In provisional ruling, judge denies US Labor Department request for full details on Google employees that it sought as part of an equal pay investigation
The Labor Department will not get access to the full details it has requested on 21,000 Google employees as part of its investigation of equal pay …
Atari reveals first pictures of Ataribox with SD card support, a HDMI port, and 4 USB ports, says console will deliver classic games alongside “current content”
Atari started teasing its Ataribox at E3 this year, promising a “brand new Atari product.”
Microsoft is launching a dedicated LinkedIn app for Windows 10
Microsoft is bringing one of its LinkedIn goals to life today with the launch of a dedicated LinkedIn app for Windows 10. The software giant finalized its $26 billion acquisition of LinkedIn more tha...
Samsung Pay adds PayPal as a payment method while PayPal's Braintree merchants can now add Samsung Pay as a checkout option in US
Samsung Pay will soon accept PayPal as a payment method in addition to bank accounts, credit cards, and gift cards. It's a tiny update that could be useful …
New line of IBM Z mainframes offer pervasive, full-time encryption to hinder data breaches
Big Blue announced that its latest IBM Z mainframe computer will be able to encrypt all of the data in an enterprise all of the time, bringing encryption to everything from cloud services to databases...
HTC unveils HTC Alexa app for HTC U11 in the US to bring hands-free Amazon Alexa support; the app also allows users to listen to Amazon Music and Audible books
Throughout the history of HTC, it has been known to be the first to bring various technologies and features to the smartphone world.
The real problem in US is near total lack of ISP competition; FCC's net neutrality plans only enable ISPs to extract more profits with no incentives to reinvest
Why does this keep happening? — FCC chairman Ajit Pai is fond of saying that “the internet was not broken in 2015” …
Google Maps for Android now displays a graph showing the best time of day to travel to your destination
Google is always adding something new to Maps, but not everyone gets the new stuff at the same time. Right now, it looks like Google has added a nifty travel time graph to directions …
Intuition Robotics raises $14M Series A for its intelligent hardware assistant for senior citizens, led by the Toyota Research Institute
Intuition Robotics' robot communicates with and encourages senior citizens. — Israeli startup Intuition Robotics, which yesterday announced …
Both sides are wrong in net neutrality debate: they need to tone down the rhetoric, conduct proper field trials, and gradually apply proven solutions that work
Dean Bubley / Dean Bubley's Disruptive Wireless : Tweets: @disruptivedean , @_am1t , and @disruptivedean Tweets: Dean Bubley / @disruptivedean : My #NetNeutrality blog on @Techmeme today: - Why every...
US intel officials say UAE orchestrated hacking of Qatar News Agency and social media sites in late May to plant false statements, sparking regional crisis
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post :
UK startup WaveOptics raises $16M Series B for its waveguide-based optics for AR devices
WaveOptics, a UK startup that builds waveguide-based optics — technology based on hologram physics and photonic crystals — for augmented reality hardware, has raised $16 million (£12 million) …
Leap Motion raises $50M Series C for its hand-tracking computer interface tech, with a16z, Founders Fund, other investors returning
Company believes hand gestures will boost virtual reality devices — Leap Motion Inc. wants to move computing beyond taps on a touchscreen and clicks on a mouse.
Cybersecurity AI startup Awake Security exits stealth with $31.2M raised to date from Greylock Partners and Bain Capital Ventures
In stealth mode for the past two years, the cybersecurity startup Awake Security is now ready for its public debut. — Based in Mountain View, Calif. …
As tech platforms experiment with TV content, a look at how corporations controlling music and ebooks lost their strategic value to tech companies
People in tech and media have been saying that ‘content is king’ for a long time - perhaps since the VHS/Betamax battle of the early 1980s, and perhaps longer. Tweets: @craigmod , @benedictevans , @tr...
Foxconn Technology Group aims to reduce dependence on its core assembly business by developing brand-name products and manufacturing high-margin components
Nikkei : Tweets: @joshuajames Tweets: Joshua J. Arnold / @joshuajames : Foxconn has reduced jobs by 300,000 through increased automation, as wages in China rise. http://asia.nikkei.com/...
Publishers like Hearst, Bustle, TechCrunch, BBC News, and Mic are shifting their enthusiasm from Snapchat to Instagram
I don't know the number of followers of [the accounts]” http://digiday.com/...
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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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