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Bookpad is the first Indian company to be acquired by Yahoo

Bangalore-based Bookpad has become the first Indian tech startup to be bought by Yahoo, going from creation to acquisition in just one year. The deal comes some eight months after...

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Line's Vine-like feature is now a standalone app

Line, the instant messaging company from Japan, intends to narrow down their focus when it comes to multimedia apps after introducing SnapMovie as a standalone app. For those who are...

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WordPress has reset 100,000 accounts as a precautionary measure

It was rather big news when earlier this week, it became known that up to 5 million Gmail usernames and their corresponding passwords were published over at a Russian Bitcoin...

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Free Spotify users on desktop and mobile are getting video ads

Spotify's video ads are coming. The music-streaming service will soon roll out its video ad products for marketers, including a mobile product that lets listeners watch a video ad in...

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The Starbucks app for iOS now has Uber integration

Uber wants to make sure you always hail one of its cars on your way to get a pumpkin spice latte, so it has latched itself onto Starbucks for iOS....

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Sky's NOW TV app has finally arrived on Chromecast

Ever since Now TV launched, subscribers have cried out for Sky to support more streaming devices. Today, the company answered some of its critics by announcing it's built Chromecast functionality...

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Chinese mobile payments service Alipay now has biometric security

Alipay and Huawei have jointly launched a biometric security service for m-payments. Users of a new Huawei smartphone equipped with a fingerprint reader will be able to make mobile payments...

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Microsoft has 20 days to explain itself to China's anti-trust investigators

Chinese authorities have issued a 20-day deadline for Microsoft to explain “compatibility problems” with its Windows and Office software, after previously warning the company not to obstruct an anti-monopoly investigation....

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Apple has updated its HealthKit privacy policy to protect your health info

When Apple’s HealthKit platform starts getting stuffed with personal user data, third-parties will not have the authorization to sell your information to advertisers. Apple on Thursday quietly updated HealthKit’s privacy...

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Microsoft is purging fake apps from the Windows Store

We’re sure that many of you guys have come across apps while browsing the app store that seem to resemble other apps. They might share a similar-ish logo and a...

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