In a desperate ploy to attract new customers and retain existing ones, or perhaps an inspired promotion depending on which way you look at, wireless carrier T-Mobile International AG has announced that it’s literally giving away shares of the company to customers. T-Mobile users on post-paid plans, said to number around 11 to 12 million, ...

Troubled Alphabet, Inc. smart home devices subsidiary Nest, Inc. has a new Chief Executive Officer after a decision by Founder Tony Fadell to leave the position. Fadell made the announcement in a post on the Nest Blog, describing his decision to leave as bittersweet, but noted that he would be staying on at Alphabet as ...

Blogging platform provider Medium (A Medium Corporation) has acquired content feed provider Superfeedr (Notifixious, Inc.) for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2009, Superfeedr fetches and parses RSS or Atom feeds on behalf of its users and pushes new entries into these feeds. The company’s platform utilizes real time technologies and guarantees an entry detection time ...

In an interesting new adaption of its leading artificial intelligence (AI) solution, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) has announced that its Watson AI platform will now power smart advertisements that interact with consumers. The first use of the new application is being delivered through the IBM-owned The Weather Company, and will allow consumers to ask ...

Scammers are using data from the recent high profile hacks of MySpace, LinkedIn, Tumblr, and others sites in a new form of extortion scam, according to a warning issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The bureau’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) said in a statement that it continues to receive reports from individuals ...

Ridesharing startup Uber, Inc. has raised a staggering new private equity round of $3.5 billion from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. According to The New York Times the new round was raised at a valuation of $62.5 billion. As part of the deal, Public Investment Fund Managing Director Yasir Al Rumayyan will take a seat ...

In what could be a defining moment in the nascent augment reality and virtual reality spaces, Microsoft Corp. has opened up its Windows Holographic platform, the platform that drives its Hololens augmented reality glasses, to third parties. The announcement was made at the Computex in Taipei by Terry Myerson, Microsoft’s Executive Vice President, Windows and ...

The social justice warriors and “other kin” who use the Yahoo, Inc.-owned blogging site Tumblr have been pwned with a hacker releasing stolen records, including usernames and passwords, on the dark web. News of a potential hack of Tumblr first emerged in mid May when Yahoo confirmed the site had been hacked, but the hack itself ...

Would you like to play Asteroids on your smart, internet-connected bedside lamp? That may not be happening anytime soon, but you may well see the Atari brand on a range of products in the coming years with the legendary console maker announcing that it was returning to the hardware business through a new partnership. Atari ...

The rising popularity of ad blocking is not limited to traditional computers with a new study finding that increasingly large numbers of people are now using the technology on their smartphones. According to a report from PageFair Ltd. at least 419 million people now use ad blockers on their smartphones, accounting for some 22 percent ...