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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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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"...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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