Google debuts YouTube Go app for Android with offline viewing, expands free Wi-Fi program Google Station beyond public transport sites in India
At an event in New Delhi, India, Google laid out plans to better serve users in the country. These efforts broadly focus on two areas: data usage and language support.
BlackBerry will stop in-house development of phones and outsource it to partners, as the company switches focus to software and security
The struggling company will cease on internal development of hardware, instead outsourcing it to partners. It will focus instead of security and software.
Apple planning new 500K sq. ft. UK HQ at London's Battersea Power Station, to open in 2021, where 1,400 staff will be moved from eight locations around London
“It has always been our clear objective to create one of London's most thriving new communities and this commitment from Apple will undoubtedly help us achieve this goal."
Google app on iOS updates with incognito mode, native YouTube playback, and Now cards renamed as “the feed”
Similar to Chrome, an update to the Google app for iOS today adds a new incognito mode that prevents search or browsing history from being saved.
Google Translate now converts Chinese into English with neural machine translation
Google today is announcing that web and mobile versions of Google Translate are now using a new neural machine translation system for all translations from Chinese into English — and the app conducts ...
Sources: after hacks and questions about security, Marissa Mayer denied Yahoo security team financial resources, rejected proposal to reset all user passwords
SAN FRANCISCO — Six years ago, Yahoo's computer systems and customer email accounts were penetrated by Chinese military hackers.
Bank of America and Microsoft partner to create blockchain applications for trade finance
Today, Microsoft announced a collaboration with Bank of America to develop blockchain technologies for their trade finance transacting. The companies are developing a proof of concept using Microsoft...
Facebook brings osquery, its open source SQL-powered detection tool for monitoring OS processes and networks, to Windows
Facebook successfully ported its SQL-powered detection tool, osquery, to Windows this week, giving users a free and open source method to monitor networks and diagnose problems.
Inside a two-year-old catfishing ebook scam on Amazon that has generated over $3M in revenue for its creator, Valeriy Shershnyov
For years, thousands were tricked into buying low-quality ebooks. — NEW YORK — Emma Moore could have been the health and weight loss guru you spent your life looking for.
Amazon launches updated Fire TV Stick which comes with “Alexa” remote, upgraded internals including a quad-core processor, and costs $40
Why pay extra for Alexa? — PIN — Amazon just announced that it's releasing a new streaming media player for the fall …
Major music labels, RIAA, others sue stream-ripping site YouTube-MP3 for copyright infringement
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Periscope opens applications for VIP program, which will reward popular broadcasters with prioritization in search results, “care packages”, and more
Twitter-owned Periscope on Tuesday introduced a VIP program aimed at supporting the most ardent broadcasters of its livestreaming platform.
Source: Walmart in advanced talks to invest $1B in India's largest online retailer Flipkart, recently valued at about $16B
The deal would help the companies battle Amazon.com in India — Investors most recently valued Flipkart at about $16 billion — Wal-Mart Stores Inc …
DJI's Mavic Pro drone is extremely small and portable, packing high-end features, 40MPH speed, 27 mins of battery, starts at $749, less than GoPro Karma at $800
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Occipital unveils $500 VR headset dev kit with room-scale tracking for phones, including iPhones
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2K-person BloomReach survey: 55% of online US shoppers start their product searches on Amazon, up from 44% last year; Google is down from 34% to 28%
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SAP officially announces acquisition of big data startup Altiscale
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Source: Facebook is ready to launch Facebook at Work, its enterprise collaboration network, in the next few weeks; companies will be charged per user
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Slack and Salesforce partner to launch several new integrations for sharing data, Chatter support, connecting channels to a Salesforce record, with more to come
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Report: Amazon is teaming up with smartlock company August and garage-access startup Garageio to provide in-home package deliveries
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ProsperWorks raises $24M Series B led by Next World Capital for its CRM solution built on the Google for Work platform
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News Corp. invests $10M in ad tech company AppNexus, as part of $31M round, with involvement from Yahoo Japan and existing investors
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