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Zynga said this week that it is slashing 18 percent of its workforce in an effort to better allocate costs as it attempts to develop more gaming hits across multiple digital platforms. It will eliminate about 520 positions by August. Cutting Zynga's "brothers and sisters" was necessary but not something the company ever expected to face, CEO Mark ...

Even before social media existed, lawyers would often investigate to learn as much as possible about each potential juror. Their primary goal, of course, was to eliminate potential jurors who may find against their clients With the advent of social media, however, lawyers can now search Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and more to learn about prospectiv...

Salesforce.com has made an acquisition reputed to be its biggest ever: The company has snagged marketing automation and campaign management vendor ExactTarget for US$2.5 billion. As part of the transaction, Salesforce will acquire all outstanding ExactTarget stock for $33.75 per share in cash. Approval for the deal has been secured by both compan...

Mozillux is a French Linux distribution that is leaner and more family-oriented than is typically found in young open source communities....

The fashion and beauty industry is fast-moving, and apps are a good way to keep track of developments, because app content lead time can be significantly shorter than for print magazines. This week's All Things Appy takes a look at the must-have apps in this genre for the Android platform, including apps to buy the gear, track trends, social netwo...

Samsung on Monday announced two additions to its Galaxy Tab 3 line: 8-inch and 10.1-inch models.Both run Android 4.2 Jelly Bean ...

Google's Android operating system leads the smartphone market with a majority 51.7 percent share in the United States, but competitors are gaining ground, according to a report released Monday by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech Apple's iOS and Microsoft's Windows Phone platforms are now actually surpassing Android in terms of growth rates....

The anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 has prompted Chinese authorities to expand the list of words and phrases barred from Sina Weibo,the country's most trafficked microblogging platform This is par for the course in China, where in 2012,2011,2010, 2009 -- basically every year social media has been huge -- the Net police have ...

I seem to be doing a lot of research and writing about Big Data and related issues this year. I am taking a lot of briefings from emerging analytics companies too, and I see it all as net good because the emphasis on data and analytics is really an emphasis on information -- and that is an economic indicator of sorts for me The thirst for customer...

Twitter's Vine sprouted on Android devices Monday, allowing users to post 6-second videos in their tweets. Earlier this year, Twitter launched its Vine app for Apple's iOS, but until now, Android users have been left out of the fun. Now they can get into the thick of it as well....

Google will not add facial recognition capabilities to Google Glass until it can add appropriate privacy protections to the new technology, the company said in a post on Google+ late Friday "As Google has said for several years, we won't add facial recognition features to our products without having strong privacy protections in place," the post r...

DirecTV and two other unidentified bidders are offering upwards of US$1 billion to buy Hulu, according to multiple press accounts DirecTV could possibly be planning to add Hulu's digital offerings to its TV packages.

Numerous new accusations have kept cyberespionage firmly in the media spotlight in the run-up to President Barack Obama's meeting this week with Chinese President Xi Jinping Within 24 hours, two separate stories broke about Chinese hackers pinching the designs for some of Uncle Sam's critical weapons systems and nicking the architectural plans for ...

Increasingly testy rhetoric and increasingly legitimate concerns have prompted the United States and China to announce that they will hold regular high-level talks on standards of cyberbehavior The announcement precedes a meeting between President Obama and Chinese president Xi Jinping. That powwow will take place Friday in Rancho Mirage, Calif., ...

Samsung's rumored selection of Intel's Clover Trail+ mobile system on a chip (SoC) for at least one version of its upcoming Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 was given fresh strength by a Reuters report last week The rumor had been floating around for weeks, fueled by the publication online of 3D graphics bench test results of a Samsung "Santos 103" tablet runnin...

BigContacts has unveiled the latest iteration of its CRM application, BigContacts 2.0. The application is a full-featured CRM suite "that is couched in a simple and easy-to-use format," founder and CEO Bob Walton told CRM Buyer....

Windows has been through four major changes. Huge numbers of folks really didn't like them -- each one was painful. Windows almost had five major changes, but Microsoft Bob was so badly received Microsoft killed it. Windows 8 may seem like the most painful, but since I've lived through all of these I can say from experience that it isn't even cl...

Michael Dell's attempt to take his company private in a US$24.4 billion deal has moved forward another inch or so in what is turning out to be a very long road for the CEO. Dell notified its shareholders on Friday that the special committee formed in February, after Michael Dell first unveiled his buyout proposal, had concluded that his offer was ...

Razer this week unveiled the Blade and Blade Pro, two thin and light notebook computers designed to handle the rigors of video gaming ...

Google company Motorola has announced a new smartphone that will be designed, engineered and assembled in the United States -- the Moto X. It will be manufactured in a factory in Fort Worth, Texas ...