Facebook expands smartphone alerts to news, weatherFacebook, making a bigger push to deliver personalized information to its members, said it was expanding its mobile alerts to include sports scores, weather updates and local news updates.
27 October 2015
Zuckerbergs to start school mixing learning and healthFacebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg and his doctor wife revealed plans to start a private school in a hardscrabble Silicon Valley town, mixing education with health care.
YouTube Gaming adds mobile play streamingYouTube Gaming ramped up its challenge to Amazon-owned Twitch by adding streamed play of mobile games and a new subscription option.
16 October 2015
Facebook to test mobile app shopping tabFacebook said that it will begin testing a shopping tab for its mobile app as it works to ramp up advertising and online commerce offerings.
India PM makes rock star appearance at FacebookStanding side-by-side with Mark Zuckerberg, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a rock star appearance at Facebook, advocating for the political power of social media.
28 September 2015
Instagram tops 400 million usersInstagram has rocketed past the 400-million-user mark, with more than 80 million pictures shared daily at the Facebook-owned service.
Tech world waits for iPhone news and hopes for magicThe tech world will have its eyes on Apple, expecting new versions of the company's coveted iPhone but hoping for magic in the form of unexpected innovation.
09 September 2015
Microsoft buys cloud computing security startupMicrosoft said it bought an Israel-based cybersecurity startup specializing in defending programs and content in the cloud, as it expands offerings for the enterprise.
09 September 2015
Intel putting $50 mn into quantum computing researchUS chip colossus Intel said that it will put $50 million and engineering resources into an alliance on quantum computing that could radically advance complex problem-solving.
04 September 2015
Wikipedia blocks accounts linked to paid editsWikipedia said that it has blocked more than 300 accounts being used by people being paid to create or tweak entries at the communally sourced online encyclopedia.
03 September 2015
Google changes logo to better suit mobile devicesGoogle on Tuesday refreshed its logo to better suit mobile devices that are supplanting desktop computers when it comes to modern Internet lifestyles.
02 September 2015
Instagram images no longer just squaresInstagram broke its square mold with an update that adds portrait and landscape formats to the image-sharing smartphone application.