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Pinterest is purging itself of affiliate links

Pinterest is on the road to monetization and it intends to remove every obstacle in its path. One of these obstacles is the plethora of "power users" on the website...

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Xiaomi now has more than 100 million users globally

In less than five years, Xiaomi has risen from a fresh startup with some cool ideas to a burgeoning behemoth of a smartphone company that is consuming everything in its...

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Jet.com got valued at $600 million before it even launched

Jet.com has managed to secure more than $140 million in funding, giving the startup a valuation of around $600 million, which it plans to use to launch its online e-commerce marketplace. Notice...

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See WeChat's ridiculous success described in a series of charts

It's been four years since WeChat launched and to celebrate, Tencent Tech has released a collection of slides named “WeChat’s Impact: Inaugural Report on WeChat Platform Data” that shows some crazy...

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Line boosts its mobile payments offerings with WebPay acquisition

The West has WhatsApp, China has WeChat, and the rest of Asia has Line. Just as its instant messaging competitors are rapidly expanding into other markets and diversifying their offerings,...

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Netflix has launched in an unexpected country: Cuba

Netflix's aggressive international expansion has brought to a rather unexpected country: Cuba. Given the historical tensions between America and Cuba it was quite surprising to see Netflix launch in the...

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Apple shows how good the iPad is for music creation at the Grammy's

What better time to advertise your product as a music creation device than at the Grammy's? That's exactly what Apple did last night in an effort to boost it's shrinking...

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Tinder's premium option may do more bad than good for the app

One of the biggest reasons that Tinder has risen to be one of the most popular dating apps in the world is the fact that it's ridiculously easy to use....

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More screenshots of Microsoft's Project Spartan have been leaked

Microsoft has revealed next to nothing about Project Spartan, the new web browser that the company is working on, except that it will launch alongside Windows 10 and will share...

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Two years in and Tumblr is still in the process of merging with Yahoo

It has been close to two years since Yahoo acquired Tumblr for around $1.1 billion but the merging process is still ongoing. After more than two years as Tumblr's head...

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