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Smaller brands may as well say goodbye to Instagram

Instagram announced on Tuesday that it wants to start using algorithms to determine which posts are most interesting and relevant to users, which it described as being designed to improve...

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Uber’s food delivery service is starting to expand

Hearing that Uber is encroaching on your territory is enough to make most companies a little nervous, and I don't think GrubHub is an exception. The Chicago-based startup generated more than $1...

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Pandora wants to help artists connect with their fans

When every music-streaming service offers roughly the same content for roughly the same price, it can be hard for one service to differentiate itself from the competition. One of the...

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Microsoft considered making an $8 billion acquisition bid for Slack

With more than 2.3 million daily active users, it's not that hard to see why so many companies are interested in acquiring Slack, a popular service that helps co-workers interact and...

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Google is developing a hands-free mobile payments app

As if waving your smartphone over a contactless reader wasn't easy enough, Google is developing a new mobile payments system that doesn't even require you to take your phone out of your...

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Spotify is partnering up with Google

Data centers are really expensive to build, and even more so to maintain, which is why most companies find it difficult to justify operating their own data centers. Companies like Facebook...

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Reviews for the LG G5 are starting to come in

LG's flagship smartphones are always decent, and that's why they're never as successful as Samsung's flagships, because just being decent isn't enough to compete against the likes of the Galaxy S series....

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Truecaller wants your phone number to replace your email address

Your email address is basically the online ID that allows you to create accounts on various apps and websites, and even though many of them allow you to create an account...

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Kanye West may have breathed new life into Tidal

Whatever your opinion of Kanye West is, either as a performer or as a person, you can't deny that his popularity is almost unparalleled at the moment. Such is his...

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Meta is teasing its next-generation augmented reality headset

With big names like Google and Microsoft currently leading the charge in augmented reality development, it's easy to forget about a small company like Meta. Based in California, the company...

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