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Google announced over the weekend it is spearheading an initiative to build a picture-sharing database aimed at ridding the Web of child pornography The company's new database will rely on "hashing" technology; once an image has been flagged as offensive, it uses an algorithm to identify that photo elsewhere on the Web. While Google has been using ...
Mobile technologies may tend to focus on life's present and future, but Foursquare this week launched a feature that gives users new insight into the past. Specifically, the location-based social networking service on Thursday introduced the Foursquare Time Machine, a tool that allows users to retrace the steps of their past check-ins through a digital visualization...
Social media websites including Instagram, Pinterest and Tumblr have all adopted the "clickable hashtag" widely popularized by Twitter, and on Wednesday Facebook joined the proverbial club "To date, there has not been a simple way to see the larger view of what's happening or what people are talking about," explained Greg Lindley, a product manager...
Google has finalized its acquisition of Waze, developer of a crowdsourced mapping app, with the goal of expanding its location-based and social maps offerings while providing users with a way to outsmart traffic Israel-based Waze has a worldwide user base of about 50 million people who log in to access or submit real-time navigational data, using t...
Comcast is rolling out a neighborhood WiFi initiative designed to allow its Xfinity Internet subscribers to log in to nearby wireless hotspots outside of their home. Subscribers to the service will essentially be the hosts for two separate WiFi networks. One will be their private and secure home connection. The other signal, which Comcast would pr...
Softbank and Sprint issued a statement late Monday announcing changes to the merger agreement awaiting shareholders' approval. The new deal increases the amount of cash that would go to stockholders by reallocating funds that had been earmarked for direct investment in Sprint. SoftBank will acquire shares from current Sprint shareholders for US$7....
Facebook will simplify its advertising structure in an effort to make it easier for marketers to determine which products will help them best reach consumers, the company announced this week Advertisers currently face a choice of 27 different formats on the social network, but the streamlining effort will cut that back to fewer than half that numbe...
More than half of the adults in the United States now own a smartphone, constituting a new milestone in the history of the device, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project Specifically, smartphone adoption has grown to 56 percent of American adults, according to Pew's Smartphone Ownership 2013 report released this week....
Amazon is rolling out a grocery delivery service that could allow it to expand into a mostly untapped e-commerce market, according to a Reuters report. The company already runs AmazonFresh, a grocery service that delivers food and home products to several Seattle neighborhoods. A similar service reportedly will launch later this month in Los Angel...
Zynga said this week that it is slashing 18 percent of its workforce in an effort to better allocate costs as it attempts to develop more gaming hits across multiple digital platforms. It will eliminate about 520 positions by August. Cutting Zynga's "brothers and sisters" was necessary but not something the company ever expected to face, CEO Mark ...
DirecTV and two other unidentified bidders are offering upwards of US$1 billion to buy Hulu, according to multiple press accounts DirecTV could possibly be planning to add Hulu's digital offerings to its TV packages.
Fanhattan unveiled its new Fan TV set-top system at D11 on Thursday. It aims to streamline the television and digital entertainment experience by integrating several media platforms into a single streaming box ...
Google unveiled a new Gmail design to give users more organizational control over a cluttered in-box The revamped in-box is an option; users who like the approach can separate their email into four tabs: primary, promotions, social and updates....
Pandora's boost in Q1 revenue, thanks largely to an increase in subscribers who want to listen to ad-free Internet radio, helped the streaming media company turn in a quarterly report Thursday that beat expectations The Internet radio service reported US$126 million in revenue, a 55 percent increase from the same period last year and higher than th...
Clearwire's special committee and its board of directors recommended that shareholders approve Sprint's increased offer to buy the remaining half of the company Sprint already owns about 50 percent of Clearwire. It upped its bid to purchase the remaining stake by 14 percent Tuesday, offering US$3.40 per share. That offer values Clearwire at $10.7 b...
Dish Network is offering US$2 billion for some of LightSquared's spectrum in a move that could help the company expand its offerings beyond pay TV The offer, first reported by Bloomberg, would add spectrum to Dish's growing supply of airwaves. LightSquared, the bankrupt wireless network company funded largely by billionaire Philip Falcone's Harbing...
Marketo and Tableau Software are having strong launches as public companies, indicating investors are excited about the growth in enterprise software markets that target niches such as Big Data and marketing automation Tableau Software, which designs data visualization software that helps businesses manage an abundance of information, trades under ...
Dell's quarterly earnings fell short of Wall Street expectations this week, leading to more questions about whether or not shareholders will accept Michael Dell's buyout offer and regroup as a private company The PC maker reported a net income of US$130 million, or 7 cents per share, during its most recent quarter. If not for certain items, Dell sa...
Cisco's quarterly earnings report beat Wall Street expectations this week, giving investors a hint of confidence in the constantly evolving tech industry The networking company reported a net income of US$2.48 billion, or 46 cents per share. That's up from the $2.17 billion it brought in during the same time last year. Revenue was up 5.4 percent to...
Google on Wednesday unveiled Google Play Music All Access, a US$9.99 per month subscription streaming music service that allows users to discover and curate music on the company's platform The company announced All Access at the keynote of this year's I/O Developer's Conference, its annual gathering where it often publicly launches new hardware, so...
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