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Microsoft might be willing to fund a Yahoo acquisition

Remember that time Yahoo turned down a $44.6 billion acquisition offer from Microsoft? Well, here we are eight years later and Microsoft has developed some very successful competitors to Yahoo's own services,...

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Google and Microsoft are backing Apple’s legal filing against the FBI

Shortly after Apple CEO Tim Cook reaffirmed his belief that helping the FBI break the iPhone's encryption would harm both his company and the American people, Apple filed a motion to vacate the...

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Cisco is spending $1.4 billion to begin its Internet of Things expansion

Expanding into the emerging Internet of Things market shouldn't be too hard for Cisco considering how it's the largest manufacturer of networking equipment in the world, but that doesn't mean it needs to...

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Marissa Mayer has written a kill list for Yahoo’s employees

The fate of Yahoo's employees is being determined by where they are on the new kill list that CEO Marissa Mayer has written up, though I'm sure many of them...

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Tim Cook hinted that Apple may be interested in virtual reality

Considering how the iPhone is losing some major steam, Apple is going to need to find some more sources of revenue if it wants to continue to be as ridiculously...

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Twitter just lost four of its top executives

We won't know until later today what exactly happened at Twitter on Sunday, but we do know that whatever it was, it resulted in the departure of four of the...

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Twitter’s former CEO has founded a new personal fitness startup

Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo announced on Tuesday that he's taking on two new jobs, the most notable of which is the founder of a new personal fitness startup, while the other...

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Most people rarely use their smartphones for actual phone calls

Some interesting, but not all that surprising, data from Deloitte suggests that a little more than a quarter of the people in developed nations won't make a single phone call this...

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Twitter might be removing its 140-character limit for tweets

Would Instagram would be as popular as it is today if it didn't limit its users with its square images? What about Snapchat and its ten-second messages, or Vine and...

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Instacart won’t be nearly as aggressive next year as it was this year

This year, Instacart managed to more than triple its staff to around 300 employees, but it won't be nearly as aggressive with its hiring next year. This isn't necessarily an indication...

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