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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 because of Spotify’s insistence that all songs be available on both its ad-supported free tier, and its subscriptio

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 limited to users in the Chicago metropolitan area. The service will only be available during work hours on weekdays

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 that even came close to being popular, which is why Mozilla has more or less killed off the

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, and all of these lesser-known services into components of that hub. Naturally, this doesn’t include HBO

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 the latest company to be added to that list. Whether or not the American company is a patent troll is a matter of o

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 evening hours. This probably isn’t that big of a surprise to most of us, but it does serve

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 released 31 of its own shows by the end of 2016, and revealed that it’s

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 back in June, the company has confirmed that it’s raised another $1.5 billion in funding, which brings its valuation to ar

Over the next several months, the United States Postal Service will be expanding its Informed Delivery service, which sends customers an email containing an image of the physical mail that they’re supposed to receive that day. Although it’s free, customers must sign up for

A little under a year ago, there were less than a dozen publishers using Snapchat, but after seeing how useful the app’s Discover platform is for tapping into the coveted millennial audience, the number of publishers has jumped to seventeen, with many more expected to join in the nea

Often more frightening than terrorist attacks themselves are the asinine laws that politicians will propose in their wake. When the horrors of a terrorist attack are still fresh on everyone’s mind, and the fear of future attacks is as strong as it will ever be, that’s when politicians wi

Australia is home to some of the world’s most-brilliant scientists and most-innovative startups, but it’s still only meeting a fraction of its potential. The country has been on the verge of a science and startup boom for a while, and as a man who is seen as a potential leader in innovat

When a company or organizations wants to make money from one of their products, but knows that charging people to use it would most-likely cause them to switch to a competitor, they usually turn to advertising or premium subscriptions. Mozilla chose the former when looking for ways to monetize Firef

Japan’s population is expected to start shrinking at an alarming rate in the years to come, and the country has already started running into issues with employment. Basically, more people are leaving the workforce than are joining it, a lot more, and that’s starting to cause some serious

Computers have become an essential part of many companies, and many of these companies have adopted policies for how their employees should use computers while they’re at work. Obviously, should an employee break that policy, the company is well within its rights to discipline them, but the go

Although many consumers have acquired a taste for big smartphones and phablets over the last few years, a significant chunk of Americans still prefer smaller handsets. According to a recent survey, which conveniently coincides with rumors that Apple intends to release a 4-inch smartphone next year,

Researchers from the International Data Corporation have released a rather surprising forecast for the future of the smartphone industry, one which predicts that global smartphone shipments will see single-digit growth this year for the first time. The forecast claims that smartphone shipment will g

Whenever Amazon needs to transport goods between its numerous fulfillment and sorting centers, it relies on a number of trucking partners across the country, and while that’s not going to change any time soon, the company has taken the first steps towards becoming self-sufficient in this regar

I’m not sure whether it’s because of determination or denial, but it looks like Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has no intention of selling the company. Yahoo has had a rough time these past few years, as I’m sure you all know, and rumors that the former Internet giant was considering sell

I think most people would agree that $9.99/month is a small price to pay to be able to listen to whichever songs you want, whenever you want, as much as you want, but the artists that create these songs and the publishers that release them would beg to differ. Many of them feel like Spotify, [&helli

I think it’s safe to say that broadband providers weren’t very pleased when the FCC announced its net neutrality rules, and when I say that, I mean they’ve been doing anything and everything in their power to try and get the rules changed or removed entirely. Yesterday, the FCC had

Liquidmophium is a type of liquid metal that looks and sounds like something from a sci-fi movie, with Terminator 2 being the first movie that comes to mind, but it’s actually real, and Turing Robotic Industries is making a smartphone out of it. You may have even heard about the Turing Phone r

The ride-sharing market is divided into two parts: Uber and those other guys. With billions in funding coming in every few months, and a valuation that could be as high as $65 billion, Uber is the undisputed leader at the moment, and its sheer dominance in the market has caused “those other gu

OnePlus has made it painfully clear that all of its new smartphone will use its universally loathed invite system for the foreseeable future, but it’s never permanent. A few months after the OnePlus One was launched, the company removed the invite system entirely, and starting tomorrow, the co

Back in 2007, before Netflix was the streaming powerhouse that it is today, the company was working on its own set-top box that would be competing with the likes of the Apple TV and the Roku. The company spent a lot of time and money on the device’s development, and was actually so close to re

It’s a testament to how massive Uber is at the moment that pulling in an additional $2.1 billion in funding is barely even noteworthy, considering how it’s just one more addition to an ever-growing list of multi-billion dollar funding rounds for the company. Uber is already the world&#82

Those of you still using the older web-based version of Yahoo Messenger will be sad to hear that Yahoo will be ending support for the service in a few months, but the good news is that a new, revamped version of the service has launched, and it actually looks pretty enticing. Naturally, the new Yaho

Laptop-tablet hybrids are a dime a dozen these days, bu what about a laptop-smartphone hybrid? When you phrase it like that, it seems pretty silly, but this recently-discovered Samsung patent for the Galaxy Note 6 is actually really interesting. Rather than combining a laptop and a smartphone into o

Cybersecurity is easily one of the biggest sources of tension between China and the United States, and it’s one that the two nations have slowly started to address. A few weeks ago, the two nations reached their first-ever high-level cybersecurity agreement, albeit one of little substance, in

The augmented reality market is still in infancy, practically still in the womb, but the competition is already starting to heat up. Microsoft is the only major player at the moment, thanks to its HoloLens headset, which isn’t even available yet, but as usual, Amazon is looking to give the com

It’s safe to say that Tidal has had a rough year, and I’m not sure whether the fact that the company has cycled through three CEOs in the past six months is the cause of that, or the product of it. Either way, Tidal is hoping that things will be different next year, as industry veteran J

The tablet market has been shrinking for a while now, but a recent shift in the industry may breathe new life into the tablet market. Apple, Google, and Microsoft have released high-end tablets in recent months that feature abnormally large screens and PC-like capabilities, which has actually drawn

Initially, many people were confident that former Google executive Marissa Mayer would be able to turn things around for Yahoo as its CEO and President, but after three years of little progress, people are starting to lose hope, including the company’s board of directors. Apparently, the board

The disastrous failure that is the Wii U has forced Nintendo to advance to the next-generation of consoles much earlier than expected. We’ve been hearing a lot about the company’s next console, known as the Nintendo NX, but Nintendo has yet to reveal anything official, aside from confirm

The Galaxy S6 was built from the ground up as a completely new smartphone, which makes it more like the beginning of a new line of flagships rather than a continuation of the Galaxy S line, but don’t expect the Galaxy S7 to do the same. Some reports out of South Korea suggest that the [&hellip

It’s odd to see a smartphone manufacturer expanding into the laptop market, as it’s usually the reverse that happens, but that’s what Xiaomi appears to be doing. Considering how the company has been adding a variety of consumer electronics to its list of products, including air pur

Although a handful of restrictions have been put in place over the years to reduce online vandalism, people are still more or less free to create and modify Wikipedia pages however they please. While this openness is one of Wikipedia’s defining characteristics and greatest strengths, it also o

American and Chinese companies have been immensely interested in drone-based deliveries these past couple of years, which makes sense considering how those two countries have the largest e-commerce markets in the world, but it looks like the Chinese companies have just been dealt a major blow. While

Netflix has been on an absolute roll these past few years, and though only time will tell if it can continue to dominate the way it has been, it’s definitely looking like the company is helping bring about the destruction of traditional television. A survey from Clearleap suggests that streami

Samsung’s days as the king of the smartphone market are numbered if it can’t reverse its shrinking sales. It’s obvious that the strategies that helped earn that position are no longer working, and the company’s leadership has either not adapted to the changing market, or chan