145 tech leaders, including Vinod Khosla, Ev Williams, and Stewart Butterfield sign letter saying a Trump presidency “would be a disaster for innovation”
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T-Mobile Is Giving Customers a Year of Free Data to Play Pokemon Go
There are few executives in telecommunications—or most other industries for that matter—who are better masters of free publicity than T-Mobile CEO John Legere. — And so, with the popularity of the N...
Peter Thiel Confirmed As A Speaker At Donald Trump's Republican National Convention
Peter Thiel will appear at the Republican National Convention, FORBES has confirmed, and will speak openly of his endorsement of Donald Trump next week. — A spokesperson for Thiel told FORBES …
Razer introduces low-profile, detachable mechanical keyboard for 12.9-inch iPad Pro, connects via Bluetooth, available today for $170
Razer today announces a whole new ultra-low-profile mechanical switch, designed for and making its debut in the company's first mechanical keyboard case for the iPad Pro.
Microsoft wins US appeal over warrant for emails held on server in Ireland
A federal appeals court on Thursday said Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) and other companies cannot be forced to turn over customer emails stored on servers outside the United States. — The 3- decision by a...
BitTorrent Now officially launches on iOS and Apple TV
Earlier this year, BitTorrent announced a new BitTorrent Now app that allows users to stream a variety of content including videos and music. At the time, the app was Android-only, but now the app ha...
Atlassian acquires online service tracker StatusPage, says it will remain a standalone product; pricing, starting at $29/month, will remain the same
Atlassian today announced that it has acquired StatusPage, a Y Combinator-incubated service that allows online businesses to keep …
Nvidia launches its first game, VR Funhouse, for HTC Vive VR on Steam, will release it as open source later this summer
Virtual reality could be a big driver for gamer PCs with powerful graphics cards. That's why Nvidia wants it to succeed. And to boost VR hardware sales …
Microsoft Edge is the only browser of the big four to play Netflix content at 1080p on Windows 10
Microsoft's bold claims about Edge turn out to be true. — If you want to watch true 1080p content on Netflix over your PC, you need to use Microsoft's Edge browser.
Mastercard expands Masterpass to include in-store payments, first arriving on Android devices in the US this month, unveils API for banks and other partners
MasterCard is now Mastercard, or even mastercard in some cases. Sometimes you won't even see the name at all — instead you'll see the iconic red and yellow Venn diagram.
Microsoft concedes that it won't have Windows 10 installed on 1B devices by mid-2018, as previously projected
Microsoft isn't going to make its self-imposed deadline of having Windows 10 installed on 1 billion devices by mid-2018, company officials have conceded.
Senators Schatz, Warren, Feinstein call on FTC to investigate how companies like Airbnb are impacting the housing market
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Nintendo's Classic Mini is a tiny NES with 30 pre-loaded games launching November 11 for $59.99
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Vevo updates its design with vertical video, adds user profiles, hires playlist curators and hosts for original video, plans paid tier later in 2016
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Line closes first day of trading on the NYSE at $41.58, up 26.61%; company's shares surge by 48% to ¥4,900 in its Tokyo trading debut
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Valve promises to crack down on third-party sites that use Steam to facilitate gambling, denies having any business relationships with such sites
but isn't ready to block them Tweets: Jeff Muskus / @jeffmuskus : It's not every day you knock down a massive teen gambling market: http://www.bloomberg.com/... Belated kudos to @joshuabrustein @novy_...
EU files new round of antitrust charges against Google related to AdSense and AdWords
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FCC votes unanimously to make spectrum bands above 24 GHz available for 5G
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Apple's Swift Playgrounds for iPad is designed for kids but still requires coding, doesn't generate standalone apps
For all Apple's obsessive secrecy, even its senior managers acknowledge with an on-stage wink that much of what they announce these days has already been predicted. Tweets: @jamiebullock Tweets: Jamie...
Pinterest acquires team behind Math Camp, creator of location-based app Highlight and photo-sharing app Shorts
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Amazon's AWS buys Cloud9 to add more development tools to its web services stack
We're excited to let you, our users and customers … Jordan Novet / VentureBeat : AWS acquires collaborative coding company Cloud9 IDE Jonathan Vanian / Fortune : Amazon Just Bought This Hot Cloud Star...
Airport car-sharing startup FlightCar closes operations, sells its tech to Mercedes-Benz
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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 …
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