Blackstone is acquiring mobile ad company Vungle
Private equity firm Blackstone just announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire mobile advertising company Vungle. The companies aren’t disclosing the financial terms, but...
Alexa Could Come to Windows 10’s Lock Screen
Move over, Cortana: Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant could come to Windows 10’s lock screen. A small, quiet change to a new Windows 10 Insider build will...
On Prime Day, Amazon workers and immigrants’ rights organizations are protesting
On the start of Amazon’s biggest sales event of the year, Amazon workers and activists are taking to the streets today in protest of the retail...
Quibi comedy from Thomas Lennon will focus on tech entrepreneur who takes over a winery
Yet-to-launch streaming media startup Quibi has been keeping up a slate of announcements at a fever pace, and its latest is a show that sounds potentially...
Court Questions Whether Ebook ‘Pirate’ Site Operator Can Be Sued in Texas
Back in March, Travis McCrea, the former leader of the Pirate Party of Canada, faced mounting opposition against his eBook platform, Ebook.bike. Following in the footsteps...
Celebrate 50 years of space exploration in Google Earth
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 mission that first put a man on the moon. To honor that achievement and the...
Daily News Roundup: FTC Fines Facebook $5 Billion
Following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) moved to fine Facebook $5 billion for violating the terms of a consent decree. The settlement...
How to Change a Shape Using Edit Points in Microsoft PowerPoint
PowerPoint gives you pretty good editing control over shapes you insert into a presentation. Whether you want to merge two shapes or change a shape using...
How to Record a Phone Call on Your iPhone
Apple is pretty strict when it comes to what apps are allowed to do on its platform, and it draws a hard line on call recording....
“Expect serverless to become more mainstream”
“Building serverless applications means that your developers can focus more of their time on delivering the core product” JAXenter: Serverless as a term is a rather controversial...
