DDoS attack against DNS provider Dyn caused a widespread outage earlier today across many popular sites on the US East cost; services now restored to normal
UPDATE: As of 9:36 AM ET, Dyn says it has restored its DNS services to normal operation. — A number of popular sites and services …
Researchers find serious nine-year old privilege-escalation bug in Linux kernel, official patch released this week
Lurking in the kernel for nine years, flaw gives untrusted users unfettered root access. — A serious vulnerability that has been present for nine years in virtually …
Microsoft reports Q1 2017 revenue of $20.5B, beating estimates, with Intelligent Cloud revenue up 8% to $6.4B, OEM revenue flat YoY as phone revenue drops 72%
Microsoft posted its first quarter of its 2017 fiscal earnings today, reporting revenue of $20.5 billion and net income of $4.7 billion.
Sources: senior executives at AT&T and Time Warner have discussed various business strategies in recent weeks, including a possible merger
Senior executives at AT&T Inc. and Time Warner Inc. have met in recent weeks to discuss various business strategies including a possible merger, according to people familiar with the matter.
Data stolen by NSA contractor included NSA hacking tools later used by Shadow Brokers, and is largest leak of classified info, even more than Panama Papers
WASHINGTON — Investigators pursuing what they believe to be the largest case of mishandling classified documents in United States history …
Kodak announces the Bullitt-designed Ektra Android smartphone with 5-inch FHD display, 21 MP camera, USB-C, priced at €499, available in Europe later this year
Eastman Kodak and the Bullitt Group on Thursday introduced the Ektra smartphone, which will be the first mainstream handset carrying the Kodak brand.
Microsoft shares hit all-time high above $60 on Friday, past $58.72 mark set in December 1999
Microsoft shares surged 5% in early trading, on track to pass a high set in 1999, helped by enthusiasm for progress in its cloud business. — The stock was up 5% at $60.30, poised to breeze past the ...
Microsoft says Azure revenue increased by 116% YoY in the most recent quarter, as compute usage doubles
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App Annie: China overtakes the US in iOS App Store revenue, ending a six year run at the top
China has now overtaken the U.S. to become the largest market in the world for App Store revenue, according to a new report out this morning from app intelligence firm App Annie.
Microsoft's Surface business grew revenue 38% YoY, hitting $926M, in the most recent quarter
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Time Out to pay up to $2.94M for Yplan, the London-based event ticketing startup that had raised $37.5M
Event ticketing startup YPlan has been acquired by travel publication Time Out in a deal worth £1.6 million ($1.96 million), a figure that will rise to £2.4 million …
Sources: Comcast's NBCUniversal finalizing deal for a second $200M investment in BuzzFeed at a valuation of $1.7B
More money for Jonah Peretti and his video ambitions. — A year after making a major investment in BuzzFeed, NBCUniversal is doing it again.
Nintendo unveils Switch, a game console/tablet hybrid with two detachable controllers and a dock for connecting to a TV; device launches in March
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DocuSign introduces DocuSign Payments with support for all major credit cards, Apple Pay, and Android Pay; service to roll out early next year
At launch, the service will let DocuSign users make payments with Apple Pay, Android Pay or any major credit card.
Google updated its privacy policy this summer, letting Google combine personal info from Gmail and other tools with DoubleClick browsing data to target ads
When Google bought the advertising network DoubleClick in 2007, Google founder Sergey Brin said that privacy would be the company's … Tweets: @kashhill Tweets: Kashmir Hill / @kashhill : Google quietl...
Lyft's CMO, Kira Wampler, and VP of comms, Brandon McCormick, are leaving; ex-Pandora exec Melissa Waters replaces Wampler, Raj Kapoor joins as CSO
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Tesla says using self-driving models to earn money through ride-sharing is only allowed on the “Tesla Network”, details of which will be released next year
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AMD reports better-than-expected $1.3B Q3 revenue, up 23.2% YoY on higher demand for its semi-custom SoC and Polaris GPUs
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Razer debuts new 17.3-inch gaming laptop with mechanical keyboard, 2.6GHz quad-core Skylake i7, 32GB RAM, 512GB SSD, GeForce GTX 1080 as standard, costs $3.7K
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Sources: Qualcomm nears a deal worth $34B to acquire NXP Semiconductors; purchase could be announced next week
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Analysis of 1K+ posts from 6 partisan Facebook Pages shows that least-accurate are shared widely; 38% of right-wing, 19% of left-wing posts are false/misleading
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PayPal reports Q3 2016 revenue of $2.67B, beating expectations, but misses on total payment volume with $87B vs $88.3B expected
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Slack's user growth slows slightly as it records 33% rise in DAUs in five months, down from 50% in the prior five; app now has 4M DAUs, of which 1.25M+ are paid
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Sources: Expedia-backed Trivago plans IPO by the end of November that could value it at $5B
Portia Crowe / Business Insider : Tweets: @businessinsider . Thanks: @mattrosoff Tweets: @businessinsider : Trivago is planning to go public by Thanksgiving in a deal that could value it at $5 billio...
Verizon Q3 revenue of $30.9B falls short of expectations, 442K subscriber additions disappoint; IoT revenue jumped 24% YoY to $217M
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