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Google Earth will be retired by this time next year

Developers who have built web apps that take advantage of the Google Earth geospatial imaging service have just 12 more months to make the most of them, because the online...

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Facebook is finally considering a "Dislike" button

With the introduction of the “Like” button to Facebook, we guess the obvious opposite would be a “Dislike” button but unfortunately despite many users asking for it, Facebook has yet...

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Roku and Rdio team up to improve in-home music streaming

Rdio may not be the most popular streaming music service, but it’s about to get a lot more familiar to Roku users. The two companies have partnered to make Rdio the...

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Samsung Ventures leads $17 million investment into Seeo

Seeo, a California-based company that makes lithium polymer batteries, has closed a $17M round led by new investor Samsung Ventures, the investment arm of Samsung Group. Existing investors Khosla Ventures...

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Wireless charging is finally coming to tablets

We're still waiting for the Rezence standard to bring wireless charging to laptops, but Freescale is taking a big step towards making that a reality. It just announced a new...

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Microsoft adds cross-platform video chatting to Skype and Lync

Last year, Microsoft announced that its consumer-facing Skype communications service and its enterprise-focused counterpart would begin to interoperate, first with IM and audio, and later expanding to support video. Now,...

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The Xbox One is beating the PlayStation 4 in Black Friday sales

Microsoft's efforts to close the sales gap between rival Sony and win the holiday season appear to be paying off, at least early on. According to data from market research firm...

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The next generation of Google Glass will reportedly be powered by Intel

Intel has its eyes on one of the biggest prizes in wearable technology as reports say it will provide the chip for the next generation of Google Glass. The current...

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Southeast Asian Amazon clone raises $250 million

We don’t often see companies announce funding rounds on the weekend, but that’s not stopping Lazada, the Rocket Internet-backed e-commerce firm in Southeast Asia, from revealing today that it has...

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Inlope is a new Microsoft-backed local social network

Is there room for another social network in your life? Inlope, a Munich, Germany-based startup which was founded last year and has just launched its app reckons so. And it’s...

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