8:25 PM • | Tim Peterson / Ad Age: Pandora plans subscription-based on-demand service because ad revenue not enough to offset content costs |
7:40 PM • | Billy Steele / Engadget: NBC offers free trial of its streaming comedy service SeeSo December 3 ahead of January's $3.99/month launch |
6:00 PM • | Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal: Liberty Global to buy Caribbean pay-TV provider and ISP Cable & Wireless for $5.3B, valuing the company at $8B including debt |
4:55 PM • | Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: Facebook Now Using Google App Indexing To Drive Visitors From Search Into Its App |
4:27 PM • | Pandora: Rdio to shut down the service, file for bankruptcy, with Pandora acquiring the key assets for $75M in cash |
4:20 PM • | Casey Newton / The Verge: Twitter is testing multiple emoji reactions to tweets |
4:11 PM • | Janko Roettgers / Variety: Sources: Pandora in advanced talks to acquire Rdio, announcement could come as early as this week |
4:05 PM • | Sean O'Kane / The Verge: HP partners with Movado on $695 Bold Motion, analog smartwatch that uses LEDs and haptic feedback for alerts, a second wearable in “Engineered by HP” program |
3:30 PM • | Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: Google's natural language search gets smarter, can now handle superlatives, ordered items, time based, and more complicated queries |
2:55 PM • | Reuters: German watchdog probes Apple and Amazon audiobooks agreement |
2:25 PM • | Julie Bort / Business Insider: Zenefits CEO says they have $80M of revenue under contract, compared to $20M in Jan. 2015, no hiring freeze, just slowdown in some departments due to automation |
2:05 PM • | Fred Wilson / AVC: Fidelity's markdowns are another sign that for startups, access to capital from public market investors comes with the price of increased transparency |
1:35 PM • | Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: Uber is testing a new feature for drivers to pick up riders headed in the same direction as them, in the Bay Area |
1:10 PM • | Scott Webster / CNET: AT&T selling Microsoft Lumia 950, Samsung Galaxy View Nov 20 |
12:40 PM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Amazon Expands Launchpad, Its Product Hunt-Meets-Shopify-Shyp Rival, To The UK |
12:00 PM • | Nicole Lee / Engadget: Withings' third analog fitness tracker is the $170 Activite Steel |
11:35 AM • | Wall Street Journal: Facebook allows Google to crawl and index public profiles, Pages, Groups, and Events from its mobile app |
11:15 AM • | Jacob Demmitt / GeekWire: Microsoft and Code.org will use Minecraft to teach kids the basics of computer programming |
10:55 AM • | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: Correction: PicoCandy Starts Selling Unofficial Stickers Inside Its Facebook Messenger App |
10:20 AM • | Dan Ackerman / CNET: Lenovo Yoga 900 review: significantly improved performance and battery life over last year's Yoga 3 Pro thanks to higher-end components |
10:00 AM • | Adrian Weckler / Independent.ie: Tim Cook: Apple won't create ‘converged’ MacBook and iPad |
9:50 AM • | Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab: Storyful is testing Slack integrations that let clients subscribe to news alerts within channels |
8:55 AM • | Harry McCracken / Fast Company: How Facebook is betting its future on artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and bringing Internet to 4B people not yet connected |
6:00 AM • | Dan Ackerman / CNET: Alienware Steam Machine review: delivers on promise to bring PC games to the living room, but game library is limited, controller has a steep learning curve |
1:55 AM • | Erin Griffith / Fortune: Profile of REVOLVE, an online apparel startup whose sales is set to reach $400M this year |
11:35 PM • | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: ‘Nasty’ Bug In MetroPCS Site Left Personal Data of Subscribers Open to Hackers |
10:50 PM • | Darren Pauli / The Register: Researchers demonstrate MITM attack on Samsung Note 4, Galaxy S6, S6 edge, showing phones connecting to a fake base station, enabling call snooping |
10:05 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apple updated App Store search algorithm to return results even if keyword is not in metadata or title |
9:20 PM • | Michele Molnar / Education Week: Education software company Instructure closes first day of trading at $18/share, up 12.5% |
8:35 PM • | Ben Sisario / New York Times: Tidal's chief investment officer, Vania Schlogel, left firm months ago, becoming at least the third departure of a top executive since being acquired by Jay-Z |
7:50 PM • | Ilya Khrennikov / Bloomberg Business: Yandex reveals it sent complaint to European Commision to investigate Google's practice of bundling apps with Android |
6:55 PM • | Darren Pauli / The Register: Researcher showcases new Chrome exploit that affects all Android versions, compromises device after visiting malicious site; vulnerability not made public |
5:15 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google Crowdsources Business Listing Corrections, Map Edits With Expanded Local Guides Program |
4:50 PM • | Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: Microsoft open-sources DMTK, a distributed machine learning library |
4:00 PM • | Casey Newton / The Verge: Snapchat introduces a ‘lens store’ to adorn your selfies with 99-cent filters |
3:35 PM • | Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web: Microsoft's Hyperlapse Pro app now on OS X for $50, lets you create smooth stabilized time lapses from video clips |
2:45 PM • | Casey Newton / The Verge: Snapchat begins rolling out “official stories” to mark verified celebrity accounts |
1:55 PM • | Lucia Moses / Digiday: Some publishers complain about underwhelming traffic from Apple News, no real-time data on posts and users, delayed comScore integration |
1:30 PM • | Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: Google launches Chrome beta for iOS through Apple's TestFlight, first release adds 3D touch |
1:05 PM • | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Travel activities booking platform GetYourGuide raises $50M Series C to fuel growth globally |
12:45 PM • | Kurt Wagner / Re/code: FanDuel and DraftKings ask New York Supreme Court to throw out attorney general's order to stop taking bets |
12:25 PM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Digg Raises $4M Series A From Betaworks Backer Digital Garage |
12:15 PM • | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: Microsoft launches Office Insider program for Office 365 subscribers looking to test the suite's newest features, debuts new PowerPoint Designer, Morph features |
11:50 AM • | Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: Varsity Tutors raises $50M Series B led by Technology Crossover Ventures and Maroon 5's Adam Levine |
11:30 AM • | Chris Welch / The Verge: Hands-on with Gogo's 2Ku in-flight satellite internet service that incorporates new antenna tech to deliver speeds of up to 70 Mbps for each aircraft |
11:10 AM • | Katie Hafner / New York Times: Gene Amdahl, Pioneer of Mainframe Computing, Dies at 92 |
10:50 AM • | Juli Clover / MacRumors: iPad Pro's Lightning Port Supports USB 3.0 Transfer Speeds, New Adapters in the Works |
9:15 AM • | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Gmail Will Soon Warn Users When Emails Arrive Over Unencrypted Connections |
7:30 AM • | Ben Woods / The Next Web: Amazon launches Pantry to deliver groceries in the UK, but only to Prime members |
6:55 AM • | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: First Alert debuts Onelink, the first HomeKit-enabled smoke detector, available now from $109 |
5:00 AM • | Ian Kar / Quartz: Sources: Apple partnering with banks for peer-to-peer payment program to avoid money transmitter licenses, may use iMessage for money transfer |
1:55 AM • | Robert Hackett / Fortune: Exclusive: Secure Messenger TigerText Raises $50 Million, Aims to be Health Care's Top Chat Tool |
12:05 AM • | Janko Roettgers / Variety: Wi-Fi Speaker Makers Aether, Beep Shut Down Quietly |
11:10 PM • | Office Blogs: OneNote can now record audio on iOS, embed videos on Windows, attach files on OneNote Online, more |
10:15 PM • | Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: Inside Sequoia's Scouts, and a list of the program's 70+ well-connected entrepreneurs and academics using capital from Sequoia to fund startups |
9:30 PM • | Richard Lawler / Engadget: Beats Music confirms it will fade out on November 30th |
8:25 PM • | Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Zenefits falling short of revenue targets, having hit only $45M of its $100M 2015 revenue goal by August, freezes hiring in some departments |
7:15 PM • | Casey Newton / The Verge: Pocket adds option for users to share favorite items to a followable public profile, now available as public beta for Android and iOS |
6:00 PM • | Greg Hartrell / Official Android Blog: Google Play Books improves comic book reading by adding vertical scrolling mode, curated pages for discovery, on Android in coming days, iOS soon |
5:15 PM • | Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: Cisco meets revenue estimates with $12.7B in revenue, up 3% YoY, beats earnings estimates, but shares fall after lowered Q2 guidance |
4:55 PM • | Ryan J. Reilly / The Huffington Post: Ohio man faces federal charge for reblogging a GIF on Tumblr urging murders of US servicemen |
4:45 PM • | Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: Watchmaker Fossil Group to acquire Misfit for $260M; Fossil expects to incorporate Misfit's tech into traditional watches as soon as 2016 |
4:30 PM • | Napier Lopez / The Next Web: Twitter introduces “ScratchReel” GIFs you can scroll through by dragging a finger or cursor |
4:20 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: Hulu in early talks to sell stake to Time Warner in deal valuing Hulu at $5B-$6B; Time Warner would invest cash, commit to license content |
4:00 PM • | Dan Myers / PlayStation.Blog: Playstation Vue arrives on Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick, coming soon to Chromecast |
3:40 PM • | Michael Kan / CNET: Asus confirms it's bringing out a set of augmented reality glasses next year |
2:55 PM • | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Cola messaging app, now in private beta, aims to expand text messaging functionality with its interactive Bubbles and developer integrations |
2:20 PM • | BuzzFeed: Facebook Messenger tests option in France that lets users send messages that self-destruct one hour after sending |
2:10 PM • | Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: Upthere's first two apps for file and photo cloud storage, Home and Camera, are now live on iOS, Mac, and Android in beta |
1:35 PM • | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Some apps installed from Mac App Store were temporarily unusable after Apple failed to renew security certificate |
1:15 PM • | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Facebook brings 360-degree videos to iOS, opens up format to brands with first ads from AT&T, Samsung, Corona, Walt Disney World, others |
1:05 PM • | Spotify News: Spotify launches personalized concert recommendations near you based on your listening history, rolling out today to iPhone and Android users |
12:20 PM • | Ben Popper / The Verge: YouTube Music standalone app launches on iOS and Android; YouTube Red subscribers get offline listening and no ads |
12:10 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Uber makes deal to add TomTom's digital maps and traffic data to Uber's driver app |
11:40 AM • | Ruth Reader / VentureBeat: Shopify launches Sello, an app for selling ‘anything to anyone’ on social |
10:55 AM • | Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: Samsung announces Exynos 8890 SoC, successor to Exynos 7420, with a category 12/13 modem and custom CPU architecture |
10:20 AM • | Barb Darrow / Fortune: Yelp open sources PaasTA, a collection of system monitoring and deployment tools |
9:55 AM • | Nick Statt / The Verge: Facebook says government requests for data at highest level ever: more than 41K in first half of 2015, with US issuing 17.5K requests affecting 26.5K users |
9:10 AM • | Peter Bright / Ars Technica: Microsoft starts rolling out its first major update to Windows 10, adding features for both consumers and enterprises |
7:40 AM • | Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: Latest Microsoft security update causing Outlook to crash, other issues, company reviewing |
3:35 AM • | Eva Dou / Wall Street Journal: Lenovo Group Swings to Net Loss of $714 Million for Quarter |
1:30 AM • | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: Mozilla's Firefox Browser App For iOS Is Finally Available To All |
12:20 AM • | Major Nelson / Xbox Live's Major Nelson: Xbox One update with new dashboard rolls out, backwards compatible Xbox 360 titles to appear starting at 3PM ET |
11:35 PM • | Peter Ludwig / Official Android Blog: Android Wear gets cellular support starting with the LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition LTE, which is available now in the US |
11:00 PM • | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: Box releases its Windows 10 Universal app |
10:25 PM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: UK mobile payments company Bango raises $17M at a post-money valuation of $91M |
9:50 PM • | David Harris / bizjournals: Comcast launches Stream, its $15/month streaming service in Greater Boston; available only for Xfinity customers, and only within subscribers home |
9:15 PM • | iFixit: iPad Pro teardown: A9X chip, 78% larger display offers 2x performance of iPad Air 2, 4-speaker setup costs battery capacity, adhesive pull tabs under batteries |
9:05 PM • | Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: In-N-Out sues DoorDash claiming trademark infringement and unfair competition |
8:50 PM • | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Hands-On With Facebook Notify, A Push Notification News App And Twitter Alternative |
7:55 PM • | The Intercept: Prison phone services provider Securus Technologies breached, compromising 70M call recordings including 14K conversations between inmates and attorneys |
7:20 PM • | Joseph Cox / Motherboard: Court Docs Show a University Helped FBI Bust Silk Road 2, Child Porn Suspects |
6:45 PM • | Kathrin Hille / Financial Times: Russia's internet regulator changes position, says Twitter must store local user data within the country |
6:10 PM • | Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: Angies's List considering $500M IAC acquisition offer after earlier reports suggested board had no interest |
5:15 PM • | Dan Primack / Fortune: Fidelity marks down its Zenefits shares by 48% and its Dataminr shares by 35% after investing in both companies earlier this year |
5:00 PM • | Jack Nicas / Wall Street Journal: NextVR, which broadcast a Democratic debate and the NBA opener in VR, gets $30M from Comcast, Time Warner Investments, and others in round led by Formation 8 |
4:45 PM • | Janko Roettgers / Variety: Roku introduces the $50 Roku SE, with 1080p playback and compatibility with Roku's library of 3K apps, to debut for $25 on Black Friday |
4:25 PM • | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: Google's new ‘About me’ tool lets you control personal information shown by Gmail, YouTube, Maps, and more |
4:05 PM • | Paul Sawers / Business Insider: Fiverr raises $60 million and removes $5 minimum charge to help lure freelancers online |
3:53 PM • | Robin Sidel / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Apple in talks with US banks to develop a mobile person-to-person payment service, to rival PayPal's Venmo platform, could launch in 2016 |
3:45 PM • | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Bluetooth will improve in 2016 with up to 4x range, 100% boost in speed, mesh networking support, says Bluetooth Special Interest Group |
3:30 PM • | Bloomberg Business: Alibaba Singles' Day sales were a record-breaking $14.3B, compared to last year's $9.3B |
3:15 PM • | Mike Isaac / New York Times: Airbnb pledges to work with cities, a week after it won fight over Prop. F in San Francisco and warned other cities against rules curtailing its services |
2:50 PM • | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Eyefluence raises $14M for eye-tracking technology that lets your gaze manipulate user interfaces on VR and AR devices |
2:25 PM • | BBC: Co-founder of South Korea's most popular chat app KakaoTalk resigns after being accused of failing to prevent child abuse imagery being spread via the service |
1:45 PM • | John Gruber / Daring Fireball: iPad Pro shows you no longer have to choose between performance of x86 and ARM's battery life, outperforms latest MacBook Airs with lower cost, better display |
1:10 PM • | Todd Spangler / Variety: Mobile-marketing startup Swrve raises $21M and acquires data-automation firm Adaptiv.io, says its SDK has been installed 1B times |
12:40 PM • | Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: Microsoft's Project Oxford APIs offer face tracking, emotion sensing, voice recognition, and spell checking |
12:05 PM • | Kurt Wagner / Re/code: Facebook launches Notify, an iOS app that sends notifications for news and other timely content, with 70 media partners, including CNN, NYT, and Techmeme |
11:50 AM • | Lora Kolodny / Wall Street Journal: CircleUp, an equity crowdfunding platform for consumer goods companies, raises $30M Series C led by Collaborative Fund |
11:25 AM • | Fortune: Udacity raises $105M round at a $1B pre-money valuation, led by media firm Bertelsmann with Google Ventures, others among new investors |
11:00 AM • | Periscope / Medium: Periscope gets a revamped global map, ability to skip ahead in replays, and 3D Touch shortcuts |
10:05 AM • | KC Ifeanyi / Fast Company: iHeartMedia releases iHeartRadio Family standalone Android and iOS apps with Build-A-Bear, offers live radio and curated playlists for 4-11 year-olds |
9:20 AM • | Ina Fried / Re/code: Mobile Heart Monitor Maker AliveCor Taps Former Google Exec Vic Gundotra as CEO |
9:10 AM • | Nathan McAlone / Business Insider: Tinder's big new update lets you use your job and education to snag a date |
8:35 AM • | Jim Finkle / Reuters: Tenable Network Security raises $250M Series B led by Insight Venture Partners and Accel |
8:00 AM • | Martin Beck / Marketing Land: Instagram Introduces Partner Program To Help Businesses Market Better On Instagram |
7:25 AM • | Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: iPad Pro review: excellent performance, nice hardware and speakers, but expensive, suffers from iOS 9's limitations, and takes a long time to charge |
7:05 AM • | Walt Mossberg / The Verge: iPad Pro review: not a laptop replacement, too bulky, disappointing and costly optional keyboard case, few optimized apps |
7:00 AM • | Jemima Kelly / Reuters: Microsoft partners with ConsensYs to launch cloud-based blockchain platform for financial institutions using Azure |
5:55 AM • | Financial Times: Microsoft launches German data centers controlled by a third-party to shield customers from US government surveillance |
3:50 AM • | Juli Clover / MacRumors: iPad Pro Now Available for Purchase From Apple Online Store |
1:55 AM • | Kim Zetter / Wired: Leaked documents show the FBI never charged the hacker in the Matthew Keys case, despite knowing his identity for at least two years |
1:30 AM • | Davey Alba / Wired: Alibaba's Singles Day Blowout Racks Up $5B in Sales in First 90 Minutes |
12:25 AM • | Megan Geuss / Ars Technica: US charges three men with widespread hacking whose targets included JP Morgan |
11:30 PM • | Andrew Russell / Time Warner Cable Untangled: Time Warner Cable confirms TWC TV trial in NYC area, gives participants Roku 3 to access 300+ live TV channels and 20K+ on demand programs |
10:55 PM • | Brandon Hill / HotHardware.com News: NVIDIA announces Jetson TX1 module for autonomous drones, robots, and vehicles, with developer kit available November 12 for $599 |
10:20 PM • | Erica Lockheimer / Official LinkedIn Blog: LinkedIn says it's sending 50% fewer emails, launches system for smarter, less frequent notifications |
9:45 PM • | James Risley / GeekWire: Amazon Echo coming to 3K+ retail stores in US including Home Depot, Sears, Staples, in smart home push |
9:10 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Amazon Brings Restaurant Delivery To L.A., Will Expand To All Prime Now Markets In U.S. |
8:05 PM • | AppleInsider: Apple pulls popular Instagram client ‘InstaAgent’ from iOS App Store after malware discovery |
7:00 PM • | Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg Business: Sources: Pandora seeks rights to play songs outside US as it plans to push into global markets, prioritizing the UK |
6:22 PM • | New York Times: New York attorney general says that DraftKings and FanDuel games constitute illegal gambling under state law, orders them to stop accepting bets in New York |
5:55 PM • | Biz Carson / Business Insider: VC Chamath Palihipitiya wants to go after US giants like Verizon, AT&T with new carrier Rama; success in FCC spring spectrum auction critical |
5:05 PM • | Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: Spark Capital's growth fund gets a Silicon Valley GP as Megan Quinn, veteran of KPCB, Square, and Google, joins the firm |
4:25 PM • | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: HotelTonight lays off 37 employees, 20% of its workforce; CEO says firm is on track to be profitable next year |
4:15 PM • | T.C. Sottek / The Verge: T-Mobile's Binge On zero rating video service works against net neutrality despite short-term benefit to consumers |
3:50 PM • | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: Google will retire Chrome support for Windows XP, Vista, OS X 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8 in April 2016 |
3:30 PM • | Brett Howse / AnandTech: Microsoft Surface Book review: great hardware and performance, good display, keyboard, trackpad, but software glitches and high price make it hard to recommend |
3:10 PM • | Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code: T-Mobile unveils Binge On free streaming service from 24 providers excluding YouTube; exempts video from data caps, resolution lowered to DVD-like quality |
2:45 PM • | Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: ARM announces new ultra-efficient Cortex-A35 CPU, expects first devices with the chip to ship by the end of 2016 |
2:27 PM • | Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: Dell insiders concerned EMC merger could result in $9B tax bill, which might derail the deal |
2:10 PM • | Oculus: Consumer version of Samsung Gear VR available for preorder for $99.99, will ship on November 20 |
2:05 PM • | Cory Bennett / The Hill: Microsoft opens first data centers in UK, to keep users' data within the country, following EU ruling on Safe Harbor |
1:40 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Tumblr Rolls Out Instant Messaging On Both Web And Mobile |
1:30 PM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Tim Cook's claim that the iPad Pro could replace PCs for many people shows Apple hasn't learned from Microsoft's Surface |
1:20 PM • | Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: Schoology Cloud-Based Education Platform Lands $32 Million Series D |
1:05 PM • | Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: Twitter says new users engage with likes at a 9% higher rate than they did with favorites; overall, engagement is 6% higher with likes than favorites |
1:00 PM • | Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: Beta version of Apple Music for Android now available |
12:42 PM • | Russell Brandom / The Verge: The ITC does not have the authority to regulate information on the internet, according to a ruling from the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit |
12:05 PM • | Financial Times: Fidelity wrote down the value of its stake in Snapchat by 25% in the third quarter |
11:30 AM • | James Vincent / The Verge: You can now preorder the consumer version of the Samsung Gear VR |
9:10 AM • | Amanda Bishop / Google Lat Long: Google Maps adds offline navigation and search to Android app, coming soon to iOS |