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Rise of the IoT Machines (CIO)

Friday’s distributed denial-of-service attack on domain name service provider Dyn may have seemed like the end of the world for millions of Netflix, Twitter and Spotify users, bu... More

Fear of Hacking Stops 50% of Consumers from Purchasing IoT Devices (MediaPost)

Consumers are concerned about the security in IoT devices and that concern has impacted their connected device purchase decisions. Overall awareness of potential security vulnerabi... More

The NFL, Sports Tech Build Slack Teams (Tackling Tech)

The National Football League is amid a broad implementation of Slack, an enterprise messaging app credited with facilitating collaboration among internal teams and used to build on... More

Spotify Opens Samsung TV App to Free Members, but Only On Newer Models (VentureBeat)

Spotify has announced that free users will have full on-demand access to the music-streaming service on Samsung’s smart TVs for the first time. So far, one of the perks of being ... More

Facebook Wants You to Buy Movie Tickets, Order Pizza From its App (Recode)

From deciding where to eat, to booking your next hair appointment, to buying movie tickets at the local theatre, Facebook wants to eventually control, or be involved with, every de... More

Harvard Business Review Built a Bot on Slack that Delivers Workplace Advice (Digiday)

Slack is gaining a foothold in many offices as the center on their communications, leading Harvard Business Review to focus attention on how to get its content inside the app. HBR ... More

Americans Will Spend $36 Billion on Gadgets this Holiday Shopping Season (ARC)

The annual rush to buy the perfect gift is only weeks away. Technology is at the top of the list. A report by the Consumer Technology Association said that 2016 would be a record y... More

Disney, LACMA Partner on Snapchat Retelling of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (THR)

Disney's "tale as old as time," Beauty and the Beast, is getting a modern social media-friendly interpretation. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Oh My Disney Snapchat a... More

Mobile Has Become Almost a Multi-Trillion Dollar Market (ARC)

The mobile market is massive. A report from research firm IDC said global mobility revenues will grow from $1.5 trillion in 2016 to over $1.7 trillion by 2020. This increase equate... More

Why Retailers are Rethinking Thanksgiving Day (Forbes)

Electronics retailer hhgregg is hardly the only retailer reporting that this year it would stay closed on Thanksgiving Day. Some 42 and counting retailers have also opted to stay c... More

Salesforce Rules Out Twitter Bid: ‘Not the Right Fit’ says Benioff (ZDNet)

Salesforce is no longer interested in acquiring Twitter, following weeks of talks. Twitter is "not the right fit for us for many different reasons," Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff tol... More

Facebook Lets You AirPlay or Google Cast Web and Mobile Videos to Your TV (TechCrunch)

Facebook wants you to lean back and watch its News Feed videos on your television with a new feature that lets you stream clips via Apple TV, AirPlay devices, Google Chromecast, an... More

Pandora’s New iMessage App Lets You Text Your Favorite Music (TechCrunch)

Tucked away inside Pandora’s rebranded app, launched yesterday, the company was hiding its first iMessage app, too. In fact, it’s the first third-party party streaming music se... More

Microsoft Happy With its NFL Partnership Thus Far as Surface Tablet Becomes Mainstay on Sidelines (GeekWire)

Whether it be on the sidelines during an NFL game, on the track during a NASCAR race, or on the TV via advertisements, sports fans have likely seen Microsoft’s branding or produc... More

Western Digital Goes for Performance and Sustainability With New Solid State Drives (VentureBeat)

Western Digital has gone both blue and green. The maker of hard drives and storage devices has a new line of high-capacity solid state drives (SSDs) that emphasize either the high-... More

Twitter is Said to Be in Continued Talks With Salesforce (New York Times)

Over the last week, Twitter’s fate has appeared to be murkier than ever. The troubled social media company, which has been engaged in talks to sell itself, seemed to be running o... More

Dolby Narrate for iOS Lets You Add Voiceover to Video (CIO)

Narrate is free, and it's an easy-to-use app with the sole purpose of adding voiceover narration to video. Endless ways exist to use it for fun. For example, you can use filters th... More

AudioEye Collaborates with ADP in a Commitment to Accessible Technology (MESA)

AudioEye today announced that it is collaborating with ADP to further enrich the user experience of ADP's human capital management (HCM) solution by making it digitally accessible ... More

For Some European Broadcasters, NFL Underscores Potential Of IP (Playout)

Deluxe offers broadcasters an alternative to managing their own master control and playout complete with commercial insertion, branding and all of the other accoutrements of televi... More

To Ensure Security, Do Passwords Need to Go Away? (BizTech)

Employees at companies juggle a lot of passwords, both for the applications they need to do their jobs (e.g., corporate email and enterprise apps) and the services in their persona... More

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