AT&T says it has restored service to 60% of Puerto Rico's population, launches limited LTE connectivity in remote areas in partnership with Project Loon
About a month after Hurricane Maria's devastating landfall on Puerto Rico, and a couple of weeks after the FCC gave clearance …
Billboard's Hot 100 and Billboard 200 charts to give more weight to subscription-based streaming services and paid tiers of hybrid services starting in 2018
Billboard has announced that its Hot 100 and Billboard 200 charts — which measure singles and albums, respectively …
Zain Jaffer, CEO of video ad startup Vungle, put on indefinite leave after charges for attempted murder, lewd act on a child, and more; Vungle has raised $25.5M
Zain Jaffer, who founded mobile ad firm Vungle and was its CEO until this week, was arrested on Tuesday for attempted murder …
Robert Scoble has allegedly continued to sexually harass women after going sober
Venture capitalists Dave McClure, Justin Caldbeck and Chris Sacca, SoFi CEO Mike Cagney and a top Uber engineer have all been accused of sexual impropriety in the last six months as a growing number o...
Facebook Messenger now lets users send money to friends via PayPal, adds PayPal's first bot for customer service
PayPal users in the U.S. will now be able to send and receive person-to-person payments over Facebook Messenger, the company announced this morning.
Bitcoin price passes $6,000 as its total market value hits $100B+ for the first time
The world's most prominent digital currency was on track to mark a fresh milestone on Friday, with bitcoin rallying and putting the cyber currency in position to hit a total market value of around $10...
Sources: some employees feel Facebook is being used as a scapegoat for 2016 election outcome using flawed hindsight about factors mostly beyond FB's control
In the summer of 2015, a Facebook engineer was combing through the company's internal data when he noticed something unusual.
Federal judge unseals source code for disputed DNA analysis software developed by New York City's crime lab after motion by ProPublica
A federal judge this week unsealed the source code for a software program developed by New York City's crime lab, exposing to public scrutiny a disputed technique for analyzing complex DNA evidence.
Some doctors are wary of applying security update to St. Jude pacemakers, which are now owned by Abbott Labs, due to malfunction risk, thus hampering adoption
Some doctors are wary of software patch that prevents unauthorized access to Internet-connected devices, worried about risk of malfunction
Spoke, a help desk automation AI chatbot for businesses, says it has raised a total of $28M from Accel, Greylock, and others since being founded last year
- A people-operations staffer at a start-up that has adopted Spoke spends much less time answering her colleagues' questions.
Review of Harman Kardon Invoke, a $199 smart speaker with Microsoft's Cortana assistant: great sound, sharp design, but it's twice as costly as Amazon's Echo
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Southeast Asian gaming and ecommerce firm Sea Limited, formerly Garena, closes up 8.4% on its first day trading on the NYSE, after raising $884M in IPO
Shares of Singapore's online gaming, ecommerce, and digital payments company Sea had a rollercoaster ride on the first day of its US$884 million IPO …
Flexible car ownership marketplace Fair.com raises up to $1B in venture and debt financing from BMW's iVentures, Penske Automotive Group, Sherpa Capital, others
Fair.com — an all-digital car marketplace that was co-founded by car industry vets Georg Bauer of BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Tesla …
Sources say launch of Verizon's new live online TV service, which is separate from Go90, is delayed until Spring 2018 at the earliest
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Profile of former Apple exec and Nest co-founder Tony Fadell, as he announces launch of his investment fund Future Shape
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Only 22 big tech companies out of 211 surveyed revealed their government-mandated EEO-1 diversity data
Computer vision startup Veo Robotics raises $12M Series A from Lux, GV, Siemens' Next47
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CoinList, provider of ICO management and compliance services, spins out of AngelList into a separate company led by former Sidewire CEO Andy Bromberg
Financial services for the next generation … CoinList / PR Newswire : CoinList Launches as New Independent Company with New Leadership Team
Intel and Amazon partner to release a new development kit enabling Alexa voice-control capabilities in third-party smart home devices
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Docs show Uber, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, IBM, others are forming “The Coalition for the American Dream” group to lobby for DACA; Uber confirms participation
Atlas Informatics, a search engine for your digital footprint, says it is shutting down; Atlas raised $20M+ last November
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Cisco to acquire machine learning startup Perspica and integrate its real-time data processing tool into AppDynamics
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China-based Horizon Robotics, which makes chips that are optimized to run neural networks, is raising $100M Series A+ led by Intel Capital
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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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