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Amazon has 109K employees, more than Microsoft

Everybody knows that Amazon is huge, but it may come as a surprise to find out just how huge they are. With 109,800 employees, they're bigger than Microsoft. Amazon today...

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YouTube grows its paid channels pilot

They started small, but now they're shooting for 10,000 paid channel pilot partners. YouTube today announced it is expanding its paid channels pilot to all eligible partners that have at...

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Clever spammers circumvent Twitter safeguards

You can't keep a good spammer down. That's the unofficial motto of those who are using Twitter's crackdown on Direct Message link spam. When sending Twitter direct messages with links stopped...

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New Facebook like button spotted in the wild

Okay, so it's not a HUGE change. They're just taking the familiar light blue and matching the standard Facebook blue. Oh, and the thumbs up are gone. Do you like...

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How to stop the LinkedIn emails in one move

Email clutter has been a problem for a couple of decades now, but as long as it's still an important part of our daily lives, companies will continue to use...

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Instagram makes a play to force you to watch video ads

Ever so sneaky, Facebook's Instagram product rolled out an update that will make turning off autoplay on iOS devices impossible. All videos will play if you're on WiFi. They'll play...

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Is Microsoft serving ads to malware?

Some users think they are. Microsoft says they don't think so but they're checking, just in case. We'll see soon enough. Security firm ThreatTrack Security Labs today spotted that certain...

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Foxconn broke its own rules to meet PlayStation 4 demands

One of the biggest reasons Foxconn put their intern labor rules in play in the first place was because they didn't want the international community to be upset by their...

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PC shipments drop to lowest back-to-school totals since 2008

It's the tablets. Blame the tablets. The PC market continues to fall spectacularly, seeing the sixth consecutive quarter of declining worldwide shipments as well as the lowest back-to-school quarter since...

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Affordable internet for ALL

There have been several attempts, many running concurrently, to bring free or cheap internet access to the less fortunate in the United States and around the world. Now, there's a...

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Great ads for Samsung should help everyone else

It can be argued that the iPhone helped launch the other smartphone companies because of innovative advertising and buzz-building. Samsung may end up playing the same role with the smartwatch,...

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Google makes HTML5 designing easy

Bad news for ad designers for HTML5. Google is trying to take your job and put it in the hands of novices. Don't worry. It won't take them long to...

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