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Moving forward with its plans to become much more than just a messaging app, Snapchat has brought in Peter Hamby, one of CNN’s best political reporters who has decided to leave the company and join Snapchat where he will act as head of news. Hamby will still contribute to CNN on air and online

Comcast’s attempt at a $45 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable may have failed, but that doesn’t mean TWC isn’t still looking for buyers. In fact, the company’s executives are reportedly open to the idea of a merger with Charter, which would result in the creation of ano

With how ridiculously successful Xiaomi has become, it’s easy to forget that the company is still just a few years old and suffers from many of the weaknesses that plague newer companies. One such weakness is its inability to meet the massive demand for its products, which it makes up for by u

There was a time when Opera was quite possibly the best web browser out there, better even than Chrome or Firefox. That time has long since passed, but the former CEO of Opera has decided to give it another shot with a new browser called Vivaldi. We talked about this power user-centric browser when

Beijing Weiying Technology, the company behind the movie ticket booking platform that’s built into WeChat, has raised a whopping $105 million in series B funding from numerous sources, including Tencent, the company that owns WeChat. WePiao is the name of the app which allows users to purchase

It’s been a strange couple of days. Despite having God-like status with the majority of the Internet’s vocal gamers, Gabe Newell has received overwhelming criticism these past couple of days for his company’s decision to start implementing a system that would enable modders to char

The problem with tracking how content spreads on social media is that, while tracking how something spreads through a single network such as Facebook is easy, tracking it across multiple networks is much harder. This is where BuzzFeed thinks it can be of assistance, and as one of the kinds of viral

It’s been a long time coming but tomorrow will be the day that LG finally unveils its next flagship smartphone. Unfortunately for LG, however, it won’t be much of an unveiling considering how pretty much everything we need to know about the LG G4 has already been leaked online. That incl

Samsung has been having production problems with the Galaxy S6 Edge even before the smartphone was released due to the complications surrounding the device’s curved screen. As such, the company hasn’t been able to meet the massive demand for the Edge, which is why Samsung has reportedly

Rumors that Hideo Kojima would be leaving Konami, a corporation that he’s worked at for nearly three decades, have circulating since last month. The rumors claimed that Kojima would be leaving after the release of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and many people were afraid that this would

Numerous games are being streamed at any given time on Twitch, the undisputed king of video game live streaming, but a new study has shown that a mere four games account for nearly 60% of the hours spent watching streams on Twitch. This is according to by data service gameloco.com, which shows that

When Ratan Tata, the head of the $100 billion Tata group and one of the most respected business leaders in India, invests in your company, you know you’re doing something right, although I’m sure Xiaomi already knew it was doing something right. Even so, with a name like Tata’s beh

Despite some impressive growth over the past few years, BitTorrent has been forced to lay off nearly a third of its workforce, the biggest such shakeup of the company’s staff in seven years. The San Francisco-based company is trying to play this off as a “realignment” of its business but, with

Fast & Furious is a film series that refuses to die, and with good reason. Aside from Star Wars and a few others, no film series makes it past five films without there being a significant quality drop, but the seventh film in the Fast & Furious franchise has turned out to be its greatest yet

After finally revealing just how much money it was making off its cloud-computing business, Amazon was rewarded with record-high share prices, which made the company’s market capitalization increase by more than $27 billion to a whopping $200 billion. Despite how the company posted yet another

Shortly after announcing that it was expanding its operations in Israel through the acquisition of WatchDox, BlackBerry announced that it will also be shrinking its operations in Sweden. The company began its software design operations in the country after it acquired a startup known as The Astonish

Hey guys, wouldn’t it be great if the NSA was granted permission to collect data on us en masse for another five years?! No? Well then you’ll probably want to voice your concerns here soon, as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has introduced a new bill that would extend Section 215

If you thought Samsung gave the Galaxy S6 a more premium feel with an all-metal body, you should check out the leather backing that LG is putting on the LG G4. While the addition of leather certainly gives LG an advantage over its competitors, the process involved with making these leather smartphon

For those of you who’re unfamiliar, Sense TV was a mobile app that HTC shipped with many of its devices that allowed your smartphone to act as a smart remote. However, in order to ensure that its engineering teams are “focused on what’s most impactful for you,” HTC has decided to abandon

Amazon may be known as an e-commerce giant, and it does get the vast majority of its revenue from e-commerce, but the company does owe much of its success to Amazon Web Services. Assuming that growth continues as it did last year, Amazon’s cloud business may very well exceed IBM’s own of

Telltale Games has made quite a name for itself by creating games that are like a Western version of Japanese visual novels, where the game is more like an interactive movie than a traditional video game. This enables Telltale to create excellent video games for story-driven shows like Game of Thron

The introduction of the Steam Workshop was one of the greatest things to ever happen to the modding community as it not only made modding more accessible to inexperienced gamers, it helped modders bring their content to a larger audience. These mods have always been free, however, which means the mo

While the United States has led the world in mobile gaming revenue for years, it looks like China could come in and steal the crown sometime next year. Mobile gaming has always been more popular in Asia than in the West for a number of reasons. Pair that with the fact that China has several [&hellip

As a location-based message board that allows users to anonymously share jokes and memes with each other, it’s no surprise that YikYak’s success is thanks mostly to college campuses. The only problem is, the school year is going to come to an end eventually, so what do users do when that

Comcast’s $42.5 billion plan to acquire Time Warner Cable is all but dead at this point, but that doesn’t mean America’s Internet is problem-free. The merger of the nation’s two largest cable companies would have undoubtedly made things worse, but even without that merger, th

It looks like another billion-dollar startup has been born, but this time it’s not based in the United States. Funding Circle, which is based in London, has just raised $150 million in funding to achieve a valuation exceeding $1 billion to expand its peer-to-peer investment platform. This plat

Even though virtual reality is no longer a science fiction concept, it’s still not easy for most people to experience. There’s no shortage of virtual reality headsets being developed at the moment, but most of them cast hundreds of dollars, something that well out of reach for many peopl

As a dating service meant specifically for infidelity, AshleyMadison is certainly one of the more dubious websites out there, which is probably why the company itself has named its founder, Noel Biderman, the most hated man on the Internet. Indeed, Biderman has received his fair share of criticism o

It may surprise many of you to know that Netflix doesn’t actually own any of its shows, not even House of Cards, the company simply rents the original content from other companies and keeps its exclusive to its own service. This is something that Netflix is looking to change and, just like HBO

If current technology trends are anything to go by, it’s only a matter of time before everything you one becomes “smart,” as well as many thing you don’t own but still make use of. We refer to this as the Internet of Things and, as cool as it sounds, it’s going to be pr

The virtual reality headset that HTC and Valve has been working on, known as Vive, was promised to be completely free for developers when it was first unveiled last month, and not it looks like that promise is being fulfilled. In order to get your hands on a free Vive developers kit, you need to sig

We all knew that Samsung’s decision to forgo the use of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 810 chip in favor of its own Exynos 7420 chip in the Galaxy S6 would hurt Qualcomm, but we didn’t know exactly how much until just recently. According to the company’s recent earnings report, Qualco

Wes Craven is well know for making some of the most iconic horror movies to date, but now the acclaimed filmmaker is diving head-first into television. Not only is he producing MTV’s upcoming Scream series, Craven has reportedly inked a deal with NBCUniversal to develop two new shows for SyFy.

Despite how much CEO Marissa Mayer claims mobile is the key to Yahoo’s success, which is correct, the vast majority of the company’s money still comes from regular computers. According to Yahoo’s latest financial results, while mobile revenue has been climbing at an impressive pace

With globalization and the rise of the Internet, it’s easier than ever to connect with people from across the globe. However, language barriers have made things rather difficult, particularly for businesses, which is why companies like Gengo exist. Gengo is a Japanese startup with American fun

It wouldn’t be fair to say that Yahoo is dying, but things aren’t looking too good. The company’s days as an Internet colossus are long gone, and despite assurances that Marissa Mayer’s ascent to CEO would turn the company around, it’s been three years and we still have

Apple and Samsung have pretty much solidified their position atop the American mobile market for life, but the number three spot is transitory. While that third-place spot is currently occupied by LG, that may change in the near future if Huawei has its way. The company has been developing a solid r

I’ve never had much of a problem with advertisements on the Web. Farming my personal information to better target those ads is bad, but the ads themselves are what ensure that I can surf the Web to my heart’s content without paying a dime. Still, ads can be pretty annoying, and while it&

Have you ever stopped to think how lonely and sad your dog must be while you’re not at home? Everyone who has a dog has to deal with this, and there’s no easy solution. Doggy daycares aren’t exactly within the budget of most people, and it can be difficult to find someone to keep y

Few of Amazon’s products are as influential and revolutionairy as Amazon Web Services, and few of them are as shrouded in secret either. In the nine years since its launch, statistics regarding AWS have been kept from the public, but now that the business has grown so large, Amazon has decided