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Depop wants to blur the lines between e-commerce and social networks

Jan 29, 2015

As already established companies like eBay and Pinterest try to blend e-commerce and social networking, a British startup by the...

Reddit has released its first-ever transparency report

Jan 29, 2015

Transparency reports are becoming increasingly common in the post-Snowden world, particularly for Internet-based companies like Facebook, Google, Twitter, and now...

Facebook accounts for 3/5 of all social logins

Jan 27, 2015

It shouldn't surprise anyone that Facebook is the king of social logins. According to identity management platform Gigya, the social networking...

IBM is planning thousands of layoffs this year

Jan 26, 2015

There have been some rumors going around that IBM is planning to cut around a fourth of its workforce, which...

Facebook Lite is a new app specifically for developing nations

Jan 26, 2015

While Facebook users in the developed world don't really have to worry about the ludicrous amounts of data that the...

Lizard Squad has hacked the Malaysia Airlines official website

Jan 26, 2015

Lizard Squad, the infamous hacking group that made a name for itself over the holidays when it took down both...

Can privacy survive the evolution of the Internet?

Jan 25, 2015

We reported earlier this week that Google's vision of the future is one in which the internet is all-encompassing and...

Google and Cloudera are bringing Dataflow to Spark

Jan 20, 2015

Google Cloud Dataflow allows developer to create and monitor their data-processing pipelines without the hassle of underlying clusters. Now the company...

Text analytics service Equivio has been acquired by Microsoft

Jan 20, 2015

Equivio is a service for legal and compliance that utilizes various machine-learning techniques in order to analyze documents and identify what relevance...

Snapchat might be charging brands a bit too much for advertisements

Jan 19, 2015

Snapchat has already managed to accumulate tens of millions of users, now it just needs to start making money off...

Aol is about to undergo a massive restructuring

Jan 19, 2015

Aol was once an internet juggernaut and one of the most promising companies of its time, but as we all...

Apple cuts all ties to Crimea to comply with US sanctions

Jan 18, 2015

The relationship between Russia and the United States hasn't exactly been good these past few months due to Russia's annexation...