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Facebook is working on a stand-alone virtual reality video app

Considering how the company spent $2 billion to acquire Oculus VR last year, it's clear that Facebook is really interested in the virtual reality market. The company isn't leaving the...

Amazon may have as many as 80 million Prime subscribers

Amazon's investors were skeptical when the company first introduced Amazon Prime, but the premium membership has since risen to become one of the driving forces behind the company's revenue growth....

Etsy is helping connect its sellers with small manufacturers

It's been six months since Etsy completed its IPO, which valued the company at around $3.5 billion, and now it's time for the company to expand. One of the biggest problems...

The iPhone 6S will only have 2GB of RAM

It's hard for high-end Android smartphones to get away with having anything less than 3GB of RAM nowadays, but that doesn't mean much to Apple. As usual, the company has been...

Dell is working on its own Microsoft Surface competitor

Many people were skeptical of the Microsoft Surface when it first came out, but the 2-in-1 tablet has since risen to become the device to beat when dealing with high-end, productivity-focused tablets....

Facebook is testing out temporary profile pictures

Anytime a cause becomes popular on social media, there's a good chance that some of your friends on Facebook are going to change their profile picture to an image that...

Self-destruction is the most secure form of data protection

It's often the simplest tricks that are the most effective. For example, not even the most advanced, most expensive data protection and encryption can guarantee that people won't be able to get their hands on the...

Google might be returning to China sometime this fall

Concerns over censorship, privacy, and security led Google to pull out of China back in 2010, but now that the country's mobile market has become one of the most valuable...

Cortana is helping Cyanogen take Google out of Android

Cyanogen is nothing if not anti-Google. Earlier this year, the company boldly claimed that it would take Android away from Google with its own heavily customized version of Android: Cyanogen...

Sony Pictures actually considered acquiring BitTorrent at one point

BitTorrent is practically synonymous with digital piracy, but the file sharing protocol has plenty of legal uses as well. In fact, a leaked draft presentation from about a decade ago shows that...

OnePlus has started teasing something "luxurious"

OnePlus is still struggling to make the OnePlus 2 available to purchase, but it looks like the company is already gearing up to launch a new product. This kind of...

Nintendo has already sold seven million Amiibos in the United States

Nintendo's hardware sales over the past few years have been far from impressive, but one area where the company is enjoying a lot of success if Amiibos. The company's coveted...

HTC is packing a deca-core processor into a new smartphone

We've been saying for a while now that HTC is going to need something powerful and enticing if it wants to start turning its abysmal sales around, and the One A9...

Apparently the Xperia Z5 is waterproof so long as it never gets wet...

One of the Xperia's biggest selling points is the fact that it's extremely waterproof, at least as far as smartphone go, and the new Xperia Z5 is no exception. The...

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...

Microsoft has acquired another popular Android developer

Echo Notification Lockscreen is the latest addition to Microsoft's ever-growing portfolio of Android apps and services. The app allows users to personalize the appearance of their device's lockscreen, and while it's far...

China's ride-sharing apps are joining forces to keep Uber out

China is one of the few places where Uber isn't completely dominating the ride-sharing market, and its local competitors want to keep it that way. Uber has been really aggressive and...

Microsoft will launch its first Windows 10 phones on October 10th

We don't have an official release date for Microsoft's first Windows 10-powered smartphones, but considering how the operating system is expected to officially launch sometime this fall, it's safe to...

Amazon's new Fire TV could beat the new Apple TV in a key area

To call the next-generation Apple TV a disappointment wouldn't be fair, but that doesn't mean there weren't a few things missing when Apple unveiled the device earlier this week. The most...

Qualcomm wants its processors to power next-generation drones

Qualcomm's Snapdragon processors are responsible for powering a significant chunk of the Android devices that have been released over the years, and now the company wants them to power drones...