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RelayRides has raised $44 million to change the way people rent cars

RelayRides, the San Francisco-based car sharing service that's going after the rental car industry, announced a $25 million funding round on Tuesday. The funding, a series B round, brings the...

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Silicon Valley giants have awarded $15 million in prizes to mathematicians

The Breakthrough Prize Foundation, which is funded by the likes of Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin, and investor Yuri Milner, just doled out five $3 million awards to cutting edge math...

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Microsoft has teased a Tuesday launch for a new Nokia device

When it comes to product launches, it seems Microsoft likes nothing more than to keep us guessing. The latest teaser from the company suggests that a new Nokia X device...

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Why did Apple drop Yahoo from the iOS 8 weather app?

According to a report from earlier this month, it was revealed that with iOS 8, Apple had decided to drop Yahoo from their Weather app, instead choosing to go with...

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T-Mobile customers are being offered a week-long iPhone “test drive”

Just who is providing all the iPhones that will be offered to potential T-Mobile customers as part of a new program that lets people test drive the carrier's network for...

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Google has acquired Skybox Imaging for $500 million

Google has acquired Skybox Imaging, a company that captures high-resolution imagery with satellites, for $500 million in cash. At least initially, it sounds like Skybox's technology will be used to...

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Apple is reportedly on the look-out for a “friendlier” public relations chief

Apple's been without a public relations chief since the end of May, and is still looking for a replacement. Now the company is said to be looking for a "friendlier,...

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A Dutch appeals court has upheld a sales ban on older Samsung phones

Even though Apple has beaten Samsung twice in the US so far, it failed to obtain the significant win it needed to really deliver a big hit to its archenemy. In fact, Apple...

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Cisco’s CEO warns Obama that NSA spying is hurting the tech industry

Cisco Systems’ CEO John Chambers has written to U.S. President Barack Obama, asking for his intervention so that U.S. technology sales are not affected by a loss in trust as...

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Samsung and Intel to offer freebies on Tizen to attract developers

Does the Tizen platform have what it takes to become the next big thing in smartphones? Or will it end up being mostly ignored in a market where iOS and...

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