From CNET: Spotify's music business might be streaming onto the New York Stock Exchange either in time for the holidays or the new year.
The streaming music company is looking at going public as a direct listing by either late 2017 or early 2018, according to CNBC's sources.
Joining as a direct...
Spring is in the air. The snow is finally gone from the yard, and the city trees are beginning to bud with leaves. On another front, university has wrapped up for the semester, and many students have begun the process of spring cleaning in preparation for the trek home to friends and family. There are many different ways and styles people go about performing their spring cleaning. Many people bring out the dusters and mops to start making their...
From CNET: Rivals T-Mobile and Sprint may end up on the same team.
The companies are in early talks with each other about a deal to consolidate, according to Bloomberg. Executives from Sprint's parent, SoftBank, and T-Mobile's parent, Deutsche Telekom, have also been in "informal contact,"...
From InfoWorld: Mobile developers building apps for iOS and Android have some new tools from Microsoft designed to make their lives easier. On Thursday, the company unveiled a series of apps and services, including one that's designed to let Windows-based developers test iOS apps from their PCs...
From PC World: Over two dozen HP laptop models have been secretly recording users’ keystrokes, possibly by mistake, according to a Swiss security firm.
The keylogger is found within the PCs' audio driver software and has existed since at least Dec. 2015, the security firm Modzero said in a Thursday...
From InfoWorld: It's the end of the line for Intel's Itanium chip, a troubled processor family that spawned many product delays and bad blood between HP and Oracle.
Intel on Thursday started shipping its latest Itanium 9700 chip, code-named Kittson, in volume. It's the last of the Itanium chips...
From CNET: The social media app and "camera company" behind Snapchat is a cryptic one. Hell, if you're over the age of 35, you probably don't even know how it works.
And while we got a sense of its performance in over the past two years through its Securities and Exchange Commission filing for its...
From PC World: Cable companies can deliver very fast broadband service because the coaxial cable they use offers so much more bandwidth than the twisted-pair cable that DSL service relies on. And the cable companies will happily rent you the equipment you need, on top of the fee they charge you for...
At a couple of events with my colleague Jonathan Kwan and our friends, a fairly pointless debate keeps popping up. The debate started with one our friends saying golf is not a sport. Since debating is quite fun, we went with it, arguing golf is a sport. This all boiled down to a dumb argument on how we define what a sport is. The main point of contention was whether there is enough physical exertion in golf to constitute it as a sport. As one...
From CNET: The wireless carriers can't stop talking about the next generation of wireless technology, which promises to be faster, more responsive and able to handle connected devices without breaking a sweat. T-Mobile has committed to building out a nationwide 5G network before anyone else, and...
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