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The Wall Street Journal – Financial news and analysis

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...

WeChat will soon offer users as much as $30,000 in personal loans

Asian messaging apps are like Swiss Army knives for mobile devices; they come packed with tons of functionality that you wouldn't really expect to see in a messaging app, from...

Amazon plans to release a $50 budget tablet later this year

Amazon and Apple have always approached the tablet market from different angles, Amazon from the low-end to mid-range side and Apple from the high-end side. It's worked out pretty damn...

Nielsen has started tracking shows on Amazon, Hulu, and Netflix

When a television studio wants to know how popular one of its programs are, it turns to Nielsen. The company has been tracking the demographics and viewership of television programs for...

Amazon is rethinking its hardware ambitions because of the Fire Phone

No matter how hard Amazon tried, and it tried REALLY hard, the Fire Phone was failure by every definition of the word. Four years of development went to waste when...

Netflix will be 100% cloud-based by the end of the summer

Data centers are really expensive to maintain, which is why companies like Netflix that consume vast amounts of data prefer to use cloud-based systems. That's why the company has announced...

These glasses can protect you from facial-recognition systems

Facial-recognition is becoming mare advanced and more prevalent every day, and not all of us are comfortable with that. For the more privacy-conscious people out there, the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo...

China is taking censorship to the next level with actual Internet police

I know this isn't good news, but the cyberpunk enthusiast in me can't help but get a little excited about China's recent announcement that it will begin putting "Internet police"...

Uber is now the world's most valuable startup at nearly $51 billion

Uber has been consistently ranked as one of the world's most valuable startups for a few years now, but the company's recent $1 billion round of funding may have turned it into THE...

The OnePlus 2 will launch in two weeks for $329 or $389

In case you missed it, OnePlus officially announced the OnePlus 2 during the world'a first-ever virtual reality product announcement last night. While interesting, the event wasn't all that great, especially since...