Interviews with 30+ current and former Uber employees depict an unrestrained work culture; Uber also faces 3+ lawsuits over sexual harrassment or verbal abuse
SAN FRANCISCO — When new employees join Uber, they are asked to subscribe to 14 core company values, including making bold bets …
FCC opens up 5 GHz spectrum band to unlicensed LTE use, certifies equipment from Ericsson and Nokia
T-Mobile will start employing new tech starting in spring — The FCC is opening up the 5 GHz spectrum band to unlicensed LTE use in a move that will boost spectrum sharing and wireless broadband.
Google updates Gboard for iPhone with support for voice typing, 15 new languages, Google Doodles, and iOS 10 emoji
In May 2016, you first met Gboard, our app that let you search and send information, GIFs, emoji and more, right from your keyboard. In July, Gboard went global.
Google unveils first SHA1 collision using nine quintillion computations, releases two different PDFs with identical hashes, urges sunsetting of unsafe protocol
Posted by Marc Stevens (CWI Amsterdam), Elie Bursztein (Google), Pierre Karpman (CWI Amsterdam), Ange Albertini (Google) …
Google's Jigsaw unveils Perspective, an AI-powered tool for publishers to weed out abuse from online comments, available as an API for free
A research team tied to Google unveiled a new tool on Thursday that could have a profound effect on how we talk to each other online.
Amazon fights against search warrant for Echo recordings in murder trial, argues Alexa commands and responses have First Amendment rights
Amazon is sticking to its guns in the fight to protect customer data. The tech titan has filed a motion to quash the search warrant for recordings …
Sources: White House Chief Digital Officer Gerrit Lansing out after failing FBI background check; one source says failure was due to investment issues
White House Chief Digital Officer Gerrit Lansing was among the six staffers who were dismissed from the White House last week after being unable …
Airmap, an airspace management system for drones, raises $26M Series B round led by Microsoft Ventures
It's a bet on a future full of airborne robots — Drones are an increasingly common sight in the skies, but unlike aircraft with a human at the controls, there is no formal …
Internet services companies should offer a “travel mode” that limits contacts and history to a minimal subset, to protect users from invasive searches at border
News reports tell us that Customs and Border Patrol has become more aggressive about checking social media accounts at the border.
HP Inc. Q1 revenue up 4% YoY to $12.7B with notebook computer revenue up 16% but revenue from printing down YoY by 3% to $4.48B
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Instagram will open up carousel posts, with up to 10 photos and videos, to all users in the coming weeks
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How Pinterest built Lens, its search tool for identifying real-world objects before suggesting related items, using GPU-powered deep learning and more
Sometime around 2013 and 2014, deep learning was going through a revolution that required pretty much everyone to reset their expectations …
Qualcomm announces new Snapdragon 835-based VR dev kit and headset accelerator program
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Australian accounting software company MYOB to buy payment processing firm Paycorp for AU$48M
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Microsoft updates Windows 10 Mail and Calendar apps with Focused Inbox, @mentions for adding contacts to email threads, package delivery information, more
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Filing: Fitbit acquired Pebble's talent and intellectual property for $23M, well below reported price of $30-40M
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Verizon will test 5G service in 11 cities by mid-2017 as a replacement for home or office broadband
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Sources: Facebook's head of news partnerships Campbell Brown and CPO Chris Cox are hosting off-the-record meetings with journalists to improve relations
Facebook's new head of news partnerships Campbell Brown is hosting off-the-record events at her Manhattan home with big-name media people … Tweets: @petersontee , @nkulw , @perlberg , and @daweiner . ...
Twitter to let businesses create personalized profiles for customer service agents, adding their name and photograph to DMs with customers
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Arris to acquire Brocade's Ruckus Wireless and ICX Switch business for $800M in cash following closing of Broadcom's acquisition of Brocade
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New York tech firm CafeX Communications files federal trademark suit against AWS over Chime, Amazon's new online conferencing system
A New York-based tech company has filed a federal trademark suit against Amazon Web Services over the name of the cloud giant's newly launched Chime online conferencing and collaboration technology. T...
Square beats Q4 estimates with $452M in revenue, up from $374M last year, as gross payment volume rises 34% YoY to $13.7B; stock up 4%
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Leaked documents show how Palantir's tools for analyzing big data, made with help from staffers of intelligence agencies, became integral to NSA, GCHQ, others
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Email delivery service Mailgun spins out of Rackspace and raises $50M round led by Turn/River Capital, with participation from Scaleworks and Rackspace
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Airbnb confirms deal to buy social payments startup Tilt; sources characterize the deal as acqui-hire as most of the money is being spent on retaining the team
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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.