Sources: Amazon hopes to launch unlimited, ad-free, $4-$5/month Echo-only music streaming service in September, has yet to finalize deals with labels
Spotify, Apple Music and everyone else cost $10 a month. Amazon wants to charge half of that. — Amazon wants to launch …
Nick Denton's farewell post, detailing the rise and fall of Gawker, as the site shuts down
Gawker.com is shutting down today, Monday 22nd August, 2016, some 13 years after it began and two days before the end of my forties. It is the end of an era. — The staff will move to new jobs …
Android Nougat is out of beta, now available for select Nexus devices, Pixel C tablet, more; Google says the roll-out to all supported phones may take weeks
Google surprised everyone when it launched a public beta of the Android Nougat back in March. Annual updates are nothing new for Android …
Android Nougat review: split screen support with app resizing will be great for large screen devices, and the design of new notification panel is very efficient
Big smartphones are everywhere, and Nougat's new features make them more useful. — After a lengthy Developer Preview program starting …
Galaxy Note7 handily beaten by one-year-old iPhone 6s in real-world app speed test
Earlier this month, Samsung introduced the Galaxy Note 7, its newest smartphone with a 14-nanometer Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 quad-core 64-bit processor, 4GB RAM, a 12-megapixel camera, waterproofing, a...
Data shows Pokémon Go DAUs, downloads, and engagement on downward trend since July launch
A number of important metrics have Pikachu'd, says Axiom Capital Management. — Pokemon Go is starting to lose the battle for mobile mindshare, according to Axiom Capital Management.
Tech giants and rights groups urge the Department of Homeland Security to scrap proposal asking US visitors for their social media accounts
Internet giants including Google, Facebook and Twitter slammed the Obama administration on Monday for a proposal that would seek to weed …
PlayStation Plus to jump in price from $50 to $60 annually, from $18 to $22 quarterly on September 22
Sony is about to start charging more for one of its best gaming services. — PlayStation Plus will jump in price from $50 to $60 annually, according to an announcement on Sony's PlayStation Blog.
A detailed look at Google Allo's incognito chat feature, which has Snapchat-like expiring messages, private notifications, and crypto key identity management
The nice graphic you see above is the background of all your incognito conversations on Google Allo.
LendUp raises $48M for subprime credit-card push; sources place valuation at $500M
Funding for San Francisco-based LendUp was led by a Y Combinator venture-capital fund — LendUp Global Inc., the startup online lender that has attempted to reinvent the payday loan …
Demand-side ad platform The Trade Desk files for IPO, aims to raise $86M
The wait is over. Demand-side platform The Trade Desk has dropped its S-1 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, indicating plans to go public. The company hopes to raise $86.3 mil...
Tableau Software hires Amazon vet Adam Selipsky as CEO, its first new CEO since it launched 14 years ago; co-founder Christian Chabot stays as chairman
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Y Combinator Summer 2016 Demo Day 1: 44 startups and a focus on consumers, developer tools, security, hardware, marketplaces, and nonprofits
Josh Constine, Lucas Matney and John Mannes — Farm drones, autonomous security guards and next-generation tampons were among the products presented …
Android Pay adds Walgreens for first retail store loyalty card integration
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Samsung refreshes S Health app UI and makes fitness level sharing with friends easier, also debuts “Ask Experts”, a local health Q&A service, in South Korea
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Photo-storage service Picturelife shutters 18 months after being bought; users have option to transfer their photos to SmugMug, view and download them for free
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Microsoft tests Project Sonoma, a team chat app for managing shift workers' schedules
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Instagram hits 1B downloads on Google Play, Facebook's fourth app to do so
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Email and file encryption service Virtru, built by ex-NSA engineer, raises $29M Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners
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