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Facebook acquires social conversation platform for $15 million

Jan 13, 2014

Facebook grew its ranks by 10 New Yorkers today, following an agreement to acquire Branch. Josh Miller and Cemre Güngör created...

Aereo apologizes for brief outage during the Golden Globes

Jan 13, 2014

Aereo, the streaming TV startup backed by media mogul Barry Diller, has apologized for a brief service outage tonight. The...

HP plans to lay off another 5,000 employees, total now rests at 34,000

Dec 31, 2013

 Bad news for Hewlett-Packard employees. The company has already adjusted the number of people it needed to let go from 27,000 to 29,000 a year...

Twitter tipster shows off another image for Nokia’s rumored Android device

Dec 23, 2013

Perhaps one of the greatest “what could have been” stories in recent times is definitively the question of what Nokia...

Oracle’s second quarter was better than expected

Dec 19, 2013

Oracle's second quarter results were better than expected and the company said software as a service bookings growth was 35...

Forget drones, Sphero will deliver your packages with Amazon Ground

Dec 17, 2013

Amazon made waves with its Amazon Air drone delivery concept, and a video of a recent test flight really brought that...

Homeless man with Chromebook completes first mobile app

Dec 12, 2013

Normally, a homeless person would have life a whole lot tougher than someone with a job and can get three...

3D printers wanted for Happy Meals

Nov 9, 2013

One of the greatest disappointments of childhood was the McDonald's Happy Meal toy. They always looked so appealing on television...

Obama steps into NSA fray when reports show they’re watching the money

Nov 1, 2013

It's a terrible annoyance that the NSA was spying on world leaders, including allies. It was a shame when they...

The needed revival of the iPad

Oct 21, 2013

It's hard to believe that iPad sales have fallen as far as they have over the months, but there's hope....

How Twitter made it this far

Oct 19, 2013

They started off as a side project for internal communications for a small startup. It's now about to go public....

Mobile ad giant Flurry points to IPO as ‘inevitable’

Sep 23, 2013

When you have a mobile ad reach greater than Google's and you have more business than you can handle, there's...