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Pebble’s CEO warns Apple and Google to keep their platforms open

Unless they want to stifle innovation and harm consumers, Apple and Google need to ensure that their platforms remain open. That's what Eric Migicovsky, the founder and CEO of Pebble, said...

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Foxconn has made a “strategic investment” in Cyanogen

Cyanogen has been working hard these the past few months to secure powerful allies to help it fulfill its promise to take Android away from Google, and few allies could help it...

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Facebook is making its Login and Graph APIs mandatory

Facebook's existing partners were given a year to adopt the company's new developer tools aimed at preventing apps from taking liberties with user data, and now that year is over....

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Google Fi is finally here but you’ll need a Nexus 6 and an invite

Confirming reports late last night that Google would be launching its highly-anticipated wireless service today, the company has launched Google Fi. Combining the wireless services of Sprint and T-Mobile, Google...

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Maybe it wasn’t fair to make fun of Google Cardboard

Making fun of Google Cardboard has always been more about pessimistic humor than an actual dismissal of the idea, which certainly has potential and is becoming more serious as time...

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Google’s MVNO service sounds too good to be true

And here I thought T-Mobile was disrupting the wireless carrier market, but Google's own MVNO service is looking too good to be true. Just as the company's gigabit Internet service...

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Amazon finally has FAA approval to test its latest delivery drones

Amazon may have been the company that put the idea of delivery drones in the spotlight, but regulatory restrictions have made actually testing and implementing those drones a tedious process. The...

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Yahoo is about to end Tumblr’s independence for the sake of profit

The best kind of ads are the ones that don't even seem like ads. These are known as native ads, where the advertisement is practically indistinguishable from the content around...

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Apple is finally taking app submissions for the Apple Watch

As cool as the Apple Watch looks, the smartwatch is pretty much worthless without any apps. While any developer with the WatchKit can whip up their own app for the...

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Why does Facebook have both Messenger and WhatsApp?

Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp do much the same thing, and they're both owned by the same company, so what's the point of having them operate as separate services? According to...

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Apple bolsters is server-side technologies with FoundationD acquisition

FoundationD is a company that has made a name for itself by specializing in speedy, durable NoSQL databases, but what's so important about that? Well, not much, at least until Apple...

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How will the Web evolve over the next decade?

There's no shortage of people spewing their own theories about how the Internet is going to evolve, which we tend to ignore, but when the founder of Drupal, which powers...

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