NFL ratings: over 2M watched Thursday's game stream on Twitter, with an average of 243K at any one time, compared to 15.4M on average on TV
And 48 million watched it on regular TV. — More than two million people watched Thursday night's football game between the Buffalo Bills and New York Jets for free on Twitter.
iPhone 7, 7 Plus teardowns reveal 2,915 mAh battery, 3GB RAM for Plus, bigger Taptic Engine where headphone jack used to be, Intel modem in some iPhone 7 models
As it does every year, device repair site iFixit is putting all of Apple's new devices through the teardown process.
Associated Press, Vice Media, and Gannett sue FBI for information on how the agency broke into San Bernardino shooter's iPhone
Three news organizations, including USA TODAY's parent company, filed a lawsuit Friday seeking information about how the FBI was able to break into the locked iPhone …
21st Century Fox sues Netflix for poaching employees, seeks injunction against interfering with employee contracts and damages
The film studio seeks an injunction to prevent contractual interference. — 21st Century Fox is accusing Netflix in a lawsuit of running a …
SwiftKey publicly launches neural network-powered keyboard for Android, available now on Google Play
Last year in October, SwiftKey unveiled an alpha build for the world's first keyboard powered by a neural network. Since then, big things have been happening at SwiftKey, namely the company being acq...
Google acquires Urban Engines to bring its location-based analytics to Google Maps
Google has acquired Urban Engines, a provider of location-based analytics for urban planning. The team will be joining the Google Maps team in a bid to “help organizations better understand how the w...
Microsoft to close Skype's London office, making close to 400 employees redundant, as part of its global restructuring
Microsoft will shut down Skype's London offices, making most of its employees redundant, and terminating the headquarters of a rare European technology champion.
After enabling movie ticket sales through Apple's iMessage, Fandango will start selling tickets through Facebook this weekend; sales on Snapchat coming soon
LOS ANGELES — By making it easy for people to buy movie tickets online or through a smartphone app, Fandango has experienced breakneck growth over the last two years.
Microsoft now has the most open source contributors on GitHub, surpassing Facebook and Google with 16.4K
Over the course of the 90's and '00's, Microsoft became notorious for competing aggressively with the very concept of open source — free software, developed by teams of volunteer programmers from all ...
US Consumer Product Safety Commission formally recalls about 1M Samsung Galaxy Note7 phones after 26 reports of burns and 55 reports of property damage in US
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Apple's latest hires, an Oculus researcher and a Magic Leap engineer, hint at push into AR
Apple continues to stockpile talent in augmented reality, an area that CEO Tim Cook has said is “incredibly interesting”, as it looks like the company is working on some kind of display or technology ...
iPhone 7 Plus outsold 7 in the US in the first 48 hours of availability, Slice Intelligence analysis of 32k receipts suggests
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Google, IAB, and others form The Coalition for Better Ads to set, monitor and regulate online ad standards
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Mirantis aquires Prague-based startup TCP Cloud, source says for about $30M
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Behind Twitter's efforts to move away from being known as a social network, rebranding itself as a central destination for news and live events instead
Can the company's move to stream major events right inside its app, including Thursday night NFL games, woo the masses?
Apple releases fix for an issue with iOS 10 that was causing some T-Mobile customers with iPhone 5SE, 6 or 6 Plus to lose connectivity
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Google releases Verified Access API for enterprise that will cryptographically validate identity of Chrome OS devices
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Apple pays $118M in tax in Japan for underreporting income on some profits sent to Ireland
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Mode Media, publisher and ad network formerly known as Glam and once valued at $1B, shuts down; company was on track to generate over $100M in revenue this year
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Profile of Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat, an ex-Wall Street exec who is overseeing a fiscal tightening of the Other Bets divisions, prompting concern among Googlers
CFO Ruth Porat is pushing Google “creatives” to bring their costs under control. — Subfreezing temperatures didn't stop Ruth Porat … Thanks: @katiefehren
Facebook and Google to provide search data for presidential debates; Facebook to help source questions from public for candidates during town hall debate
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Oracle reports Q1 revenue of $8.6B, missing expectations, but total cloud revenues up 59% YoY to $969M
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De-Cix, operator of the world's largest Internet exchange point, is suing German government over Federal Intelligence Service's mass surveillance requests
David Meyer / Fortune : Tweets: @superglaze Tweets: David Meyer / @superglaze : This is an important lawsuit. When people say Germany has been hypocritical about NSA's activities, they're right. http...
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