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Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited is like the Netflix of e-books

Jul 19, 2014

A few days ago, it was reported that Amazon was planning on introducing an unlimited Kindle service. Basically it involves...

This startup has raised $8.5 million to revolutionize e-commerce pricing

Jul 18, 2014

Amazon and eBay veteran, Guru Hariharan, is ready to revolutionize the way retailers price and sell products. His company, Boomerang...

Soundwave’s most recent update focuses on the social aspects of music

Jul 17, 2014

Soundwave, the app designed for sharing your music taste, is today receiving its biggest update since it launched 13 months...

New patents suggest Snapchat is entering the mobile payments market

Jul 17, 2014

Snapchat may take a leaf out of Asia’s messaging app playbook when it comes to making money, after two potentially...

Samsung is looking to acquire SmartThings for around $200 million

Jul 16, 2014

This year has been the battle of smart homes among big internet firms. Google bought Nest for $3.2 billion, while...

Captricity has raised $10 million to help enterprises digitize their paperwork

Jul 15, 2014

Captricity, a startup that helps enterprises digitize their paperwork, faxes, scans, mobile phone photos, and handwriting, is expanding. It hopes...

Germany may soon begin regulating tech giants like utilities

Jul 14, 2014

Has Google reached the point where it needs to be regulated like a utility? At least one German governmental agency...

MIT has taken the first step towards creating shape-shifting robots

Jul 14, 2014

Robots tend to be either very rigid or very soft, but neither extreme is ideal; ideally, machines could both squish...

Screenshots of the Windows 8.1 start menu have been leaked

Jul 14, 2014

A build of the next major Windows update is believed to have leaked online. Microsoft has already said that it...

Amazon Web Services is beginning to evolve at a rapid pace

Jul 13, 2014

The big news last week was Amazon Web Service’s entry into several new areas, log monitoring and admin with Logs...

Instagram Direct has over 45 million active users

Jul 13, 2014

Instagram introduced direct picture messaging at the end of last year, but up until now we haven’t heard much from...

The FCC has received 647,000 comments regarding net neutrality

Jul 11, 2014

The Federal Communications Commission has so far received about 647,000 comments regarding net neutrality as the first round of public...