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Almost immediately after the Comcast-Time Warner Cable fell through, rumors that Charter was looking to acquire TWC started popping up, and have more or less been confirmed in the weeks since. According to reports from both Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal, the acquisition is expected to be som
Corporations trying to avoid taxes is nothing new, in fact, you’d be hard-pressed to find a multi-billion dollar company that doesn’t have a few tax avoidance schemes going. When operating in Europe, funneling revenue through Luxembourg is a popular way for companies like Amazon to avoid
Unless you have copious amounts of napkins and the patience to use them every few seconds, then eating greasy fast food and playing on your smartphone or tablet are two things that can’t be done simultaneously. Or can they? Some KFC restaurants in Germany have started a limited trial run of fo
In a major victory for the entertainment industry last week, two of the Pirate Bay’s key domains were seized by the Swedish government on the grounds that they were tools used by an illegal operation to help share stolen content. Pirate Bay co-founder Fredrik Neij isn’t sitting idly by,
There’s no shortage of cooking and food shows on traditional television, but Netflix is taking a different approach from the tried and true formula that most of these shows follow. With Netflix’s first non-fiction series, Chef’s Table, the company isn’t making an exciting travel sh
In recent years there has been a growing number of individuals and organizations trying to push governments to teach coding in schools, as well as trying to convince adults to invest some time into acquiring some coding skills, but why? To put it simply: coding means jobs, lots of jobs, including jo
Dating services are a dime a dozen, but the Chinese website known as Baihe manages to distinguish itself by taking a rather interesting approach to the whole process of finding a partner. Users are encouraged to share their education and property status, which are exceptionally important in Chinese
With government authorization, the NSA has been able to collect data on virtually every phone call made by United States citizens for years, but following the Senate’s failure to extend this authorization, the NSA has started the process of shutting down the controversial program. Because the
BlackBerry has to jump through hoops to make sure it’s profitable, and if that means laying off a bunch of employees in the company’s device business then so be it. An undisclosed number of employees have been laid off from the division responsible for developing BlackBerry’s smart
The next step in Snapchat’s plan to become a news and entertainment hub, the company is now on the lookout for journalists who can cover the 2016 presidential race. Snapchat started trying to make itself into more than just an ephemeral messaging app with the introduction of the “Discove
It’s not surprising that a former KGB spy wants to get their hands on data regarding anti-government bloggers, especially when that former spy is President Vladimir Putin. Ties between Moscow and Washington have been very strained over the past year or so, and Putin’s demands that Americ
You can’t fault Mozilla for trying, but the company’s attempt to create a $25 smartphone running on its homemade Firefox OS has more or less been scrapped. Instead, the company has decided to put more focus on improving the Firefox OS experience and, through the Ignite Initiative that we
