Facebook native videos perform up to 4X better than all other video formats
You can now adopt an emoji to help save one of the world’s languages
Central Coast Angels Makes Substantial Seed Investment into Santa Cruz Start-up, Inboard Technology
Box and Salesforce extend partnership with native integrations, SDK
Spotify launches Party, professionally mixed playlists to suit the mood of any occasion
Google to train 2M new Android developers in India over next 3 years
These 12 Finnish coders got naked to support a coworker’s daughter who has cancer
Amazon rolls out its new burstable t2.nano instances
Akamai: Global average Internet speed grew 14% to 5.1 Mbps, only 5.2% of users have broadband
Meet Botkit, an open-source framework for building your own Slack bot
Slack hits 2M daily active users, launches third-party App Directory, $80M developer fund
Rdio is shutting down on December 22 following Pandora acquisition
Google Play Books for Android and iOS can now give your eyes a break at night
Sheryl Sandberg: Racial and gender inequity is everyone’s problem
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Firefox 43 arrives with 64-bit version for Windows, new strict blocklist, and tab audio indicators on Android
Microsoft forms philanthropic arm to improve access to technology
ScreenMeet’s new app lets you share your screen in mobile meetings
Twitter details its home-brewed framework for simulating hardware failures
ProSky gets a $2.3 million seed for its hiring tech
Google’s BigQuery cloud service adds Custom Quotas to limit daily spending
LinkedIn rolls out new Insights tool to prepare you for your dream job
New Netflix encoding means smoother streaming and less bandwidth
Affirm wants to help you pay for your New Year’s Eve threads
Google brings in-app purchases to Android Pay and teases Australia launch
Backblaze launches public beta for B2 cloud storage service after getting 15K requests
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Socrates Health Solutions, Inc. Appoints International Business Leader Douglas Sutherland to its Board of Directors
Disney partners with Alibaba to launch DisneyLife streaming box in China
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Email personalization is the antidote to declining click rates, and the key to high returns
OpenX Strengthens Leadership Team
Microsoft rebrands Bing Pulse to Microsoft Pulse, extends Snapshot API
Aila Technologies Receives $4.5 million in Financing from Romulus Capital to Accelerate In-Store Innovation with Retail Devices
Svelte Medical Systems Announces CE Mark Certification of SLENDER IDS™
