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China is taking censorship to the next level with actual Internet police
I know this isn't good news, but the cyberpunk enthusiast in me can't help but get a little excited about China's recent announcement that it will begin putting "Internet police"...
Uber is now the world’s most valuable startup at nearly $51 billion
Uber has been consistently ranked as one of the world's most valuable startups for a few years now, but the company's recent $1 billion round of funding may have turned it into THE...
More than 86% of Etsy’s sellers are women
Etsy is one of those companies that, like Pinterest, has an overwhelmingly female user base without actually being geared towards women. This is especially true for the e-commerce service's sellers, with 86% of the...
The FCC is going to approve AT&T’s $48.5 billion DirecTV acquisition
Another day, another multi-billion dollar acquisition by AT&T. Instead of buying out another Mexican company, however, the American telecom giant is about to receive the permission it needs to go through...
Get ready for another wave of Apple Car rumors and speculation
I'm sorry, did you guys think all the speculation surrounding the "Apple Car" was over? Well think again, because Apple's recent decision to hire a prominent figure in the automotive...
Apple accounts for 92% of the smartphone industry’s profits
There are hundreds of millions of smartphones sold every year by about a thousand companies, but the vast majority of the profits from those sales go to just one of...
Paramount wants to make movies available outside of theaters faster
There are plenty of reasons for someone to not be able to or not want to watch a movie in theaters, which is perfectly fine, but it sucks having to wait...
Google reportedly won’t take a cut of Android Pay transactions
Perhaps in an attempt to increase adoption and better compete with Apple Pay, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google won't be taking any cuts from transactions made through...
Dish and T-Mobile are discussing a potential merger
Mergers are all the rage these days, at least as far as telecommunications companies are concerned, and it looks like Dish and T-Mobile are going to be hopping on the bandwagon...
Microsoft has acquired yet another popular app maker
It looks like Microsoft's app acquisition spree is far from over, as the company has just acquired 6Wunderkinder GmbH, the Berlin-based company responsible for the popular Wunderlist to-do list app. This latest...
Let’s take an in-depth look at the decline of BlackBerry
"It’s okay, we'll be fine." Those are the words that co-CEO of BlackBerry Jim Balsillie uttered when he was first shown the video Steve Jobs unveiling the iPhone. They weren't necessarily last...
Another day, another batch of layoffs at BlackBerry
BlackBerry has to jump through hoops to make sure it's profitable, and if that means laying off a bunch of employees in the company's device business then so be it....
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