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Facebook Expands Job Posting Feature

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) says that its new job posting feature has been wildly popular in the U.S. and Canada, where it rolled out last year. The company has now rolled out the feature to 40 more countries. The international expansion... More of this article »
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Nuclear Scientists Arrested For Using Supercomputer For Bitcoin Mining

Several scientists working at the Federal Nuclear Center in Sarov, Russia were arrested this week for allegedly using one of the country’s most powerful supercomputers to mine bitcoins. Tatiana Zalesskaya, a spokeswoman for the facility,... More of this article »
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Tesla Posts Worst-ever Quarterly Loss

Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) just posted its worst-ever quarterly loss for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year. Its net loss increased to $675.4 million, or $4.01 per share, for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31 from $121.3 million,... More of this article »
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Dutch Intelligence Helped FBI Detect Russian Hacking

A Dutch newspaper and television show have jointly reported that the Netherlands’ spy service was the first to alert the FBI to the hacking of the U.S. Democratic National Committee. The reports were published in the highly-respected... More of this article »
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Spotify Sued for $1.6 Billion by Publisher Representing Artists

Spotify was hit with a lawsuit for $1.6 billion from Wixen Music Publishing that handles titles by Neil Young, Donald Faven, Rivers Cuomo, Tom Petty, and Stevie Nicks amongst others. The suit alleges that Spotify uses thousands of... More of this article »
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Reliance Jio Buying Reliance Communications’ Wireless Assets

Reliance Communications, the debt-laden telecom signed an agreement to sell Reliance Jio Infocomm its wireless assets for nearly 240 million rupees or $3.75 billion, said two sources close to the matter on Friday. Late Thursday the... More of this article »
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Facebook Opens New Office in London Adding 800 Jobs

In 2018, Facebook will open a new office in London that will create 800 new jobs in the UK. Before the end of 2018, close to 2,300 people will be working for the social media giant across the UK. The new office will be the biggest... More of this article »
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General Motors Pledges Driverless Fleets in 2019

Detroit-based General Motors has outlined its plan not to just mass deploy autonomous cars across public roads during 2019, but to launch them profitably, something that the automaker’s competitors across Silicon Valley have had... More of this article »
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Firefox Picks Google for U.S. Default Search

Alphabet Inc.’s Google reclaimed its spot on Tuesday as the default search engine on Internet browser Firefox, by Mozilla Corp, for the U.S. and other regions. The decision by Mozilla shocked Yahoo, now owned by Verizon Communications,... More of this article »
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Toyota Seeking Additional Investments in Israel

Toyota Motor Corp, Japan’s largest automaker by volume, is seeking additional investments in vehicle and robotic technologies in Israel, after its venture segment led an investment of $14 million in Intuition Robotics this past July. The... More of this article »
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Electronic Arts Shows Industry Sports Pushes Profits As Well

Electronic Arts is continuing to reap the benefit of its position as the leader in sports video games, as both its FIFA Soccer and Madden NFL produced strong results on a several platforms in its just completed quarter. EA announced... More of this article »
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Pay With Google Will Speed Up Payments Online

Pay with Google, the online payment portal by Google, has launched in an attempt to speed up and streamline the process of online checkout. Google announced the service’s availability on Monday. Through a blog post, the online search... More of this article »
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FAA: Laptops Pose Risk of Fire and Explosion in Checked Luggage

The United States government has urged the entire global airline community to ban large, personal electronic devices such as laptops in checked baggage due to a potential of causing a catastrophic fire. In a paper it filed with the... More of this article »
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Walmart Looking to Perform Online Purchase Returns in 35 Seconds

Walmart’s announced its latest move to help leverage its chain of stores against Amazon.com. The behemoth retailer has announced it has a new way in which it will handle its in-store returns of purchases made online that it says... More of this article »
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Yahoo: 2013 Data Breach Included All Three Billion User Accounts

On Tuesday, Yahoo announced that all of its 3 billion accounts had been hacked in 2013, tripling the estimate from earlier by the Internet giant for the largest ever data theft in history. The announcement was made in a disclosure... More of this article »
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Russia Gives Big Boost to Internet in North Korea

TransTeleCom a state-owned business in Russia has provided North Korea with a new Internet connection according to the monitoring project of the country known as 38 North. Experts in cybersecurity also confirmed the latest Russian... More of this article »
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Saudi Arabia Lifting Ban on WhatsApp and Skype Calls

The government of Saudi Arabia is lifting its ban on calls that are made through apps online such as WhatsApp and Skype it announced on Thursday. The move is part of its ongoing economic reforms, but a government spokesperson said... More of this article »
Image for Slack Raises Financing That Values Business at $5.1 Billion

Slack Raises Financing That Values Business at $5.1 Billion

Slack raised another big round of new financing that has valued the business at over $5 billion. The leader of the new round of financing was Japan-based SoftBank, which is appears has been investing in numerous companies of late. It... More of this article »
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Equifax: Cyberattack Might Have Affected 143 Million Consumers

Equifax, one of three major consumer credit reporting agencies, announced Thursday that cyber hackers gained access to data of the company that potentially compromised personal data for more than 143 million consumers in the U.S.,... More of this article »
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Deere Acquires Agricultural Tech Startup Blue River

Just five months after ending a proposed deal to acquire the precision planting subsidiary of Monsanto, agricultural equipment behemoth Deere and Company has announced it will acquire agricultural tech startup Blue River Technology... More of this article »
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Nissan’s Leaf Is Cheaper and Has More Range

The new Nissan Leaf electric vehicle can go further between charges and has new drive technology with the possibility of driving with a single pedal. The electric car will be cheaper as well, although the top-selling electric vehicle... More of this article »
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Xiaomi Wants to Upstage Next iPhone With Mi Mix Successor

Xiaomi’s Mi Mix, the bezel-less smartphone received a great deal of attention upon its launch in October of 2016. How the phone maker based in China is becoming more opportunistic with its successor, which is planning to be unveiled... More of this article »
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Jury Finds Against Nintendo with $10 Million Verdict

A Dallas, Texas jury has awarded iLife $10 million after it found that Nintendo of America had infringed on the motion-sensing accelerometer tech of iLife, which the company had used in its remote controllers for Wii. The jury started... More of this article »
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Leak of Apple Data Reveals Latest iPhone will be Huge

The new generation iPhone is expected to be the biggest ever of Apple’s iPhones in a number of ways. It is going to have the largest display of any previous iPhones, the largest increase of price of any prior iPhone, and most believe... More of this article »
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Fitbit Attempting to Catch Apple Watch

Fitbit has given its biggest rival Apple a head start of over two years on smartwatches. It is now just catching up. The leader in the wearable devices market hopes the Fitbit Ionic is the product that will increase interest in its... More of this article »
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Uber Ending Its Post-Trip Tracking

Uber Technologies will reverse its controversial decision to track the location of its users following the end of their trip. The change of strategy related to privacy will come first to its iPhone app, which is expected to be updated... More of this article »
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Android banking Trojan “Faketoken” resurfaces

Security experts have sent alarm bells ringing after they detected a new variant of the notorious mobile banking Trojan “Faketoken” on the loose. The Android malware is able to steal credentials from popular taxi applications... More of this article »
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Microsoft announces new APIs in Visual Studio 2017

San Francisco: Microsoft has announced the availability of new Application programming interfaces (APIs) `ASP.NET Core 2.0` and `.NET Core 2.0` in its Visual Studio 2017 for developers. ASP.NET is an open source server-side web application... More of this article »
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Zebronics launches wooden tower speakers

New Delhi: Consumer electronics company Zebronics on Friday launched wooden tower speakers `Full Moon` at a price of Rs 15,999. The `Full Moon` features two 20.32cm sub-woofer drivers packed in slim wooden enclosure with round RGB... More of this article »
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Xiaomi Mi Max 2 Review: Affordable phablet for content consumption

New Delhi: After launching three smartphones in India till May this year, Chinese technology giant has unveiled the upgraded version of its last year`s phablet `Mi Max`. Much like its predecessor, `Xiaomi Mi Max 2` has a 6.44 screen... More of this article »
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Facebook, Google activate SOS features after Barcelona attack

Madrid: Soon after the Barcelona attack that left 13 people dead, Facebook and Google activated their safety check features to let users in the vicinity inform their friends that they were safe and get nearby support. Facebook created... More of this article »
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Apple Watch ‘Series 3’ enters final testing phase

San Francisco: It seems like Apple could release its upcoming smartwatch soon as Taiwan-based “Quanta Computer” — an integral part of the Cupertino-based company`s supply chain — is ramping up to begin manufacturing... More of this article »
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Facebook is developing augmented reality glasses

San Francisco: A patent application filed earlier this week has revealed that Facebook is working on developing augmented reality (AR) glasses that could blend digital objects with the physical world. According to a report in Quartz... More of this article »
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Coolpad to launch ‘game changing’ smartphone in a couple of days

Chinese smartphone manufacturers have penetrated the Indian market substantially and one such company is Coolpad. Coolpad will be launching another flagship device for the Indian smartphone market on August 20. The new “game... More of this article »
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Canon celebrates World Photography Day

Canon is celebrating World Photography Day to promote imaging culture by organising a series of activities and workshops across the country in celebration of ‘World Photography Day’ that falls on August 19. The company... More of this article »
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COMIO lands in India with 3 smartphones

Chinese smartphone maker COMIO is going to India by launching three smartphones – P1, S1 and C1 – at Rs 9,999, Rs 8,999 and Rs 5,999, respectively. Further the smartphone maker has joined hands with Reliance Jio to offer... More of this article »