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Square is making sending cash -- for anything from paying back a friend for charging dinner to making a purchase -- as easy as sending an email. Square Cash links to a debit card and requires little action beyond putting the dollar amount in the subject line of an email Square Cash's sales pitch is simple: "You don't sign up, you just send an emai...

Facebook on Thursday made two seemingly contradictory changes to its settings for teen users. On one hand, it narrowed the audience that can see teens' posts by default; at the same time, however, it made it possible for the first time for teens to open up their posts to the public at large Until now, the default audience for posts made by kids age...

While the federal market for cloud technologies promises to be a prime opportunity for vendors, it is becoming clear that providers cannot expect the phone to ring with orders from federal agencies. Instead, vendors will have to make investments in product development, marketing and other activities related to the IT requirements of federal agencies...

One of the phrases CRM vendors love to toss around these days is this saw: "CRM makes every employee a salesperson." I'm sure the VP of sales loves this vision, in which he suddenly is served by a quadrupled or quintupled number of salespeople, many of whom he doesn't have to manage and to whom he doesn't have to pay commission The idea is a canard...

Christian Gllner's Benchmark & Tuning (Full) app is available for US$2.99 in the Google Play store. Here's a novel way to find out if you do indeed need a new phone. It's a benchmarking app that will test components and provide a comparison with crowdsourced benchmarks from other common devices out there....

Christian Gllner's Benchmark & Tuning (Full) app is available for US$2.99 in the Google Play store. Here's a novel way to find out if you do indeed need a new phone. It's a benchmarking app that will test components and provide a comparison with crowdsourced benchmarks from other common devices out there....

Price-matching, product reviews, historical pricing data and automating the coupon process are all superb uses for apps in the desktop browser environment. This week's All Things Appy takes a look at the five must-have, free apps that complement online shopping.

Adidas on Wednesday introduced the miCoach Smart Run, its new fitness-based smartwatch for runners, just a day after rival Nike introduced the latest update to its own Nike+ Fuelband SE tracker. ...

Tech billionaire Pierre M. Omidyar, founder and chair of eBay, will team up with Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald -- the first to open Edward Snowden's treasure chest of leaks -- to launch a mass media venture designed to foster top-flight journalism Omidyar has long supported journalism. He has made grants to independent media outlets in Africa...

eBay's third-quarter earnings report showed gains in revenue and earnings, but the company's stock dipped on its warning that a weak U.S. economy might lead to lower-than-expected fourth-quarter gains. Revenue was up 14 percent in eBay's third quarter, with the company bringing in US$3.9 billion compared with the $3.4 billion it reported a year ea...

Microsoft on Thursday began rolling out Windows 8.1 worldwide over the Internet Win 8.1 will be available Friday both preinstalled on new devices and on DVDs at retail locations worldwide....

Oracle has released a whopper of a critical patch update for October, with 127 security fixes across several of the company's products Of these, 51 are fixes for Java SE, and all but one of those will allow remote exploitation of a computer without authentication....

Ubisoft -- Europe's largest video game publisher -- might have a less-than-merry holiday season. It announced Wednesday that two of its hotly anticipated titles, Watch Dogs and The Crew, would be delayed until sometime in 2014. Shares fell on the news by as much as 32 percent -- the most since Ubisoft made its debut on the Paris exchange in 1992....

Supercell announced Tuesday that it had closed on a round of funding totaling US$1.53 billion. SoftBank and GungHo Online Entertainment made the joint investment. The two companies will hold 51 percent of Supercell's outstanding voting stock. ...

T-Mobile USA is really trying to shake things up. Now it is offering free, unlimited, international, wireless data and texts -- something other carriers charge for. Feature after feature, T-Mobile seems like it is really trying to start on its recovery path. So is it recovering? Let's take a look T-Mobile has been the No. 4 wireless competitor for ...

It is difficult to overstate the importance of social CRM to retailers given the almost tailor-made suitability of Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest et al. for reaching out and engaging with customers What's less clear, however, is exactly how retailers should use social CRM to talk with those customers.

Xnoise is a new Linux Media Player for GTK+ environments that just keeps getting better.Perhaps the last thing that the Linux world needs is yet another media player, but Xnoise bridges the gap in this overcrowded software category. It has an intuitive user interface, speed and essential features....

Yahoo posted its third-quarter earnings report Tuesday, revealing a revenue and earnings slide as it continues to make acquisitions and launch new products The company reported US$1.08 billion in revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs, a 1 percent dip from the same period a year ago.

Indian Saroo Munshi Khan used Google Earth to track down his long-lost family 26 years after accidentally falling asleep on a train In a tale that's almost too Hollywood to believe, then 5-year-old Saroo reportedly took a break from searching for change with his brother in Berhanpur, India, and hopped onto a stationary train where he fell asleep. H...

You know all those free programs that typically come on PCs and mobile devices whether you want them or not? Common examples include paid antivirus programs within the PC environment and phone company add-ons like music stores within Android Often called bloatware, they are usually manufacturer- or carrier-sanctioned stripped down come-ons designed...