Amazon launches Music Unlimited, a subscription streaming service that costs $4/month for Echo owners, $8/month for Prime members, and $10/month for all others
Would you pay a few extra bucks a month to turn your smart home speaker into an intelligent, unlimited jukebox? Amazon is betting people will.
Samsung cuts profit forecast by 33% for Q3 from $7B to $4.6B, revenue expectations from $44B to $41.8B, following Galaxy Note7 crisis
Samsung issued earnings guidance last week that suggested the calamitous Galaxy Note 7 recall wouldn't have a major impact on the company's bottom line …
Microsoft's Hololens preorders go live in Germany, France, UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, ships next month
HoloLens, Microsoft's $3,000 mixed-reality goggles (or “the world's first self-contained holographic computer” in Microsoft's parlance), was only available in the U.S. and Canada so far.
Apple says it will set up a R&D center in Shenzhen, China, to help strengthen ties with local software developers and partners
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) will set up a research and development center in China's manufacturing metropolis Shenzhen, the U.S. tech giant said on Wednesday …
Filings show Apple's M&A head Adrian Perica joined Didi Chuxing's board after Apple's $1B investment
Shortly after making a $1 billion investment in Chinese ride-hailing company Didi Chuxing, Apple was given a seat on the board, reports The Information.
Google acquires FameBit to better connect YouTube creators with brands
Google announced on Tuesday that it has acquired FameBit, with plans to leverage its technology platform to help YouTube creators better connect with brands. Financial terms of the deal were not disc...
Stack Overflow launches Developer Story, a free résumé profile page tool for programmers
Stack Overflow, the community site best known for providing answers for all of your random coding questions, also has a thriving jobs board and provides services to employers looking to hire developer...
Pandora launches Pandora Plus, its $5/month ad-free service that also gives users offline playback, more song skips and replays
Pandora is not taking today's debut of Amazon's new, on-demand music streaming service lying down. The company has conveniently timed the launch of its own new paid tier …
Google debuts Project Fi group plan to add up to 5 people for $15/month per user for texts and calls
Starting today, Google's Project Fi now offers a group plan. Fi users can now have up to six people on one plan, inviting new members at any time for $15 per month.
Signal adds self-destructing messages, safety numbers, and QR codes to verify end-to-end encryption between users, to iOS, Android, and desktop apps
The latest Signal release for iPhone, Android, and Desktop now includes support for disappearing messages. — The timer has come
Apple and Samsung argue patent case before Supreme Court; justices challenge value of design patents, which Samsung was found to have infringed
Wednesday, October 12, 2016 Killian Bell / iPhone Hacks : Supreme Court Quizzes Apple and Samsung on Value of Design Edith Roberts / SCOTUSblog : Wednesday round-up — Yesterday the Supreme Court hea...
Baidu adds conversational chatbot to its Baidu Doctor app to speed up diagnoses and help doctors collect patient info
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Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter gave data access to domestic surveillance firm Geofeedia; all have blocked access after ACLU shed light on the relationship
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Sprint plans to give away 1M devices with 3GB/month of mobile data to US high school students in low-income households, over five years
So What's the Catch? Tim-o-tato / Droid Life : Sprint to Give 1 Million Devices With Service to Disadvantaged Students Grace Williams / Fox News : Sprint wants to bridge the digital divide for 1 milli...
Twitter won't host its annual developer conference, Flight, this year, will focus on smaller regional events instead
The company will focus on smaller regional events instead. — Twitter will forgo its annual mobile developer conference, Flight, this year. Tweets: @jandawson Tweets: Jan Dawson / @jandawson : In cas...
White House: US response to Russia hacking will be “proportional”, likely won't be made public
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France adopts Digital Republic Act, which includes changes to laws surrounding net neutrality, data portability, video games, and copyright
FCC fines Comcast $2.3M for charging customers for services they didn't ask for, including premium channels, DVRs, more, in largest FCC fine of a cable operator
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iPhone 7, 7 Plus review: significant step up in display, camera, speaker quality, battery life, and performance, but high charge time and minor iOS bugs remain
The iPhone 6 was a runaway success by any measure. The A8 SoC may have been built on a temperamental 20SoC process … Tweets: @natisho and @codinghorror . Thanks: @iancutress Tweets: Nathan Shochat /...
Interview with Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe on room-scale VR, the Rift's shelf life, all-in-one headsets, merging of AR and VR
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Bed Bath & Beyond recently paid $11.78M for One Kings Lane, once valued at $800M+, according to regulatory documents
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Interview with Barack Obama and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito on AI and its impact on society, medical research, self-driving cars, and more
Scott Dadich / Wired : Tweets: @benpopper , @matthewnussbaum , @amacostp , @jjvincent and @fareedzakaria Tweets: Ben Popper / @benpopper : Forget sex tapes, Wikileaks, & polls for a minute. Read our ...
Sources: Square discussed selling Caviar with Uber, GrubHub, and Yelp in talks from late 2015 to early 2016; proposed price of $100M was rebuffed
and still has. http://qr.ae/8QuxFi http://twitter.com/... Anand Sanwal / @asanwal : @DelRey @Techmeme this acquisition made zero sense from day 1. Pointless fad chasing
Dropbox updates iOS app with PDF signing, file sharing iMessage integrations, iPad picture-in-picture video support; split-screen mode for iPad coming this year
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