Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube were temporarily blocked or slowed in Turkey during military coup attempt
The Turkish military has deployed in Istanbul and Ankara, and the government has apparently blocked social media in response to what is being reported as an attempted coup.
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.
Netflix launches Flixtape, a tool for making shareable mixtape-like short playlists for shows and movies
Just in time for the weekend, Netflix today announced the launch of a new service called Flixtape, which the company describes as a way to make short playlists of your favorite Netflix titles.
In a non-public filing with the US Copyright Royalty Board, Apple proposes simplified flat rate of 9.1¢ per 100 streams in songwriting royalties
In the music industry's streaming battles, the fight extends to even the minutiae of copyright. — Apple, in a government filing on Friday …
US pledges $400M over the next 7 years for 5G research led by National Science Foundation
As President Obama approaches the end of his tenure in the White House, his team is launching a wireless networking research project that it hopes could be part of his wider legacy in the world of tec...
Kantar: Samsung's Galaxy S7 outsold Apple's iPhone 6s in the US between March and May 2016
The iPhone showed its first decline in sales numbers earlier this year, which has today been reiterated by the latest US mobile market data from Kantar Worldpanel.
Google recently shut down project to create high-end standalone VR headset with non-Android OS
Another sign that Google is putting its eggs into mobile VR. — Google recently shut down an internal project to create a high-end standalone virtual reality headset akin to devices …
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...
Sources: final bids for Yahoo are due on Monday, with the board set to make a decision soon afterward
SAN FRANCISCO — The gavel is finally poised to drop in the drawn-out auction for Yahoo's core internet business. — Final bids for the services, which include Yahoo's search, email …
Facebook shows little progress in diversity report, blames lack of available talent
Earlier today Wall Street Journal posted … Bo Ren : Diversity is a broken product in tech. FIX IT. Jessica Guynn / USA Today : Facebook takes heat for diversity ‘pipeline’ remarks Nicole Lee / Engadge...
Profile of Airbnb's Chief Business Affairs and Legal Officer Belinda Johnson, second in command at the company
Belinda Johnson knew a decision needed to be made quickly. She pulled her boss, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, into a small conference room in the company's highly designed downtown San Francisco headquart...
T-Mobile Is Giving Customers a Year of Free Data to Play Pokemon Go
Aaron Pressman / Fortune :
US Department of Defense acknowledges it created a cyber-offensive unit in May, called Joint Task Force Ares, to develop weapons to target ISIS
Washington Post :
Encrypted comms company Silent Circle closes $50M Series C
Encrypted comms company Silent Circle, which also makes a security-focused Android smartphone called the Blackphone, has announced it's closed a $50 million Series C round of financing, led by Santand...
Microsoft wins US appeal over warrant for emails held on server in Ireland
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters :
Interview with users and creator of Ohlala, a Berlin based casual dating app, often referred to as “Uber for escorts”
Tara* had struck gold. After spending a lazy Saturday afternoon browsing through the dating app she was currently experimenting with, she hit it off … Tweets: @binarybits Tweets: Timothy B. Lee / @bi...
FCC released a list of 62 bidders who made deposits for the next stage of spectrum auction; Chamath Palihapitiya's Rama is not among them
Ryan Knutson / Wall Street Journal :
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
Julian Chokkattu / Digital Trends :
AT&T and IBM to combine their cloud and IoT platforms in an effort to provide developers with easier tools to build and implement IoT offerings
Colin Gibbs / FierceWireless :
Nvidia launches its first game, VR Funhouse, for HTC Vive VR on Steam, will release it as open source later this summer
About This Game — Note: This game … Victoria Rege / The Official NVIDIA Blog : Why We Made the World's Most Advanced VR Game - NVIDIA VR Funhouse Santiago Tiongco / Tech Times : Nvidia ‘VR Funhouse’...
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
Financial Times :
Razer introduces low-profile, detachable mechanical keyboard for 12.9-inch iPad Pro, connects via Bluetooth, available today for $170
Vlad Savov / The Verge :
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 … Darryl K. Taft / eWeek : AWS Buys Cloud9 to Bolster Cloud Developer Tooling James Niccolai / PCWorld : AWS buys Cloud9 IDE in snub to Google Jordan ...
Apple's Swift Playgrounds for iPad is designed for kids but still requires coding, doesn't generate standalone apps
Adam Banks / Ars Technica UK : Tweets: @jamiebullock Tweets: Jamie Bullock / @jamiebullock : “HyperCard succeeded precisely because it didn't try to teach anyone to be a programmer” http://arstechnic...
Airport car-sharing startup FlightCar closes operations, sells its tech to Mercedes-Benz
San Francisco startup announces it's shutting down
AI-powered law for startups
Soxton automates startup legal so founders can move faster and sleep better. We handle incorporation, advisor, employment and commercial contracts. Join the waitlist for early access!
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.