Online adult video streaming site Pornhub announced Thursday its ambitions to be the “Netflix for porn” with a new paid premium video offering. Pornhub Premium is reported to cost porn aficionados $9.99 per month, although those that don’t wish to splurge initially on the service have the option of signing up for a try before ...

International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) has acquired enterprise image sharing applications provider Merge Healthcare, Inc. for $1 billion. Founded in 1987 and publicly listed since 1998, Merge provides solutions to improve the healthcare experience for patients, providers and payers, ranging from Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs,) remote radiology centers to specialized practices and more, covering specialties ...

Proving the concept that free trials work, Apple, Inc. has revealed Thursday that it has signed up 11 million people to its Apple Music music streaming service. The service, which launched June 30, opened to the public with an initial 3 month free trial period in an effort to get people to try the service ...

Social news sharing website Reddit has finally cracked down on blatantly racist content following the release of a new content policy Wednesday. The new policy, detailed by Chief Executive Officer Steve Huffman in a post to Reddit, is claimed to be a consolidation of various rules and policies that Reddit has accumulated over the years ...

Content delivery network (CDN) firm Fastly, Inc. has raised $75 million Series D in a round led by Iconiq Capital that included existing investors Amplify Partners, August Capital, Battery Ventures, IDG Ventures, and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. Founded in 2011, Fastly bills itself as the only content delivery network that gives businesses complete control over how ...

Apple, Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook may not yet have been given deity status by the throngs of Apple fanboys, as the late Steve Jobs once had, but that doesn’t mean the company still can’t occasionally walk on water, with news Wednesday that the tech giant had managed to win a ruling in regards ...

Circlejerk: a pejorative slang term referring to a positive feedback loop which occurs when an idea, belief or meme that is already customary within an online community becomes re-iterated and rewarded in a perpetual cycle. Know Your Meme It’s a matter of record that microblogging come messaging service Twitter, Inc. isn’t having a good time ...

Apple, Inc. broke its usual policy of remaining silent on rumors and speculation Tuesday by coming out publicly and flat out denying that it was planning a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) service. “We have not discussed nor do we have any plans to launch an MVNO,” said an Apple spokeswoman said in a statement ...

Yahoo, Inc.’s advertising network has been found to be unknowingly serving malicious code that may have seen millions of visitors to Yahoo properties hacked. The attack, which is reported to have started on July 28, saw malware that exploited Flash vulnerabilities delivered via advertising to over a staggering 7.5 billion visits, a number believed to ...

An alleged photo leak of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s upcoming Galaxy Note 5 not only confirms previous leaks about the device, it confirms many a Samsung fans’ worst nightmare: no removable battery and no microSD card slot. The pictures, provided to Android blog Droid Life, show that the Galaxy Note 5 is primarily a larger ...