Yahoo Name Change To Altaba On The Horizon, Marissa Mayer Will Quit Yahoo In Verizon’s $4.8 Billion Purchase
Yahoo’s CEO Marissa Mayer is set to leave Yahoo soon, with the Internet company changing its name to Altaba after a $4.8 billion sale to Verizon
Evernote Back Tracks Amid Complaints On Its Privacy Policy Change, Tries To Keep Its Remaining Users
Evernote has recently announced a proposed change to its privacy policy that will let some of its staff to look at app’s user notes. The policy change was supposed to start being implemented by January. But after receiving overwhelmingly negative feedbacks, the company backtracked and issued its cancellation.
Spotify's SoundCloud Buy-Out Deal Is Put to an End
It would have been a dream come true with two of the biggest music streaming services collaborating into producing the 'only' online music service that anybody would ever need.
Samsung Wins over Patent Dispute with Apple
Samsung wins a landmark patent case this week against its biggest competitor, Apple.
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Amazon Go: A Grocery Store With No Checkout Line
Gone are the days when you go to a grocery store, pick out what you would like to purchase, and depending on your luck, there might be a long queue -- or a short one to go through. Amazon Go offers the convenience of shopping at a brick-and-mortar set up without the need for a checkout line.
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Amazon Captured 31% of Online Spending Over Cyber Weekend
Amazon still reigned supreme over the Cyber Weekend among other retailers. Based on a data collected by research firm Slice Intelligence, the online shopping giant captured 31 percent of online spending. More people chose to shop in Amazon from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday than in Best Buy, Target, Wal-Mart and Apple.
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Top Tips for Selling Your Used Stuff Online in eBay, Amazon, Craigslist
With the barrier to entry really low, finding success in selling used stuff online can be very challenging and not as straightforward as it seems.
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Fitbit to Acquire Pebble for $40 Million Or Less
Companies acquire one another for a simple reason -- the technology and expertise is already there, and the infrastructure is in place. Fitbit sees something in Pebble and might acquire them for $34 to $40 million.
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Snapchat Spectacles: A Genius Move in Marketing
The marketing for the Snapchat Spectacles is a great business move.
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Will Apple Finally Move Its Production To The US After Trump's Offer?
President-elect Donald Trump did not have much support from the tech industry. This is the case with Apple and among other tech companies. However, Apple's CEO Tim Cook called Trump after his win. It was later revealed to The New York Times that Trump offered incentives to Apple in an attempt to convince the company of moving its production to the US. The question is whether or not Apple will even consider doing that.
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Barnes & Noble Releases a $50 Nook Tablet, Takes on Amazon Kindle
Barnes & Noble released a tablet that costs only $50 and is supposed to take on Amazon. The Nook will have a price that is comparable to the most basic Kindle and is clearly targeted at getting a huge chunk of the market.
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Skyscanner Confirms Acquisition by China's Ctrip for $1.74 billion
Skyscanner executives have just confirmed of the company's purchase by Ctrip, China's biggest online travel agency.
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Samsung Galaxy S7 Goes Up in Flames: Other Samsung Phone Models Explode
It seems that Samsung's headaches when it comes to exploding phones is far from over. While the company is slowly recovering from the problem caused by the exploding Galaxy Note 7, other models from their line-up are raising concerns in the company. There are reports of other Samsung phone models exploding, particularly in Canada.
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Snapchat Files For IPO 5 Years after Launch, Valued as 2nd Highest IPO just after Alibaba
Since Los Angeles-based Snap Inc.'s launch of its successful mobile app Snapchat in 2011, founders Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown are now set to put the company forward with their last week's filing for an Initial Public Offering (IPO).
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Apple Releases 'Designed by Apple in California' Book, Paying Tribute to 20 Years of Company History
Apple just released a book entitled, "Designed By Apple In California," that pays tribute to the last twenty years of the company's history and products. Designed By Apple In California has a lot in common with Apple's gadgets; it took more than eight years to finish it, it is bound in stark white linen, printed on special paper, and it has an exorbitant price tag.
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VMWare CEO Pat Gelsinger Interview: Being a 'God-Glorifying' Technologist, and Transforming the Silicon Valley With Christ
Many in Silicon Valley are prominent, but few are significant. Among the prominent technologists in the Bay Area, VMWare CEO Pat Gelsinger is one of the most outspoken Christian technologists on faith, chosing the route of significance. Before becoming the CEO of VMWare, a multi-billion dollar and leading software company in the world, he was the first Chief Technology Officer at Intel Corporation, where the first microprocessors were invented. If you've ever plugged a USB into your computer, us
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ISIS Threats Unremarkable For Facebook, Twitter; Counter-Speech Against Hate Is Best Answer, Says Sheryl Sandberg
Twitter and Facebook's attempts to block terrorist content on social media have brought the ire of the terrorist group on them. The companies' CEOs, however, revealed that death threats from ISIS have become so common that they are unremarkable. Furthermore, Facebook's COO Sheryl Sandberg said counter-speech against hate, messages of tolerance and hope, is by far the best answer.
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Mobile World Congress 2016 Live Stream Schedule & Release Dates of Samsung S7, Sony Xperia Z5 Tablet, LG G5 and Virtual-Reality Headsets
Mobile World Congress 2016 will start this weekend, from Feb. 22- 25. The conference will gather some of the world's biggest, most important tech companies. Watch them live as they try to outdo each other with the latest smartphones, tablets and plenty more.