Hackers hid backdoor in Avast-owned system cleanup tool CCleaner for Windows from August 15 to September 12; affected software was run by 2.27M users
Users of Avast-owned security application CCleaner for Windows have been advised to update their software immediately …
Google debuts Tez, a mobile wallet and payments app for India launching today on iOS and Android, its first big foray into mobile payments in Asia
After several weeks of speculation and leaked details, today Google officially unveiled its first big foray into mobile payments in Asia.
Slack raises $250M, largely from Softbank's Vision Fund, valuing the firm at $5.1B, up from $3.8B at the time of its April 2016 round
Workplace messaging app Slack has been valued at $5.1bn in its latest fundraising, which drew $250m from investors as the weight of cash in private markets continues …
Interview about Face ID with Apple's SVP of software engineering Craig Federighi, who says no data from Face ID is sent to the cloud
Face ID is easily the most hot-button topic to come out of Apple's iPhone event this week, notch be damned. As people have parsed just how serious Apple is about it …
Source: Facebook handed over data on Russian ad buys to special counsel Mueller under search warrant, including ad copies, targeting info, and account details
What $100,000 can buy you on Facebook — Special counsel Robert Mueller and his team are now in possession of Russian-linked ads run …
Face ID has upsides and downsides on both security and usability and isn't less secure than a PIN or Touch ID in practice
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New study says Apple may be overselling its differential privacy protections in macOS and iOS; Apple disputes study's findings
FOR THE LAST year, Apple has touted a mathematical tool that it describes as a solution to a paradoxical problem: mining user data, while simultaneously protecting user privacy.
Instagram now autoplays video sound once turned on until you close the app
Autoplay audio can be annoying or convenient depending on the situation. Luckily Instagram has found a happy medium between defaulting autoplay video sound on or off. — This weekend TechCrunch spot...
Bing starts showing fact checking labels in search results
Following Google's lead earlier this year, Bing has added fact checking tags to search results. — A fact check label might now appear below results from Snopes, PolitFact, and other fact checking or...
How a slowdown in Moore's Law led to the rise of specialized chips like FPGAs and GPUs for AI and other applications in computing
New technologies are testing the limits of computer semiconductors. To deal with that, researchers have gone looking for ideas from nature.
A profile of Satya Nadella, who has stopped infighting, restored morale, and under whom Microsoft's market value increased $250B+ in three and a half years
Microsoft's CEO has stopped infighting, restored morale, and created more than $250 billion in market value. All it took was focusing on what matters most. Tweets: @chris_ciaccia and @mattmday . Than...
Fast-charging battery startup StoreDot raises $60M led by Daimler's trucking unit with Samsung Ventures among investors, plans phone battery cases for next year
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Facebook and other tech giants are increasingly coming in conflict with governments around the world exerting greater control over the internet
On a muggy, late spring evening, Tuan Pham awoke to the police storming his house in Hanoi, Vietnam. — They marched him to a police station … Tweets: @markscott82 , @mekosoff , @jonrussell , @ejacqu...
Facebook says Messenger now has 1.3B monthly active users, up from 1.2B in April, while Messenger Day has 70M daily active users
FB) users hate change — that's just a fact. — Back in 2014, many users became incensed when Facebook Messenger was spun out into a separate app people …
Google will delete Android backups on Google Drive after two months of no device usage, even when the user is paying for storage
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Prepaid Wireless Customers Can't Add Apple Watch Series 3 to Their Plans
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Videoblocks, the marketplace that pays 100% commission to content creators, rebrands as Storyblocks, debuts stock photo service to expand beyond video and audio
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Apple says Safari's upcoming “Intelligent Tracking Prevention”, criticized by ad groups, will only block re-targeting, allow cookies from visited sites, more
Jim Dalrymple / The Loop :
Russian firm Blackmoon raises $30M in an ICO for its platform for asset managers to create and manage legally compliant tokenized funds
Adrien Henni / East-West Digital News :
Autonomous driving startup JingChi, founded by former head of Baidu's Autonomous Driving Unit, has raised a $30M angel round and is raising a $100M Series A
Pan Yue / China Money Network :
How computers and cellphones are impacting modern Amish communities: helping business owners and craftspeople increase efficiency, anxiety about social effects
sometimes unwillingly — into the 21st century http://www.nytimes.com/...
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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 …
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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.