Microsoft announces Microsoft 365 subscriptions for businesses with Office and Windows combined
Microsoft is announcing Microsoft 365 today, a new way for businesses to purchase Office and Windows together. While the software giant has sold Office 365 and Windows 10 to businesses …
Facebook drops price of Oculus VR headset for the second time in four months, now $399 with Touch Controller for six weeks
The Oculus Rift and Touch controller bundle is $399 for the summer, months before Oculus' big fall event. — Facebook's Oculus Rift VR headset already got one price drop back in March.
A joint US-Russia working group on cybersecurity mostly serves Russia, will make it harder for Congress to purge Kaspersky Lab products from federal networks
Man oh man did Vladimir Putin hand Trump his ass in their meeting the other day. While most the focus has been on Trump's apparent refusal …
After tweet about discussing an “impenetrable Cyber Security unit” with Putin, Trump tweets he doesn't think the joint effort can happen
Fellow politicians have lined up to deride US President Donald Trump's idea of a cybersecurity partnership with Russia.
Microsoft Azure Stack hardware, which allows customers to run private instances of Azure in their datacenters, is ready to order from Dell EMC, HPE and Lenovo
Microsoft's first three server partners are starting to take orders for Microsoft's hybrid-computing Azure Stack appliances.
News Media Alliance, with members including NYT, WaPo, and News Corp, seeks antitrust exemption from Congress to negotiate collectively with Google and Facebook
Google and Facebook continue to gobble up the digital advertising market, siphoning away revenue that once paid for the quality journalism …
Indian telecom operator Reliance Jio is investigating an alleged data breach of 100M+ customers including names, telephone numbers, and email addresses
India's Reliance Jio is investigating whether personal data of over 100 million of its customers had leaked onto a website …
Stripe partners with WeChat Pay, which has 600M+ users, and Alipay, with 520M+ users, to let its merchants outside China integrate payments via those platforms
Silicon Valley startup Stripe has partnered with digital payment providers Alipay and WeChat Pay to enable merchants using …
In email sent to all portfolio CEOs, Binary Capital's managing partner Jonathan Teo blames “corrupted” media for his resignation, which LPs have yet to accept
Binary Capital co-founder Jonathan Teo slammed the media, investor leaks and at least one of his portfolio companies …
Nielsen Music Mid-Year Report: on-demand audio streams in the US up 62.4% year-over-year to 184.3B in the first half of 2017
A new report from Nielsen out this week paints a picture of the booming on-demand audio streaming business, pointing to a significant increase in consumers' use …
How spammers, ripoff artists, and even superstars juice their numbers on Spotify with covers, tricky song titles, silent tracks, and large albums
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Space Data, which is suing Alphabet over patents and trade secret theft, got USPTO to cancel key Project Loon balloon control patent claims last month
Last summer, a small company called Space Data sued Alphabet's ‘moonshot’ X division. At issue was its effort to deliver internet access …
As educators grapple with increasing use of Wolfram Alpha, students and the tool's maker claim it's a study aid, not merely a means for cheating on homework
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Paris, Airbnb's biggest single market, will require that Airbnb hosts register their property, making it harder to exceed the 120 day legal rental limit
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As internet firms receive more orders to remove content worldwide, experts worry the internet could be forced to comply globally with the strictest local laws
THE RULINGS ON online speech are coming down all over the world. Most recently, on June 30, Germany passed a law … Tweets: @netizenrights and @accessnow Tweets: Netizen Rights / @netizenrights : “Wha...
DJI is updating firmware on its drones to prevent hackers from circumventing flight restrictions
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How the US military is making weapons, surveillance systems, and information systems smarter by leveraging software
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Waymo files a preliminary list of 461 questions for Anthony Levandowski, expecting him to invoke his Fifth Amendment right in response to many
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How UberRush, Uber's local delivery service, failed to make Uber a FedEx rival and got overshadowed by UberEats and Uber Freight
Biz Carson / Business Insider : Tweets: @ktbenner . Thanks: @lexnfx Tweets: Katie Benner / @ktbenner : Before Uber investors bid up the co's valuation on China & self driving cars, they banked on Ube...
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2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
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