YouTube will discontinue 30-second unskippable ads in 2018
Starting next year, YouTube will stop allowing the 30-second unskippable ad and will focus instead on shorter formats. YouTube to stop 30-second unskippable ads In an official statement, Google expl...
Open letter outlining Facebook's attempts to build a more inclusive community, including improving tools for reporting abuse, squashing misleading stories, more
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Bill Gates supports taxing the use of robots to slow the spread of automation and to finance other employment
Robots are taking human jobs. But Bill Gates believes that governments should tax companies' use of them, as a way to at least temporarily slow the spread of automation and to fund other types of emp...
Sources: SoftBank is considering renewing T-Mobile US merger talks in April, may cede control of Sprint
Japan's SoftBank Group Corp is prepared to give up control of Sprint Corp to Deutsche Telekom AG's T-Mobile US Inc to clinch a merger of the two U.S. wireless carriers, according to people familiar wi...
Source leaks hands-on pics and specs of LG G6: always-on display, Snapdragon 821, 4GB of RAM, 3,200 mAh battery, base 32GB of expandable storage
The LG G6 is far from being a secret at this point, with LG itself going as far as to confirm its ‘FullVision’ 18:9 5.7-inch display …
Sources: GM plans to deploy thousands of self-driving Chevrolet Bolts in test fleets in 2018, most of them in partnership with Lyft
General Motors Co plans to deploy thousands of self-driving electric cars in test fleets in partnership with ride-sharing affiliate Lyft Inc, beginning in 2018 …
Sources: Apple will start assembling iPhone SE in India at contract manufacturer Wistron's plant in Bengaluru starting April
NEW DELHI: Apple will kick off its India manufacturing plans by initially assembling 3-4 lakh units of its iPhone SE model at the Karnataka plant being set …
HTC to exit entry-level phone market this year but will continue to support current models; its focus is shifting to high-end, high-margin devices
HTC plans to exit the entry-level phone market moving forward and will instead focus its handset portfolio on high-margin devices.
EU Parliament rejects proposal to tax robot owners to fund support for or retraining of workers who are put out of jobs by robots
European lawmakers called on Thursday for EU-wide legislation to regulate the rise of robots, including an ethical framework for their development and deployment …
SaaS integration startup MuleSoft files for $100M IPO; MuleSoft was valued at $1.5B in its latest VC round
MuleSoft, a SaaS integration company valued at $1.5 billion by venture capitalists, this morning filed for an initial public offering. — The deal: San Francisco-based MuleSoft plans …
Facebook just changed its mission, because the old one was broken
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Airbnb sued in California and Florida by AIMCO, a landlord that manages about 50K apartments across US, for allegedly helping tenants breach their leases
Apartment Investment & Management Co. alleges Airbnb is helping tenants breach their leases — One of the largest U.S. apartment landlords …
Samsung Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee arrested on charges of bribery, perjury, and embezzlement, after last month's arrest warrant request failed
Lee Jae-yong, the acting chief of Samsung … Carlos Tejada / New York Times : Money, Power, Family: Inside South Korea's Chaebol Thomas Ricker / The Verge : Poll: How do you feel about the Samsung heir...
Sources: Beepi, a used car marketplace that raised $150M, shuts down and is selling off assets after efforts to sell the startup to Fair.com and DGDG broke down
Yet more developments for Beepi, the used car marketplace that had raised $150 million but then went bust …
How residents producing and selling goods sold on Alibaba's eBay-like marketplace Taobao is helping to eliminate poverty in over 1,000 Chinese villages
Daiji township, a dusty collection of villages in China's central heartland plains, is an unlikely candidate to be one of the country's leading e-commerce hubs.
Alphabet reduces the number of balloons needed to test Loon from 200-400 to 10-30 using AI and an improved system for altitude control and navigation
Niklas Zennström's London-based VC firm Atomico, which is focused on European tech startups, closes its fourth fund at $765M
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Spotify-backed Soundtrack Your Brand, which streams music to businesses, raises $22M Series C led by Balderton Capital and Stockholm-based Industrifonden
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IBM partners with Visa to connect its Watson IoT platform with Visa's token technology to enable IoT commerce
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Lytro raises $60M Series D from Blue Pool Capital, Foxconn, Qualcomm Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, GSV, others to bring light field VR technology to Asia
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Q&A with Bill Gates on his work as an adviser to Microsoft, his focus on natural language processing and virtual assistants, and the evolution of the company
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TetraVue raises $10M Series A from Bosch, Samsung, Foxconn, others to bring high-density 3D flash LIDAR technology to self-driving cars
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Q&A with Sonos' CEO on his plans to integrate assistants from firms like Amazon and Google
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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.