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Nokia shareholders approve $7.2 billion deal for sale of devices business to Microsoft

It's the end of an era for Nokia as its shareholders approve a $7.2 billion deal with Microsoft to sell all of Nokia’s Devices & Services business, license Nokia’s patents, and license and...

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Twitter expands its emergency alert services to the U.K. and Ireland

Twitter has launched Twitter Alerts in the U.K. and Ireland. The service allows organizations to send emergency, relief, or charity alerts to opted-in users. Some 57 Twitter accounts from the...

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Candy Crush Saga has been installed over half a billion times

Just one year after being released, Candy Crush Saga has reached over half a billion lifetime installs and boasts over 1 billion gameplays every day. It has been reported that King,...

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Google is becoming Apple’s biggest competitor in the education market

Google has launched Google Play for Education, an extension of Google Play that is designed specifically for K-12 schools. The new tool provides educational apps, videos, and books for teachers and...

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Facebook enables students to gain college credits for open source contributions

Open Academy is a new program launched by Facebook that sets up a special class where students get college credit for contributing to open source projects. Facebook's pnew program sets up...

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Windows Store sees a nearly 40% increase in downloads from June

Despite numerous issues and criticism since its launch, the Windows Store for applications on Windows 8 and 8.1 has seen a 38.56% increase in downloads since June.  According to information Microsoft provides...

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A messaging app brought in $100 million in revenue last quarter

A Japanese instant messaging app called Line brought in a whopping $100 million in revenue last quarter. The company that owns the app has suggested that they will be considering...

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3D Systems releases a cheap and simple 3D scanner

South Carolina-based 3D Systems has released a $399 3D scanner called the Sense. The Sense is supposed to be much cheaper and easier to use than other 3D scanners on the...

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New online design studio lets you build HTML5 ads

Flite has launched a new online design studio that lets you build HTML5 ads. This is the latest in a string of moves geared towards killing off Adobe Flash. Hey,...

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Use Prefundia to crowdfund your crowdfunding campaign

Prefundia is a new startup that aims to help projects get crowdfunding before they launch their crowdfunding campaigns, essentials crowdfunding a crowdfunding campaign. While this may sound a bit odd,...

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iDevice: How technology is causing us to lose (or gain) our identity

We are what we surf on, right? That would be a silly statement except for the fact that in today's digital age, it's not far from the truth. Our identities...

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How Stephen Elop intends to reform Microsoft should he becomes CEO

An article concerning potential Microsoft CEO Stephen Elop shows us some of his plans to reform the company. These plans include possibly shutting down Bing, turning Office into a freemium service,...

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