Yahoo has acquired photo advertising startup Luminate
Yahoo has acquired the startup Luminate, a service that focuses on advertising on top of online images, as the Internet giant tries to give its once-mighty ad business a jolt....
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Blu-ray is taking on internet streaming with 4K discs next year
For a long time now, the gradually growing collection of 4K content needed to fill out all those glorious pixels of 4K/UHD (Ultra High Definition) TVs has been promised to...
Forget about 4K, Dell has announced a new 5K monitor
4K is so last week. Most of us haven't added one of those displays as part of our daily workflow yet, and Dell's 5K option is on the way. The...
Intel’s new Core M chips will open new doors for personal computers
Intel's next-generation chip family, the Core M, will arrive in the real world starting next month as Acer, Asus, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo and Toshiba start shipping portable devices built around...
Samsung has released an SDK for Tizen-powered wearables
Samsung today announced the release of a new Tizen Software Development Kit for the recently introduced Gear S smartwatch. The SDK will let app developers tap into network, call and...
Sprint has expanded its 4G LTE footprint with new roaming partnerships
Sprint is expanding its 4G LTE footprint through roaming partnerships it has signed with several rural and regional wireless operators. On Friday, it announced that it has struck deals with...
Wuaki.tv is joining the 4K streaming club
Wuaki.tv is preparing to launch 4K Ultra HD content for its smart TV customers. The Rakuten-owned streaming service demonstrated its new 4K streams at IFA 2014 in Berlin, which will...
Four technology giants are appealing an anti-poaching settlement
Four big tech companies embroiled in a Silicon Valley hiring controversy are appealing a judge’s decision to reject a settlement that would have seen them pay $325 million to settle...
The Moto Hint is Motorola’s new wireless earbud
Don't call the Motorola Hint a Bluetooth headset. It makes everyone at Motorola wince. They'd rather you call it a wireless earbud, or, in a brilliant slip of the tongue...
Major internet companies are organizing a protest to save the internet
Several large U.S. tech firms have pledged to "go slow" for a day in order to protest a pending federal decision that could add fast and slow lanes to the...
Virtual tickets for BlizzCon have gone on sale
BlizzCon is only a couple of months away and the Virtual Ticket is now available for purchase. The price of the virtual pass is $39.99 and grants access to a...
On-demand bus startup Bridj has raised $4 million in funding
Bridj, the on-demand private bus startup, said Thursday that it has raised $4 million in funding to help it expand beyond Greater Boston. The Cambridge company also said that it...
Amazon is partnering with the USPS to deliver groceries to people
AmazonFresh, the grocery delivery service run by the retail giant in selected US west coast cities, has started a trial program which sees the US Postal Service shipping its items....
Hillary Clinton believes the US will become a clean energy “superpower”
Hillary Clinton predicted Thursday the United States will become the leading 21st century "superpower" in clean energy if the nation confronts the "most consequential, urgent, sweeping collection of challenges we...
Rocket Internet is merging five of its services into one e-commerce giant
Rocket Internet has made a major move ahead of its upcoming IPO in Germany after announcing that it will merge five of its global e-commerce services into one single business....
Sony’s Xperia Z3 lets you play PS4 games on your smartphone
Sony-loving PlayStation 4 owners have some fancy new toys to covet, with the announcement that the company’s freshly announced Xperia Z3, Xperia Z3 Compact, and Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact all...
Huawei has announced its new octa-core Ascend Mate7 phablet
It’s on. Well, according to Huawei at least. The Chinese manufacturer has just announced its 6-inch Ascend Mate7 to compete with the other big man on campus, the Galaxy Note...
Why does the decade-old TI-84 Plus still dominate the US market?
The TI-84 Plus graphing calculator has a 15 MHz processor, 24 kilobytes of RAM, and a 96x64 black and white screen. It has an Amazon list price of $190. The...
Lenovo’s Intel-powered Tab S8 is actually pretty good for the money
Tablet sales may be leveling off in mature markets like Europe and the US but manufacturers seem unfazed by the trend. Take Lenovo, for example. In addition to showcasing a...
Nest’s smart smoke detector is about to become a whole lot smarter
Nest is about to turn all the data its thousands of Nest Protect owners have been delivering into some tangible new features. Since launching the $99 smart home smoke and...