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Tesco is killing off its Clubcard TV streaming service

When Tesco launched Clubcard TV early last year, everything we saw suggested that the ad-supported streaming service would be nothing more than an experiment. That hunch has proved accurate, because...

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Google is requiring Android OEMs to pre-install 20 Google apps

The majority of Android handsets come with access to some of Google’s services and the Google Play Store where they are able to download apps, music, movies, books, and so...

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Samsung’s new cable lets you charge other devices using you smartphone

Samsung has a new accessory that will allow you to use your Samsung smartphone or tablet to charge other devices. This isn’t necessarily a new concept, there are products from...

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Private internet search engine DuckDuckGo has been blocked in China

DuckDuckGo has long promoted itself as an alternative to Google Search that won’t track your history or tweak your results, but it looks like even the privacy-focused company can’t live...

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Bookpad is the first Indian company to be acquired by Yahoo

Bangalore-based Bookpad has become the first Indian tech startup to be bought by Yahoo, going from creation to acquisition in just one year. The deal comes some eight months after...

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Line’s Vine-like feature is now a standalone app

Line, the instant messaging company from Japan, intends to narrow down their focus when it comes to multimedia apps after introducing SnapMovie as a standalone app. For those who are...

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WordPress has reset 100,000 accounts as a precautionary measure

It was rather big news when earlier this week, it became known that up to 5 million Gmail usernames and their corresponding passwords were published over at a Russian Bitcoin...

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Free Spotify users on desktop and mobile are getting video ads

Spotify's video ads are coming. The music-streaming service will soon roll out its video ad products for marketers, including a mobile product that lets listeners watch a video ad in...

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The Starbucks app for iOS now has Uber integration

Uber wants to make sure you always hail one of its cars on your way to get a pumpkin spice latte, so it has latched itself onto Starbucks for iOS....

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Sky’s NOW TV app has finally arrived on Chromecast

Ever since Now TV launched, subscribers have cried out for Sky to support more streaming devices. Today, the company answered some of its critics by announcing it's built Chromecast functionality...

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Chinese mobile payments service Alipay now has biometric security

Alipay and Huawei have jointly launched a biometric security service for m-payments. Users of a new Huawei smartphone equipped with a fingerprint reader will be able to make mobile payments...

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Microsoft has 20 days to explain itself to China’s anti-trust investigators

Chinese authorities have issued a 20-day deadline for Microsoft to explain “compatibility problems” with its Windows and Office software, after previously warning the company not to obstruct an anti-monopoly investigation....

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