Sources: on Nov. 19, 9 days after Zuckerberg downplayed fake news' role in election, Obama appealed to him to take threat of political disinformation seriously
Nine days after Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg dismissed as “crazy” the idea that fake news on his company's social network played …
Microsoft Teams is replacing Skype for Business to put more pressure on Slack
Microsoft Teams isn't even a year old, but it's about to replace Skype for Business. At Microsoft's Ignite conference in Orlando, Florida today, the software giant is revealing that it plans to kill ...
Microsoft 365 expands with Education version for schools and F1 for firstline workers, alongside new Windows 10 S devices from HP, Lenovo, and Fujitsu
At Ignite, its enterprise technology conference in Orlando today, Microsoft launched two new versions of its Microsoft 365 subscription: Education and F1 (for firstline workers).
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi apologizes to Londoners in an open letter, says his intention is to “run our business with humility, integrity, and passion”
Uber's new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has written an open letter apologizing for “mistakes we've made” following the announcement …
Intel launches 8th-gen Core desktop chips, ranging from 4-core Intel Core i3-8100 at $117 to the highest-end 6-core Core i7-8700K for $359
Intel moved further ahead into its 8th-generation Core series with the launch of its mainstream desktop chips on Sunday night, including the 6-core/12-thread Core i7-8700K, aimed at gamers.
SQL Server 2017 runs on Linux, including in Docker containers, adds support for Python, and graph processing for NoSQL-like functionality
Integration of Python for data science, graph processing for NoSQL-like functionality, and it runs on Linux as well as Windows.
iPhone 8 Plus camera review: Portrait Lighting, HDR in Portrait Mode, and Slow Sync are major improvements this year
khamagani! — (many greetings from rajasthan, india) — I'm writing to you from a small hotel room in India having just experienced a magical adventure in western India orchestrated by friends at Ke...
Fitbit's Ionic smartwatch and Flyer bluetooth headphones go on sale October 1 for $300 and $139 respectively
Those who've been eagerly awaiting Fitbit's first real foray into the world of smartwatches will be able to get their hands on the thing in a matter of days.
SAP to acquire identity management firm Gigya, sources say for $350M
SAP, the German enterprise software giant, today announced an acquisition to strengthen its hybris e-commerce division. It has acquired Gigya, a firm that helps online properties manage customer iden...
Microsoft starts integrating LinkedIn's social graph with Office 365 products, showing contacts' information from LinkedIn within Office 365
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Toshiba has not yet signed the $18B sale of its chip business to Bain Capital-led group, sources say because Apple has not agreed on some key terms
TOKYO (Reuters) - Toshiba Corp (6502.T) told its main banks on Monday it has not signed the $18 billion sale of its semiconductor business because Apple Inc …
Amazon to buy 5% of Shoppers Stop for $27.6M, will create Amazon experience centers in Indian retailer's shops
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Instagram now has 800M MAUs, up from 700M in August, and 500M DAUs, says the time spent by users viewing video on Instagram is up over 80% YoY
Instagram's still growing at a rapid pace, having added 100 million new monthly active users in just a month since it last reported a new figure.
China's coders increasingly use Shadowsocks, an open source proxy tool, to bypass the Great Firewall as government cracks down on VPNs
This summer Chinese authorities deepened a crackdown on virtual private networks (VPNs)—tools that help internet users inside the mainland access the open, uncensored web.
Catalan foundation overseeing the “.cat” domain raided by Spanish police amid tensions over independence referendum on October 1
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Southeast Asian gaming and e-commerce firm Sea, formerly Garena, files for $1B US IPO
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Tencent announces suite of ad options for WeChat designed for Western brands and ad agencies, has tentative plans for self-serve ads within six months
Chinese tourists spent $35 billion dollars in the US in 2016. WeChat parent company Tencent rolled out a suite of advertising tools …
Despite safety being part of Equifax's sales pitch, company's strategy of gathering as much personal data as possible amplified the consequences of the breach
including gossip about cheating spouses—were so detailed that J. Edgar Hoover was envious. http://www.nytimes.com/... http://twitter.com/... David Enrich / @davidenrich : This is unsettling. Equifax h...
Behind the chart-topping iOS app tbh, which lets users send compliments to friends anonymously by answering positively-framed multiple-choice questions
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Manifold, which enables developers to find, buy, and manage several cloud services without being locked into a single cloud platform, announces $15M Series A
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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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