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Reports Emerge Of New Amazon Android Phone In Works
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) is reportedly building a new phone based on the Android mobile operating system. Reports citing “two sources familiar with the matter” say that Amazon is quietly developing a new smartphone being referred... More of this article »
Google Adding New Ad-Blocking Feature To Chrome
Alphabet’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Google will add a new feature to its Chrome web browser that will block certain types of ads from being seen by users. Sridhar Ramaswamy, senior vice president of ads and commerce, outlined the company’s... More of this article »
Salesforce Beats On Earnings And Revenue In Q1
Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), announced results for its fiscal first quarter, ended April 30, 2017, today. The company reported a net loss of $9.2 million, or 1 cent per share, in the latest quarter, compared with a profit of $38.8 million,... More of this article »
Uber Targeted Lyft Drivers With ‘Hell’ Program
Uber has been accused of using a secret software program to spy on its rival, Lyft, from 2014 to 2016. Using its software, Uber could track how many Lyft drivers were available for new rides and where they were. The company then took... More of this article »
Google Releases New CAPTCHA Version To Developers
Alphabet’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Google has released a new version of the CAPTCHA test that will be less intrusive to internet users. The new Invisible reCAPTCHA feature is a free service is designed to protect sites and apps from spam and... More of this article »
Bitcoin Value Surpasses Previous Peak
The value of Bitcoin is at all-time high, surpassing its previous peak established in November 2013. The digital currency’s value hit $1,206.60 per coin Friday, according to the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index. At its prior peak, the... More of this article »
Google Takes Steps Against Piracy In The U.K.
Alphabet’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Google has agreed to demote piracy sites in its search results in the U.K. The company has agreed to a voluntary code of practice with the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and Motion Picture Association.... More of this article »
China Moves To Regulate App Stores
The Cyberspace Administration of China says that app stores will now be officially regulated. In a notice posted to its website, the Cyberspace Administration announced mobile app stores will now required to register with its offices.... More of this article »
Uber Movement Gives Traffic Data To Cities
Uber has developed a new website called Movement that will give cities access to the company’s traffic flow data. The new Movement website is intended for use by those interested in improving urban mobility. In a blog post written... More of this article »
Fiat Chrysler Partners With Google On Infotainment System
Fiat Chrysler (NYSE:FCAU) has partnered with Alphabet’s Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) to build a new in-car infotainment system. The companies announced the partnership just ahead of the beginning of CES, the annual consumer electronics show... More of this article »
Amazon Secures Patent For ‘Airborne Fulfillment Center’
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) has been awarded a patent for a logistics technology described as an “airborne fulfillment center (AFC).” Amazon originally filed for the patent in 2014. It was awarded in April, but wasn’t discovered... More of this article »
Samsung To Sell Voice Controlled Robot Vacuum
Samsung is launching a new robot vacuum that you can control with your voice called the POWERbot VR7000. Details are still pretty scarce at the moment and there’s no word yet on pricing or availability. Samsung has announced... More of this article »
Twitter To Relaunch Vine As Vine Camera
Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) recently announced that the mobile app Vine will be relaunched as Vine Camera in January 2017. A blog post by the Vine team said, “In January, we are transitioning the Vine app to a pared-down Vine Camera. With... More of this article »
BlackBerry Investing Heavily In Smart Car Technology
BlackBerry (NASDAQ:BBRY) is opening an autonomous driving research center to develop advanced driver assistance and autonomous vehicle technology. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will attend the launch by the Waterloo, Ontario-based... More of this article »
T-Mobile’s New Service Gives Users More Freedom Over Numbers
T-Mobile (NYSE:PCS) has launched a new service called Digits that gives users much more freedom with their phone numbers than before. T-Mobile COO Mike Sievert announced the project saying, “Since the beginning of telephones,... More of this article »
AT&T’s New Plan Draws Fire From FCC
AT&T’s (NYSE:T) planned use of data cap exemptions, a practice known as “zero-rating,” has attracted the attention of the Federal Communications Commission. The practice could be a violation of net neutrality. Net neutrality... More of this article »
Tesla Completes Deal For SolarCity
Tesla Motors’ (NASDAQ:TSLA) deal to acquire SolarCity Corp. (NASDAQ:SCTY) closed Monday. The all-stock deal valued SolarCity at $2 billion based on Tesla’s closing stock price Friday. When Tesla and SolarCity announced the agreement... More of this article »
Facebook Enhances WhatsApp With Secure Video Calling
Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) is adding fully encrypted video calling to its WhatsApp messaging app in a move to assuage privacy concerns. Now, people have another way to communicate without fear of eavesdropping by companies or government... More of this article »
LinkedIn Blocked In Russia After Court Ruling
Russia‘s communications regulator has ordered that public access to LinkedIn’s (NYSE:LNKD) website be blocked throughout the country. Roskomnadzor, also known as the Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information... More of this article »
Facebook Under Fire For Fake News On News Feeds
Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) is facing increasing criticism over allowing fake news stories to spread on the social-media site. President Barack Obama famously called Facebook a “dust cloud of nonsense” during the 2016 US presidential... More of this article »
Samsung Makes $8B Bet On Smarter Cars
Samsung’s (SSNLF) latest deal, announced Monday, will find it acquiring U.S. auto-parts supplier Harman International for $8 billion in an all-cash deal. Samsung’s $112-a-share offer for Harman is well below the roughly $145 that... More of this article »
Google Launches Android Auto Smartphone App
Android Auto is now available as an app for your phone after Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) launched its most recent update to the program. You can now get all the benefits of Android Auto even if your car isn’t Android Auto compatible. The... More of this article »
Facebook: Posts Can’t Be Used For Pricing Car Insurance
The rollout of a new app has been delayed after Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) determined that posts to its social media site cannot be used to price car insurance for new drivers. Insurance company Admiral had intended to launch an app that... More of this article »
Facebook Under Fire Over Ethnic Targeting
Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) has come under fire over an option in its ad targeting platform that lets advertisers exclude certain ethnicities from seeing certain ads. The potential flaw in the ad-buying system was discovered by ProPublica.... More of this article »
Samsung Halts Shipping Of Replacement Galaxy Note 7s
Samsung has stopped production of the Galaxy Note 7 in cooperation with safety regulators from South Korea, China and the US. Samsung said it is “temporarily adjusting” the production schedule to ensure a safer phone. There... More of this article »
Facebook Aiming To Become A Workplace Essential
Facebook has officially launched Workplace, aiming to expand its services into the business world. Many people communicate with their friends primarily via social media platforms like Facebook. The social media giant now wants us to... More of this article »
Yahoo Accused Of Scanning Users’ Email For Government
Reports have emerged of Yahoo’s (NASDAQ:YHOO) use of custom-built software to scan its users’ emails on behalf of federal investigators. Yahoo reportedly built a specialized program to search the incoming emails of its hundreds... More of this article »
Amazon Changing Its Policy On Incentivized Reviews
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) is eliminating incentivized reviews from its platform, except for those from within the Amazon Vine program. The change was made to its Community Guidelines and announced today. The changes will apply to all product... More of this article »
Nintendo’s Pokémon Go Aims To Regain Popularity
Nintendo’s (NTDOY) hit game Pokémon Go is trying to regain its former popularity with updates that make the game more attractive to players. The augmented reality app has players find Pokémon throughout their surroundings with... More of this article »
Catch The General Election Debates On Twitter
Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) has formed a partnership with Bloomberg Media to livestream the general election debates. Bloomberg Media is Twitter’s exclusive streaming partner for the debates. Bloomberg Media CEO Justin B. Smith said in a... More of this article »
Facebook Dismisses Concerns It’s Becoming A Media Company
Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) is denying that it will ever become a media company, despite its recent forays into the media industry. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the firm would remain a technology platform and had no ambitions to become... More of this article »
New Google Operating System Possibly On Horizon
It looks like Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is creating a completely new operating system. The tech blog Android Police was one of the first to report on the existence of the OS. The project’s name is Fuchsia, but no one knows quite what... More of this article »
Delta Air Lines Outage Delays Flights Worldwide
Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) reported flights were grounded Monday after a system outage at the company’s Atlanta hub. Delta stopped worldwide departures about 3 a.m. ET, a period that would have typically had 192 departures. Delta... More of this article »
Businesses Can Book Employee, Client Travel Through UberCentral
Uber has unveiled a new dashboard called UberCentral that lets businesses secure multiple Ubers at the same time. The dashboard is designed for both small business owners and those in charge of travel arrangements at larger companies.... More of this article »
Microsoft Offering New Service For Booking Appointments
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is launching a new self-service appointment booking service for its Office 365 Business Premium users. The new service, called Bookings, lets business owners to create their own scheduling page, and then let... More of this article »
Uber Surge Pricing Notifications Going Away
Uber has announced that it is implementing a new upfront pricing policy to mitigate the effects of surge pricing on the business. Uber’s product team has been testing the idea in select cities throughout the U.S. and India since... More of this article »
Millions Of Twitter Account Logins Exposed By Hackers
Twitter has confirmed that millions of Twitter account logins have been exposed by hackers on the dark web. More than 32 million Twitter account details have appeared on the website LeakedSource, a search engine that contains nearly... More of this article »
Fiat Chrysler Reportedly In Talks To Partner With Uber
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (NYSE:FCAU) is reportedly in talks with Uber Technologies Inc. to form a partnership to build self-driving cars for the ride-hailing startup. Reports have emerged that the talks are at a preliminary stage,... More of this article »
Exelon Starts Plan For Closure Of Two Illinois Plants
Exelon Corp. (NYSE:EXC) has announced plans to close two of its nuclear plants in Illinois. In a statement, the company said that it will close the Clinton Power Station in Clinton on June 1, 2017, and the Quad Cities Generating Station... More of this article »
Tesla Model 3 Owners Won’t Have Free Access To Supercharger Stations
The nearly 400,000 people that have already put down a deposit with Tesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) for the forthcoming Model 3 got an unpleasant surprise Tuesday. Chief Executive Elon Musk said at Tesla’s annual shareholders’... More of this article »
ForcePhone Technology Uses Sonar to Mimic Apple’s 3D Touch
Apple’s 3D Touch technology is easily among the most impressive features of the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. In fact, the technology is so impressive that it may become the gold standard of all smartphones, coming soon to... More of this article »
Google Wins Fair Use Case Over Java
In the mobile web world, APIs are the programs which hold everything together. Among the most commonly used APIs, at least in the Android community, is script written in the Java language. And recently, Google and Oracle have been... More of this article »
Facebook Announces Third Party Advertising Through “Audience Network”
Facebook is an online juggernaut; a powerful network of people, trends, and advertising. And like any business, Facebook has to continue to find new ways to expand revenue if it wants to be able to keep pace with its user growth;... More of this article »
Intel Acquires Itseez to Continue Expanding IoT And Autonomous Car Technologies
Chip maker Intel has been making strides to increase its relevance in the emerging Internet of Things and, particularly, the autonomous car industry. This was the reasoning behind the company’s acquisition of Itseez, a startup... More of this article »
Apple Announces Plans to Continue Apple Pay Expansion in Asia and Europe
Digital payment systems are still quite new but the market is quickly expanding. Apple Pay, for example, is currently only available in six countries but the tech giant is looking to expand to many more in the years to come. According... More of this article »
Google iOS Update Brings “AMP”ed Ads to Apple Users
On Friday, Google released an updated version of its app on Apple iOS today. The company now claims that the update brings iPhone users improvements to both speed and performance, with optimizations that will save users “a combined... More of this article »
Facebook, Microsoft To Build Biggest Sub-Atlantic Network Cable To Expand Internet Availability
It looks like Microsoft and Facebook are teaming up to build a new, state-of-the-art cable to stretch across—or through—the Atlantic ocean. The “Marea” cable is aimd to help meet the increased demand for reliable, high-speed... More of this article »
Just How Biodegradable Is “Biodegradable Plastic”?
Plastic may be durable and pliable and buoyant but it also contributes to pollution. This is particularly true in the ocean’s of the world where plastic elements are widely known for unifying into massive structures like the... More of this article »