Source: Recode
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
BlackBerry might quit the handset business if it can’t turn a profit
BlackBerry's decision to remain in the handset market, despite failing to turn a profit for years and having lost almost all of its market share, could be seen as either denial...
YouNow raises $15 million to expand its live streaming social network
Meerkat and Periscope are the only non-gaming live streaming apps of note at the moment, but YouNow wants to change that by taking a rather unique approach to live streaming,...
Twitter might be doing away with its 140-character limit
Instagram limited itself to using square pictures, Snapchat limited itself to sending disappearing messages, and Twitter limited itself to supporting 140-character or less posts. These limitations are the quirks that made...
YouTube’s ad-free subscription service might finally launch next month
YouTube has been rumored to be working on a subscription-based video service for years, but it wasn't until this year that we actually started seeing evidence of such a service. YouTube Music...
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