Why A Lenovo BlackBerry Buy Looks Like A Nonstarter
BlackBerry's shares got a slight boost on Thursday when rumors circulated for the 12,497th time that Chinese hardware manufacturer Lenovo was interested in buying the…
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Apple Poised To Attack New $4 Billion Market Opportunity
Apple hasn't yet begun to push the new iBeacon service it touched upon earlier this year, but that will soon change. According to market research…
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Ransomware Demands $300 In Bitcoins To Release Your Data
If you've never encountered ransomware, consider yourself lucky. Ransomware is malware that completely locks down your computer and threatens to corrupt or destroy your files…
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Google Shares Surge Past $1,000 In Friday Trading
Google's better-than-expected earnings report has sent the company's shares surging past the $1,000 barrier for the first time in its history during trading on Friday.…
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Google's Kurzweil Details His Intricate Plan For Cheating Death
As we've noted before, Google engineering director Ray Kurzweil devotes a lot of his life to postponing death. Kurzweil, the brilliant 65-year-old inventor and futurist,…
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Verizon's Q3 EPS Tops Expectations At $0.77 On $30.3 Billion In Sales
Following solid earnings in the second quarter that narrowly topped the Street's expectations, Verizon Communications on Thursday reported its third-quarter results ahead of the bell.…
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A Simple Guide To Opting Out Of Google's Controversial New Ads
Google's latest Terms of Service update allows the company to use your personal information from Google+, including your name and photograph, in targeted advertising that…
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Ireland Mulls Closing Apple's Favorite Tax Loophole
Apple's luck with the Irish may be about to run out. Bloomberg reports that Irish finance minister Michael Noonan has pledged to change parts of…
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Why Is A Japanese Carrier Paying $1.5 Billion For Half Of A Finnish App Vendor?
Japanese carrier SoftBank and GungHo just paid $1.5 billion for a 51% stake of Supercell. What the heck is going on? Valuing Supercell at $3 billion…
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New Sony Smartphone Strategy Shifts Away From U.S.
In an effort to become a dominant force in the competitive smartphone space, Sony is refocusing its business to markets that already constitute 60% of…
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Nokia's Budget Lumia Success May Leave HTC With Nowhere To Run
HTC's disastrous Q3 performance has triggered speculation about how the company may try its luck in the Windows Phone market after getting clobbered by tough…
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Former Apple CEO Says Cook Doing A 'Terrific Job,' Not 'Trying To Be Steve Jobs'
Any time a company's stock has a year like Apple shares have had between late September 2012 and now, investors and industry watchers are bound…
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Video: 'Login And Pay With Amazon' Has The Online Retailer Competing With PayPal
Amazon announced the 'Login and Pay with Amazon' service on Tuesday, which will allow online shoppers to use their Amazon account information to quickly complete…
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BlackBerry VP Unloads In Epic Email Thread With Shareholder, Analysts
BlackBerry VP of Developer Relations Alec Saunders hasn't done a great job in his role. But to pop off like this in an email chain…
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Twitter's Growth Problem In America
It is surprising that Twitter only grew its U.S. monthly active user base by 1 million between the March and June quarters — from 48…
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Lose Money, No Problem: Twitter's IPO Is A California Dream
The tech industry is captivated by two upcoming IPO's, which offer an interesting contrast. Twitter is a great example of what software companies used to…
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Twitter Makes IPO Filing Public, Will Look To Raise $1 Billion
In line with earlier reports, Twitter on Thursday made its IPO filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission public. Twitter filed an S-1…
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Samsung Accused Of Illegally Disclosing Classified Apple-Nokia Documents
As Samsung attempts to deal with the minor PR threat that came along with allegations of artificially boosting benchmark results on smartphones and tablets, new…
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Study Suggests Microsoft's 'Bing-It-On' Claims Are False [Updated]
Surprise! It turns out that people who take Microsoft's "Bing it on" challenge don't actually prefer Bing to Google by a rate of 2-to-1. Yale…
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The Dark Side Of Apple's iBeacons
Alongside the introduction of Apple's latest mobile operating system iOS 7, the company also rolled out its answer to the NFC technology it has gone…
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Apple's $147 Billion Cash Pile Accounts For 10% Of All U.S. Corporate Cash
So it seems as though Apple has been doing pretty well for itself over the past few years. Per The Wall Street Journal, Moody's now…
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Another Blow For HTC: Company Must Change Chip Design After Losing Patent Fight With Nokia
HTC is working with Qualcomm to alter a chip design that has been judged to infringe on Nokia's radio patents, The Wall Street Journal reports.…
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Google Seemingly Close To Settling EU Antitrust Case
Google looks like it's about to skate it yet another antitrust probe. The Wall Street Journal reports that Joaquín Almunia, who serves as the European Union's…
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Former Microsoft Privacy Advisor: 'I Don't Trust Microsoft Now'
It's doubtful that Microsoft will recruit its former privacy advisor Caspar Bowden to help it come up with witty one-liners for its next round of "Scroogled"…
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BlackBerry: Where It All Went Wrong
It's not just about the second-quarter earnings which showed a near $1 billion write-down for unsold BlackBerry Z10 phones. It's not about the fact that…
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The Wild $5 Billion Candy Crush Saga IPO And Its Implications
UK-based King, the creator of "Candy Crush Saga," has filed for an IPO in the United States. Expected valuation tops $5 billion. King is the…
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BlackBerry's Q2 Earnings As Ugly As Expected
BlackBerry released its second-quarter earnings report on Friday and it's just as bad as the company warned us it would be last week. On the…
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