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 President Barack Obama asked for more collaboration and the open sharing of information between private-sector companies and the U.S. government at the White House Cybersecurity Summit at Stanford today. While pushing for that collaboration, he admitted it would be a challenge to both keep up with cyber threats and protect American’s right to privacy at the same time. “Protecting… Read More

 Shutterfly, the publishing company that operates a number of online and mobile brands associated with personal photo printing, is now shutting down Treat, its online and mobile greeting card service. The Treat application first launched back in April 2012, and later in the year arrived on mobile devices before getting an overhaul in 2013. The app allowed users to customize greeting cards… Read More

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 President Obama made the rounds in Silicon Valley over the past week, possibly looking to make amends with some of the Democratic Party’s wealthiest supporters while trying to cement his legacy among the millennial generation that embraced him as the ‘digital President.’ Read More

 Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke at the White House summit on cybersecurity and personal privacy today, where he announced that Apple Pay will be available starting in September as a payment method for U.S. federal government services. To start, it’ll roll out for things like admission to national parks, with plans to also make it function with services like Social Security and… Read More

 While at first the rumors seemed far-fetched, a new report from the Financial Times lends serious credibility to the idea that Apple is working in earnest on car-related technologies beyond just CarPlay. Dashboard software may be part of its automotive designs, but the FT claims that Apple is on a headhunt for employees with experience in car design and vehicle engineering, rather than just… Read More

The simple combo lock you used in high school is now getting the Internet of Things treatment.

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 You love books… but you also love places to sit. You’re in a bind. The evil Dictator of your tiny country says you can only one of the two – a book or a chair. What to do? If you have Bookniture, you can thumb your nose right at Generalissimo Alibria’s state photograph and sit on your book. What is this thing? Well, it’s basically a fold-away form of furniture made… Read More

 At a makeshift test track in a parking lot in San Jose, I got to take a test drive of the i-Road, a vehicle that fits a person and their bag (or a small child) and combines the ride characteristics of a miniature car and a motorcycle. Read More

 The Information Age has the potential to overwhelm. When that happens on a technical front – when the volume of data is so large that traditional databases cannot handle it, or not handle it well – the industry refers to the phenomenon as “big data.” The term has even come to refer to the technological processing that takes place with the vast amounts of data. Read More

 Electric car manufacturer Tesla reported earnings today following the bell, including $1.1 billion in non-GAAP revenue, and an adjusted loss per share of $0.13. On a GAAP basis, using normal accounting methods, Tesla had a wider loss of 86 cents per share, and revenue of $957 million. The company delivered 9,834 cars in the period. In the sequentially preceding third quarter, Tesla delivered… Read More

 HubSpot reported its fourth quarter financial performance today after the bell, losing $7.1million (non-GAAP) on revenue of $34.2 million. The company had previously guided the market to anticipate between $31 and $32 million in fourth quarter top line.
Investors had expected the recently-public company to lose $0.27 per share on revenue of $31.68 million. Down a fraction in regular trading… Read More

 Today following the bell, Zendesk reported its fourth-quarter performance. The company lost an adjusted $0.11 per share on revenue of $38.5 million. The street had expected the company to lose $0.12 per share on revenue of $36.74 million. The company’s revenue grew 71 percent on a year-over-year basis, leading to an adjusted net income of negative $8 million and, employing normal… Read More

 America isn’t the land of opportunity unless you can get a job after college to earn a visa. That makes picking a city in which to attend a university a critical decision for international students. Some services can charge families thousands of dollars to guide them through the U.S. college selection process. Read More

 This is the third time SpaceX has attempted to launch the DSCOVR, a satellite designed to go about four times further from the earth than the moon, and then provide whole-disc imagery of Earth, as well as warnings of extreme reactions from the sun that might be able to knock out power grids and communications. Advance warning could help people prepare in the case of extreme solar storms. SpaceX… Read More