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Target might be working on its own mobile payments service

It seems like everyone and their mother wants to get into the mobile payments market nowadays, with Walmart being the latest company to launch its own mobile payments service, but it's...

Things might actually be turning around for BlackBerry

John Chen may have built a reputation as a guy who can turn things around for struggling companies, but when he became the CEO of BlackBerry back in 2013, most people...

It looks like America’s drone registry will be public and fully searchable

One of the biggest questions people have had about America's upcoming drone registry is whether or not the personal information that's given to the government as part of the registration...

Apple Pay will begin its most important expansion ever next year

While mobile payment services are only just now starting to become popular in the United States, they've been wildly popular in Asia for a while. That's why it's such a...

A group of secret investors just gave Jolla some lifesaving funding

Trailing behind BlackBerry 10, Cyanogen OS, Tizen, Ubuntu Touch, and Windows Phone in the quest to challenge the Android-iOS duopoly that currently dominates the mobile market, is this little-known mobile operating...

Facebook will pay employees $10,000 if they move closer to its HQ

We live in a world where thousands of people can all work with each other for the same company without having to live anywhere near each other, and while Facebook...

LifeLock is paying a record-breaking $100 million settlement

Remember those LifeLock commercials where CEO Todd Davis would publicly display his own Social Security number to demonstrate the company's ability protect customers form identity theft? Well, the fact that Davis has had his identity...

Apple will be dominating the smartwatch market for years to come

It doesn't matter that Apple wasn't even close to being the first company to release a smartwatch, because when it finally got around to releasing one, it ended up completely...

Huawei sold more than 100 million smartphones this year

While Xiaomi is struggling just to meet the lowest sales goal it set for itself this year, Huawei has become China's largest smartphone maker with more than 100 million smartphones shipped...

Sony is developing smartphone batteries that last 40% longer

Don't get me wrong, I like the power increase that comes with each successive generation of smartphones, but I'm far from alone when I say that I'd rather have a...

BlackBerry is chastising Apple for respecting the privacy of its users

Whatever brownie points BlackBerry earned for choosing to exit the Pakistani handset market rather than put backdoors in its encryption for the government were lost this morning when CEO John Chen actually chastised Apple...

Google plans to dedicate a million bucks to security research next year

Google doesn't just want people to use Google Drive because its cheaper and more convenient than buying your own hard drive, it wants you to use it because its safer...