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Exploiting cheap labor isn’t why Apple makes its products in China

We all know the reason why so many technology companies manufacture their consumer electronics in China: labor costs in the country are simply far lower than in developed nations. According...

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Hilary Clinton wants Silicon Valley to help combat terrorism

Hillary Clinton is far from the only politician taking advantage of the recent attacks in Paris to call for weaker encryption, but she's one of the biggest. While she stopped short...

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Europe just dealt a massive blow to American technology companies

The controversial "Safe Harbor" laws that allowed technology companies to move user data between the Europe Union and the United States were ruled invalid by the European Court of Justice this morning. These laws made...

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Microsoft has developed its own Linux-based operating system

Considering Microsoft's history of exclusivity to its own ecosystem, it's still a little weird to see the company releasing products for Android and iOS, but this most recent move is...

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Google is helping app developers bypass Apple’s new security feature

Even though Google has made it clear that it supports Apple's concern for privacy and decision to implement more encryption in its products, the company is still helping app developers...

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Amazon has joined the anti-Flash campaign

Amazon has decided to join the ever-growing list of tech companies that are trying to finally kill off Flash by making their services less reliant on it or just banning...

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Yelp is in big trouble if it can’t reverse its losses

A year ago, Yelp was making a small but still respectable $2.7 million profit, but that number has transformed into a $1.3 million loss. Even with the company raising its...

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BlackBerry wants to start releasing fewer smartphones every year

Reductions, reductions, reductions. That's been the gist of BlackBerry's strategy these past couple of years, and not just with the company's workforce either. According to CEO John Chen, the struggling...

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Yet another painfully bad quarter for the guys at AMD

The fall of the PC market is hurting several companies, but few of them are suffering as much as AMD. Unlike its primary competitor, Intel, the company hasn't been able...

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Apple has asked its partners to manufacture 90 million iPhone 6S units

Apple is feeling pretty confident about the next iPhone. You wanna know how I know? The company apparently asked its manufacturing partners to produce 90 million units of what's expected to be...

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Mozilla is stepping up its game to better compete with Google

Firefox still has a significant chunk of the web browser marker, and that doesn't look like its going to change anytime soon, nut if Mozilla wants to close the gap between itself and...

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Microsoft isn’t very impressed with the Oculus Rift

Apparently one of the guys down at Microsoft Research isn't very impressed with the Oculus Rift. More specifically, he didn't like the virtual reality headset's lenses and how they made the wearer...

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