Yahoo buys Chinese startup Ztelic to boost R&D
Yahoo has made yet another acquisition, this time picking up Beijing-based data analysis startup Ztelic to boost its research and development efforts in China.
View ArticleFacebook posts coming to the wider Web
Get ready for a whole lot more Facebook content to start appearing around the Web. The social network kicked off a new program Wednesday that lets websites embed public Facebook posts on their own Web...
View Article10 tidbits from Twitter's IPO filing
Twitter made its IPO documents public Thursday and in the process revealed some juicy information about the company, like how much money it makes (or loses) and how much its executives get paid. Here...
View ArticleYahoo reports another sales drop as ad clicks yield less
Yahoo reported a 5 per cent drop in revenue for the third quarter, with the money it makes from display and search ads both continuing to decline.
View ArticleUpdated: Facebook buying WhatsApp for $US16 billion
Facebook, in a major push to expand its business on smaller screens, has agreed to buy the mobile messaging app WhatsApp for $US16 billion.
View ArticleFacebook buying Oculus VR virtual-reality company for $US2 billion
Facebook has reached a surprise deal to buy Oculus VR, developer of the Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset, for about $US2 billion, according to the social network.
View ArticleSamsung draws rosy picture of IoT in lackluster CES keynote
Samsung officially opened the International CES on Monday evening with a keynote that painted a rosy picture of the Internet of Things but offered little substance except that vendors must be "open"...
View ArticleApple's Tim Cook warns that sacrificing privacy 'risks our way of life'
Apple CEO Tim Cook has warned of "dire consequences" if tech companies can't protect the privacy of those who use their products.
View ArticleDorsey gets Twitter CEO post, Bain appointed COO
Twitter has made co-founder Jack Dorsey its new CEO, ending months of speculation and handing him the tough task of turning around the company's sluggish user growth.
View ArticleIntel buys cognitive computing startup Saffron
With IBM pouring millions of dollars into the emerging field of cognitive computing, Intel got in on the act Monday by announcing its acquisition of Saffron.
View ArticleYahoo has released a ton of anonymized user data to help machine learning...
Yahoo has released a 13.5TB file of anonymized user data to machine learning scientists in academia, calling it the largest-ever release of its kind
View Article'Big bets' cost Google parent, Alphabet, US$3.6 billion in losses last year
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, racked up US$3.6 billion in losses last year on investments in "big bets" such as self-driving cars and Internet balloons.
View ArticleYahoo to slash jobs and close Web properties in major turnaround plan
Yahoo will cut 15 percent of its workforce and close some online services in a major turnaround plan announced Tuesday.
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