Facebook hires Campbell Brown, ex-NBC News reporter and CNN prime-time host, to lead News Partnerships team, says she won't be involved in content decisions
Facebook is turning to a former television news journalist to help smooth over its strained ties to the news media …
Apple missed internal revenue and profit goals in 2016, company's SEC filing says, the first miss since Tim Cook became CEO
Executives miss out on part of cash incentives as annual sales, operating profit fall short of goals — Apple Inc. said Chief Executive Tim Cook …
FTC sues D-Link over lax security in its routers and IP cameras, says D-Link used hard-coded logins, left private software sign-in key code online for 6 months
FTC: D-Link failed to take reasonable steps to secure its routers and Internet Protocol (IP) cameras, potentially compromising sensitive consumer information
Intel's 94.5x55x5mm Compute Card with laptop level CPU can be inserted into all-in-one PCs, smart TVs, other devices; more details will be announced in June
Compute Card is intended as a more versatile replacement for the Compute Stick. — Intel mostly missed the boat on smartphones …
Leaked screenshots show Project Neon, an upcoming incremental upgrade to Windows 10's design that will focus heavily on animations
Late last year we reported on Project NEON - the upcoming UI upgrade for Windows 10. Recently we managed a closer look at Microsoft's internal plans …
Renault-Nissan is the first customer for Microsoft's Azure-based, rebranded Connected Vehicle Platform
Company shifts away from Windows in favor of flexible approach that lets automakers pick the tech they need — Microsoft Corp. is rebooting its push to sell software for cars …
Google stops supporting Google+ Hangouts API; no new apps can be built as of today, and existing apps will stop working after April 25
Draw with your face? Conference call ping pong? Not any more. Google today quietly revealed that it will shut down the Hangouts API …
Nvidia and Mercedes-Benz announce partnership for AI car technology, with first product expected to roll out within 12 months
Nvidia already announced a partnership at CES to bring a AI self-driving car to production, and now Mercedes-Benz is also teaming up with the GPU-maker on a vehicle with AI on board.
Canada's Competition Bureau closes 2-year-old probe into Apple's contracts with carriers, finding no evidence of anti-competitive conduct
Canada's Competition Bureau on Friday said it had not found sufficient evidence that Apple Inc had engaged in anti-competitive conduct, closing a two-year investigation into the iPhone maker.
Sources: DJI acquires majority stake in Hasselblad, the iconic Swedish camera company
Jan 5, 2017, 10:19 amJan 5, 2017, 11:04 am — Last year DJI took a minority stake in Hasselblad, the iconic Swedish camera company. The companies also announced a partnership to work together …
Internet Archive launches Trump Archive, a searchable repository of Donald Trump TV appearances, with 520+ hours of video from 2009 until now
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Tod Nielsen named CEO of FinancialForce, a Salesforce Platform-based ERP firm that raised $193M to date; Nielsen is the former CEO of Heroku, EVP at Salesforce
FinancialForce, a cloud ERP solution built on the Salesforce platform, announced today that Tod Nielsen, an experienced executive …
Alpine announces iLX-107 aftermarket infotainment system with wireless CarPlay, available in February for $900
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To help keep users coming back, Fitbit debuts in-app community features for goal-setting and more, launching in the coming months
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Samsung forecasts Q4 profits of $7.8B, up 50% YoY to its highest level in more than three years
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Fitbit CEO says the company plans to launch a wearable app store “as soon as possible”
Another giant sign that a smartwatch is in the works — Fitbit wants to launch its own wearable app store “as soon as possible,” the company's co-founder and CEO James Park said in an interview at CE...
Misfit unveils Vapor, a touchscreen smartwatch with 1.4-inch full AMOLED display, GPS, and optical heart-rate sensors, expected to ship in late 2017 for $199
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Adobe report: US online sales reached $91.7B between November 1 and December 31, growing 11% year-over-year; sales from mobiles and tablets rose 23% to $28.43B
Tech Roundup Alex Wilhelm / Mattermark : A Snap Swipe And Ecommerce's Continued Boom Ken Cassar / Slice Intelligence : two extra shopping days make 2016 the biggest holiday yet SGB Online : Adobe Sees...
New York-based SaaS HR firm Namely raises $50M, closing a $80M Series D led by Altimeter Capital and Scale Venture Partners
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
The excitement for Amazon's Alexa at CES shows Apple is missing out on expanding its HomeKit suite
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge :
Kanvas releases SDK to allow third parties to integrate its photo and video effects; the app now has 5M users, up from 1M when acquired by AOL in 2015
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Cloud storage startup Bitcasa posts “goodbye” message on its site, implying it may have been acquired
This is an odd one: Bitcasa, a company … Chris Mellor / The Register : Yep. Bitcasa's called it quits Jordan Novet / VentureBeat : Intel acquires cloud storage startup Bitcasa Thanks: @ingridlunden
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