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Roku and Rdio team up to improve in-home music streaming

Dec 10, 2014

Rdio may not be the most popular streaming music service, but it’s about to get a lot more familiar to...

Samsung Ventures leads $17 million investment into Seeo

Dec 10, 2014

Seeo, a California-based company that makes lithium polymer batteries, has closed a $17M round led by new investor Samsung Ventures,...

Wireless charging is finally coming to tablets

Dec 8, 2014

We're still waiting for the Rezence standard to bring wireless charging to laptops, but Freescale is taking a big step...

Microsoft adds cross-platform video chatting to Skype and Lync

Dec 6, 2014

Last year, Microsoft announced that its consumer-facing Skype communications service and its enterprise-focused counterpart would begin to interoperate, first with...

The Xbox One is beating the PlayStation 4 in Black Friday sales

Dec 1, 2014

Microsoft's efforts to close the sales gap between rival Sony and win the holiday season appear to be paying off,...

The next generation of Google Glass will reportedly be powered by Intel

Dec 1, 2014

Intel has its eyes on one of the biggest prizes in wearable technology as reports say it will provide the...

Southeast Asian Amazon clone raises $250 million

Nov 29, 2014

We don’t often see companies announce funding rounds on the weekend, but that’s not stopping Lazada, the Rocket Internet-backed e-commerce...

Inlope is a new Microsoft-backed local social network

Nov 26, 2014

Is there room for another social network in your life? Inlope, a Munich, Germany-based startup which was founded last year...

Mozilla is bringing one-click search buttons to Firefox

Nov 25, 2014

As some of you guys might have heard, Mozilla recently entered into a partnership with Yahoo in which it will...

Hexoskin is a health monitoring bio-metric smart shirt

Nov 25, 2014

Hexoskin, the biometric smart shirt that provides users with in-depth insight regarding their physical training, sleep and daily activities, is...

BlackBerry will give you up to $550 to trade in your iPhone for a Passport

Nov 25, 2014

The BlackBerry Passport has been made available for pre-order in both red and white colors, but if that is not...

Youbetme raises $2.7 million to expand its social betting platform

Nov 21, 2014

Youbetme, the startup behind the social betting app of the same name, announced today that it has raised $2.7 million...