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Yahoo is acquiring Tomfoolery, a startup that makes software to better connect employees on the desktop and mobile, it was announced Wednesday. “We’ve reached an agreement to join Yahoo to help build the next generation of communications and community products,” Tomfoolery CEO Kakul Srivastava, a Ya
Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son and Sprint CEO Dan Hesse met with the U.S. Justice Department earlier this month to discuss a possible merger between Softbank-owned Sprint and T-Mobile, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. However, the Justice Department officials were skeptical about a poss
Samsung has reached an agreement with Carphone Warehouse to transform stores across Europe in to dedicated venues for the company’s products. The phone retailer, which has roughly 2,000 stores across Europe, has agreed to make Samsung a ‘preferred retailer’ and sell only Samsung-re
When you ask Siri or Google’s voice search a question, no matter how simple it is, they have to think about it for a second or two. As you likely know, those brief moments of tedium are spent sending your question to the mass-consciousness of supercomputers through the Internet and waiting for
EVE Online has its own economics, politics, and trade systems, built almost entirely by players in the ten years the game has been running. It also has its own wars, as huge alliances vie for control of tracts of space in the massively multiplayer online game. One such conflict came to a head yester
There’s a new 3D printer in town, and unlike other models that use plastic, rubberor even chocolate, this one prints out objects using a far tougher material: carbon fiber. The printer, named Mark One, was designed by creator Gregory Mark as a way to reduce carbon fiber manufacturing costs. Me
Samsung’s much-anticipated smartphone, the Galaxy Grand Neo, has been listed on the Samsung Jordan website, along with the handset’s specifications. The Galaxy Grand Neo has not been given a price yet, though the smartphone quite obviously falls into the mid-range segment based on the sp
Dell’s been involved in serious networking for years, but never quite like this. The Austin, TX PC and server giant is partnering up with Cumulus Networks to deliver Linux-based, bare-metal networking devices. Cumulus Networks has its own Linux distribution, Cumulus Linux. This Linux is design
Who would have thought 20 years ago that one day down the road, one’s favorite video game could eventually end up being streamed from a server somewhere halfway across the world? I certainly did not see this coming, and always figured out that cartridges and CDs were the next best thing since sliced
While privacy advocates may see Lavabit as bravely defending U.S. privacy rights in the online world, federal judges hearing its appeal of contempt-of-court charges seem to regard the now defunct encrypted email service as just being tardy in complying with government court orders. In oral arguments
Chinese capital city Beijing has unveiled a new preferential policy for electric cars that includes a purchase subsidy ranging from $10,400 – $17,800. The release of the policy, first spotted by Tech in Asia, is notable because the subsidies will only go to domestic firms, which means Tesla is left
Telerik has long made a wide range of tools for developers, ranging from the Kendo UI jQuery framework to the cross-platform development service Icenium and numerous related backend services for mobile and desktop apps. Today, the company is combining all of these tools under the “Telerik Platform”
