Source: Businessweek
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Marriott is teaming up with Hulu, Netflix, and Pandora
I'm surprised this hasn't been done on a large scale already, but Netflix is apparently looking to secure a deal with Marriott International to offer the streaming service to the...
Ford, UPS, Visa, and Bank of America are also fighting for net neutrality
As we’ve mentioned before, the debate over net neutrality isn’t just one of government-versus-business but one of business-versus-business. While we already knew that big-name Internet companies such as Netflix are...
The Washington Post app will come pre-installed on new Kindles
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has already started making his mark at The Washington Post as the newspaper’s new owner. First, he tackled costs, by slashing employees’ retirement benefits, and now, he’s...
Twitter gives MIT $10 million and access to every public tweet
Twitter is opening up its vault for researchers at MIT's Media Lab, and it's giving them $10 million to try and glean some insights from the deluge of tweets. The...
BlackBerry has already sold 200,000 Passport smartphones
Judging from the first wave of reviews of the BlackBerry Passport, it is safe to say that many are quite smitten with BlackBerry’s latest smartphone efforts. In fact last we...
Verizon is looking to triple its solar energy with a $40 million investment
Verizon plans to expand the amount of solar panel projects that power its network by almost double. Following a $100 million investment in solar panels and fuel cells last year,...
The first Roku-powered smartTVs have been announced
For the last several years, Roku has sold a series of devices that you connect to your TV to stream a wide range of content from thousands of different apps....
Some hospitals are identifying high-risk patients using credit card data
So, this sounds creepy: Some hospitals are identifying high-risk patients by buying loads of consumer data and plugging it into algorithms so they can step in before the customer gets...
RoboEarth is a cloud network that lets robots teach other robots
RoboEarth. No, it's not a lame SNES game from 1994, it's a cloud network that lets robots learn from the actions of other bots. It started over three years ago,...
Amazon’s upcoming smartphone is expected to have gesture interface
It is widely believed that Amazon’s 3D smartphone will be unveiled to the masses later this evening, which would be spot on according to an earlier rumor. Much has been...
FDA finally approves a new, high-tech type of prosthetic arm
After years of testing, the FDA today approved a new type of prosthetic arm that its makers claim will bring a whole new level of control to amputees. Known as the "Luke"...
NASA’s new spacesuit looks like something from Tron
As engineers and scientists work hard to build technologies that astronauts could one day use to live and work on Mars, the future of spacesuits is looking stylish too. Or...
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