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VMWARE buys into mobile — AMAZON mulled pay-TV offering — BOTNET strikes again — FACEBOOK’s meta-stalker — Feds grill Google GLASS moviegoer

January 22, 2014 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

NSA taps off-grid computers — RIP Net neutrality (thanks, VERIZON) — GOOGLE spent $17B on M&A in two years — Mega-Troll sues FTC

January 15, 2014 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

GOOGLE buys your home, Droid moves in — iOS catches up to Windows installs — MESSAGING app use triples — 1 in 10K apps successful

January 14, 2014 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

Google Cloud Storage Connector For Hadoop Launches As Data Analytics Becomes A Priority For Cloud Providers

Google Cloud Storage has long had the ability to run Hadoop so developers can do advanced analytics on its distributed computing platform. Today, Google is attempting to simplify this process with a new connector that the company says makes it easier to run Hadoop on the Google Cloud Platform. The Google Cloud Storage connector for Hadoop manages the cluster […]

GOOGLE annoys with Gmail+ — 70M TARGET customers hacked — Overstock.com, Singapore taking BITCOIN — PCs suffer ‘worst decline’ ever — SNAPCHAT apologizes (sorta)

January 10, 2014 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

Social Sharing App Buffer Doubles Down On Its Premium Business Product With Google Analytics, Follower Tracking

Buffer — the popular desktop/mobile app for sharing content across multiple social networks  that hit a major stumbling block it hit last autumn when it suffered a security breach – is stepping up its bid to compete against the likes of Hootsuite by taking the platform in a more premium direction. Buffer for Business, a paid product it launched […]

TOSHIBA’s 5-in-1 PC — YAHOO increases vertical — LINKEDIN sues parasites — USERS sue Google, LinkedIn, Yahoo — BIZ STONE’s new Jelly

January 8, 2014 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

Watch Out Google, AddSearch — Like Swiftype — Wants To Stop In-Website Search From Sucking

The in-website search space is hotting up. Because well, let’s face it, most site search still sucks. The reason for that is that firstly search is a hard, expensive problem to crack. And secondly Google, the dominant search player offering an in-website search product, hasn’t got a huge incentive to help other websites have awesome searches all […]

SNOWDEN seeks asylum in Brazil — Judge: NSA violated Constitution — QUALCOMM ‘freaking out’ — GOOGLE poaches machine genius — Obama calls Digerati to office

December 17, 2013 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

MAC supply chain breaks — EU wants GOOGLE to pay up — VERIZON stands up to feds — WHATSAPP hits 400M users — More calls for Valley to SECEDE

December 20, 2013 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post