Businesses Stories for 2015

Oculus To Ship "Lucky's Tale" Game With Rift 39
Feds: Your Employer Can't Stop You From Recording Conversations At Work 139
Microsoft Makes a Selfie App For the iPhone 50
The Winner-Take-All Trend In Tech 124
Apple Settles a $348M Fine With Italian Authorities For Tax Evasion 87
Oracle Asked To Help Low-Income Residents Evicted For Its New Cloud Campus 202
Microsoft Patents a Slider, Earning EFF's "Stupid Patent of the Month" Award 127
Brazil's Biggest City Wants To Charge Fees For Uber Rides 77
CFR China Expert: US Tech Firms Should Worry About Beijing's New Anti-Terror Law 50
Microsoft Has Your Encryption Key If You Use Windows 10 314
Verizon Offering $650 To Switch To Their Network 83
The Reason a Surface Phone Won't Fix Microsoft's Mobile Problem 154
Reluctance To Go Mobile Inhibiting Innovation In Financial Services 104
Ask Slashdot: How To Get Into Machine Learning? 123
On the Coming Chatbot Revolution 94
Allegations of Data Manipulation At Theranos 97
Microsoft CMO Confirms Development of 'Spiritual Equivalent' of Surface Phone 165
Sweden's Cash-Free Future Looms -- and Not Everyone Is Happy About It 440
Kindle or Not, a Resurgence In Used Bookstores 133
Fujitsu Spins Off Its PC and Mobile Divisions 100
For a Missouri Cassette Tape Factory, Obsolesence is Just a 12-Letter Word 169
ASUS To Include AdBlock Plus On All Phones and Tablets In 2016 189
FTC Issues New Rules for Native Advertising on the Internet 120
Report: Google Partners With Ford To Make Self-Driving Cars 143
US Bureau of Labor Statistics: Programmer Jobs Will Decline 8% 349
Google Joins Mozilla, Microsoft In Pushing For Early SHA-1 Crypto Cutoff 115
ZFS Replication To the Cloud Is Finally Here and It's Fast 150
Microsoft Buys Talko, Another Ray Ozzie Company 10
Vivendi Takes Over Radionomy, Winamp Relaunch Now Possible 117
Apple To Pay Ericsson Patent Royalties On iPhones and iPads 75
US Predicts Zero Job Growth For Electrical Engineers 223
Disney Is Making a Fortune and Safeguarding Its Future By Buying Childhood 207
Microsoft Fails Windows Phone Fans Again By Delaying Windows 10 Mobile 189
Mobile Gaming Giant Calls For Longer Product Life Cycles 30
AdBlock Plus Updates Acceptable Ads Policy 523
Games Involving Candy Stimulate Kids' Appetites 43
Phantom Squad Hacking Group Claims Credit For Three-Hour Xbox Live Outage 49
Sony Creating Sulfur-Based Batteries With 40% More Capacity Than Li-Ion 151
Microsoft Extends SmartScreen To Foil Malvertising and Exploit Kits 48
Pre-Crime in the UK: Businesses Crowdsource a Watch List 162
Landlords Want a Share of Renters' Airbnb Revenue 197
IBM and Linux Foundation To Create Blockchain For Major Financial Institutions 99
Philips Won't Block Third-Party Bulbs After All 110
Microsoft Starts Its Own Charity Organization: Microsoft Philanthropies 95
'Do Not Track' Bill Aims To Let Consumers Reject Online Tracking 75
Is OpenAI Solving the Wrong Problem? 167
Netflix To Re-Encode Entire 1 Petabyte Video Catalogue In 2016 To Save Bandwidth 285
AMD Goes Open Source, Announces GPUOpen Initiative, Linux Compiler, Drivers 89
Carly Fiorina Says Government Needs a Way To "Work Around" Encryption 345
Oculus Founder Says Rift Can Match Valve's 'Room-Scale' VR 36
Hedge Fund Manager Criticizes Yahoo for Wasting $3 Billion On Poor Acquisitions 159
Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out of 3rd-Party Bulbs With New Firmware 358
Tor Hires Former EFF Chief As Executive Director 33
Developer Claims 'PS4 Officially Jailbroken' 133
NASA Looks To PlayStation VR To Train Space Robot Operators 13
Cable Providers Still Have No Answer For Netflix As Cord-cutting Accelerates 247
Microsoft Backs Down, Lets OneDrive Users Keep Their Free 15GB of Storage 80
Dow Chemical and DuPont Plan Huge Merger Followed By a Split 56
Ted Cruz Wants Minimum H-1B Wage of $110,000 543
Locked Intel Skylake CPUs Can Be Overclocked After BIOS Update 89
Faraday Future Selects Las Vegas As Home For $1B Electric Car Factory 110
Microsoft (Briefly) Reveals New Extensions For Edge, Including Reddit and Pinterest 44
Airbnb Dethrones Google As the Best Tech Company To Work For In the US 89
"Happy Birthday To You" Set To Finally Reach the Public Domain 120
Microsoft Offers Linux Certification. Yes, Really. 200
Chubb To Offer UK 'Troll Insurance' Policy 76
Microsoft Open Sources and Forks Windows Live Writer Into Open Live Writer 44
Report: Apple To Suspend Effort To Develop Live TV Service 71
The Ups and Downs of AMD 225
$5 Raspberry Pi Zero Compared To Intel's NetBurst CPUs & Newer 99
Microsoft Kills Many Critical Flaws, Some 0-Days, Un-Trusts One Wildcard Cert 103
Tech Giant SAP Seeks To Hire More Autistic Adults 165
Yahoo To Spin Off Everything That Makes It Yahoo 210
Qualcomm Faces Antitrust Charges In Europe 33
GunTV Aims To Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel For Firearms 633
First Ever EU Rules On Cybersecurity 21
Apple's Legal Fight With Samsung Revealed a Gold Mine of Top-Secret Information 109
NASA 'Moving On' From Low-Earth Orbit 118
Microsoft Will Resume Pushing Windows 10 To Machines With Win7, 8.1 665
Hillary Clinton Urges Silicon Valley To 'Disrupt' ISIS 452
Report Claims Microsoft Beat Apple in Online Tablet Sales for October 239
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Moving To Per-Core Licensing 288
Microsoft To Open Source Chakra, the JavaScript Engine In Its Edge Browser 114
Nokia Completes Sale of HERE Mapping Services 15
Mozilla Ends the Advertisements In Firefox's New Tab Tiles 197
Microsoft, Law Enforcement Disrupt Dorkbot Botnet 31
Intel Skylake CPUs Are Warping Under Mounting Pressure From Third-Party Coolers 115
Samsung Agrees To Pay Apple $548 Million Over Smartphone Patents 64
How Mark Zuckerberg's Altruism Helps Himself 240
Ballmer: Microsoft Mobile Should Focus On Android Apps Not Universal Apps 121
Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Approach Big Companies With Your Product? 174
Why Legal Experts Are Up In Arms Over a Trade-Secrets Bill Microsoft Loves 48
The Story of the CEO Paying Everyone $70k Gets Complicated 233
Microsoft Promotes New Trade Secrets Bill 28
Yahoo Discussing Sale of Internet Business 129
NSF Antes Up $200K For Spin-off of Microsoft-Funded 'Code Trip' TV Show 22
Mozilla May Separate Itself From Thunderbird Email Client 418
Google To Drop Chrome Support For 32-bit Linux 175
Sued For Using HTTPS: Companies In Crypto Patent Fight 130
The Hidden Costs of Going Freelance 160
Sony Unlocks PlayStation 4's Previously Reserved Seventh CPU Core For Devs 143
New Campaign Features Internet Trolls On Roadside Billboards 197
Companies Want To Insert Ads Into Unicode 262
How Technology Is Increasing the Number of Jobs We Have 258
VW Officials Knew Since Last Year of Misleading Fuel Economy Claims 177
Israel Meets With Google and YouTube To Discuss Censoring Videos 529
Ethics: A Good Reason To Sit Further Away From Your Boss 85
Cortana Coming To iOS, For 2000 Beta Testers 39
Hacker Cracks Lumia Bootloader, Offers Tool For Root Access and Custom ROMs 72
The First Online Purchase Was a Sting CD (Or Possibly Weed) 53
LSD Microdosing Gaining Popularity For Silicon Valley Professionals 446
Czech Judge Cuts Deal With Software Pirate: Get 200K YouTube Views Or Pay Huge Fine 95
Pressure From Uber Forces London Taxis To Finally Accept Cards 114
AMD's Crimson Radeon Driver For Linux Barely Changes Anything 95
Why Car Salesmen Don't Want To Sell Electric Cars 482
AMD's 'Crimson' Driver Software Released 50
Windows 10 Fall Update Uninstalls Desktop Software Without Informing Users 360
UK Mobile Operator Could Block Ads At Network Level 109
How Black Friday and Cyber Monday Are Losing Their Meaning 140
Microsoft Blames Layoffs For Drop In Female Employees 182
Disney IT Workers Prepare To Sue Over Foreign Replacements 262
Yahoo Denies Ad-blocking Users Access To Email 328
Axel Springer Goes After iOS 9 Ad Blockers In New Legal Battlle 223
With $160 Billion Merger, Pfizer Moves To Ireland and Dodges Taxes 365
Can Full-Time Tech Workers Survive the Gig Economy? 169
Dell Accused of Installing 'Superfish-Like' Rogue Certificates On Laptops 92
What the Sony Hack Looked Like To Employees 51
New IBM Tech Lets Apps Authenticate You Without Personal Data 27
Nearly 35,000 Comment On New Federal STEM OPT Extension Rule 55
Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 November Update (1511) ISOs 195
CIOs Spend a Third of Their Time On Security 110
Intel Broadwell-E, Apollo Lake, and Kaby Lake Details Emerge In Leaked Roadmap 117
The History of SQL Injection, the Hack That Will Never Go Away 193
Amazon Screenplay-Writing Software Submits Work To Amazon Studios 33
Ask Slashdot: Xbox One Or PlayStation 4? 375
Sued Freelancer Allegedly Turns Over Contractee Source Code In Settlement 130
Happy 30th Birthday, Windows! 249
Meet Mårten Mickos, Serial Open Source CEO (Video) 23
Sony Quietly Adds PS2 Emulation To the PS4 151
YouTube Defending Select Videos Against DMCA Abuse 56
Survey: Tech Pros Ignoring Work-Life Balance Is a Myth 242
AMD Launches Radeon R9 380X, Fastest GPU Under $250 110
Citrix Spinning Off GoTo Collaboration Business, Laying Off 1,000 People 43
Microsoft Open-Sources Visual Studio Code 160
AMA Calls For Ban On Direct-To-Consumer Advertising of Prescription Drugs 305
The Next Gold Rush Will Be 5,000 Feet Under the Sea, With Robot Drones 129
Microsoft Invests $1 Billion In 'Holistic' Security Strategy 80
Microsoft's Plan To Port Android Apps To Windows Proves Too Complex 131
Being Effective and Having Fun at Your Company's Trade Show Booth (video) 20
Snowden Says It's Your Duty To Use an Ad Blocker (for Security) 342
Slashdot Asks: Is Scrum Still Relevant? 371
Intel Launches 72-Core Knight's Landing Xeon Phi Supercomputer Chip 179
Value of University Degree Continues To Decline 393
Pandora To Buy Rdio Assets For $75M In Cash 20
Microsoft To Provide New Encryption Algorithm For the Healthcare Sector 85
The Intel 4004 Microprocessor Turns 44 60
Microsoft Kills Off Zune Music Service 66
Why Free Services From Telecoms Can Be a Problem On the Internet 89
Intel Flagship Core i7-6950X Broadwell-E To Offer 10-Cores, 20-Threads, 25MB L3 167
Beats Music To Shut Down November 30 61
Microsoft Open Sources Its Machine Learning Toolkit 15
Ad Networks Using Inaudible Sound To Link Phones, Tablets and Other Devices 223
BadBarcode Attack Forces Host System To Carry Out Commands 79
Microsoft Rolls Out Major Fall Update To Windows 10 181
Gene Amdahl, Pioneer of Mainframe Computing, Dies At 92 78
Bank of England's Andy Haldane Warns Smart Machines Could Take 15M UK Jobs 291
How Rocket League Brought Psyonix Back From the Brink 33
Uber South Africa Launches $500 a Month Car Lease Which Includes Replacing Tires 83
Apple CEO Tim Cook: "Microsoft Surface Book Tries Too Hard To Do Too Much" 478
Tech Pros' Struggle For Work-Life Balance Continues 195
Even the CEO's Job Is Susceptible To Automation, McKinsey Report Says 176
New Algorithm Recognizes Both Good and Bad Fake Reviews 59
New Book Sold Out Offers a Look At the H-1B Debate 331
TV Networks Cutting Back On Commercials 242
App Companies Propose New Model For Worker Benefits 113
Bill Confirming Property Rights For Asteroid Miners Passes the Senate 171
Microsoft Putting Servers In Germany To Keep User Data Away From US Intelligence 173
Viewing Data Harvested From Smart TVs Used To Push Ads To Other Screens? 148
How Outsourcing Companies Are Gaming the H-1B Visa System 284
Sony To End Sales of Betamax Tapes Next Year 103
Ask Slashdot: Open Source Back-Up Tool For Business? 118
Fury and Fear In Ohio As IT Jobs Go To India 607
TAG Heuer Launches "Connected" Android Wear Smartwatch With Intel Inside 55
Electric-Car Startup Faraday Future Building a $1 Billion Factory In California 162
Intel Skylake-U For Laptops Posts Solid Gains In Testing, Especially Graphics 104
Going Dark Crypto Debate Going Nowhere 111
The FCC Says It Can't Force Google and Facebook To Stop Tracking Their Users 127
AMD Sued Over Allegedly Misleading Bulldozer Core Count 311
VW Engineers Have Admitted Manipulating CO2 Emissions Data 201
Corporations and OSS Do Not Mix 213
Hands-On With the Nintendo PlayStation 51
Why New Antibiotics Never Come To Market 345
Y Combinator, the X Factor of Tech 54
Microsoft Follows Mozilla In Considering Early Ban On SHA-1 Certificates 47
Apple Wages Battle To Keep App Store Malware-Free 85
Sony PlayStation 4 Hits 500 Games Milestone 86
Google-Supported CodeGirl Documentary Makes "Exclusive YouTube Premiere" 289
Cloud Growth Spurs Data Center Land Grab In Northern Virginia 20
Nine Out of Ten of the Internet's Top Websites Are Leaking Your Data 133
Intel Offers More Insight On Its 3D Memory 115
Red Hat and Microsoft Partner On Azure 130
TV Networks Open Neuroscience Labs To Improve Their Shows and Ads 109
Activision Buys Candy Crush Developer For $5.9B 132
Microsoft Cuts OneDrive Storage Limits, Citing Abuse 330
The Return of OS/2 Warp Set For 2016 262
GE CTO On Moving 9,000 Apps To the Public Cloud 123
Gateway Computer Co-Founder Mike Hammond Dead At 53 77
AMD To Retire Catalyst Control Center Drivers, Rolling Out New Crimson Platform 113
How GoDaddy's Quest For Respect Led To an Improbable Partnership With MIT 38
HP Is Now Two Companies. How Did It Get Here? 198
US Tech Giants Increasingly Partner With Military-Connected Chinese Companies 100
Apple Usurps Oracle As the Biggest Threat To PC Security 320
Tech Unemployment Rising In Some Categories 182
CIOs Say New Talent and Old Tech Don't Mix 229
Revisiting the Infamous Sony BMG Rootkit Scandal 10 Years Later 188
IBM Acquires the Weather Company's Digital Business 56
Amazon Prime Now Delivery Drivers Sue Over Classification As Contractors 165
$70k Salaries Didn't 'Backfire'; Gravity Payments' Profits Have Doubled 500
Carriers Selling Your Data: a $24 Billion Business 125
Chase and MasterCard Jump Into Mobile Payments 56
Walmart Applies To Test Drone Use For Delivery and Inventory Checking 49
NY To Probe Broadband Providers Over Internet Speeds 56
Man Licenses His Video Footage To Sony, Sony Issues Copyright Claim Against Him 190
Judge: School's Facebook Post is a Campaign Contribution 86
Does Government Science Funding Drive Innovation? 248
Do Not Call 911! The Life and Death of an Amazon Warehouse Temp 284
FBI Chief Links Video Scrutiny of Police To Rise In Violent Crime 372
RIP: Prolific Amazon Customer Reviewer Harriet Klausner (1952-2015) 92
Full Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Intellectual Property Chapter Analyzed 109
22-Way SteamOS Graphics Card Comparison: NVIDIA Wins Across the Board 98
Google, Facebook, Microsoft Deliver K-12 CS Demands To Congress 120
Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon 203
Intel Pulling the Plug On McAfee/MX Logic Anti-Spam 42
HP To Shut Down Its OpenStack Based Public Cloud 89
Google Snapping Up Top Biomedical Talent 76
Microsoft To Pay Up To $15K For Bugs In Two Visual Studio Tools 43
Google Wants Online Ad Improvement Within Months, Not Years 227
Microsoft Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book Reviews 152
"YouTube Red" Offers Premium YouTube For $9.99 a Month, $12.99 For iOS Users 236
Western Digital To Buy SanDisk 99
Intel Develops Linux 'Software GPU' That's ~29-51x Faster 111
DHS To Extend OPT To 60 Months, Says Employers, Universities, Students Demand It 178
Microsoft Publishes OpenSSH For Windows Code 164
Bank's Severance Deal Requires IT Workers To Be Available For Two Years 602
PSP Oculus Rift Emulator Puts Players Inside of Virtual Reality PSP Games 18
Despite Promises, China Still Targeting US Firms 125
The Diversity Issue Silicon Valley Isn't Trying To Fix: Age Discrimination 362
New Plastic For Old Amigas and Commodores 128
Disruptive Bloodwork Startup May Offer Mostly Vaporware 174
Sprint Will Start Throttling Customers Who Exceed 23GB Monthly 153

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