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E-commerce startups are exploding in China
When a startup achieves a valuation exceeding one billion dollars, it becomes known as a "Unicorn." While the United States has more of these unicorns than it knows what to...
American Idol will finally be coming to an end after 15 years
Few television shows have enjoyed the level of success that American Idol has, but everything must come to an end eventually, and many people think American Idol's death is long...
All this startup does is keep track of other startups
Startups are, by nature, privately-held entities that have no legal obligation to share their data publicly, which is why it can be difficult to keep track of them. Potential investors...
China wants to ranks individuals and organizations by social data
China has many things in abundance, namely people, but there are many things that China and Chinese society are lacking in, such as trust. Chinese people simply don't trust each...
Google wants to remove the spacebar from laptops
Smartphones may be getting bigger but laptops are getting smaller. Computer manufacturers are constantly trying to shrink their laptops as much as they can, with Apple even altering the keyboard...
Comcast’s merger with Time Warner Cable is all but dead at this point
Comcast's $42.5 billion plan to acquire Time Warner Cable is all but dead at this point, but that doesn't mean America's Internet is problem-free. The merger of the nation's two largest...
Google wants to turn your wall into a giant e-book screen
Google has been awarded a patent for a projector that would essentially turn any wall in your home into a giant screen that would enable you to project whatever image...
Amazon is taking the covers off its most secretive business
Few of Amazon's products are as influential and revolutionairy as Amazon Web Services, and few of them are as shrouded in secret either. In the nine years since its launch, statistics regarding AWS...
Google’s latest patent would allow it to control a robot army
Google's ambitions in the field of robots are no secret, but this latest patent may be one of company's most interesting yet. Essentially, the patent describes configuring a bunch of...
The UN wants to prevent autonomous robots from wiping us out
Terminator is probably one of the worst inspirations for painting a picture of the future, and the United Nations wants to make sure that the film's creative dystopia never becomes...
Be wary of spoilers, episodes of Game of Thrones have been leaked
As great as the Internet is, there's hardly a worse place to be when you're trying to avoid spoilers, particularly when the spoilers are for a show like Game of...
iOS users can now install the “Netflix for Pirates” app on their iPhone
Popcorn Time has a large enough library to rival or even surpass Netflix and is completely free, unless you include the price of a VPN which isn't even necessary for...
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