Mark Zuckerberg says he's “concerned” about President Trump's executive orders on immigration, affirms support for “Dreamers”
My great grandparents came from Germany, Austria and Poland. Priscilla's parents were refugees from China and Vietnam.
Apple CEO Tim Cook making rounds in DC: dinner Thursday night with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, meeting Friday with Sen. Orrin Hatch
Apple CEO Tim Cook has apparently been sharpening his political skills. — Politico reported that Cook had dinner Thursday night …
Google CEO Sundar Pichai slams Trump's immigration executive order in internal memo, says 100+ company staff travelling abroad with valid visas are affected
Memo from CEO Pichai says more than 100 employees impacted — Pichai says President's move caused painful ‘personal costs’
Twitter discloses two NSLs after lifting of FBI gag order; next hearing for its lawsuit against US government over disclosure of NSLs is February 14
Today, we're able to speak openly about two national security requests for the first time, specifically two national security letters (NSLs).
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg breaks post-election silence to speak out against global gag rule on abortion
Sheryl Sandberg spoke out on Thursday against President Donald Trump's anti-abortion executive order. — The Facebook COO published a post on her Facebook page that chronicles …
Twitter should roll out a tab highlighting the best tweets, similar to “While You Were Away”, and should have realized how awful the new “Explore” tab is
A rant about Twitter's new ‘Explore’ tab — Look, it's hard to roll out changes to any product, let alone one with hundreds of millions of users.
Sources: Snap to publicly file for IPO late next week, which likely means a March IPO
The social communications company's current valuation is $25 billion, said sources. — According to sources, Snap Inc. plans to publicly file for its much-anticipated initial public offering late nex...
LeakedSource, a site that sold access to a database of 3.1B+ compromised account passwords, taken offline after alleged police raid
LeakedSource garnered criticism for actively cracking the passwords it sold. — LeakedSource, a legally and ethically questionable website that sold access …
Tesla files suit against former Autopilot director, says he took proprietary information and tried to poach staff for his new self-driving car startup Aurora
Tesla has sued former employee Sterling Anderson, who acted as Director of its Autopilot Programs for just over a year, for breach of contract.
New audio and video technologies that can easily recreate any person's likeness will make fake stories harder to detect
What we saw in the 2016 election is nothing compared to what we need to prepare for in 2020. — Less than a month after Donald Trump was improbably elected …
Microsoft reports Q2 revenue of $26.1B, up from $25.7B last year, as Office 365 revenue grew 10% for the quarter to $7.4B and IC revenue grew 8% YoY to $6.9B
but Wall Street is still not sold on its future Bogdan Popa / Softpedia News : Microsoft Says Its Expensive Devices Outsell Apple's Expensive Devices Brett Howse / AnandTech : Microsoft Announces Q2 F...
FBI posts redacted Gamergate investigation report; Brianna Wu, a target of Gamergate trolls, says report shows how little the FBI cared about the investigation
The FBI has posted a heavily redacted report of its threat investigations during the Gamergate controversy in 2014 and 2015.
KDE Slimbook is a 13-inch Linux laptop with Intel Core i5 or i7 CPU, up to 16GB RAM and a 500GB SSD, running KDE Neon, priced from $780
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Apple joins Partnership on AI, the research group that includes Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft
Partnership on Artificial Intelligence :
Toshiba says it is looking to sell a minority stake in its memory chip business unit to offset an imminent multi-billion dollar writedown
Russian media reports say two Russian intel officers who worked in office linked to US election hacking have been charged with treason for providing info to US
WASHINGTON — Ever since American intelligence agencies accused Russia of trying to influence the American election … Tweets: @ryanlizza , @nickkristof , and @nycjim Tweets: Ryan Lizza / @ryanlizza : T...
Microsoft's market value tops $500B for the first time since 2000, after its Q2 earnings beat analyst expectations
Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) market capitalization topped $500 billion for the first time since 2000 on Friday, after the technology giant's stock rose following another quarter …
Apple to close Luxembourg branch as it transfers its international iTunes business to Ireland on February 5
Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider :
Alibaba's Ant Financial buys US-based international money transfer service MoneyGram for $880M, an 11.5% premium to MoneyGram's Wednesday closing price
Bloomberg :
PayPal CEO says company has been talking with Amazon about “how to use one another's assets to the mutual benefit of our customers”
Spencer Soper / Bloomberg :
Google creates Google Trust Services to operate its own Root Certification Authority
Ryan Hurst / Google Online Security Blog :
Recode's Ina Fried joins Axios Media, founded by Politico alumni, as chief tech correspondent
I have accepted … Tweets: Farhad Manjoo / @fmanjoo : @inafried @danprimack @axios really feels like I should get a referral fee here Alexis Lloyd / @alexislloyd : .@inafried is joining @axios as as ou...
The value of hyper-anonymous cryptocurrency Monero has risen 2,760% from 50¢ to $12 over the past year; the collective value of all Monero is close to $165M
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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.