Twitter adds stickers for photos and lets you search them like hashtags
Twitter will begin letting you add virtual stickers to the photos you post, the company said today. Hundreds are available at launch, including the standard Unicode emoji and some original work from ...
Report: Huawei hedges its bet on Android by developing a new non-Android operating system in-house
Like Samsung before it, Huawei hopes to have a “Plan B” should Android terms go bad. — A report from The Information (subscription required) claims that Huawei is building its own in-house OS as a p...
Sources: Google and Facebook start automatically blocking reposted extremist videos
Some of the web's biggest destinations for watching videos have quietly started using automation to remove extremist content from their sites, according to two people familiar with the process.
Sources: dozens of new brands get Dash buttons this week; companies pay $15 for each branded button sold and 15% of each product sale, atop normal commission
Detergent, household-products makers join expansion as they try to stay close to Amazon, but consumer demand for gadgets has been cool
Sources: Intel weighs sale of cyber security business created from its $7.7B McAfee acquisition in 2010
Intel is looking at options for Intel Security, including potentially selling the antivirus software maker formerly known as McAfee which it bought for $7.7bn almost six years ago.
Google announces Project Bloks, a new open hardware platform to make coding physical for kids, still in development
Posted by Steve Vranakis and Jayme Goldstein, Executive Creative Director and Project Lead, Google Creative Lab — At Google, we're passionate about empowering children to create and explore with tec...
Mobcrush Officially Launches Live-Streaming Platform for Mobile Games
Mobcrush announced the official launch of its live-streaming application on mobile. The app allows users to watch live streams and broadcast gameplay from mobile games. — With the Mobcrush app …
Case in Wisconsin spurs debate about the use of proprietary algorithms that calculate defendants' recidivism risk in sentencing
CHICAGO — When Eric L. Loomis was sentenced for eluding the police in La Crosse, Wis., the judge told him he presented a “high risk” to the community and handed down a six-year prison term.
Amazon unveils Inspire, an online education service for teachers, offering free lesson plans, teaching modules, and other digital resources
Just ahead of the back-to-school season, Amazon is making a major foray into the education technology market for primary and secondary schools …
Sources: DocuSign's CEO search drags on after losing leading candidate, Google's Rick Osterloh, in March; Bain's Enrique Salem being considered for the position
Unicorn company is said to have been spurned by Google exec — Bain's Enrique Salem emerges as candidate for chief executive
Nikesh Arora talks about his resignation, tenure at SoftBank, working with Masayoshi Son, and how he already sold his SoftBank stake to Son at a small loss
Nikesh Arora shocked the business world two years ago when he jumped from his role as Google's chief business officer to SoftBank SB …
HP's 0.41 inch-thick Spectre laptop outperforms the MacBook but trails on battery life, and like MacBook makes too many sacrificies for thinness
The thinnest laptop currently available. Nice price. Walt Mossberg / The Verge : Mossberg: HP aims at the Mac with super-slim laptop Sam Rutherford / Laptop Mag : HP Spectre Review Stefan Etienne / T...
China's search engines need to verify advertisers, clearly ID paid results from Aug. 1, following death of a student who accused Baidu of showing misleading ads
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Huawei invests heavily in R&D and patents to challenge Samsung and Apple at home and overseas; source says Apple is paying royalties for some of Huawei's IP
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Flipboard CEO Mike McCue talks about focus on high-end ads, competition from Nuzzel and Apple News, and why he took JPMorgan's $50M investment
Flipboard, the magazine-style curation app, is about to turn profitable “reasonably soon,” the company's CEO Mike McCue revealed to Business Insider on Monday. Tweets: @twittner Tweets: Josh Quittner ...
In China, subscriptions accounted for 13% of the online video industry's 2015 revenue, up from 5.6% a year earlier
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Behind the race in Silicon Valley and Detroit to build a self-driving car
Erin Griffith / Fortune : Tweets: @fortunemagazine , @fortunemagazine and @fortunemagazine Tweets: Fortune / @fortunemagazine : The American auto industry is in danger of being iPod-ed like the music...
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