July 9, 2015 Reinventing Google for a Mobile World by CONOR DOUGHERTY By CONOR DOUGHERTY As Google races to become as essential on smartphones as it is on desktops, competition is popping up throughout Silicon Valley….
July 9, 2015 Facebook Gives Users More Control Over Their News Feeds by VINDU GOEL By VINDU GOEL Facebook announced a set of features that will give users more control over what they want to see in their news…
July 9, 2015 Daily Report: Microsoft to Cut Up to 7,800 Jobs, Mostly in Phones Unit by THE NEW YORK TIMES By THE NEW YORK TIMES The company will shed more than 6 percent of its workers and take a charge against earnings related to…
July 9, 2015 Free and Cheap Photoshop Alternatives for Windows by J. D. BIERSDORFER By J. D. BIERSDORFER Adobe Revel is one alternative to Adobe Photoshop Starter Album for Windows, which was discontinued in 2009. Published: July 8,…
July 9, 2015 Symantec Report Suggests Hackers’ Motives Are Blurring by NICOLE PERLROTH By NICOLE PERLROTH Symantec, the computer security company, suggests that a group it calls Morpho is after intellectual property, possibly to sell it to…
July 9, 2015 Quip Builds for Computing Everywhere by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY A company that offered a kind of Microsoft Office for the mobile age rediscovers the desktop, but with a difference: What’s…
July 9, 2015 Didi Kuaidi, the Chinese Ride-Hailing Service, Raises $2 Billion by PAUL MOZUR By PAUL MOZUR The highly successful fund-raising round comes during a rout in China’s stock markets, showing that the company is perceived as a…
July 9, 2015 Yahoo Will Enter Daily Fantasy Sports Market by VINDU GOEL and JOE DRAPE By VINDU GOEL and JOE DRAPE The Internet company says it will host daily and one-week fantasy games, joining a market estimated to generate…
July 9, 2015 Scent Received, With a Tap of a Smartphone by ROXIE HAMMILL and MIKE HENDRICKS By ROXIE HAMMILL and MIKE HENDRICKS Developers are getting ready to introduce products that would allow smartphone users to send and receive scents along…
July 9, 2015 IBM Announces Computer Chips More Powerful Than Any in Existence by JOHN MARKOFF By JOHN MARKOFF A consortium of which the company is a part has made working versions of ultradense seven-nanometer chips, capable of holding much…