Google today announced the first Chromebase for Meetings device, from Acer. It’s a desktop computer designed exclusively for videoconferencing. It costs $799, and it’s available from Google’s partners in U.S, Canada, the UK, Ireland, and Australia. It will become available in mor … | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: U.S. telecommunications giant Sprint has a “unique offering” in store for its customers today — it will now let them sign up to Amazon Prime for $11 per month as an add-on to their usual monthly plan. There’s little question that Amazon Prime, replete with streaming vid … | Continue reading
Garena Interactive Holding, a Singapore based online entertainment and ecommerce startup, has raised $170 million in fresh capital, despite falling valuations for some less successful startups in the U.S.. Photo: Garena | Continue reading
Knowre, a Seoul-based learning app developer, has taken a big step forward in its American expansion plans. The company announced today that its math programs, which gives kids personalized recommendations, will be used in Sylvan Learning tutoring centers. Sylvan is the largest p … | Continue reading
Eager, die-hard Tesla fans spanning Australia, Asia, Europe and the U.S. are waiting in line this morning (a la Apple) to put a $1,000 deposit on the upcoming $35,000 Model 3, a car nobody outside the company has ever seen before. At the time of writing, over 100 people — physici … | Continue reading
(By Jeremy Wagstaff and Jim Finkle, Reuters) – No need for stocking masks and sawn-off shotguns. The unprecedented heist of $81 million from the U.S. account of Bangladesh’s central bank is the latest among increasingly large thefts by criminals who have leveraged the speed and a … | Continue reading
Braintree has introduced a way for merchants to incorporate the payment processing service directly into their sites, apps, and products. Called Braintree Auth, it manages payments on ecommerce stores and can access transaction data for analysis or accounting purposes. It’s curre … | Continue reading
Months after the first U.S. carriers pushed out Android Marshmallow for the LG G3, the update is now available in Canada. | Continue reading
The ACLU has released an interactive U.S. map highlighting where the federal government has taken both Apple and Google to court to compel co-operation in unlocking devices. | Continue reading
(Reuters) – The FBI may be allowed to withhold information about how it broke into an iPhone belonging to a gunman in the December San Bernardino shootings, despite a U.S. government policy of disclosing technology security flaws discovered by federal agencies. Under the U.S. vul … | Continue reading
That massive sucking noise you’re hearing while checking Facebook or playing with Snapchat’s brand-new messaging features just might be the signature sound of the entire mobile ecosystem, which is now capturing two out of every three minutes Americans spend on digital media. In f … | Continue reading
The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday said it had identified 63 cases across the U.S. in which the federal government asked for a court order compelling Apple or Google to help access devices seized during investigations. | Continue reading
They say that life sucks, and then you die. According to a new survey from Adobe, better hope that you don’t get stuck working for the government during that slow, sad arc of your pathetic existence. Adobe reports that 73 percent of “public sector creative professionals” in the U … | Continue reading
Twitter is now more accessible to the visually impaired, introducing descriptions to images with screen readers and braille displays.SEE ALSO: The best and worst U.S. states for people with disabilitiesTwitter announced the new feature Tuesday, which will be available on the Twit … | Continue reading
(Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice will disclose over the next two weeks whether it will continue with its bid to compel Apple Inc to help access an iPhone in a Brooklyn drug case, according to a court filing on Tuesday. The Justice Department this week withdrew a similar … | Continue reading
Renaissance Capital, the IPO research firm, has published a new report about the first quarter of this year, and, as you might expect, it doesn’t paint a pretty picture. For starters, it notes the U.S. IPO market hit the lowest levels in the first quarter since the financial cris … | Continue reading
President Barack Obama discussed the problem of addiction in the U.S. and administration steps to help, at an appearance Tuesday at the National Prescription Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit in Atlanta. Photo: AP | Continue reading
VB EVENT: Mobile commerce is exploding, with researchers at Gartner and Forrester predicting the market to reach $1 trillion in the U.S. alone within the next decade, from around $100 billion today. Seeing that opportunity, companies with mobile apps are trying to ride that wave … | Continue reading
For Google, it's Throwback Tuesday.The company typically likes to stand on the bleeding edge of technology (think self-driving cars and multi-modal drones), but today it's looking back at the venerable landline. Google is launching Fiber Phone, a new service tied to its Fiber Int … | Continue reading
The U.S. will soon get to experience Nintendo’s first mobile effort. The Japanese game company announced today that Miitomo will launch in the U.S. on March 31 for iOS and Android. It came out in Japan earlier in the month, where it reached 1 million downloads after three days. M … | Continue reading
Nintendo’s first smartphone application, “Miitomo,” now has a U.S. launch date: March 31st. In addition, the company says it will also be available in several other countries at the same time. While the company didn’t detail which countries will also receive the app, it will like … | Continue reading
www.ZerCustoms.com - This is one of the first time the McLaren 675LT has been reviewed on U.S. street... [...] | Continue reading
The first quarter of 2016 is about to go into the books as the worst three months for global IPOs since 2009. The disappearance of initial public offerings of stock is a remarkable turn, considering that at least in the U.S., the stock markets have been stable over the past year … | Continue reading
(Reuters) – The FBI is asking businesses and software security experts for emergency assistance in its investigation into a pernicious new type of “ransomware” virus used by hackers for extortion. “We need your help!” the Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a confidential “Fl … | Continue reading
The U.S. government today officially said it has gotten into San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook’s iPhone 5c and it is now asking the court to vacate the court’s original order to compel Apple to help the government unlock the phone. The government has issued a proposed ord … | Continue reading
Remember the chaos surrounding Kanye West’s release of his new album, “The Life of Pablo” last month? The artist had originally said his album would be a Tidal exclusive, which drove fans to download the streaming music app in such great numbers that it ended up at the top of the … | Continue reading
The LG G5 goes on sale in the U.S. at the end of this week. Are you buying one? | Continue reading
(By Greg Roumeliotis for Reuters) — Dell Inc is set to announce an agreement on Monday to sell its non-core information technology consulting division to Japan’s NTT Data Corp for $3.5 billion, people familiar with the matter said on Sunday. The move will allow U.S. computer make … | Continue reading
Facebook activated its Safety Check system today following the tragic attack in Lahore, Pakistan in which dozens were killed by a suicide bomber. However, the activation didn’t go off as planned as others around the world, specifically in the U.S. and the U.K., received notificat … | Continue reading
With global trade expected to grow steadily in the coming years, ports around the world are being automated. Yet the United States lags behind. In Los Angeles and Long Beach, the nation's two largest ports, only two of the 13 marine terminals are automating. Photo: Patrick T. Fal … | Continue reading
U.S. iPhone users spent an average of $35 on apps during 2015, according to research by Sensor Tower. Of that amount, $25, or 71 percent, was spent on games. The research is based on 110 million iPhones that were in active use in the U.S. last year, according to Sensor Tower and … | Continue reading
Snapchat, the rapidly growing social application favored by mobile’s youngest users, has hit a notable milestone: for the first time ever, its iOS application reached the top of the iTunes App Store, where it briefly become the #1 Overall free application in the U.S. While Snapch … | Continue reading
Universities in the U.S. are a wellspring of innovation, but they are almost certainly killing off some (really) good ideas too early. Investors should be paying more attention to how innovation is treated at the places it originates. Read More | Continue reading
(Reuters) – Seven Iranian hackers broke into computers of dozens of U.S. banks, causing millions of dollars in damages, and tried to shut down a New York dam, the U.S. government said on Thursday in an indictment that for the first time accused individuals tied to another country … | Continue reading
(Reuters) – U.S. officials said on Thursday that they are hopeful they will be able to unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters without help from Apple Inc, but said the national debate over privacy and encryption must still be resolved. Apple has been fighting … | Continue reading
President Barack Obama spoke at a memorial honoring the victims of Argentina's military rule and said the U.S. will declassify related documents from the period, with a goal of confronting the past with transparency and honesty. Photo: AP | Continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO (By Mari Saito, Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc, under pressure from an activist shareholder to disclose its policies on gender pay equality, said on Wednesday its female employees earned as much as their male counterparts, according to a survey it recently conducted. The … | Continue reading
This post is not meant to dis Millennials. In truth, I’ve had my fill of Millennial-bashing comments and commentaries in recent years, often promulgated by the not-so-silent ranks of disdainful Boomers and disgruntled Gen Xers, much of it undeserved. The largest demographic group … | Continue reading
As announced, mere days after the new, 4-inch iPhone SE and 9.7-inch iPad Pro were introduced, the devices are now available for pre-order in 13 territories. The list is as follows: Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Singapore, … | Continue reading
(Reuters) – A businessman from China pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiring to hack into the computer networks of major U.S. defense contractors including Boeing, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement. Su Bin, 50, faces a maximum five-year sentence for allegedly c … | Continue reading
(Reuters) – The Obama administration is expected to blame Iranian hackers as soon as Thursday for a coordinated campaign of cyberattacks in 2012 and 2013 on several U.S. banks and a New York dam, sources familiar with the matter have told Reuters. The Justice Department has prepa … | Continue reading
A new report from U.S. consumer rights and privacy advocacy group, the Center for Digital Democracy, has set out the case for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to tighten data protection rules around how ISPs and telcos collect and use consumer data. Read More | Continue reading
Microsoft has unveiled an A.I.-powered chat bot called Tay.ai, which was built by the Microsoft Technology and Research and Bing teams, with the goal of conducting real-world research on conversational understanding, the company says. The bot, which is aimed at 18 to 24 year olds … | Continue reading
Blendle is looking to help online publishers monetize through charging for individual articles, and today the Dutch startup is opening for business in the U.S. Founded out of Utrecht in 2014, Blendle has generated a fair bit of buzz over the past couple of years with the promise … | Continue reading
TEL AVIV (By by Tova Cohen, Reuters) – Israel’s Cellebrite, a provider of mobile forensic software, is helping the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation’s attempt to unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino, California shooters, the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported on … | Continue reading
Cherubic Ventures, an early-stage VC firm with a focus on the U.S. and Asia, has announced a new fund targeted at $120 million. Read More | Continue reading
Now signing up 1.5 million users each week in the U.S., Android Pay, Google’s payment platform and mobile wallet for Android devices and apps, is now coming to the UK, with dozens of partners including banks, physical retailers, apps and payment platforms in tow. Google is not gi … | Continue reading
Google has finally revealed plans to launch Android Pay in Europe, with the Internet giant announcing the U.K. as its launchpad across the Atlantic “in the next few months.” Google launched its Apple Pay competitor last May, but it has hitherto been a U.S-only affair. Similar to … | Continue reading