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Ford thinks self-driving cars will hit the market within four years

Although everyone can agree that self-driving cars will be hitting the market in the near future, nobody can agree on when that'll actually happen. Google's prediction that fully autonomous cars will...

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Twitter wants to make money off people without Twitter accounts

Twitter currently has around 320 million monthly active users, which is a hell of a lot, but that's only a fraction of its true user base. The problem with measuring Twitter's...

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Discover Channels are Snapchat's newest way of making money

Reaching 100 million daily active users is only half the battle, the other half is finding out how to make money from them. That's something that Snapchat knows all too...

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Uber's CEO doesn't think the company is ready to go public yet

Like an eighth grader being told they should go to prom, Uber wants people to stop telling it that it needs to go public soon. That's the analogy that CEO Travis Kalanick...

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Amazon now charges $299/year to deliver fresh groceries

Amazon Fresh members in Los Angeles already have to pay an annual $299.99 fee in order to have Amazon deliver groceries to them, and now members in New York City,...

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BlackBerry might quit the handset business if it can't turn a profit

BlackBerry's decision to remain in the handset market, despite failing to turn a profit for years and having lost almost all of its market share, could be seen as either denial...

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YouNow raises $15 million to expand its live streaming social network

Meerkat and Periscope are the only non-gaming live streaming apps of note at the moment, but YouNow wants to change that by taking a rather unique approach to live streaming,...

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Twitter might be doing away with its 140-character limit

Instagram limited itself to using square pictures, Snapchat limited itself to sending disappearing messages, and Twitter limited itself to supporting 140-character or less posts. These limitations are the quirks that made...

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DraftKings is bringing online gambling to the world of eSports

You could fill a library with all the arguments on Internet forums about whether eSports are actually sports or not, but they're definitely a competition, and that's good enough for...

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Ellen Pao has given up her fight against Kleiner Perkins

A three-year-long legal battle came to a close earlier today, one that had come to symbolize Silicon Valley's numerous issues with sexism. Ellen Pao filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against her former...

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