January 14, 2015 Favorite tweets Incredible images of the giant skyscraper in the middle of the Amazon: http://t.co/ogh0kd3oqE http://ift.tt/17IPTIa — Business Insider (@businessinsider) January 14, 2015 from http://ift.tt/ed4O5b Via…
January 14, 2015 Bigger Settlement Said to Be Reached in Silicon Valley Antitrust Case by DAVID STREITFELD By DAVID STREITFELD Apple, Google, Intel and Adobe are said to be offering $415 million to settle accusations that they had conspired against their…
January 14, 2015 Obama Will Urge F.C.C. to Aid Local Broadband Expansion by JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS As part of a broad effort to improve Internet access, President Obama will ask the commission to overrule state laws…
January 14, 2015 Facebook Will Push Amber Alerts to Users’ News Feeds by VINDU GOEL By VINDU GOEL Facebook will use its geographic targeting technology to spread the word about abducted children through the news feeds of its American…
January 14, 2015 Google Translate App Gets an Upgrade by CONOR DOUGHERTY By CONOR DOUGHERTY The company’s translation service is becoming a lot smarter — and a lot easier to use. Published: January 13, 2015 at…
January 14, 2015 IBM Introduces z13, a Mainframe for the Smartphone Economy by STEVE LOHR By STEVE LOHR IBM’s new mainframe is designed for challenges of the smartphone economy. The new machine’s success is critical to IBM. Published: January…
January 14, 2015 Why Software ‘Containers’ Won’t Be Bad News for Programmers by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY The ability to compartmentalize software into sections that can be worked on one at a time will likely change how coders…
January 13, 2015 PC Market Exited 2014 With a Whimper by NICK WINGFIELD By NICK WINGFIELD Many people and businesses haven’t found compelling reasons to buy new personal computers in recent years, and PC companies didn’t discover…
January 13, 2015 Instacart, a Grocery Delivery Start-Up, Raises $220 Million by MIKE ISAAC By MIKE ISAAC The company is part of the so-called on-demand economy, start-up companies that let customers order anything — food, cars, alcohol —…
January 13, 2015 A Small Software Company Sees a Future in Containers of Code by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY A software start-up is in the forefront of a move to package applications much as shipping containers hold physical goods. Published:…