Hillary Clinton's tech agenda: invest in CS and STEM ed, build out broadband for all, fix copyright, defend net neutrality, safeguard privacy, support USDS
Today's dynamic and competitive global economy demands an ambitious national commitment to technology, innovation and entrepreneurship.
Microsoft's Windows 10: Anniversary Update to hit August 2; 350 million devices and counting
Microsoft will release Windows 10 on August 2 across the more than 350 million active devices where it is now running, and on other coming new PCs, phones and more.
Amazon to subsidize Android phones for Prime members by showing lock screen ads and pre-installing Amazon apps
Amazon today said it would begin offering Prime members significant discounts on select unlocked Android smartphones, in exchange for the ability to pre-install Amazon apps and show customers more ads...
Facebook puts friends above publishers in “News Feed Values” and ranking change
After the conservative trends fiasco, Facebook is pushing itself to a new standard of transparency. The company is publishing a formal “News Feed Values” document that details how it decides what sho...
Uber to track driver behavior like high speed and abrupt braking, give feedback to improve safety
The software is aimed at improving driver safety, but could raise privacy concerns — Uber Technologies Inc. has developed new technology to track when drivers of the ride-hailing app go too fast …
Lending Club cuts 179 jobs, promotes interim CEO Scott Sanborn to permanent chief
SAN FRANCISCO — Embattled online loan marketplace Lending Club on Tuesday named a new chief executive and said it will cut 12 percent of its workforce as it deals with the continued fallout from May's...
Huawei Matebook Review: sleek appearance and fast performance is let down by design quirks and poor battery life, hard to recommend as a laptop replacement
In the world of tablet computing, there are two camps. There's the Microsoft Surface (and its clones) camp, which attempts …
A free bot service, DoNotPay, has helped successfully challenge 160K+ traffic tickets in London, New York since launching last fall; Seattle expansion planned
A bot made to challenge traffic tickets has been used more than 9,000 times by New Yorkers, according to DoNotPay maker Joshua Browder.
Mozilla launches Codemoji, a web-based game that illustrates how ciphers work through emoji
Sure, people will tell you that encryption is important to maintaining your online privacy, but how do you wrap your head around the concept? Mozilla wants to help.
Microsoft is giving students a free Xbox One with Surface Pro 4 purchases
Microsoft is tempting students to buy a Surface Pro 4 this week with a new promotion running at its retail stores in the US. The software maker is taking $300 off when students buy a Surface Pro 4 an...
Google Fit rolls out with a major visual redesign, improved goals, and a configurable widget
It's been a long time since we last saw an update to Google Fit, but after some subtle hints during the Android Wear presentations during Google I/O, it was fairly obvious something big was in the wor...
Sony to end Ustream support for PS4 on August 1, players will still be able to livestream on Twitch, YouTube, and Dailymotion
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Sources: Airbnb seeking a new investment round at a valuation of around $30B, about a year after raising at a reported $24B valuation
Wednesday, June 29 PYMNTS.com : Airbnb Wants Funding Valuing It At $30 Billion Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE : Report: Airbnb looking for raise more money 2 weeks after it took $1b in debt financing Cro...
Evernote raises prices of paid plans: Plus tier now $4, previously $3, and Premium tier now $8, previously $6; device sharing on free tier limited to 2 devices
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How humans and AI can work together to solve society's greatest challenges
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Twitter launches Twitter Dashboard, an iOS and desktop app to help businesses manage their accounts, now in beta
iTunes — Open iTunes to buy and download apps. Saqib Shah / Digital Trends : Twitter Dashboard tells users what to tweet about to gain followers Christopher S Penn / Christopher S. Penn Blog : Clari...
Former BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins resigns from wireless charging firm Powermat, as part of a broader revamp
His resignation is part of a larger revamp of Powermat as it looks to focus on wireless charging again. — by , Roger Cheng — Thorsten Heins is out of a job. Again.
Sources: Sony PlayStation Vue web-TV service, which debuted in March 2015, surpasses 100K subscribers
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Facebook launches official Share and Save Chrome extensions and redesigns its web-embeddable Like, Share, and Follow buttons
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Amazon gives the Alexa ‘app store’ a makeover, now lets you add new Skills by voice
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Pinterest is rolling out a shopping bag, buyable pins on web, visual search with your camera
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Partech Ventures, with hubs in Paris, San Francisco, and Berlin, closes $440M fund aimed at growth-stage startups
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Siemens plans to invest $1.1B over next five years in a new startups unit focused on developing AI, decentralized electrification, blockchain apps, more
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Online retailer Birchbox cuts 12% of staff, around 25 employees, after cutting 50 positions earlier this year
Bloomberg : Tweets: @mollywood and @polly Tweets: Molly Wood / @mollywood : Subscription and on-demand novelty starting to wane ... http://twitter.com/... Polly Mosendz / @polly : Last month Birchbox...
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Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements
2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.