Twitter permanently suspends Breitbart tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos for repeated violation of rules regarding targeted abuse of users
After years of provocation, Twitter has permanently banned Milo Yiannopoulos from its service. — After years of provocation, Twitter has permanently banned Milo Yiannopoulos from its service.
Seagate unveils three 10TB, helium-based 7200 RPM hard drives for the consumer market, with prices starting at $460
Our recent interview with Seagate's CTO, Mark Re, gave us an idea about of the future of the hard drive market. As late as Q1 2016, Seagate had considered helium-based drives suitable for high-end ap...
Microsoft reports non-GAAP revenue of $22.6B, operating income of $6.2B for FY16 Q4; commercial cloud annualized revenue run rate exceeds $12.1B
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Unilever acquires Dollar Shave Club, sources say for $1B; DSC founder and CEO Michael Dubin to continue running the company
Unilever announced on Tuesday evening that it is getting into the razor business, by agreeing to acquire Dollar Shave Club. — No financial terms were disclosed …
Nintendo's market value more than doubles to $42.5B since Pokémon Go release, surpasses Sony market value of about $40B
For a game that isn't even technically a Nintendo property, Pokémon Go is having quite the healthy impact on the Japanese company's finances.
Source: Niantic postponed Pokémon Go Japan launch after internal communication from McDonald's Japan, the game's sponsor, detailing the launch leaked
Game-maker Niantic has postponed today's scheduled launch of Pokémon Go in Japan following an email leak.
Sources: Pokémon Go to launch in Japan with McDonald's as the first launch partner, with 3K+ stores set to be sponsored “gym” locations
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VC at Venrock on how Dollar Shave Club became successful and why he invested in it
Success has many fathers, but in this case, there is only one. — When I first met Michael in June of 2012, I had already seen the DSC launch video like everyone else. I saw his site melt down and w...
A history of Facebook Messenger as it reaches 1B monthly users five years after its debut; 17B photos are now sent through the service each month
Facebook's gamble of forcing users to download Messenger has paid off. Despite the backlash, Messenger has doubled its user count in twenty months …
Microsoft Q4: Azure revenue up 102% YoY with compute usage doubling, Intelligent Cloud revenue up 7% YoY, Surface revenue up 9% YoY; Office 365 subs top 23M
The company delivered strong cloud growth as its Office 365, Dynamics and Azure products and services chugged along.
Duolingo releases Tinycards, a free, game-like memorization app for iOS, that lets users create flashcards, or select from the hundreds currently available
Duolingo is probably the most popular mobile education app, but until now, the company's focus has been solely on language learning.
Brazil's Federal Supreme Court suspends a ruling by a low-tier judge that had blocked WhatsApp
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Report: global VC funding, propped up by mega deals, rose 3% from previous quarter to 27.4B in Q2 but number of deals fell by 6% to 1886, lowest since Q2 2013
If you look at the investment dollars for the last quarter, you might be surprised to see an uptick in deal volume.
Twitter now lets anyone request a verified account
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Google says DeepMind-powered AI has improved its datacenters' power usage efficiency by 15%
Game-playing AI coordinates data center tasks like cooling — DeepMind efficiencies cover part of cost of 2014 acquisition — Google just paid for part of its acquisition of DeepMind in a surprising...
Mercedes' CityPilot autonomous bus technology connects to city network, communicates with infrastructure on a 20km test drive in the Netherlands
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Facebook is paying $2.2M to Vine and YouTube stars to create content for Facebook Live
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Facebook testing option that allows users to download videos for watching offline in India
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Doppler Labs raises $24M Series B led by The Chernin Group for its wireless listening system, which has speech amplification, adaptive sound filtering, more
Doppler Labs continues to drive interest from investors for its wireless listening system. The company announced that it has closed …
Snapchat confirms acquisition of Toronto startup Bitstrips, integrates Bitmojis into app to offer more personalized emoji
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Music-streaming service Deezer launches to all in the US for $10 per month with 30-day free trial
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Slack, now with 600 apps on its platform, pours $2M into 14 Slackbot startups via its Slack Fund
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Skycure lands $16.5M Series B round for mobile cybersecurity platform
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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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