Facebook launches Marketplace on mobile for buying and selling items, initially in US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand, won't facilitate payment or delivery
By Mary Ku, Director of Product Management — Facebook is where people connect, and in recent years more people have been using Facebook …
Facebook launches Messenger Lite on Android for slower internet speeds, initially in Kenya, Tunisia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and Venezuela
By Tom Mulcahy, Engineering Manager for Messenger Lite — Furthering our goal to empower people all over the world to stay connected …
What to expect at Google's Oct. 4 event: two new flagship devices without Nexus branding, more details about Home, Google Wi-Fi, Android-Chrome OS hybrid, more
So. Much. Hardware. — PIN — Now that Apple has had its big fall phone event, it's Google's turn to show off its goods.
USB Implementers Forum publishes Audio over USB Type-C specification enabling hardware makers to eliminate traditional 3.5mm jacks
The USB Implementers Forum this week published the USB Audio Device Class 3.0 specification, which standardizes audio over USB Type-C interface.
Microsoft to build its first Azure data center in France this year, as part of a $3B investment to build its cloud services in EU
Companies like Microsoft, Amazon and Google continue to compete fiercely in the area of cloud services for consumers, developers and enterprises …
Uber will get subsidies from Summit, NJ, for residents' rides to and from the local train station in a pilot program starting Monday
Summit, New Jersey, a bedroom community to New York City, will begin subsidizing Uber rides for residents traveling to and from the local train station starting Monday …
Profile of Sam Altman, president of Y Combinator, which has invested in companies collectively worth $80B
Is the head of Y Combinator fixing the world, or trying to take over Silicon Valley? — One balmy May evening, thirty of Silicon Valley's top entrepreneurs gathered in a private room …
Marketplace replaces Messenger shortcut in the main navigation tab bar on Facebook for iOS, lacks way to rate sellers and provide feedback on sold items
450 million people already visit “buy and sell” Groups on Facebook each month, and now the company is launching a whole tab in its app dedicated to peer-to-peer shopping.
Salesforce rebrands Demandware e-commerce offering as Salesforce Commerce Cloud, adds Apple Pay support and some Einstein AI capabilities
Three months after completing its $2.8 billion acquisition of Demandware, Salesforce is officially bringing that company's e-commerce software in-house …
Dog-sitting platform Rover raises $40M Series E round led by Foundry Group, bringing its total funding to date to $91.5M
What started as a fun project born at a Startup Weekend event has turned into a potential billion-dollar company that is gearing up for an IPO.
EU proposes new export controls for cyber-surveillance technologies to places where they can be used to damage human rights
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Uber launches UberEats in Tokyo and looks to work around strict regulation in Japan by linking customers with taxi drivers instead of private car owners
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A history of deep learning and how it's being used in more tech products than ever
Decades-old discoveries are now electrifying the computing industry and will soon transform corporate America. — Over the past four years, readers have doubtlessly noticed quantum leaps in the quali...
Premium Wi-Fi chip designer Quantenna Communications files for $100M IPO
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Samsung waits to see whether VR is hype or mainstream before moving on standalone headsets, 10K displays
At a company event today in San Francisco, Samsung President & Chief Strategy Officer Young Sohn detailed that the company is actively pursuing both smartphone-focused VR headsets and standalone solut...
45K developers are using Microsoft Bot Framework to make bots for Skype and other chat platforms, while 34K developers are making bots for Facebook Messenger
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Hong Kong's Tink Labs raises $125M from Foxconn's FIH Mobile, Sinovation Ventures, and Meitu's chairman for its free-to-use smartphone service for hotel guests
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Buggy, obsolete, costly electronic voting machines often cause more problems than they solve
Bloomberg : Tweets: @hoofnagle , @pomeranian99 and @mkyeg Tweets: Chris Hoofnagle / @hoofnagle : Thanks to revolution in voting technology, “Election officials now have more ways than ever to screw u...
Spotify's growth likely to be weak at first in Japan, where physical music sales are 84% of total and digital sales fell 50%+ since iPhone launch in 2008
Bloomberg : Tweets: @sameer_singh17 . See also Mediagazer Tweets: Sameer Singh / @sameer_singh17 : Interesting, the iPhone and iTunes actually increased the popularity of physical music in Japan http...
To cut costs, Mozilla begins testing alternative plugins like Chrome's PDFium in Firefox to replace its own internal implementations
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