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Mobile growth could triple within the next two years

We live in a mobile-first world and that doesn't look like it's going to change any time soon. In fact, revenue from the mobile Internet is expected to exceed $700 billion...

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Drones are following your car around too now

Drones are everywhere these days and they seem to love following people around, be it on foot or on a bike. Now drones are following cars around too after a...

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How to run apps on Amazon’s cloud for 10% of the normal price

Am important but often times overlooked part of Amazon Web Services known as Spot Instances allows you to name your price for using pieces of servers in Amazon's cloud. A startup by...

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Google could face anti-trust issues in Russia courtesy of Yandex

Google is arguably one of the biggest targets for anti-trust accusations out there, especially in Europe. The latest such accusation comes from Russian Internet giant Yandex which has asked the country's anti-trust...

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Dutch startup WeTransfer raises $25 million to help it expand

Founded back in 2009, Dutch file-sharing startup WeTransfer has raised $25 million in funding to help expand its services across the rest of Europe as well as the United States. Through...

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Cloudera is preparing to go public

Cloudera has been very successful in distributing the open-source big data software known as Hadoop, so successful that the company is apparently preparing to go public later this year. The company was...

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Pinterest is purging itself of affiliate links

Pinterest is on the road to monetization and it intends to remove every obstacle in its path. One of these obstacles is the plethora of "power users" on the website...

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Xiaomi now has more than 100 million users globally

In less than five years, Xiaomi has risen from a fresh startup with some cool ideas to a burgeoning behemoth of a smartphone company that is consuming everything in its...

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Jet.com got valued at $600 million before it even launched

Jet.com has managed to secure more than $140 million in funding, giving the startup a valuation of around $600 million, which it plans to use to launch its online e-commerce marketplace. Notice...

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See WeChat’s ridiculous success described in a series of charts

It's been four years since WeChat launched and to celebrate, Tencent Tech has released a collection of slides named “WeChat’s Impact: Inaugural Report on WeChat Platform Data” that shows some crazy...

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Line boosts its mobile payments offerings with WebPay acquisition

The West has WhatsApp, China has WeChat, and the rest of Asia has Line. Just as its instant messaging competitors are rapidly expanding into other markets and diversifying their offerings,...

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Netflix has launched in an unexpected country: Cuba

Netflix's aggressive international expansion has brought to a rather unexpected country: Cuba. Given the historical tensions between America and Cuba it was quite surprising to see Netflix launch in the...

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