Facebook expands Safety Check to help people offer community aid like food and shelter, now live in US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, and Saudi Arabia
Facebook wants to connect those in need with people who have shelter or food to offer. — Facebook is expanding Safety Check …
Apple has hired Timothy D. Twerdahl, director of Amazon's Fire TV business, as VP of Apple TV product marketing; Twerdahl worked at Netflix and Roku in the past
Former Amazon executive also held roles at Netflix and Roku — The hire lets company to beef up team seeking content deals
Google Brain research aims to enhance small, pixelated images by using details from similar, higher resolution images
Google Brain creates new image details out of thin air. — Google Brain has devised some new software that can create detailed images from tiny, pixelated source images.
Android Wear 2.0 review: refined features make it easier to use, but the experience is somewhat spoiled by bugs
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The New York Times partners with Spotify to give readers who buy one-year digital subscription unlimited access to Spotify's premium tier
Joint online news and music subscription costs $5 per week — Publisher seeking to maintain momentum after subscriber surge
EU agrees to cross-border access to streaming and digital content services, like video-on-demand, online TV, music, and online games, starting 2018
So-called ‘portability’ rules the first piece in the European Commission's Digital Single Market strategy, and the least contentious
Carl Bass, CEO of Autodesk since 2006, resigns effective immediately but will remain on company board
Design-focused software firm Autodesk has announced that CEO and president Carl Bass is stepping down effective tomorrow (February 8). — No immediate replacement has been appointed …
Spotify partners with AccuWeather to launch Climatune, which generates playlists based on the weather and the mood it creates
The weather and its many faces have served as an inspiration for many musicians, who have crooned about the London fog, the Sun coming out, stormy weather and the clothes you wear for a season.
Cybersecurity startup Exabeam raises $30M in round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Cisco Investments
Exabeam, a cybersecurity startup, today announced a funding round of $30 million. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Cisco Investments.
Square launches dedicated point-of-sale app and service for retail merchants in US, for $60 per month per register
Square has always wanted to be a part of the success of small businesses, but as a growing public company, it needs to develop products that will cater to bigger clients.
LG debuts 1.2" $349 Style and $249 Sport smartwatches, the first running Android Wear 2.0
After months of waiting, Android Wear 2.0 is finally upon us. And it's arrived with two ambassadors in tow - both designed by LG. The Watch Style and Sport are two sides of the same coin …
Blackberry launches BBM Enterprise SDK to let developers integrate the secure communications features of BlackBerry Messenger into their own apps
Enterprises - particularly those in the healthcare and defense sectors - have the same need for real-time communications as any other company …
Google launches Cloud Search, previously known as Springboard in limited preview, a search engine for G Suite products that also provides cards with useful info
Google today launched for its business customers a new tool called Google Cloud Search, which will allow users …
Waze says its new carpool service is now open to the nine counties that comprise the Bay Area, plus Sacramento and Monterey
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Pittsburgh mayor said last week that the relationship with Uber has been a “one-way street” as Uber expects carte blanche access to city amid self-driving tests
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Twilio reports Q4 revenue of $82M, up 60% YoY, as active customers rise 36% YoY to 36.6K as of December 31, 2016
Ken Yeung / VentureBeat :
Twitter's head of diversity, Jeffrey Siminoff, is leaving, after its chief HR officer, Renee Atwood, already left
Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch :
Zillow Group beats expectations with Q4 revenue of $227.6M, up 34% YoY, and says it expects to surpass $1B in 2017 revenue; stock down 5%+
Taylor Soper / GeekWire :
Google Material Design principal Nicholas Jitkoff joins Dropbox as head of design
Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch :
Twilio launches Voices for Democracy as part of its Twilio.org program to aid nonprofits by donating or discounting Twilio products
Lucas Matney / TechCrunch :
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