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The cable companies have been far more excited about selling broadband than selling video for a long time now. One cable exec, Cablevision CEO Jimmy Dolan, even suggested that his company might get out of the video business altogether. Why? Because while broadband is a high-margin, low-competition b
Fans of Amazon e-reader the Kindle Paperwhite probably won’t be getting a device update in the near future, but the company is upgrading the existing model. Amazon decided to upgrade the Paperwhite from 2GB of storage to 4GB, according to The Digital Reader, which first spotted the spec change. For
As more and more hardware these days end up with the ”smart” prefix in their naming convention, it is only a matter of time before every other smart device will be “talking” to one another. Samsung might have cast an eye on the smart house, which could be why they decided to shell out $200 […
Ah, the sharing economy. You can share rides to the office. You can shareapartments. You can even share boats. What you can’t share, though, is your airplane, should you be lucky enough to own one. TechCrunch reports that, per an FAA ruling released today, the new rules prohibit pilots “
Intel and SMS Audio have teamed up to create a new category of “fitness wearables,” or smart headphones with sensors that can measure your heart rate. The audio headphones will carry the lifestyle brand of entertainer Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. The wearables combine technology, fitness metrics, and f
Singapore’s personal data watchdog is investigating cellphone maker Xiaomi following a user’s complaint that the company is giving out user data to telephone marketers. The user claims he received marketing calls from overseas after acquiring the phone, according to the Wall Street Journal. Earlier
With the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 due to land in a few weeks’ time at the IFA trade show in Berlin, Germany, the anticipation surrounding it is high. The leaks have been pouring out in recent days, including our first look at the handset, and retailers are getting in on the act now. Erafone, an [
It may be simple for brands to create their own web storefronts today, but doing the same for mobile is a far more difficult task. With that challenge in mind, David Tisch, an angel investor at Box Group and former TechStars NY managing director, set out to create Spring, a mobile marketplace that g
Yahoo Inc. is relaunching its small business e-commerce product with Yahoo Stores, which aims to help anyone sell anything online. The offering comes as other digital marketplace companies also jockey for users. Yahoo Small Business head Amit Kumar told me that the process allows people to build a s
Networking platform and event app Bizzabo has raised $2.5 million from existing and new investors including Kaedan Capital, AfterDox, super angel Gigi Levy and new investors OurCrowd and Massa Group. Bizzabo has raised $4 million to date. The new funding will allow the company to bring new functiona
What a ride it has been for Lenovo of late. Last quarter, the company unseated HP to sell the most computers globally and on Thursday the company said it’s selling even more mobile devices helped largely by a doubling of phone sales in the last three months. Alongside the 14.5 million PCs Lenovo mov
Networking hardware giant Cisco Systems is slimming down. Again. After another quarter of pallid growth, the company will cut up to 6,000 employees, or about 8 percent of its worldwide workforce in its current first fiscal 2015 quarter. The company forecast flat growth for the upcoming quarter. CEO
