Best 2016 Cyber Monday deals on smart home and media streaming devices, HDTVs, computers, smartphones, tablets, and other electronics and software
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Black Friday online sales reach an estimated $3.34B, up 21.6% from last year; mobile sales rise 33% to $1.2B
Black Friday online shopping is continuing to grow, and this Friday was another record-breaking day. According to a new report out this evening from Adobe …
CNN acquires social-video startup Beme, co-founded by YouTube star Casey Neistat; app to be shut down, team to form a new media startup as an extension of CNN
With millions of people regularly tuning in to his YouTube video blogs every morning, Casey Neistat has a millennial fan base coveted by both marketers and media companies.
Google says its Neural Machine Translation System shows signs of “interlingua” common representation, translating language pairs never seen by the system
Posted by Mike Schuster (Google Brain Team), Melvin Johnson (Google Translate) and Nikhil Thorat (Google Brain Team)
Q&A with Jestin Coler, registered Democrat and founder of Disinfomedia, which owns fake news sites including the Denver Guardian, on ad networks, money, more
Audio will be available later today. — Enlarge this image — A lot of fake and misleading news stories were shared across social media during the election.
Android Nougat's new file-based encryption is a move in the right direction, but Google's efforts to achieve lock screen security are still six years behind iOS
Over the past few years we've heard more about smartphone encryption than, quite frankly, most of us expected to hear in a lifetime.
One of Trump's advisers on FCC, Mark Jamison, argued last month that the agency should only regulate radio spectrum licenses, scale back all other functions
FCC should handle spectrum licenses, but nothing else, Trump advisor wrote. — A Donald Trump advisor who will help set …
How the rise of the Internet, Facebook, and fake news has fueled anti-Muslim sentiment in Myanmar
YANGON, Myanmar — The internet brought Donald Trump to Myanmar. Or, at least that's how Shar Ya Wai first remembers hearing about the Republican president-elect. — “One day, nobody knew him.
VLC previews 360° video and photo support for its desktop apps, says the feature will come to mobile soon; dedicated VLC apps for VR headsets due in 2017
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Marc Andreessen talks about sectors tech is disrupting next, flying and autonomous cars, IoT, AR, VR, and more
Marc Andreessen may be the most dedicated optimist in Silicon Valley. During a year when the public's attention was often focused on international conflict, mass shootings …
Sources: India's Ola is seeking to raise at a $3B to $4B valuation, down from its $5B valuation from November 2015 round
NEW DELHI/BENGALURU: India's largest ride-hailing app Ola is preparing to bite the bullet and accept fresh funding at a lower valuation as it seeks to shore …
Amazon sold 5.1M Echo devices in the US since 2014 launch, about 2M of them in first nine months of 2016, according to Consumer Intelligence Research Partners
Amazon's Echo device has reached a sales milestone, with a new report from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners estimating …
WaPo's Russian propaganda story has dubious sources, little evidence, and too general claims that describe how any news is usually shared on social media
On Thanksgiving, the Washington Post dropped … Carrie Mihalcik / CNET : Russian propaganda may have fueled fake election news fiasco AOL : Report claims Russian propaganda campaign bolstered ‘fake’ U....
Self-driving startup Otto explicitly ignored Nevada DMV regulations during first public testing, before being acquired by Uber for $680M
The engineer who helped craft Nevada's self-driving car regulations also ended up blowing past them. — could be the plot of an Ocean's Eleven movie … Tweets: @stevenlevy and @backchnnl Tweets: Steve...
Amazon limits customers to five reviews per week; verified purchases, books, music, and video are exempt from the cap
Todd Bishop / GeekWire :
Sources: Amazon is in talks to acquire Dubai-based e-commerce website Souq.com for $1B; the website sells 1.5M products in UAE, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
Bloomberg :
After pivoting from app sales to app analytics and intelligence, Apptopia raises another seed round of $2.7M, led by Sound Ventures
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Payments provider Stripe raises $150M Series D at a $9B valuation led by General Catalyst and CapitalG, bringing total amount raised by Stripe to about $440M
Monday, November 28 Cromwell Schubarth / Silicon Valley Business Journal : Y Combinator alum's valuation soars to $9.2B with latest funding Maya Kosoff / Vanity Fair : This Start-Up's Valuation Just D...
SEC filing shows Palantir raised a $20M funding round from a single entity on November 8, bringing total raised to over $2B
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
US auto safety regulator NHTSA proposes voluntary guidelines calling on phone makers to limit functionality in their software while users are driving
Neal E. Boudette / New York Times :
Work on Apple's $1B Irish data center delayed until after court hearing in March; locals fear Apple will back out as some contest environmental, economic impact
Bloomberg : Tweets: @business Tweets: @business : Apple's $1 billion site is way behind schedule because 3 people object http://www.bloomberg.com/... http://twitter.com/...
Report: BMW's i Ventures VC fund increased to $500M from $100M, to relocate from NY to Bay Area
Christoph Steitz / Reuters :
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Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements
2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
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Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.