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LeBron James is proving that virtual reality isn’t all about gaming

Being able to work with some of the most-popular celebrities in the world is one of the perks that comes with being owned by Facebook, and it looks like Oculus...

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Snapchat’s publisher platform is becoming a little too crowded

A little under a year ago, there were less than a dozen publishers using Snapchat, but after seeing how useful the app's Discover platform is for tapping into the coveted millennial audience,...

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Facebook and Twitter’s e-commerce ventures aren’t very successful

Many social networks have been dipping their toes into the e-commerce market with Buy buttons in recent months, but if this year's holiday season is any indication, consumers aren't all...

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Amazon’s most-promising competitor has $350 million in new funding

Challenging an e-commerce behemoth like Amazon requires an immense amount of connections and resources, not to mention experience and strategy. Jet.com has plenty of the latter two, having been founded by the same...

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Ford thinks self-driving cars will hit the market within four years

Although everyone can agree that self-driving cars will be hitting the market in the near future, nobody can agree on when that'll actually happen. Google's prediction that fully autonomous cars will...

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Microsoft might not bring Android apps to Windows 10 after all

The two biggest selling points for Windows 10 were the fact that it was a unified platform that worked across all devices, and the promise that Microsoft would be offering...

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Twitter wants to make money off people without Twitter accounts

Twitter currently has around 320 million monthly active users, which is a hell of a lot, but that's only a fraction of its true user base. The problem with measuring Twitter's...

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Discover Channels are Snapchat’s newest way of making money

Reaching 100 million daily active users is only half the battle, the other half is finding out how to make money from them. That's something that Snapchat knows all too...

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Uber’s CEO doesn’t think the company is ready to go public yet

Like an eighth grader being told they should go to prom, Uber wants people to stop telling it that it needs to go public soon. That's the analogy that CEO Travis Kalanick...

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Amazon now charges $299/year to deliver fresh groceries

Amazon Fresh members in Los Angeles already have to pay an annual $299.99 fee in order to have Amazon deliver groceries to them, and now members in New York City,...

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