AOL is shutting down Instant Messenger (AIM) on December 15 after 20 years
The pioneering chat app that taught us to text is pulling the plug. On December 15th, AOL Instant Messenger will shut down after running since 1997. AIM dominated online chat in North America at the...
Alphabet gets approval from FCC to fly 30 Project Loon balloons over Puerto Rico for 6 months, after Irma and Maria left 90% of the island without cell service
LAST FRIDAY, ENGINEERS on Google parent Alphabet's internet-by-balloon Project Loon tweeted that they hoped to bring emergency connectivity …
Comment hosting service Disqus says hackers stole email addresses and other data for 17.5M users in a 2012 breach; stolen passwords were hashed and salted
Yesterday, on October 5th, we were alerted to a security breach that impacted a database from 2012.
In email to advertisers, Facebook says it'll manually review ads that target users based on politics, religion, ethnicity, or social issues before they go live
Facebook is going to require ads that are targeted to people based on “politics, religion, ethnicity or social issues” …
Cortana adds smart home integrations for Wink, Insteon, Nest, SmartThings, and Hue on Windows 10 for PC and mobile
If you've got a house full of smart home devices, Cortana just got a whole lot handier. — Microsoft has steadily been adding to the ways in which Cortana …
Former Facebook, Google, Twitter employees on how they fear the unintended and negative consequences of the attention economy-driven tech they helped develop
Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks who worry the race for human attention has created a world of perpetual distraction that could ultimately end in disaster
Facebook CSO Alex Stamos, who is leading the company's Russia investigation, complains via tweetstorm about a misguided media backlash over “The Algorithm”
“I am seeing a ton of coverage of our recent issues driven by stereotypes of our employees and attacks against fantasy …
Sources: Facebook plans to sign up conservative US magazine The Weekly Standard as a fact-checking partner
In its newest attempt to stem the flood of fake news and conspiracy theories online, Facebook plans to sign up a conservative US magazine, the Weekly Standard, as a fact-checking partner …
Study: race is a stronger impediment than gender for leadership roles in SV; as white women in leadership rose 17% over 8 years, other minority groups declined
WHEN IT COMES to Silicon Valley, Asians are an overrepresented population in the workforce. Even among the tech industry's … Tweets: @ekp Tweets: Ellen K. Pao / @ekp : “White women are continuing to ...
YouTube content head Susanne Daniels and CEO Susan Wojcicki on company's strategy for original programming to take on streaming video giants
With a veteran television exec, talent like Demi Lovato and Google's $86 billion in cash, the platform known for skateboarding videos …
As part of Time Warner merger, FCC forced AOL to open AIM social graph to competitors in 2001; government should impose similar requirements on Facebook today
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On 60 Minutes, Trump campaign digital director Brad Parscale describes how he handpicked Facebook employee “embeds” who assisted the campaign with its ad buys
Trump campaign digital director Brad Parscale says Donald Trump won election on Facebook with highly targeted ads — and infrastructure was a key issue
A look at the growing tech industry in Minsk, capital of Belarus, which is now home to more than 30,000 tech workers
MINSK, Belarus — On Friday nights, Zybitskaya street — or simply Zyba, as locals call it — turns into a vast party scene, filled with hipsters in bright shirts …
California state regulators decide not to force ride-hailing firms like Uber and Lyft to fingerprint drivers
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US House Committee on Science, Space and Technology sets hearing on Kaspersky Lab for Oct. 25
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How Australian police hosted a pedophile forum on the dark web, which had thousands of active users, in order to execute a global sting operation
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SEC filing shows Docker has raised more than $61M of a $75M funding round
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UK luxury travel deals site Secret Escapes raises $111M Series D led by Singapore's Temasek
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Interview with Sundar Pichai on his early life in India, the pace of technological change, Google's tax issues, taking down terrorist content, and diversity
From artificial intelligence to cheap smartphones, Google is on the frontline of technological development. But is it growing too big and moving too fast?
Search Engine Land founder Danny Sullivan is joining Google to serve as a public liaison for search
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Despite sanctions, a growing number of Iranian tech startups are thriving due to government support, some foreign investment, and lack of foreign competition
Bozorgmehr Sharafdin / Reuters :
Freight logistics startup Flexport raises $110M Series C led by DST Global, plans to offer freight financing, buy more warehouses
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Former Zenefits and Yammer CEO David Sacks raising a VC fund, according to SEC filing
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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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