From CNET: Twitter spent $86.6 million earlier this year to acquire live-streaming app Periscope and social media startup Niche, according to a regulatory filing Monday.
The micro-blogging company's filing with the US Securities and Exchange commission did not itemize the selling price of each...
From DailyTech: SuperNexus lead developer and former SamMobile editor Faryaab Sheikh (@Faryaab) shared an interesting find to his Twitter Inc. (TWTR) account. The leak comes courtesy of an official source -- Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd.'s (KRX:005930) (KRX:005935) productivity software provider...
From InfoWorld: IBM is building slimmer versions of its Power hardware -- used by its Watson supercomputer -- to run complex database applications as well as simpler Web-based ones.
IBM has designed its latest Power servers for social networking, search engines and cloud storage, as computing moves...
From PC World: If you listened to AMD’s investor briefing on Thursday, you didn’t get the whole picture: AMD also quietly cut the prices of its mainstream CPUs, and said it had begun shipping its first “Carrizo” chips, the Carrizo-L for desktop PCs.
Unfortunately, those chips are being shipped to...
From CNET: If you've been eyeing Lenovo's latest ultraportable laptop, the LaVie Z series, since it was announced at CES 2015, this may make you think twice about purchasing it.
According to Consumer Reports, computers in this series have issues that prevent them from working as intended in...
From DailyTech: LinkedIn Corp. (LNKD) has a market cap of $25.17B USD on an annual revenue of $2.21B USD and a 2014 annual loss of $15M USD. Google Inc. (GOOG) earned a cool $14.4B USD in 2014 on a revenue of $66.0B USD. And it has a market cap of $366.9B USD. Pop quiz -- if these companies were...
What are the three basic needs of a human being? Back in the days, when I was in elementary school, I was taught it was food, clothing, and shelter. Recently, I was talking to one of my friends, who was born in the late 90's. Coming to her with the same question, she quickly responded without a second thought. "Food, electricity, and internet," she said. Apparently, a lot has changed since I was in elementary school. Now, as much as baby boomers...
If you look at the bottom of your receipt from restaurants and stores, you will often see some sort of text saying, "Tell us what you think!" This provides customers with the opportunity to return some feedback through a survey, or ask questions about the place. Often they come with an added bonus like better deals or chances of winning prizes, with a hope to get more customer feedback. Honestly, I never noticed this area until I started working...
From InfoWorld: Soon, multiple people will be able to work on the same Word document simultaneously, and even see each others' changes as they are typed out in real-time.
At the Ignite conference, held this week in Chicago, Microsoft demonstrated the new co-editing capability which lets two or more...
From PC World: Amazon Web Services has expanded to data centers in Australia and Europe the availability of its CodeDeploy service for automating software updates.
The service is being promoted as a way to do away with what Amazon calls error-prone manual operations, when rolling out new features...
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