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Square tries to woo merchants with App Marketplace

Following in the footsteps of tech giants large and small, consumer and enterprise, Square is throwing open the digital doors its own App Marketplace. The payments platform provider is touting...

Huawei says smartphone shipments grew by 26% last quarter

Huawei is transitioning to a big player with premium options and already has concrete results to show. The company has shipped 16.8 million smartphones in Q3 this year and 26%...

Tencent leads $350 million investment in Koudai Gouwu

Koudai Gouwu, a Chinese mobile shopping portal, today announced a huge US$350 million series C funding round led by Tencent and Tiger Fund, followed by H Capital, Vy Capital, Falcon...

Hacker turns cassette player into Spotify streamer

The $35 Raspberry Pi is the low-end computing system that launched a thousand projects, including a beet-powered Beetbox and this Spotify-compatible cassette player. CNET writes that Matt Brailsford's nostalgic masterpiece...

G.Skill announces extremely fast 480GB PCIe SSD

Today's high performance SATA 6Gbps solid state drives top out at around 590MB/s for read and write transfers. If you need something faster, you can slap a pair in a...

Hungary is imposing the world’s first “internet tax”

There’s a quote which says, “Nothing is certain except for death and taxes.” For the most part this is true as people around the world are being taxed by their...

Christian Bale confirmed to be portraying Steve Jobs

Christian Bale will star as late Apple CEO Steve Jobs in the upcoming biopic from director Danny Boyle. Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin confirmed the decision in an upcoming interview with Bloomberg...

Man implants NFC chip into his own hand

Right now we can use our phones with NFC to make mobile payments. However what if you could do away with the phone and use your own body to make...

Goodwell seeks crowdfunding for its smart toothbrush

There are different types of toothbrushes out there. Some are just your standard fare, and some are little more ergonomic which promises to clean those hard to reach places, in...

Telerik acquired by Progress Software for $262.5 million

In a deal today involving two companies with links to the Boston area, Progress Software, which helps companies build business software, announced it was buying Telerik for $262.5 million. Telerik’s...

Sonos sues Denon for patent infringement

Sonos filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against D+M Group over the Heos wireless multiroom-audio system launched earlier this year by Denon. In its suit in US District Court in Delaware, Sonos...

Twitter unveils Fabric, it’s new modular SDK

Twitter is flocking toward mobile like it is the promised land of revenue. On the surface, it appears Twitter has charted a course there by riding the power of the...

Shapify Booth is a full-body scanner for 3D-printed replicas of people

Artec Group, a leading developer and manufacturer of professional 3D software and hardware, announced the debut of its Shapify Booth in the USA. This first-of-its-kind booth creates a full scan...

Barnes & Noble releases more Nooks with help from Samsung

Barnes & Noble may not have developed a tablet of its own for quite some time now but its relationship with Samsung seems to be flourishing quite nicely. Both companies...

Staples is the latest company to suffer a massive data breach

Announced this week, Staples representatives confirmed that the company is looking into a breach of the retailer’s computer systems that allowed consumer’s credit card data to fall into the hands...

Samsung launches the Galaxy Core Max in China

Samsung Galaxy Core Max features 1.2GHz quad-core CPU, a gig of RAM, and 8GB of built-in, expandable memory. The display is a 4.8” Super AMOLED unit with qHD resolution (960...

Onyx smartwatch uses e-ink display for improved battery life

Most smartwatches these days tend to have relatively short battery life. This is due to their displays which are usually quite bright and stunning, which unfortunately at the same time...

HP to unveil its new 3D-scanning PC next week

HP is synonymous with mass-market PCs and notebooks, but according to a report from Re/code, HP is trying it proverbial hand at something new. According to the usual slew of...

PhotoMath solves equations for you using your smartphone’s camera

Thanks to calculators, solving mathematical equations both complicated and simple is a piece of cake. However sometimes solving equations can take a while as you might have to enter long...

Homeboy is a wireless magnetized security camera

There are probably many different types of home security cameras available in the market today, but if you’re looking for an alternative, perhaps the Homeboy could be worth checking out....