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Glow wants your boss to help you get pregnant
Glow, the data science app that aims to help women get pregnant, has just gone and launched a new offering aimed at employers. Yes, that’s right, Glow thinks employers might want to help their workers have more babies, and to do so its come up with “Glow for Enterprise”, a program that aims to help ...
Microsoft Office is now ‘Online’
Just 24 hours after launching OneDrive as a replacement for SkyDrive, Microsoft has announced a major rebranding of its cloud-based productivity tools line up. Say hello to Office Online, Microsoft’s reinvented Office Web Apps, which has been redesigned so its easier to find, and comes with a bunch of new features to boot. The biggest ...
WhatsApp will open the door to Facebook’s next wave of expansion
So Facebook has just shelled out a jaw-dropping $19 billion on WhatsApp, a seemingly insane price when you think another popular messaging app called Viber was acquired for a ‘measly’ $900 millin by Japan’s Rakuten just one week ago. For sure, $19 billion is a massive amount of cash, but when you think about the ...
FCC tries to reimpose net neutrality by rewriting the rules
Rather than try to drag things out in the courts even further, the FCC has decide against appealing the recent net neutrality ruling. Instead, it’s going to do something far sneakier altogether – and simply write another, fresh set of rules governing the entire issue. The idea is that the new regulations will still ensure ...
Yandex fires up its own flavor of Android so everyone can ditch Google
Thanks to its open-source nature pretty much anyone can build a basic Android phone, and they don’t need Google’s permission to do so. But of course, not asking Google also means forsaking all of the apps and services that’ve become such a vital part of the Android OS – things such as Gmail, Maps and ...
IBM teams up with AT&T to rule the Internet of Things
Can you imagine a city which never has traffic problems, and where all the buses and trains run on time, with hardly any crime on the streets? Well, this is exactly the kind of vision that IBM and AT&T have in mind. To bring their plans to fruition, the two companies have just announced a ...
Hackers snatch $2.7M worth of Bitcoin in raid on Silk Road 2.0
The reincarnation of the Silk Road website has apparently been rinsed dry by hackers, who made off with 4474.26 Bitcoins worth around $2.7 million from its user’s accounts, according to a report in Forbes. Silk Road 2.0 administrator Defcon broke the news via a forum post, saying that the attackers took advantage of Bitcoin’s recently ...
Mt. Gox creator Jed McCaleb invites ‘alpha testers’ for secret Bitcoin project
We’re not sure if it’s a masterstroke of timing or simply just a coincidence, but the man who first established the world’s most famous Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has announced he’s back in the game, just as his original creation looks set to implode. Mt.Gox creator Jed McCaleb’s latest endeavor is something of a mystery ...
Running Android apps on Windows Phone would be suicide
It’s being reported that Microsoft is considering allowing Android apps to be used on its Windows Phones, a move that would represent a major U-turn from its usual business model, but could also be seen as an admission of defeat. Until now, Microsoft has stuck rigidly to its guns – insisting that its capable of ...
Mozilla has just sold its soul: Get ready for ads in Firefox
Mozilla is going to sell advertising inside its Firefox browser. Yep, you read that right – the non-profit organization that became public enemy number one for all internet marketers when it set Firefox to block third-party ad technologies by default last year, is now launching its very own advertising business. The initiative is called “Directory ...