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Monument Valley has surpassed one million sales

Monument Valley, an Apple Design Award-winning game that twists player perspective like an MC Escher painting twists stairs, has surpassed more than one million sales. We're not sure what that...

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Netflix is toying with the idea of a private viewing mode

Designed to hide the list of your most recently viewed movies and television shows, Netflix is currently testing a private viewing mode that keeps your content history completely private from...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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