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Qualcomm Board, Executives Reject Push to Break Up
Qualcomm officials said they will keep the company intact, noting that the best way to deal with its myriad challenges is by ensuring that...
Google Updates BigQuery With New Cost Controls
Google has updated its BigQuery data analytics service with new features that, among other things, let enterprises set a daily maximum limit for query...
Facebook Quietly Testing Searchable Business-Referral Service
Facebook is testing out a challenge to old-timers Angie's List, Yelp and others with a new searchable service-referral directory called Facebook Services.The social network...
Microsoft Latest Innovation Center Opens in Atlanta
Microsoft and members of the tech startup scene in Georgia are celebrating the opening of Microsoft's latest Innovation Center in Atlanta today.Located in the...
Samsung Appealing Apple Patent Case to Supreme Court
Samsung is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review U.S. design patent laws as part of the company's appeal involving an ongoing patent-infringement case...
Mozilla Ups Security, Tracking Protection in Firefox 43
Mozilla came out today with its open-source Firefox 43 browser release, giving users a number of security enhancements and patching vulnerabilities. The Firefox 43...
Microsoft Releases Office 365 Planner Preview
Administrators can now test Office 365 Planner, a new cloud-based team collaboration offering from Microsoft, the company announced this week.Microsoft began switching on the...
Apple Seeks Patent for Potential iPhone Waterproofing Technique
Today's topics include what an Apple patent application suggests about iPhone design, speculation about new features coming in the Samsung Galaxy S7, updates to...
Netflix Updates Algorithm Policy, May Solve Streaming Issues
With an increasing deluge of personally and professionally created content being uploaded to Web services companies and downloaded to consumers, something eventually has to...
UK Police Make Arrest in Connection With VTech Hacking
Barely three weeks after the first public disclosure about a massive data breach at toy vendor VTech, an arrest related to the incident has...