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Seoul is banning Uber in favor of its own app
South Korean capital Seoul could potentially ban Uber in the city, in favor of its own still-in-development app. The city government advised that it would try to ban the car-hailing...
Google and Panzura have partnered to offer developers 2TB of free storage
Google has partnered with cloud storage startup Panzura to offer developers 2 TB of free storage for a full year, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. It’s the latest...
Huawei is selling its smartphone through the WeChat app
Chinese manufacturer Huawei recently launched a new smartphone in China and to sell it the company looked towards an unconventional sales channel: a messaging application. WeChat is one of the...
Scammers are targeting participants in the government’s Bitcoin auction
The folks at Coindesk are reporting a fascinating phishing attack on leaked list of auction participants for the Silk Road bitcoins. The list, which appeared after a member of the...
Drug companies may soon be required to tweet their products’ side effects
The FDA has proposed a new set of social media guidelines that will require drug companies to tweet their products’ side-effects to the world, reports The Wall Street Journal. Though...
A privacy watchdog is complaining to the FTC about Facebook’s “experiment”
Here’s a surprise: Sheryl Sandberg’s non-apology for the experiment in which Facebook tweaked nearly 700,000 people’s News Feeds to determine the effect it might have on their emotions hasn’t stopped...
Databricks is ready to take on Google with $33 million in new funding
Databricks, the commercial entity created by the developers of the open source Apache Spark project, announced $33 million in Series B funding today and the launch of a new cloud...
Google is shutting down its first social network, Orkut
Looking to shift more attention to the Google+ social network, Google will be officially shutting down the Orkut social network as of September 30, 2014 and will not be allowing...
Sony spent more to advertise the PS4 than Microsoft did for the Xbox One
Have you noticed more TV ads for Xbox One or PlayStation 4? According to research firm iSpot chances are it’s the PS4, as Sony has been spending a lot more...
mCube has raised $37 million to make accelerometers smaller and cheaper
Entrepreneur Ben Lee has been developing a new type of semiconductor process that makes tiny accelerometers. When embedded in devices these little machines could change the types of games played...
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