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Can privacy survive the evolution of the Internet?

We reported earlier this week that Google's vision of the future is one in which the internet is all-encompassing and ever present, but what does that mean for privacy. When...

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Google and Cloudera are bringing Dataflow to Spark

Google Cloud Dataflow allows developer to create and monitor their data-processing pipelines without the hassle of underlying clusters. Now the company is bringing this technology to Apache’s Spark data-processing engine with help...

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Text analytics service Equivio has been acquired by Microsoft

Equivio is a service for legal and compliance that utilizes various machine-learning techniques in order to analyze documents and identify what relevance they might have to the needs of Equivio's clients. Microsoft has...

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Snapchat might be charging brands a bit too much for advertisements

Snapchat has already managed to accumulate tens of millions of users, now it just needs to start making money off of them. However, while the My Story feature is the...

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Aol is about to undergo a massive restructuring

Aol was once an internet juggernaut and one of the most promising companies of its time, but as we all know, all of that has long since passed, and the...

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Apple cuts all ties to Crimea to comply with US sanctions

The relationship between Russia and the United States hasn't exactly been good these past few months due to Russia's annexation of Crimea and America's retaliatory economic sanctions. In order to...

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Google is looking to take on Apple Pay by acquiring Softcard

Apple just recently entered into the mobile payments market and, as usual, this prompted the rest of the world's tech giants to either enter the market or renew their focus...

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Apple is reportedly already testing iOS 9 on the iPhone 6

iOS 9 isn't expected to be unveiled until much later in the year but new reports claim that Apple is already testing the next iteration of their mobile operating system...

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The Bellabeat Leaf is a fashionable health tracker just for women

Bellabeat has already managed to pull in $1.2 million revenue after completely selling out its women-centric health trackers for mothers and women looking to be mothers. Inspired by this success,...

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Toyota turns to Oculus Rift to show the dangers of distracted driving

Toyota has decided to put the educational power of virtual reality to the test with TeenDrive365, an educational driver simulation for the Oculus Rift that is meant to teach new drivers...

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