Sources: Yahoo informs others that Verizon has won the bidding process; $5B deal expected to be announced by Monday
Verizon and Yahoo are set to announce that they are striking an acquisition deal, according to sources close to the situation. The news is expected by Monday, although that could come earlier or late...
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 ...
Police asked this 3D printing lab to recreate a dead man's fingers to unlock his phone
Last month, law enforcement officers showed up at the lab of Anil Jain, a professor at Michigan State University. Jain wasn't in trouble; the officers wanted his help.
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...
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 …
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 …
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
Edward Snowden … Zac Hall / 9to5Mac : Edward Snowden wants to make your iPhone more secure with this snoop-proof accessory Tweets: @arstechnica : If you want one person designing smartphone privacy de...
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...
Semiconductor Industry Association: transistors to stop shrinking in 2021, but processors can continue to fulfill Moore's Law with increased vertical density
After more than 50 years of miniaturization, the transistor could stop shrinking in just five years.
Nintendo did not create Pokémon Go, and the game's success is not an indication that the Japanese company finally gets mobile
Pokemon Go is one of the biggest mobile games ever, but don't mistake it for the solution to Nintendo's problems. If anything, it's a symptom. Tweets: @wired , @carnage4life , @martinsfp and @nikcub ...
Neil Young's Pono music store goes offline for several weeks as it switches from audio provider Omnifone to 7digital
Neil Young's PonoMusic digital service is offline following the recent acquisition of Omnifone, up until now the company's sole provider of hi-resolution audio downloads.
Airbnb hires ex-mayors of Houston, Philadelphia, Rome, and Adelaide, Australia to advise on local regulation issues
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Phineas Fisher, the hacker behind the Hacking Team and FinFisher breaches, talks about his motives and views of the hacking tool industry
A little bit over a year ago, the normally quiet Twitter account of Hacking Team, an Italian company that sells spying tools to governments all over the world, started acting weird.
Redbox confirms it is testing Redbox Digital video streaming service
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Samsung Electronics countersues Huawei in China for patent infringement
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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 … Tweets: @sub8u Tweets: Subr...
Workday Buys Big Data Specialist Platfora to Strengthen Cloud Financial Apps
Platfora data discovery boosting Workday analytics. http://www.techmeme.com/... Tony Baer / @tonybaer : Here's part of the consolidation of the long tail of big data BI tools we've been awaiting: Work...
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 :
MasterCard jumps into UK payments technologies, buys VocaLink for up to $1.14B
Lock, stock and barrel. Philip Ryan / Bank Innovation : PayPal Signs Exclusive 12-Month Deal with Visa David Meyer / Fortune : MasterCard Is Buying the Core of the British Payments Infrastructure
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
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg :
Salesforce acquires data center analytics startup Coolan
Jordan Novet / VentureBeat :
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
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