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Snapchat is distancing itself from its core messaging feature with its new Discover product. Instead of offering new communication tools, it’s focusing on media content to hook users. It’s hoping that will… Read more »
Yahoo is splitting its remaining Alibaba shares into a separate company called SpinCo. The move will help Yahoo avoid the tax pitfalls of the investment. The news came Tuesday as Yahoo reported its fourth… Read more »
The U.S. government’s healthcare insurance sign-up site HealthCare.gov is quietly handing over deeply personal information to advertising and social networks, according to a Tuesday Associated Press report. The Electronic Frontier Foundation… Read more »
Despite the success of Amazon Web Services, and the resources Microsoft and Google have poured into Azure and Google Cloud Platform respectively to compete with AWS, public cloud still has a bit of… Read more »
After all the news about a scarcity of women in the top management of companies (and in the ranks of engineers), here’s a bright spot: Half of the CIOs of Fortune 10 companies are… Read more »
Cult TV comedy Community is returning this March — on 3/17, to be precise — but not on NBC. Instead, Yahoo is going to release the show exclusively on its Yahoo Screen… Read more »
Real-time data analytics and programmatic ad buying and selling are becoming more critical to brand marketers as they refocus more of their efforts from traditional TV channels to digital platforms. Read more »
Facebook considered investing in Chinese mobile conglomerate Xiaomi, according to sources that dished to Reuters. The deal didn’t pan out for a range of reasons, from political concerns to investment conflicts, but could… Read more »
Looking at app releases to Apple’s iOS App Store throughout 2014, one can learn alot about the direction a company is heading, good or bad. Read more »
Snapchat rang in the new year with $485.6 million in new funding, according to an SEC filing published December 31. The funding came from 23 investors, unnamed in the filing but… Read more »