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Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited is like the Netflix of e-books
A few days ago, it was reported that Amazon was planning on introducing an unlimited Kindle service. Basically it involves users subscribing to the Kindle Unlimited service at $9.99 a...
This startup has raised $8.5 million to revolutionize e-commerce pricing
Amazon and eBay veteran, Guru Hariharan, is ready to revolutionize the way retailers price and sell products. His company, Boomerang Commerce, announced today $8.5 million in its first round of...
Soundwave’s most recent update focuses on the social aspects of music
Soundwave, the app designed for sharing your music taste, is today receiving its biggest update since it launched 13 months ago. While Soundwave 1.0 was a good sketch of what...
New patents suggest Snapchat is entering the mobile payments market
Snapchat may take a leaf out of Asia’s messaging app playbook when it comes to making money, after two potentially telling trademark filings were unearthed. TechCrunch dug up filings related...
Samsung is looking to acquire SmartThings for around $200 million
This year has been the battle of smart homes among big internet firms. Google bought Nest for $3.2 billion, while Apple announced Homekit at its WWDC conference in June, an...
Captricity has raised $10 million to help enterprises digitize their paperwork
Captricity, a startup that helps enterprises digitize their paperwork, faxes, scans, mobile phone photos, and handwriting, is expanding. It hopes to serve more enterprise customers, especially those in the health...
Germany may soon begin regulating tech giants like utilities
Has Google reached the point where it needs to be regulated like a utility? At least one German governmental agency is considering that possibility. The Federal Cartel Office in that...
MIT has taken the first step towards creating shape-shifting robots
Robots tend to be either very rigid or very soft, but neither extreme is ideal; ideally, machines could both squish themselves into tight spaces and remain sturdy for strength-dependent tasks....
Screenshots of the Windows 8.1 start menu have been leaked
A build of the next major Windows update is believed to have leaked online. Microsoft has already said that it is going to bring back the start menu in the...
Amazon Web Services is beginning to evolve at a rapid pace
The big news last week was Amazon Web Service’s entry into several new areas, log monitoring and admin with Logs for CloudWatch; collaboration and file sharing with Zocalo; and mobile...
Instagram Direct has over 45 million active users
Instagram introduced direct picture messaging at the end of last year, but up until now we haven’t heard much from the Facebook-owned app about how well the new feature is...
The FCC has received 647,000 comments regarding net neutrality
The Federal Communications Commission has so far received about 647,000 comments regarding net neutrality as the first round of public comments comes to a close, tweeted FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler...
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