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Alibaba needs to be much more than just the “Amazon of China”

Alibaba has been called the "Amazon of China," and has certainly been dominating in its home country, but the Chinese e-commerce giant has little influence overseas. This is something that...

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What if there was a social network that actually paid you to post?

It doesn't matter how much we hate Facebook, we're never going to leave it. Even though we're little more to Facebook than a consumer that advertisers will pay to target, it's...

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Leak: AMD’s next-generation graphics cards look ridiculously small

Considering how AMD's next-generation graphics cards are going to be the first in the industry to use high-bandwidth memory (HBM), the successor to GDDR5 RAM, it's no wonder that people are so...

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HP’s new PCs are powered by AMD’s next-generation GPU

There has been no shortage of leaks and rumors regarding AMD's next-generation graphics cards, but this most recent leak shows that HP will be one of the first companies to...

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E3 is finally getting an event dedicated solely to PC gaming

Considering how E3 is the biggest gaming expo in North America and the PC is the biggest gaming platform in the world, you'd think that E3 would have an event dedicated...

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Samsung wants to bring virtual reality and wearables to businesses

There's been a lot of talk about virtual reality and wearable devices these past few months, but most of it is about consumer products. You don't see very many people...

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Xiaomi doesn’t want people to wait for its smartphones anymore

With how ridiculously successful Xiaomi has become, it's easy to forget that the company is still just a few years old and suffers from many of the weaknesses that plague...

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Sony has four new Android-powered 4K smart televisions

With researchers predicting that the market for 4K displays will exceed $50 billion by 2020, it's no surprise that Sony wants to corner the market while it's still in its...

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More than 3/4 of Yahoo’s revenue is from PCs despite its mobile push

Despite how much CEO Marissa Mayer claims mobile is the key to Yahoo's success, which is correct, the vast majority of the company's money still comes from regular computers. According to...

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The EU’s data-protection reforms are a threat to privacy

Despite how the EU views itself as somewhat of an antithesis to the NSA-plagued United States in terms of privacy, new European data-protection proposals are getting criticism for civil rights groups...

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Google wants to encrypt the majority of its ads before the end of June

Over the past year or so, Google has been using its significant influence over the Internet to encourage adoption of HTTPS, which allows Web communication over an encrypted channel. The latest...

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Microsoft is bringing its universal Office apps to mobile devices

Universal apps are one of the biggest selling points for Windows 10, and Office is leading the charge. Microsoft has announced plans to bring it's new vision for Office to...

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