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Most of Yahoo’s employees have lost faith in the company

Yahoo has definitely seen better days, and though many people had faith that Marissa Mayer would bring those better days back when she became the company's CEO back in 2012,...

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General Motors has invested $500 million into Lyft

When you're competing against a $51 billion (soon to be $62.5 billion) behemoth like Uber, it's important to have some big friends backing you, otherwise you won't stand a chance. Lyft...

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California’s new self-driving car regulations are bad news for Google

Thanks to the California Autonomous Vehicle Testing Program, not to mention its wealth of engineering talent, California has become the most vibrant hub for self-driving vehicle development in the world, but the...

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Yahoo is considering selling off its core Internet business

Initially, many people were confident that former Google executive Marissa Mayer would be able to turn things around for Yahoo as its CEO and President, but after three years of...

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Adele won’t allow her new album to be available for streaming

Adele is one of the most-popular music artists in the world at the moment, so it's pretty obvious that her first new album in nearly five years is going to...

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Lyft is seeking $500 million in funding to better compete with Uber

To say that Lyft is the underdog is a bit of an understatement. Whereas Uber has already raised billions in funding, with billions more to come in the future, and...

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One of Google’s self-driving cars was pulled over by a cop

When a cop pulls over a self-driving car for a traffic violation, who do they give the ticket to? That's a problem that a Mountain View police officer encountered earlier...

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Airbnb has promised to start playing nice with city governments

Airbnb has been really aggressive with how it expands, which has more often than not brought it into conflict with local regulators, but the company has continued to choose to...

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YouTube has unveiled its new ad-free subscription service

We've been hearing rumors about YouTube's ad-free subscription service for years, but it wasn't until last November that the company actually released something along those lines. It was called YouTube...

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This online dictionary will catalog all of the words the Internet creates

The speed at which the English language adapts and adds new words is what makes it so great, but also what makes it so annoying, mainly due to the fact...

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Bono and Zuckerberg want universal Internet access by 2020

In a co-authored op-ed for the New York Times, Bono and Mark Zuckerberg laid out a plan for how to provide Internet access to the entire world within the next...

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America and China are setting ground rules for cyberwarfare

Back when Russia and the United States were the top dogs, both countries were afraid of the devastation that a nuclear attack from the other could cause, and set some ground...

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