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Amazon’s Cold Fire Phone Inflames Investors

Amazon on Thursday posted a net loss of US$437 million for the third quarter, or 95 cents per diluted share. For the same period in 2013, it posted a net loss of $41 million, or 9 cents per diluted share. ...

Some Apple Pay Users Get Double-Billing and Double-Talk

Shortly after Apple Pay's Monday launch, some eager early users were unsettled to see duplicate charges on their accounts. ...

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Aviso Helps Sales Managers ID the Real Deals

Aviso, a two-and-a-half-year old startup, has launched its first product, Aviso Insights. It is a sales forecasting analytics tool that uses machine learning and portfolio management frameworks to help sales managers answer a fundamental question: What deals can I expect to close this quarter? ...

Whisper Shouts Denials of Tracking Allegations

Whisper, an app that purports to send messages anonymously, has been tracking the location of its users, including those who have turned off their geolocation feature, The Guardian reported last week. ...

Debate Simmers Over Facebook, Apple Egg-Freezing Benefit

Facebook and Apple, companies already known for their generous employee benefits, are raising the bar even more by paying for egg-freezing services for their female employees. Facebook began covering up to US$20,000 in these expenses at the start of the year, and Apple will beginning covering them at the start of next, NBC News reported this week.

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SalesMesh Bridges Rep-Corporate Information Gap

AppMesh, a 2-year old provider of a mobile CRM application, recently came out of the gate with the second iteration of its flagship product, SalesMesh. Version 2.0 is a major leap in functionality for the app that builds on the cofounders' vision of developing a personal sales system for the sales rep. ...

Wireless Carriers Could Take a Shine to Ad-Blocking

Shine Technologies, an Israeli startup with an office in Sunnyvale, California, may well upend the Net neutrality issue with the launch of AdSight, an ad technology product in development. ...

Salesforce Gives Devs a Burst of Lightning

Salesforce.com on Tuesday unveiled Salesforce1 Lightning, a new Platform as a Service for developers to build mobile apps. ...

Snapchat Hackers Could Be Prosecuted for Child Porn Offenses

Private videos and pictures shared between tens of thousands of Snapchat users -- possibly as many as 200,000 -- were posted online by hackers over the weekend in an episode dubbed the "Snappening." Much of the content is sexual, including many nude photos -- some possibly of minors ...

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One Way Around the Mobile Net Neutrality Conundrum

Verizon Wireless may be bitterly regretting the challenge Verizon made to the Federal Communications Commission's Net neutrality rules a few years ago. There's little doubt competing wireless providers are ...

Facebook Sharpens Audience Network Targeting

Facebook on Tuesday further opened its Audience Network to third-party developers and publishers. It debuted the platform in April, positioning it as a mobile monetization tool that would leverage Facebook's 1.5 million advertisers and the millions of users who sign into apps using their Facebook credentials ...

Bezos to Set The Washington Post on Fire

Jeff Bezos is planning to bring together two separate but equally important projects under his control: the Amazon Kindle Fire and The Washington Post. The Amazon CEO bought the paper slightly more than a year ago as a personal investment. ...

Being Facebook Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry

Facebook on Thursday announced it had developed a framework for conducting research on its 1.3 billion or so users ...

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How Gamification Will Rise From the Trough of Disillusionment

Gartner's Hype Cycle Report, which looks at new technologies as they make their way through the inevitable gauntlet of media hype, is now in its 20th year. ...

Attorney Slams Google for Making Money Off Nude Celeb Pics

Google may be on the receiving end of a US$100 million lawsuit from attorneys representing some of the celebrities whose nude photos were hacked from their iCloud accounts and subsequently posted online. ...

Restless Shareholders Pelt Mayer With Yahoo Merger Proposals

Alternative Investment Management this weekend sent a letter to Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, urging her to consider merging with SoftBank, according to a Bloomberg report. ...

Apple Dismisses Bendgate

Apple has been plagued by two iPhone 6 issues in recent days: 1) an update to its iOS 8 operating system wound up disrupting cellular connectivity and disabling the Touch ID fingerprint reader to unlock it; and 2) numerous reports surfaced in mainstream and social media that the new iPhone 6 bends. ...

Desktop PCs May Be Poised for a Comeback

Desktop computer users are more satisfied with their devices than laptop and tablet owners, according to a recent American Customer Satisfaction Index survey. However, the category of personal computer satisfaction in general appears to be somewhat in the dumps. The annual measure of satisfaction fell 1.3 points to a score of 78 out of a possible 100.

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Where Apple Watch Leads, CRM Will Follow?

CRM system users are a versatile bunch. Some 29 percent of participants in a recent survey accessed CRM through four devices: laptops, desktops, tablets and smartphones. Twenty percent said they used a combination of three of the aforementioned form factors, and about 81 percent said they used multiple devices to access CRM, according to Software Advice's report.

iPhone 6 Bendgate: The End of Tight Jeans?

Another new Apple product, another "-gate" debacle. This time, it's bendgate. On the heels of the release of the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus handsets earlier this month has come an uproar over an unexpected weakness: In short, when stashed in a pocket of a tight pair of pants, the iPhone 6 Plus bends -- and it doesn't return to its original shape when removed.

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