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Jet intends to dethrone Amazon with stupidly low prices

Jet is an e-commerce startup that has been getting a lot of attention recently for its promises to dethrone Amazon and, despite having not even launched yet, things are looking...

Automakers want to acquire Nokia's HERE maps to fight Silicon Valley

Mapping services aren't just a tool for you to find your way around town, these services are what's going to power the autonomous vehicles of the future. Most of these services...

Zenefits just raised $500 million by giving its software away for free

With somewhere around $500 million in funding, Zenefits is now worth $4.5 billion, an impressive feat only made more so by the fact that the startup is only a couple of years old....

Not even Foxconn can make robots that perform better than humans

Not even poor Chinese workers can compete against robots that don't even need to be paid. At least, that's what the founder of Foxconn thought a few years ago when...

Facebook wants to be a distribution hub for online publishers

Content is king, and Facebook is willing to sacrifice a piece of its ad revenue if that's what it takes to convince publishers to distribute their content through the social...

LG has officially unveiled the LG G4

LG thinks we've waited long enough for an official unveiling of the LG G4, which is why the company finally to the wraps off its latest flagship smartphone today. Many...

Qualcomm is helping Chinese companies bring their phones overseas

The problem with having a product that's popular in China is that, due to a variety of issues, that product will most likely ONLY be popular in China. With smartphones...

Amazon's share have reached record levels thanks to Web Services

After finally revealing just how much money it was making off its cloud-computing business, Amazon was rewarded with record-high share prices, which made the company's market capitalization increase by more than...

Amazon wants to deliver packages directly to your trunk

Amazon is conducting an experiment in Germany that involves having couriers leave people's packages inside the trunk of their cars. Starting in Munich with the potential to expand across the...

Google might launch its wireless service as early as today

Google is already shaking up the cable and Internet market with Google Fiber, but now the company wants to do the same thing to the wireless service market. Although the company...