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Bluetooth listing hints at a Samsung Galaxy S5 Prime release

Ever since the Galaxy S5 and its plastic back went on sale we've been hearing whispers that a better, more luxurious iteration of the handset - the Galaxy S5 Prime - is on its...

SAP plans a restructure that could see hundreds of employees laid off

SAP is planning a restructure that will shift approximately 2,500 roles from software programming to cloud computing. The German software giant will require fewer onsite staff as it moves its...

Personalized hotel recommendation startup OLSET raises $1.1 million

OLSET, which offers personalized recommendations for hotels, has raised $1.1 million of seed funding on a convertible note. The lead investor was Todd Kimmel from Montage Ventures. About half of...

Univision and T-Mobile create new Spanish-language cellphone service

Move over Jennifer Lopez and Verizon, as Univision has just partnered with T-Mobile to create a new Spanish-language cellphone service called Univision Mobile. Underpinned by T-Mo's network, the new partnership will target the 56...

Foursquare launches a new location-based social app called Swarm

Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley never wanted his app to be just a "check-in button." In order to be more than a novelty, Crowley realized Foursquare couldn't just be about saying "I...

Cloud app analytics startup Netskope raises $35 million in funding

When it comes to understanding the profusion of applications employees are using to conduct business, IT departments are increasingly lost in the cloud. Over the past several years a number...

Sony offers $200 pre-order discount for its $700 4K Ultra HD Media Player

4K TVs are still quite expensive and there's still not a lot of stuff to watch on 'em. If neither of those things deterred you from buying one, however, then Sony's FMP-X10 Ultra HDMedia...

DayZ developer confirms it was hacked but that no user data was stolen

DayZ developer Bohemia Interactive has been hacked, and the intruders might have made off with the zombie survival sim’s source code. The hack was first brought to light by somebody claiming...

Mozilla to begrudgingly add protection technology to Firefox

For months, I've been following the story that the Mozilla project was set to add closed source Digital Rights Management technology to its free/open browser Firefox, and today they've made...

Pantheon raises $21.5 million to expand its web hosting platform

Pantheon, which currently offers a professional hosting solution for Drupal and WordPress sites, today announced that it has raised a $21.5 million Series B funding round led by Rory O’Driscoll at Scale...

Dixons Retail to merge with Carphone Warehouse

Two high street store chains in the United Kingdom are merging, it has been revealed. Dixons Retail, operator of over 500 Currys PC World electronics stores in the country, will join...

Samsung has already managed to sell over 11 million Galaxy S5s

Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S5 handset is selling at a brisk pace, according to JK Shin, the company’s co-CEO and head of mobile. Since hitting stores early last month, sales of the...

The Vanmoof 10 Electrified is an e-bike that doesn’t actually suck

E-bikes make urban cycling more practical and accessible, but they aren’t exactly sexy. In New York City, they’re synonymous with restaurant deliverymen, and in some cases are illegal. In Europe,...

Walmart’s online video service Vudu launches “Share My Movies” program

While Ultraviolet digital copies have been pitched as a way to make watching videos online easier, so far they've lead to frustration for many users. A recent incident involving the early...

SanDisk announces its first self-encrypting SSD

SanDisk announced the availability of the company's first, self-encrypting solid state drive—the SanDisk X300s SSD. Leveraging TCG Opal 2.0 and Microsoft Encrypted Hard Drive hardware-based encryption, coupled with a new...

Mobile messaging startup Blink gets acquired by Yahoo

Yahoo has purchased Blink, poaching the top talent behind the messaging app as the company continues to expand its reach within mobility. The team behind Blink posted an update Tuesday which revealed...

Motorola announces the Moto G Ferrari for a Mexico

Motorola just recently announced new smartphones which came in the form of the Moto E and the Moto G LTE. However for those observant enough, you might be wondering, wasn’t there supposed to...

Russia threatens to end space cooperation with the US over sanctions

Hold onto your sat nav. The Russian government has just threatened to end cooperation with America on major space projects, including maintenance of the GPS system. The policy will also...

The Army’s latest helmet concept comes with built-in air conditioning

Wearing a helmet can get pretty stuffy, not to mention possibly even quite smelly too, but it looks like the army has come up with a solution – a helmet with a...

New York Supreme Court grants Airbnb the right to protect user data

A judge has quashed a controversial subpoena in the ongoing battle between Airbnb and the New York attorney general's office over whether the five-year-old company is operating illegal hotels (and...