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Companies have been trying to convince users that wearable technology is as essential to your life as your smartphone but few people actually see them as anything but consumer fitness devices. However, Intel thinks that wearables will have a much larger role to play in the enterprise in the near fut
Chegg made more than $200 million last year by renting out printed textbooks to college students but the company’s CEO wants to abandon this clearly lucrative business in favor of a digital model. Inspired by companies like Adobe and Netflix, CEO Dan Rosensweig wants to vastly improve the comp
Roadie is a startup that wants to take on the likes of FedEx and UPS using the power of crowd-sourced shipping. However, there are some safety issues with picking up packages from a strangers house which is why the startup has found an unlikely partner to help provide a safe, neutral pickup area for
Remember back when everyone thought Evan Spiegel was insane for turning down Facebook’s $3 billion offer to acquire Snapchat? Well, I’m sure Spiegel is laughing as he counts the money that Snapchat is reportedly raising right now that will value the company at a whopping $19 billion. Con
The biggest name in PC gaming is delving into the world of virtual reality. Valve has announced that it will be bringing some homemade hardware to the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco next week, including the new Steam Controller that has been delayed numerous times, some new living room
As promised, Apple has unveiled a collection of multi-ethnic that will become available sometime in the near future. Whereas emojis have generally been neutral in pretty much everything, from race to sexuality, Apple is spicing things up with this new update and will even be bringing families with s
It’s been almost a year and a half since it was revealed that the NSA installed backdoors into several common cryptography technologies so that the government could decrypt communications but the NSA is still taking heat. Yahoo is the most recent company to make cleat its dislike of the NSA
Companies are always looking to track your location in order to serve you more relevant ads. You can combat this with in-app settings or privacy-centric software but a company by the name of Adnear is experimenting with a tracking method that you can’t combat: drones. These drones will fly thr
Passenger safety is a major concern for Uber ever, particularly in India where the company came under heavy fire after a passenger was raped by an Uber driver. While the company released a built-in panic button for its app, it’s taking things a step further by partnering with an app called Saf
The fact that you have to charge your smartphone every day, or multiple times a day for power users, is an annoying chore that pretty much everyone could live without. Many smartphones have a strong enough battery to last you the day, but many don’t, which is why an Israeli startup by the name
Autonomous vehicles are expected to start hitting the road within the next decade or so and automakers are racing to be among the first to release their own self-driving cars. One such company is Volvo which announced last week that it will begin public testing of its own autonomous vehicle with 100
For those of you who aren’t aware, Buzzfeed is a ridiculously popular Internet media company that reports on a variety of topics and is known for its use of viral content. Now the website wants to begin a serious expansion into the world of tech news by building a team of Silicon Valley report
