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T-Mobile’s CEO is almost too American for Deutsche Telekom

Madness and genius go hand in hand all to often, and both terms have been used to described T-Mobile CEO John Legere. Deutsche Telekom, which owns T-Mobile, acknowledges that Legere is “very American” and...

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Amazon is facing some more tax issues in Europe

Luxembourg is one of the most popular tax havens in Europe where companies from across the globe come to create shady tax arrangements. Unfortunately for companies like Amazon, however, the...

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Boeing guts Narus and sells its employees to Symantec

Narus, a big data analytics firm that focuses primarily on cybersecurity, has been gutted by its parent company, Boeing, which acquired it back in 2010. While Boeing will retain control...

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Nintendo’s new 3DS is finally launching in the US next month

Many people were confused when Nintendo decided not to release the next iteration of its insanely popular handheld gaming consoles over the holiday season in the United States. Either way,...

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SpaceX is making its way to Seattle

Seattle is already an information technology hub, but now Elon Musk wants to turn it into a private space travel hub as well. The SpaceX founder recently announced that his...

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Apple wants to help parents prevent their kids from being spied on

Apple has launched a new "Game for Kids" section of the App Store that gives concerned parents a lost of age-appropriate games for their children that won't track their behavior....

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Microsoft criticizes Google for releasing details on a Windows vulnerability

As a part of its new “Project Zero” security initiative, Google released details about a security vulnerability in Windows 8.1 just a few days before it was slated to be patched, and...

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Facebook invests in its future with the acquisition of QuickFire

Facebook made it very clear last year that it sees video as the future of the social network, and has adjusted its strategy to match that. This is why the...

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Texas Hold-em computer program claims to have ‘solved’ the game

It's hard to imagine that a game such as Texas Hold'em poker would need to be solved, but that's exactly what the University of Alberta claims to have been done....

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Dato raises $18.5 million to help small businesses tackle big data

Big data is an invaluable tool for companies in today's data-driven markets, but it can be a difficult tool for smaller business to utilize. This is something that Dato, previously known as GraphLab,...

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Sales from third-party merchants on Amazon doubled last year

One of the things that makes Amazon so successful is the fact that it doesn't just sell products directly, often times the company opens up its online marketplace to third-party...

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Cerevast raises $10 million for its new therapeutic headframe device

Redmond biotech company Cerevast Therapeutics has raised $10 million as it continues to test a headset it hopes will one day be used to treat stroke patients. That brings the company's...

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