April 30, 2015 Microsoft Takes Steps to Close Its App Gap on Mobile Devices by NICK WINGFIELD By NICK WINGFIELD Microsoft has steadily lost influence in the technology industry as software developers gravitated to mobile technologies like Google’s Android and Apple’s…
April 30, 2015 A Founder of Secret, the Anonymous Social App, Is Shutting It Down by MIKE ISAAC By MIKE ISAAC Secret’s rapid rise and fall illustrates the flash-in-the-pan nature of Silicon Valley’s current technology boom. Published: April 29, 2015 at 08:00PM…
April 29, 2015 Electronic Bidet Toilet Seat Is the Luxury You Won’t Want to Live Without by FARHAD MANJOO By FARHAD MANJOO A toilet seat that warms and cleans has been used widely abroad for decades, but is just beginning to catch on…
April 29, 2015 Instacart’s Bet on Online Grocery Shopping by FARHAD MANJOO By FARHAD MANJOO The company delivers groceries bought by personal shoppers, and its growth may be in the double digits. But deep questions remain….
April 29, 2015 Google Reaches Out to European Publishers, With $165 Million in Hand by MARK SCOTT By MARK SCOTT Google’s efforts come less than two weeks after the European Commission filed antitrust charges against the company and before new potential…
April 29, 2015 Gambling Comes to E-Sports With Unikrn by NICK WINGFIELD By NICK WINGFIELD Competitive videogame playing, known as e-sports, has passed many milestones to mainstream acceptance. The latest comes through Unikrn, a start-up that…
April 29, 2015 Franchising a Student Digital Privacy Law by NATASHA SINGER By NATASHA SINGER The strategy Common Sense Media employed to push a student privacy law in California suggests how the group’s new and more…
April 29, 2015 Less Noise but More Money in Data Science by STEVE LOHR By STEVE LOHR The period of inflated expectations for big data is giving way to steady investment in technology and people, whose pay is…
April 28, 2015 Twitter Earnings, Released Early, Disappoint Investors; Shares Plunge by VINDU GOEL By VINDU GOEL Investors have been eager to see results from recent changes Twitter has made to help newcomers better understand how to use…
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