Sources: Verizon is close to a deal to acquire Yahoo for about $5B
The plan is to combine it with AOL. — Verizon is closing in on a deal to buy Yahoo's core business for about $5 billion, according to sources familiar with the talks. — Verizon has long been consi...
Pokémon Go sets App Store record for most downloads in its first week, Apple confirms
CLASH OF WHAT NOW? — There is still no official word on the number of times the incredibly popular Pokémon Go game has been downloaded, but Apple today confirmed to Polygon that the game has broken ...
Edward Snowden and hacker Andrew Huang present designs for a device to monitor whether your iPhone's radios are transmitting when they are supposed to be off
When Edward Snowden met with reporters in a Hong Kong hotel room to spill the NSA's secrets, he famously asked them put their phones …
EFF sues US over Digital Millennium Copyright Act clause that restricts tinkering with systems that protect copyrighted materials like films, audio, and code
The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a lawsuit Thursday against the U.S. Government over a provision within …
Sources: Cyanogen Inc. is undergoing major layoffs, may “pivot” to apps
We're hearing from multiple sources that Cyanogen Inc. is in the midst of laying off a significant portion of its workforce around the world today. The layoffs most heavily impact the open source arm...
Nvidia unveils new flagship graphics card, the $1,200 Titan X with 12GB GDDR5X memory, claims it is up to 60% faster than previous Titan X, goes on sale Aug. 2
Well THAT came out of nowhere. — While much of the United States was either preparing to tuck in for the night …
Workday Buys Big Data Specialist Platfora to Strengthen Cloud Financial Apps
Cloud HR software pioneer Workday wday , which has been aggressively pitching its financial management applications, is buying big data analysis startup Platfora to lend more credibility to that messa...
Judge Orders Yahoo to Explain How It Recovered ‘Deleted’ Emails in Drugs Case
A judge has ordered Yahoo to present a witness and provide documents explaining how the company handles supposedly deleted emails. — The move comes in the appeal case of a drug trafficker who was co...
Airbnb hires ex-mayors of Houston, Philadelphia, Rome, and Adelaide, Australia to advise on local regulation issues
The room-rental website creates an advisory board including former mayors of Philadelphia and Rome as it faces a coordinated effort from cities around the world.
MasterCard jumps into UK payments technologies, buys VocaLink for up to $1.14B
For those keeping tabs, one more big tech company built and operating in the UK has been snapped up by another company from abroad. Today, MasterCard Inc. announced that it has agreed to acquire 92.4...
Samsung Electronics countersues Huawei in China for patent infringement
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Redbox confirms it is testing Redbox Digital video streaming service
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Google Play Books debuts Bubble Zoom, which uses machine learning to detect and expand speech bubbles in comic books, starting with some Marvel and DC volumes
Greg Hartrell / Official Android Blog :
Inside the inaugural test flight of Facebook's first internet drone, Aquila
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Sources: Liberty Media CEO Greg Maffei, whose company controls Sirius XM, floated an offer to buy Pandora for $3.4B+ but was rejected by Pandora's board
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Sources say Reddit's efforts to remake itself are faltering under CEO Steve Huffman and founder Alexis Ohanian's leadership as more key employees depart
It's been one year since Reddit revolted. When the company cracked down on revenge porn and subreddits containing offensive content last summer …
AT&T reports Q2 revenues of $40.52B, up 23% YoY, profit of $3.41B, up from $3.08B a year ago; adds 2.1M wireless customers but loses 49K video customers in US
Lisa Beilfuss / Wall Street Journal :
Pandora misses targets for Q2 with revenue of $343M, up 20% YoY but lower than projections of $351.7M; active listeners fall to 78.1M from 79.4M a year ago
and why it hasn't sold yet Patrick Seitz / Investor's Business Daily : Pandora Disappoints With Q2 Revenue Miss, Fewer Listeners Nathan McAlone / Business Insider : Pandora's stock is down almost 8% a...
Salesforce acquires data center analytics startup Coolan
Jordan Novet / VentureBeat :
PayPal narrowly beats quarterly revenue expectations with $2.65B as it partners with Visa
Katie Roof / TechCrunch :
Microsoft says demand for its Surface Hub, which costs up to $22K, has exceeded forecasts; device has shipped to over 500 customers worldwide to date
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Jet.com execs talk about first 12 months since launch, future plans, say company is now on a $1.1B annual run rate
A year ago yesterday, Jet.com, the e-commerce upstart gunning for Amazon, opened for business. It premiered with a huge amount of hype after getting hundreds of millions …
Monotype will acquire marketing startup Olapic for $130M
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch :
Seeking broader acceptance in the world of venture capital, 500 Startups reveals detailed return fund performance data as it raises its fourth fund
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