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Shanghai will be Facebook friendly

China is hoping that foreigners visiting the free-trade zone of Shanghai will not feel so detached from home by making Facebook accessible. Access to Facebook and other politically sensitive web...

New York is making it easier to stop and text while driving

Texting is one of the most dangerous activities one can do while driving, but the constant pings from smartphones makes it still very common. Now, New York is trying to...

Facebook makes payments easier with new partnerships

PayPal, Stripe, and Braintree are now "in" as Facebook Autofill payment options on apps. This is great news for those companies... for now. Many expect that Facebook will remove the...

Apple TV tries to correct wayward path with fixes

It was surrounded by excitement and then plopped down on the ground as a dud. Now, Apple hopes to push forward with Apple TV through fixes in their most recent...

HTC in hot water over violating a pair of Nokia patents

Sometimes it isn't the patent trolls that make the waves in court. The courts themselves are very capable of making waves on their own, as HTC is finding out. Taiwan's...

Links used in Supreme Court opinions nearly half rotted away

There's a "disease" on the internet that plagues any entity that relies on other sources and exists for long enough. It's called link rot, and thankfully it's not contagious. It...

Oracle sued for refusing to pay $33,540 strip club tab

It apparently takes a lot out of people when they're working at Oracle. An employee ran up a $33,540 tab at a strip club and paid it on the corporate...

Prem Watsa, the ‘Warren Buffett of Canada’, is trying to save BlackBerry

The large buyout that Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited is attempting on BlackBerry isn't just a bargain. They're in it for self preservation as well. The man behind the move is...

New $50 million funding round will help Flipboard unify content consumption

Flipboard has been able to stay on top of the extremely competitive arena of content presentation and distribution for a couple of years now. This latest round of funding against...

Your next job may be waiting for you in your LinkedIn news fed

Inline ads work on social. Facebook has proven it. Twitter is doing well with it. Now, LinkedIn is making it happen in their feed as well. Now we’re starting to...

Every Constitution in the world, brought to you by Google

Google has never been shy about getting involved in politics. They talk to governments. They fight with governments. They help governments get overthrown. Now, they're going to educate the people...

NSA, ad sales, or both are to blame for Google’s switch away from transparent search data

If you want to know what people searched for to land on your website, you'll have to be buying ads from Google. The data will soon be completely unavailable to...