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Waze recruits Android users to test its new social navigation app

Jan 29, 2014

Waze, the Israel-based startup acquired by Google last year, is recruiting Android users for a beta program that will let...

Microsoft gives cloud server designs to Facebook’s Open Compute Project

Jan 28, 2014

Microsoft is contributing the designs of the cloud servers that run some of its services like Bing and Windows Azure...

Samsung is feeling the pressure despite the iPhone’s falling market share

Jan 27, 2014

Research firm Kantar Worldpanel has released a new report highlighting global smartphone sales over the October-December period, finding that while Apple's market...

Baidu begins testing search engines for Brazil, Egypt, and Thailand

Jan 27, 2014

Baidu is testing new search engines for users outside China that will target markets in Brazil, Egypt and Thailand to...

Wikipedia will begin storing celebrities’ voices on their pages

Jan 26, 2014

Imagine being able to hear a great historical figure's voice. It would add such richness to the facts and dates about...

Tumblr updates its terms of service for the first time in two years

Jan 26, 2014

Tumblr has updated its terms of service for the first time in two years and released a draft of it on Github before they...

TV social network GetGlue gets rebranded as tvtag

Jan 25, 2014

Not so long ago, the GetGlue brand name and app was considered one of the most promising social TV platforms....

Lenovo to buy IBM’s low-end server business for $2.3 billion

Jan 23, 2014

Lenovo's much-anticipated deal for IBM's low-end server business was announced Thursday. Lenovo will pay $2 billion in cash and the rest in...

Google Search now provides all the info you’ll ever need about a website

Jan 23, 2014

Google knows a lot, both about its users and about the internet in general. Today, the team in Mountain View has found...

Beats Music overwhelmed by excessive, day-one traffic

Jan 23, 2014

Overwhelming traffic on the fledgling Beats Music service has left many new users on the outside looking in. Excessive demand and...

Google-acquired Nest CEO promises transparent policy changes

Jan 21, 2014

Nest CEO Tony Fadell promised in an interview that any privacy policy changes that could follow after Google purchased his company will be...

Microsoft “smart elevator” predicts the floor you’re going to

Jan 20, 2014

Imagine you enter an elevator, and it automatically knew which floor you are heading to. That's what the engineers at...