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Amazon expands its Sunday delivery service to 15 more cities

Amazon pleasantly surprised its customers late last year when the company announced it would begin delivering packages on Sundays. Partnering with the United States Postal Service, Amazon brought Sunday deliveries to New York and Los Angeles...

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Over three billion people expected to be on the web by the end of the year

Figures released by ITU indicate that, by end 2014, there will be almost 3 billion Internet users, two-thirds of them coming from the developing world, and that the number of...

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Marketing analytics company Convertro gets acquired by AOL

A day before its quarterly results, AOL has announced another acquisition to beef up its ad tech operations. It is buying Convertro, a marketing optimization platform, for $101 million – $89 million in cash, $2...

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Nokia is bringing its HERE apps to iOS and Android

One of the ways OEMs can help their products stand out from the competition is by offering up exclusive apps that other brands will not have access to. We’ve seen...

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Microsoft is working on a file manager for Windows Phone 8.1

Even though Microsoft has already released a developer preview of Windows Phone 8.1 that doesn’t mean that the company is finished tweaking it. Public release of the software isn’t expected until next...

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Former Nokia CEO denies working as Microsoft's "Trojan Horse"

As tempting as it might be to believe the Grand Elop Conspiracy theory, the man at the center of it all insists that it’s not true. ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley notices that former Nokia CEO and...

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Tibco acquires Jaspersoft for $185 million

Tibco has acquired Jaspersoft for $185 million in a deal that will give it a widely used embedded business-intelligence suite to sell alongside its existing Spotfire analytics product. Jaspersoft uses a...

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IBM launches the IBM Cloud marketplace

IBM has assembled a vast array of hosted cloud services, and now it has somewhere to show them off. On its IBM Cloud online marketplace that goes live on Monday, enterprises...

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Microsoft now lets users control their PC from their Windows Phone

Windows Phone  just joined the platforms that Microsoft supports with a remote control app for accessing a PC from a handset. The company quietly introduced the free Remote Desktop Preview software...

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IBM and Fluid to create a Watson-powered personal shopping app

Imagine having IBM’s artificially intelligent robot, Watson, help you decide on just what pair of heels to buy. It’s not really such a crazy thought. IBM’s newly-developed Watson Group has...

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