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Spotify appears to be caving in to Taylor Swift’s demands

Remember the fight that Spotify and Taylor Swift got into last year, the one that resulted in Swift removing most of her songs from the streaming service? Well, the fight started...

Uber is testing out two new ride-sharing services this month

Last night, Uber announced that it's going to begin testing two new ride-sharing services in a couple of American cities. The first new service is called uberCOMMUTE, and will be...

Mozilla has given up on Firefox OS-powered smartphones

The idea behind Firefox OS was to create a mobile operating system that would focus on being affordable, lightweight, and web standards-compliant. It was an admirable and ambitious idea, but not one...

Amazon is uniting every other streaming service against Netflix

Confirming those rumors we heard a couple weeks ago, Amazon is now allowing Prime users to add other streaming services to their subscription, essentially turning Prime into s streaming hub,...

Google’s first tablet is being held back by Android’s limitations

Microsoft managed to breathe new life into the stagnant tablet market with the Surface, proving that tablets can be used for more than just playing games and watching videos, and...

Facebook has decided to shutdown its standalone app division

Periscope and Vine proved that Twitter is perfectly capable of releasing successful standalone apps, but Facebook's many attempts to do the same haven't been quite as successful. Other than Messenger, which doesn't even...

Not even Xiaomi is safe from this American patent troll

The list of companies that Blue Spike has filed lawsuits against for allegedly infringing on its patents is too long to say with a single breath, but just know that Xiaomi is...

Streaming services account for 70% of America’s broadband usage

A broadband network company by the name of Sandvine recently conducted a survey which found that streaming services now account for more than 70% of North America's broadband usage during peak...

Vevo has taken the first step towards being less reliant on YouTube

Vevo may be the most-popular music video platform in the world, but it's almost entirely reliant on YouTube for views, and by extension, advertising revenue. Obviously, no company wants to...

Netflix’s original content will double by the end of 2016

I hope you like Netflix's original content, because the company intends to double the number of shows it has next year. Yesterday morning, Netflix CCO Ted Sarandos announced that his company will have...

Airbnb confirmed that it raised another $1.5 billion in funding

Airbnb may not be pulling in as much funding as Uber, but it's raising more than pretty much every other startup out there. First reported by the Wall Street Journal...

It looks like even Windows 10 can’t save Microsoft’s mobile business

Windows 10 was supposed to breathe new life into Microsoft's smartphone sales, but we haven't seen any evidence of that happening, and some analysts believe we never will. According to the...