Upcoming iPhones will offer wireless charging, says CEO of Apple manufacturer Wistron
Plugging things in is no fun, especially when a certain company refuses to embrace industry-standard plugs. Wireless charging is an obvious solution, which has been embraced by many Android manufactu...
Facebook celebrates the 30th anniversary of GIF by making GIFs available in comments to everyone on Facebook
On June 15, we're celebrating the 30th anniversary of the GIF, which has made communicating on the internet more joyful, more visual and let's face it, a whole lot funnier!
Interview with Tim Cook on HomePod, AR, enterprise strategy, manufacturing products in the US, Donald Trump, US tax code, and more
Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple Inc., was interviewed in San Jose, California, on June 5 by Bloomberg Businessweek Editor Megan Murphy.
Mobile roaming charges now dropped across 28 EU countries, for users living in an EU country for at least 8 months each year
It's been a long time in coming and had plenty of trials and tribulations, but it's finally here: mobile roaming is now free in the EU.
Microsoft Surface Pro review: full PC performance in a thin, silent, and light design with good battery life, though it has limited ports and is expensive
In Microsoft's relatively young hardware division, the Surface Pro has always stood for what the company believes is the future of personal computing.
Sources: Apple in talks with Argonaut Project and Carin Alliance to make the iPhone a medical records hub so patients can easily share data with third parties
- It is looking to host clinical information, such as labs and allergy lists, and not just wellness data.
Sources: Amazon expressed interest in acquiring Slack, in a deal that would value the company at $9B+
Chatroom company's value said to be at least $9 billion — Microsoft boosted competition with Teams chat platform — Corporate chatroom startup Slack Technologies Inc …
Filings: Spotify reaches 140M MAUs as 2016 revenue grew over 50% YoY to $3.3B, with a net loss of $601M; firm agrees to pay big labels $2B+ over next two years
The streaming service posted revenue of $3.3 billion last year; it has promised big checks in exchange for better rates.
Amazon unveils $20 Dash Wand with a barcode scanner and Alexa support for ordering food, getting recipes, controlling smart-home devices, Alexa skills
Amazon just introduced a new Alexa device: a $20 version of its Amazon Dash Wand with the voice-enabled smart assistant built in for ordering food …
Twitter redesigns its app across mobile, desktop, and the web to include round profile icons, consistent typography, and more
In an effort to better cater to newcomers, Twitter once again is redesigning its app across mobile, desktop and the web. The revamp isn't a radical departure …
Interviews with Apple employees, including Fadell, Forstall, and others, reveal the secretive and complex process that led to the first iPhone
a huge excerpt from THE ONE DEVICE, a definitive look at how the first iPhone was designed. https://www.theverge.com/... Brian Merchant / @bcmerchant : It was taken verbatim from an on-the-record port...
Google says it plans to launch its full desktop backup tool, called Backup and Sync, for Google Drive on June 28, available as an app
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Middle Eastern ride-hailing startup Careem, currently operating in 80 cities, closes $500M Series E, sources say led by Rakuten at a $1.2B valuation
Amid ongoing struggles at Uber, one of its stronger regional rivals in transportation on demand has raised a significant round of funding …
Facebook requests input on hard questions about censorship, starting with terrorist propaganda, and plans to begin explaining how it's addressing each question
How should Facebook decide what's allowed on its social network, and how to balance safety and truth with diverse opinions and cultural norms?
Uber to be indefinitely governed by committee consisting of 14 executives who previously reported directly to Kalanick
here they are Chris Matyszczyk / CNET : Uber now being run by 14-person committee, report says Tweets: Ellen K. Pao / @ekp : 14 people running the company by committee, but not the chief D&I officer w...
Report on cost of misinfo campaigns: $6K for about 40K “high-quality” likes, $5K for 20K comments, while creating and populating social media groups costs ~$40K
Sam Levin / The Guardian :
Instagram begins testing standardized format for declaring sponsored posts, starting with select partners
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch :
Dispatch, a software platform for home services, raises $12M series A led by GrandBanks Capital and one of its largest customers, ServiceMaster
Dylan Martin / BostInno :
IDC: overall IoT spending will rise 16.7% YoY to ~$800B in 2017, driven by enterprise investment, before reaching $1.4T in 2021
Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet :
Facebook Messenger's AI assistant M now makes suggestions in Spanish to users in US and Mexico
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
French startup Shadow raises $57.1M Series A to expand its €30/month data center-based virtual machine service that offers a full version of Windows 10
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch :
Slack adds feature for paid users that highlights up to 10 important messages in All Unreads section by using machine learning
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
Andreessen Horowitz confirms it led a $23.2M investment in Instabase, a GitHub-like service for data, last month
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
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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.