Apple addresses song matching and auto-deletion issues by incorporating iTunes Match's audio fingerprint feature into Apple Music
Apple begins rolling out iTunes Match with audio fingerprint to Apple Music subscribers — One of the biggest complaints about Apple Music over the past year …
SoftBank agrees to acquire ARM Holdings for £24.3B at £17 per share, a 43% premium over last week's closing price
Japan's SoftBank has agreed to acquire Arm Holdings, the UK's pre-eminent technology company, for £24.3bn in an enormous bet by the Japanese telecoms group …
$399 2TB Xbox One S arrives August 2, release date for other hard drive options to be announced
Last month, we revealed a new member of the Xbox One family, the Xbox One S. Today, we're excited to announce that the highly-anticipated 2TB Xbox One S launch edition will begin hitting shelves in se...
Netflix Q2: international net subscribers 1.5M versus its forecast of 2M, misses on quarterly revenue with $2.11B; stock down 13%+
Netflix now has 83.18 million subscribers after adding just 160,000 subscribers in the U.S. and 1.52 million abroad last quarter, missing the modest expectations it set back in April.
Samsung stands behind Galaxy S7 active water resistance certification, despite Consumer Reports tests, will honor warranty for water-damaged phones
Earlier this month, Consumer Reports ran a water-resistance test using two Galaxy S7 Active devices, and neither of the units survived to tell the tale.
Microsoft debuts free preview of Microsoft Stream, a video sharing service for businesses, which will replace Office 365 Video as the de facto video experience
Video is one of the most powerful ways we connect, communicate and learn today - breaking down geographic boundaries and bringing …
SoftBank's deal for ARM would be largest Asian takeover of a UK firm; CEO says deal made regardless of Brexit, noting ARM's stock was up 15% since EU referendum
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Sources: Pokémon Go to launch in Japan tomorrow; McDonald will be the first launch partner, with 3K+ stores set to be sponsored “gym” locations
Pokémon Go fever has doubled the value of Nintendo's business, pushing it past Sony in the process.
Chinese consortium to acquire Opera's browser and other businesses for $600M, except for ad, marketing, TV, and game-related operations
A $1.2 billion takeover of Opera Software by a group of Chinese internet firms fell through on Monday after failing to get regulatory approval in time …
IBM beats expectations as Q2 revenue drops 2.8% to $20.24B, 17th straight quarterly decline
Big Blue's revenue has fallen for 17 straight quarters — Even as International Business Machines Corp. makes some gains in new strategic areas such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence, it...
Yahoo Q2: $1.3B revenue, up 5% YoY, in line with expectations, $482M writedown on Tumblr; Mayer notes success in cutting costs as bid deadline hits
Yahoo, in the midst of final negotiations to sell itself, reported earnings in line with Wall Street's already lowered expectations …
Google says government requests for user data reached an all-time high: more than 40K in 2nd half of 2015, with US issuing 12.5K requests affecting 27.1K users
Governments from around the globe made 40,677 requests for user data from Google during the last half of 2015.
HP's Elite x3, a 6" Windows 10 Mobile phablet, ships August 29 for $699, $799 with Desk Dock, which lets you use UWP apps on a monitor with keyboard and mouse
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Samsung Pay now available on Gear S2 smartwatch in US, but only for Bluetooth models and on NFC terminals
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NBA to create two original programs to stream exclusively on Twitter, post more game highlights on the social network and Vine
and It Makes Perfect Sense David Cohen / SocialTimes : Twitter to Live-Stream Two New NBA Shows See also Mediagazer
WiFi Startup Zenreach Emerges From Stealth With $50 Million And Peter Thiel On Its Board
Jack Abraham's idea was so simple that for three years, he kept his startup quiet. On LinkedIn it was simply “new company.” And he raised $50 million across three rounds of funding without a peep to...
New lawsuit claims DOJ intentionally conducts inadequate searches for FOIA requests with 21-year-old computer system, refuses to use new $425M Sentinel software
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GlaxoSmithKline starts using Apple's ResearchKit for a rheumatoid arthritis study, becoming the first drugmaker to use the framework for clinical research
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Uber reaches 2 billion rides six months after hitting its first billion
For Now Paul Hill / Neowin : Uber reaches two billion ride milestone WebProNews : Uber Hits 2 Billion Rides Milestone Robert Donachie / The Daily Caller : Uber Hits 2 Billion Rides Just Six Months Aft...
VCs, entrepreneurs are divided over whether they'd accept funding from Saudi Arabia, as tech deals make up a growing percentage of sovereign-wealth portfolios
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IBM launches platform to let companies test using blockchain technology for supply chain record-keeping
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Google is spending almost half a billion dollars by 2017 to remake its image in Europe
Mark Scott / New York Times : Tweets: @tonyromm Tweets: Tony Romm / @tonyromm : NYT has a real impt look at Google's big spending in EU to remake its image. Lots of pages torn from US playbook http:/...
VC at FirstMark on the history of NYC tech ecosystem and why he thinks the ecosystem is slowly catching up to the hype and maturing
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Clinton has assembled a tech team of over 50 engineers and developers for her presidential campaign, while Trump just focuses on using social media
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Rocket Internet, known for incubating copycat startups, struggles to find a path to profitability as its stock price hovers at a third of its peak, hit in 2014
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @rodmenegaux , @mikeisaac , @extradotph and @jonrussell Tweets: Rodolphe Menegaux / @rodmenegaux : #RocketInternet struggles to find profitability. Stock price has dropp...
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