Report: police sought Echo data with warrant in murder case; Amazon declined to share the data Echo logged on servers but did provide suspect's account details
Amazon's Echo devices and its virtual assistant are meant to help find answers by listening for your voice commands.
Facebook's Safety Check in Bangkok, Thailand falsely triggered by fake news reports about a bomb explosion, was deactivated after about an hour
There was no bomb scare in Thailand — Facebook got fooled by its own algorithm. Today, the social network falsely activated its Safety Check feature …
44% of global mobile device activations during week before Christmas were iOS, down 5% YoY; 21% were Samsung devices; Pixel, Pixel XL not among top sellers
By: Chris Klotzbach, Director at Flurry and Lali Kesiraju, Marketing and Analytics Manager at Flurry
Open source cross-platform video transcoder HandBrake updated to version 1.0.0 after 13 years of development
HandBrake 1.0.0, a new version of the popular open source cross-platform video converter, was released on December 24, 2016. — I reviewed HandBrake for the first time in the year 2007 …
South Korea's antitrust regulator fines Qualcomm $850M+, says firm forced phone makers to pay royalties for too broad a set of patents on modem chip sales
South Korea's antitrust regulator said on Wednesday it fined U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm Inc 1.03 trillion won ($854 million) …
Lenovo updates Thinkpad lineup with Microsoft Precision TouchPad drivers, Thunderbolt 3, USB-C, Intel Optane SSD support; unveils Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C docks
Today Lenovo is announcing a refresh of most of its ThinkPad lineup, and although the model numbers have only changed a bit …
Online dress rental service Rent the Runway raises $60M Series E led by Fidelity, says this year was profitable as revenue grew to $100M+
The company was profitable in 2016 on revenue north of $100 million. — In March, Rent the Runway CEO Jennifer Hyman told Recode …
T-Mobile rolls out update to Samsung Galaxy Note7 phones that prevents battery from charging, becoming the first major US carrier to do so
Samsung's previously announced plan to kill the battery in the remaining active Galaxy Note 7 smartphones in the US has begun.
Three Chinese citizens charged in US for computer intrusion, insider trading, and more, after allegedly trading on information obtained by hacking law firms
Chinese traders hacked into the computer systems of U.S. law firms that handle mergers, then used the data for insider trading …
Apple publishes an artificial intelligence paper for the first time, after recently promising to open up its AI research
Earlier this month, Apple made a splash when it told the artificial intelligence research community that the secretive company would start publishing AI papers of its own.
Tencent, Chinese mapping firm NavInfo, and Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC buy 10% stake in digital maps company HERE
Chinese mapping firm NavInfo (002405.SZ), internet group Tencent (0700.HK) and Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC are buying a 10 percent stake in digital maps company HERE …
VW to buy mobile payments company PayByPhone, which allows people to pay for parking by apps, calls, or texts, and handles $300M in transactions annually
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Obama urges the end of the “dual hat” arrangement where US Cyber Command and NSA are led by the same person
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Despite efforts, the diversity of Wikipedia's overwhelmingly white and male editorial pool has been slow to improve
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Chinese consortium buys 49% of British data center operator Global Switch for £2.4B, prompting security concerns among UK's politicians
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Zalando and Amazon fight over $42B European online shoe and apparel market, with Zalando investing heavily in logistics while Amazon is wooing fashion brands
Zalando ruled fashion e-tailing. Then you-know-who came along. — by — Subscribe Reprints Tweets: @business and @sub8u Tweets: @business : Amazon wants to be absolutely fabulous when it comes to E...
Canon Tokki has near monopoly on machines making OLED screens and a 2-year order backlog, raising questions over supply of OLED screens for future iPhones
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World's largest hedge fund, Bridgewater, is building an algorithmic model to recreate founder's staff-management style, led by ex-IBM Watson's David Ferrucci
the world's largest hedge fund—is building an algorithmic model from its employees' brains http://on.wsj.com/2i76z25 pic.twitter.com/NwjH8vXHyY Jay Yarow / @jyarow : This story is nuts: Ray Dalio want...
Inside Snopes' increasingly prominent fact-checking operation, which added 12 staffers a couple of years ago and saw record ~2.5M uniques the day after election
@brooklynmarie, managing editor of @snopes. http://www.nytimes.com/... Balaji S. Srinivasan / @balajis : All animals were equal, but some were more equal than others. http://www.nytimes.com/... pic.tw...
Samsung Gear VR Internet app gets WebVR support
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China's “Uber for trucks” Huochebang raises $115M at $1B valuation from Tencent, others
Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg :
Chinese connected device OS maker Thundersoft buys Rightware, a Helsinki-based automotive system UI developer, for $68M
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
California AG Kamala Harris files new criminal charges against Backpage.com CEO and two controlling shareholders, accusing them of pimping and money laundering
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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 …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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.