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Bumble dating app files to become a public company

Paul Hill — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 20:16:01 +0000

The dating app Bumble has filed with the SEC to become a publicly-traded company. Once all the paperwork is out of the way, the company will be traded under the symbol BMBL on the NASDAQ. Read more...

The co-founder of DeepMind is joining Google to work on AI and its applications

Ather Fawaz — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 19:56:02 +0000

After almost a decade with DeepMind, the company's co-founder, Mustafa Suleyman, will now be joining Google directly to work on applied artificial intelligence starting January next year. Read more...

UK firms lost 21 times more revenue to ransomware than US companies

Vlad Dudau — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 08:56:01 +0000

According to a new report that polled over 500 IT heads at companies in different countries, ransomware infections are becoming more and more of a problem, especially for companies in the UK. Read more...

Microsoft acquires Israeli cloud security firm Adallom, addressing cyber threats

Jett Goldsmith — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 21:40:01 +0000

Microsoft confirmed reports that it has acquired cloud security company Adallom for $320 million, promising advanced protection for Microsoft clients against cybersecurity attacks. Read more...

Microsoft is reportedly the third biggest tech company in the world, after Apple and Samsung

Adrian Potoroaca — Wed, 13 May 2015 16:52:01 +0000

Despite the fact that the world of technology has been and still is in a constant state of disruption, Microsoft still manages a modest but significant third place in the financial charts. Read more...

Nokia currently has 'no plans' to return to the smartphone business

Usama Jawad — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 13:54:01 +0000

Nokia has issued a statement strongly denying rumors of its return to the smartphone business next year, stating that the company has 'no plans' at all of manufacturing or selling consumer handsets. Read more...

Snapchat's lawyers threaten existence of '6discover' app on Windows Phone

Usama Jawad — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 11:42:01 +0000

Rudy Huyn released a new "6discover" app to the Windows Phone Store less than 24 hours ago, but now he has been contacted by the company's lawyers regarding the legal implications of the app. Read more...

Samsung on Bendgate 2.0: 'Our smartphones are not bendable under daily usage'

Usama Jawad — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 16:20:01 +0000

A couple of days ago, a surprising video released by a firm revealed that the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge bent as easily as the iPhone 6 Plus. Samsung has now released its official statement on the matter. Read more...

Microsoft to acquire Revolution Analytics

Usama Jawad — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 18:28:02 +0000

After acquiring Moodle and Equivio in the past couple of days, Microsoft has also announced its plans to acquire Revolution Analytics to help customers find big data value with statistical analysis. Read more...

FBI issues confidential reports to US businesses warning them of destructive malware

Usama Jawad — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 11:12:01 +0000

The cyber attack on Sony last week by the hacking group #GOP has caused alarm among US businesses. The FBI has reportedly been sending 'flash' warnings to many companies regarding destructive malware. Read more...

Twitter reportedly considering purchasing SoundCloud

James Walker — Mon, 19 May 2014 21:15:17 +0000

Twitter is reportedly considering making an offer for online music sharing service SoundCloud to facilitate a re-entry into the music industry in a deal that could be worth up to $700 million. Read more...

Microsoft company store employee caught stealing $10,000 worth of software

Denis Wong — Thu, 05 May 2011 08:08:54 +0000

It's no secret that employees of a company get generous discounts towards software produced by their colleagues. Microsoft is no exception. Of course, software purchased from there must be used by employees and only their... Read more...

eBay buys GSI Commerce

Piers Hausjell — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:24:13 +0000

eBay has completed the purchase of GSI Commerce, an American ecommerce company which provide online stores, marketing, customer support, payment processing and fraud & web security services, for $2.4b in cash and debt. "Combined with eBay... Read more...

Microsoft Partners now offered Microsoft Surface SDK

Sam Symons — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:23:41 +0000

If you're part of a company which is enrolled in the Microsoft Partner program, and you are lusting for the ability to try out Microsoft's Surface SDK, your wish is now granted. According to Ars... Read more...

How do Apple's designs affect consumers?

Sam Symons — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:05:58 +0000

Apple has always been a company known for design; not just design, but even the most loathing Apple hater will have to admit at some time that the company does make some pretty well thought... Read more...

More than 1/2 of ex-employees admit to stealing company data

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:48:00 +0000

On Monday Ponemon Institute published the results of a survey titled Data Loss Risks During Downsizing which was sponsored by Symantec to get a clear perception of the data-theft problem. The study involved 945 individuals... Read more...

Palm Pre, the phone to save the company

Brad Sams — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:41:37 +0000

Palm introduced today the Palm Pre which puts everything you ever wanted into one package. This phone will be limited to Sprint initially but will spread to other carriers over time. The impressive... Read more...

Italian media company sues YouTube

James Hall — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:40:33 +0000

Italian media company Mediaset announced on Wednesday that it has filed a lawsuit against YouTube and owner Google, alleging that the video-sharing site distributed and exploited its commercial property. Mediaset alleges that it found... Read more...

Company patents wishlists, sues almost everyone

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:53:49 +0000

Florida based company "Channel Intelligence" filed for patent infringement on Tuesday against multitude of people and companies that offer "wishlists". Specifically, the wishlists in question are lists of desired products from the defendant's websites that... Read more...

Cable Company Empties 14,000 E-Mail Accounts

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:57:21 +0000

Charter Communications officials believe a software error during routine maintenance caused the company to delete the contents of 14,000 customer e-mail accounts. There is no way to retrieve the messages, photos and other attachments that... Read more...

Hitachi to form hard drive company with Toshiba, Fujitsu?

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:36:52 +0000

Japanese conglomerate, Hitachi, may be in talks with Toshiba and Fujitsu on forming a new company dedicated to hard drives and storage systems. The new company would combine the limping hard drive divisions of Hitachi... Read more...

Facebook sues Ontario porn company over alleged hacking

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:12:19 +0000

Facebook is suing a Toronto-based porn company and 17 people for allegedly trying to hack the social networking site for the personal information of its users. According to an amended statement of claim filed by... Read more...

Silicon Knights' Dyack: Quebec Game Company Subsidies Insane

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:11:34 +0000

Talking as part of an in-depth studio tour posted on Gamasutra today, Ontario-based Silicon Knights founder Denis Dyack has been discussing the state of Canadian game development, suggesting subsidies from the Quebec government to companies... Read more...

Salesforce.com President Leaves Company

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:00:30 +0000

John Freeland has announced today that he leaving his position as president of worldwide operations at Salesforce.com, a company which creates on-demand customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, to become CEO and president at Information Resources,... Read more...

Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts goes golden

Todd Tanner — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:01:25 +0000

THQ Inc. today announced Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts, developed by award-winning Real-Time Strategy (RTS) developer Relic Entertainment, has reached the gold master stage of development and is now entering manufacturing. Company of Heroes: Opposing... Read more...

Seagate: No Buyout Offer from Chinese Company

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:28:11 +0000

Contrary to previous reports, Seagate Technology has announced the world's largest disk drive maker has not received an offer to be acquired by any foreign or domestic company and that it is not for sale.... Read more...

Chinese Company Interested in Buying Seagate

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 23:16:25 +0000

An unnamed Chinese technology company has shown interest in acquiring disk drive maker Seagate Technology, which owns about 30% of the world market share in the sector. The possibility of such a transaction raises concerns... Read more...

Beijing Software Company Sues Blizzard

Sat, 25 Aug 2007 22:27:26 +0000

In a lawsuit disclosed just today, Beijing-based software company Founder Group has filed a lawsuit against Blizzard Entertainment, the creator of the "World of Warcraft," and WoW's local operator in China for allegedly using its... Read more...

ASUS announces plans to split company and brand

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 19:02:55 +0000

AsusTek Computer Incorported has announced its intention to split in order to maximize competitive performance and minimize potential conflicts of interest. As things currently stand, it's possible for a company that competes with the AsusTek... Read more...

Google acquires server software company Peakstream

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:21:19 +0000

Google has acquired Peakstream, a Redwood City, California-based developer of software for multicore and parallel processors. The search giant declined to disclose terms of the deal. Peakstream's flagship product, PeakStream Workstation for Microsoft Windows, was... Read more...

Company of Heroes DX10 Patch

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:32:43 +0000

The DX10 patch for Company of Heroes has been released, bringing to v1.70 this real-time strategy game set in World War II and developed by Relic Entertainment. A playable demo can be found here. NVIDIA... Read more...

Microsoft buys mobile ad company ScreenTonic

Thu, 03 May 2007 13:32:19 +0000

Microsoft has announced plans to buy ScreenTonic, a company that specializes in delivering localized ads to mobile devices, for an undisclosed sum. ScreenTonic, based in Paris and founded in 2001, will become part of Microsoft's... Read more...

Dutch internet TV company 'Joost' to show CNN

Tue, 01 May 2007 20:19:29 +0000

Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, the entrepreneurs who developed both Kazaa and Skype, are now using p2p technology to broadcast television via the Internet. Joost announced that it had signed several new content distribution agreements:... Read more...

Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts Announcement

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:42:42 +0000

THQ Inc. today announced Company of Heroes™: Opposing Fronts™, the next chapter in the groundbreaking real-time strategy (RTS) franchise, from internal studio Relic Entertainment, is scheduled to launch in fall 2007 for Windows PC. Powered... Read more...

Sri Lanka's first Internet company halts services

Sun, 04 Mar 2007 23:54:13 +0000

Sri Lanka's first Internet service provider was set up in 1994 by a group of Sri Lankans residing in the US and Colombo-based investors. Since 1994, more than 25 Internet service providers have started operations... Read more...

Microsoft says Zune Executive to leave the Company

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 05:11:33 +0000

Bryan Lee, a senior Microsoft Corp. executive who oversaw the launch of its Zune digital music player, plans to leave the company. The corporate vice president at Microsoft's entertainment and devices division also played a... Read more...

Novell: We're a 'mixed-source' company

Michael Stanclift — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 00:27:25 +0000

Speaking to ZDNet Asia last week, Maarten Koster, the newly-appointed president of Novell Asia-Pacific, noted that the company positions itself in the market differently from its rivals. "You've got Red Hat as a pure... Read more...

Company of Heroes 1.3 Patch Released

Todd Tanner — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:05:17 +0000

A big (read: big) patch was released yesterday for Relic's awesome RTS masterpiece Company of Heroes. There are a ton of changes, fixes and additions to the game, far to much to list here. I... Read more...

EVE Online Dev Merging With Table Top RPG Company

Todd Tanner — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:17:26 +0000

Developer of EVE Online, CCP, is to merge with table top role-playing specialist White Wolf, with the new company intent on creating new IP for the MMO market. "White Wolf possesses the RPG industry's leading... Read more...

Company of Heroes videocard performance

Julio Franco — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 07:03:10 +0000

The new real-time strategy game set in WWII, Company of Heroes, delivers full cinematic detail, and in doing so, it requires quite a lot of processing power. With all the visual enhancements enabled, Company of... Read more...