels …
UK MPs pass the Investigatory Powers Bill 444-69 in House of Commons; bill was modified to appease concerns of major tech companies like Apple
Law modified to meet objections from major tech companies — Debate over mass surveillance, hacking law now moves to Lords
Big data analytics startup Celonis, which specializes in process mining, raises $27.5M Series A round led by Accel and 83 North
How do big businesses optimize IT-driven processes? Often by hiring management consultants to cast an expert eye over digital traceries and deliver recommendations …
Microsoft says it has put plans to add a TV DVR feature to the Xbox One on hold
Microsoft is no longer planning to add a TV DVR feature to its Xbox One console. The software giant originally unveiled plans to add TV DVR to the Xbox One back in August, noting that the feature wou...
Microsoft's business collaboration app GigJam available in preview to all, coming to Office 365 later this year
Microsoft today announced that its GigJam app for working with someone else on certain workflows, like sending an email or entering a record in customer relationship management software …
MCX to disable all CurrentC accounts June 28 as beta test ends
Weeks after CurrentC was delayed (again) and half the team was laid off, the mobile payment that was supposed to serve as a merchant-backed alternative to payment systems from Apple and Android may be...
Vivendi buys out founding family of French mobile-gaming firm Gameloft SE
Guillemot family to sell bulk of shares; Vivendi thought to be eyeing Ubisoft — PARIS— Vivendi SA is set to buy out the founding family of French mobile-gaming company Gameloft SE, taking the French...
Google's new iOS app Motion Stills stabilizes your Live Photos to make shareable GIFs and video clips
Create with Live Photos Google Research Blog : Motion Stills - Create beautiful GIFs from Live Photos JC Torres / SlashGear : Google's iOS-only Motion Stills turns Live Photos into GIFs Brandy Shaul /...
Sources: F5 Networks hires Goldman Sachs to field interest in an acquisition following takeover interest; shares up 12.6%
F5 Networks Inc (FFIV.O), a U.S. computer networking company whose technology helps speed up data center traffic, has hired investment bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc …
Snowden doc from 2010 shows UK's MI5 reporting difficulties in making sense of the mass troves of surveillance data, warning of potential intelligence failure
Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept :
Samsung Galaxy S7 Active review: durable build is nice and has largest battery Samsung's ever put in a phone, but the design suffers from a cheap look and feel
Dan Graziano / CNET :
Salesforce to invest $50M in startups and launch an incubator to foster an ecosystem of apps that run on its cloud-computing platform
Move intended to foster ecosystem of applications that run on its cloud-computing platform — SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—Salesforce.com will devote …
Android Marshmallow adoption passes 10% after 8 months
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
HTC Vive is now shipping in 24 countries with delivery in two to three days, and demo units expanding to more Microsoft, GameStop, and Micro Center stores
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Secret founder David Byttow unveils Bold, a publishing platform for enterprise with bot assistants, raised $1M this summer
David Byttow learned just how much goes unsaid inside companies while he was running Secret. Blasting private information out publicly causes harassment …
Sources: AT&T and Chernin plan subscription video bundle focused on anime and video games, combining Crunchyroll with outside partners, to challenge Amazon
Janko Roettgers / Variety :
Microsoft releases Sprightly, an app to create fliers, catalogs, and coupons, for iOS
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
What's next for The DAO as the Ethereum-based organization pauses to investigate and repair flaws, after raising $168M from 10K investors
Cade Metz / Wired :
Lenovo partners with Movidius to use its Myriad 2 visual processing chip for various undisclosed VR projects, the first of which are slated for 2nd half of 2016
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2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
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