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Researchers have built a new system that protects internet users' privacy while increasing the flexibility for web developers to build web applications that combine data from different web sites, dramatically...
Alteryx, a startup with software that lets everyone, even non-technical people, analyze corporate data, is announcing a $60 million funding round this morning. Growing into a bigger provider of such...
In July, eBay announced a partnership with noted auction house Sotheby’s to help bring its inventory of art, antiques and collectibles online via a new live auction format with real-time...
Square has raised an additional $150 million in capital, valuing the six-year-old San Francisco payments company at $6 billion, reports The New York Times. Square, which was co-founded by Twitter’s...
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has already started making his mark at The Washington Post as the newspaper’s new owner. First, he tackled costs, by slashing employees’ retirement benefits, and now, he’s...
Samsung continues to be on a roll where new smartphones are concerned, and their work in catering to the wide range of users out there in the market continues. In...
Given China’s strict censorship, it was actually surprising that Instagram had been allowed to be used in the country for quite a while, despite the fact that its parent company...
Most of us probably know HP as a company that makes a variety of consumer electronic goods, such as desktop computers, laptops, tablets, printers, and at one point in time...
Twitter is opening up its vault for researchers at MIT's Media Lab, and it's giving them $10 million to try and glean some insights from the deluge of tweets. The...
Lenovo doesn't want to miss out on the wearable device trend, it seems. A couple of months after filings hinted that a Smartband was in the works, the unannounced activity...
$300, it’s the new $400. Sunday’s selloff managed to push the price of bitcoin below the $300 mark this morning, around two weeks after the cryptocurrency fell below its prior...
Thanks to a new marketing deal with Bose, NFL players will no longer be allowed to wear Apple's line of Beats headphones around television cameras, according to Re/code. The restriction...
JPMorgan Chase, which was hit by a massive hack disclosed in August, was just one of 10 financial institutions infiltrated by a group of overseas hackers that may have connections...
The nation’s third largest wireless provider recently kicked off a series of layoffs that are expected to continue through the month of October. In an SEC filing on the matter,...
With SpaceX now set to receive its $2.6 billion slice of the manned space travel pie, Elon Musk has sensed the time is right to set the Mars agenda. There...
If you thought that Redbox Instant would have trouble competing against a streaming video behemoth like Netflix, you were right. The Verizon-backed service is telling customers that Instant will shut...
First, instant messengers were hot property; then they were out-dated and dull. Now they’ve come full circle again, promising flexible, real-time communication that the big social networks can’t compete with....
Snapchat still doesn’t make any actual revenue off it 100 million active users, but that hasn’t stopped other companies from valuing the messaging app at several billion dollars. Now it...
When Intel pulled advertising from the business-focused gaming website Gamasutra earlier this week, it was due in large part to an internet campaign to hit gaming websites that speak out...
The FCC wants the Marriott hotel chain to pay up for its slimy practice of blocking and disabling conference guests' personal Wi-Fi connections. Marriott is accused of jamming personal connections...
