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Xiaomi has reaffirmed its plans to expand to the United States

Xiaomi is already dominating the smartphone market in its home country, and now has a 14% share of the Indian market, which means the Chinese company already has two of the...

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IBM is disturbingly eager to hand data over to the Chinese government

In a move that's pretty much guaranteed to create controversy back in IBM's home country, the company has reportedly started allowing officials from the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to review...

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Samsung has another Tizen-powered smartphone on the way

Tizen hasn't exactly risen to challenge Android's dominance in the mobile market. In fact, it hasn't really done anything at all, aside from powering a few lackluster smartphones and a handful...

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Google is trying to make its self-driving cars more human-like

Safety is one the primary focuses and selling points of self-driving cars, which is why companies like Google have been working so hard to make them safer than human drivers could...

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Apple is reportedly aiming for a 2019 launch date for its car

Analysts have been predicting that we won't see Apple's much-rumored electric car until at least 2020, but apparently the company has started speeding things up to the point where it...

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Facebook is working on a stand-alone virtual reality video app

Considering how the company spent $2 billion to acquire Oculus VR last year, it's clear that Facebook is really interested in the virtual reality market. The company isn't leaving the...

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WeChat will soon offer users as much as $30,000 in personal loans

Asian messaging apps are like Swiss Army knives for mobile devices; they come packed with tons of functionality that you wouldn't really expect to see in a messaging app, from...

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Amazon plans to release a $50 budget tablet later this year

Amazon and Apple have always approached the tablet market from different angles, Amazon from the low-end to mid-range side and Apple from the high-end side. It's worked out pretty damn...

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Google wants to bring its app store back to China

Google removed its app store from China back in 2010 due to concerns about potential cyberattacks and surveillance from the government, not to mention personal feelings about censorship in the country. It was a bold...

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Nielsen has started tracking shows on Amazon, Hulu, and Netflix

When a television studio wants to know how popular one of its programs are, it turns to Nielsen. The company has been tracking the demographics and viewership of television programs for...

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Amazon is rethinking its hardware ambitions because of the Fire Phone

No matter how hard Amazon tried, and it tried REALLY hard, the Fire Phone was failure by every definition of the word. Four years of development went to waste when...

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Apple is working with more than 40 companies to help save the iPad

The tablet market has definitely seen some better days, with even the iPad suffering from severely decreased consumer demand. In an effort to make up for declining sales, Apple is redoubling...

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