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Tinder's parent company is about to go public
It's a little known fact that OKCupid, Match.com, and Tinder are all owned by the same company, and that company is going public. Known as Match Group, the Dallas-based company...
Toyota is establishing a $1 billion research institute in Silicon Valley
Toyota announced this morning that it plans to invest somewhere around $1 billion over the next five years to establish a new, Silicon Valley-based artificial intelligence and robotics research company. The company...
Twitter is ditching one of its oldest features so it can mimic Facebook
Twitter has been mimicking Facebook here and there for a while now, but this really takes the cake. The service decided to do away with the "favorite" button earlier today, and...
Google is planning to merge Android and Chrome OS
Apple likes to put its products through rigorous reviews and tests in order to ensure that they'll be popular and well received from the beginning. Google, on the other hand,...
Nintendo will reveal more info on its first mobile game tomorrow
Aside from confirming that it's working on a handful of games for smartphones and tablets, Nintendo has remained annoyingly silent regarding its long-awaited entrance into the mobile market, but it's finally going...
Xiaomi has reaffirmed its plans to expand to the United States
Xiaomi is already dominating the smartphone market in its home country, and now has a 14% share of the Indian market, which means the Chinese company already has two of the...
IBM is disturbingly eager to hand data over to the Chinese government
In a move that's pretty much guaranteed to create controversy back in IBM's home country, the company has reportedly started allowing officials from the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to review...
Samsung has another Tizen-powered smartphone on the way
Tizen hasn't exactly risen to challenge Android's dominance in the mobile market. In fact, it hasn't really done anything at all, aside from powering a few lackluster smartphones and a handful...
Microsoft claims the Surface Book will demolish the MacBook Pro
Most of what Microsoft announced at this morning's big press event was exciting, but not surprising. We've known about the two Lumia smartphones, the Microsoft Band 2, and the Surface Pro 4...
Self-driving taxis will be hitting Japanese roads next year
If there are two things that Japan is one of the undisputed masters of, it's robotics and transportation. That's why it's not all that surprising to see that the country...