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Susan Bennett explains why Siri gets ill-tempered at times

Susan Bennett explained the reason why Siri would get snippy at times. Susan Bennett, the woman who claimed to be the voice of the American Siri in Apple Inc's assistant app, told CNN she recorded nonsensical phrases and sentences for ubergeeks, as she called them, in July 2005.


SEC lawyer accuses billionaire Mark Cuban of insider trading

SEC Lawyer Jan Folena said Mark Cuban cheated when he sold his shares in an Internet firm nine years ago.

MongoDB secures USD 50 million in financing

MongoDB announced that it was able to score USD 150 million in financing from various investors. Data management firm MongoDB said it was able to raise USD 150 million in capital commitments from its latest financing round.

Ellison gives up USD575 million payout to settle suit over Pillar buyout

Oracle Corp founder Larry Ellison agreed to give up 95% of his USD575 million payout from terms of a buyout agreement with Pillar Data Systems Inc in order to appease the software company's investors.


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A CNN interview revealed Susan Bennett as the voice behind intelligent personal secretary and navigator app Siri.
In a website announcement, Adobe Systems, Inc. confirmed that a cyberattack accessed sensitive data of 2.9 million of its customers.
A 47 year-old reclusive financier and private equity firm founder Suhail Rizvi would stand to gain from Twitter Inc's upcoming initial public offering.
The most anticipated public listing of Twitter Inc would be led by Goldman Sachs Group Inc, said a Bloomberg report.
Co-founding chairman Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer had sought for re-election in Microsoft's board of directors, said a Reuters report.
Oracle Corp Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison had agreed to give up a possible payout. Larry Ellison, Oracle Corp's CEO, had agreed to give up potential payout valued approximately USD500 million.
After AngelList was allowed to list companies and their backers to publicly solicit funds last week, venture capitalists flock to syndicate the site for venture capital.
As share values jumped, the bigger issues for the Applied Materials-Tokyo Electron merger would be the regulatory approvals from three countries and the length of time for those approvals to be obtained.
People who had been using Instagram would start to see advertising in their photo sharing feeds in the next couple of months.
Twitter disclosed its financial information to potential investors after filing its IPO documents, said a Reuters report.
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