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Uber is testing out two new ride-sharing services this month

Last night, Uber announced that it's going to begin testing two new ride-sharing services in a couple of American cities. The first new service is called uberCOMMUTE, and will be...

Mozilla has given up on Firefox OS-powered smartphones

The idea behind Firefox OS was to create a mobile operating system that would focus on being affordable, lightweight, and web standards-compliant. It was an admirable and ambitious idea, but not one...

Amazon is uniting every other streaming service against Netflix

Confirming those rumors we heard a couple weeks ago, Amazon is now allowing Prime users to add other streaming services to their subscription, essentially turning Prime into s streaming hub,...

Google's first tablet is being held back by Android's limitations

Microsoft managed to breathe new life into the stagnant tablet market with the Surface, proving that tablets can be used for more than just playing games and watching videos, and...

Facebook has decided to shutdown its standalone app division

Periscope and Vine proved that Twitter is perfectly capable of releasing successful standalone apps, but Facebook's many attempts to do the same haven't been quite as successful. Other than Messenger, which doesn't even...

Not even Xiaomi is safe from this American patent troll

The list of companies that Blue Spike has filed lawsuits against for allegedly infringing on its patents is too long to say with a single breath, but just know that Xiaomi is...

Streaming services account for 70% of America's broadband usage

A broadband network company by the name of Sandvine recently conducted a survey which found that streaming services now account for more than 70% of North America's broadband usage during peak...

Vevo has taken the first step towards being less reliant on YouTube

Vevo may be the most-popular music video platform in the world, but it's almost entirely reliant on YouTube for views, and by extension, advertising revenue. Obviously, no company wants to...

Netflix's original content will double by the end of 2016

I hope you like Netflix's original content, because the company intends to double the number of shows it has next year. Yesterday morning, Netflix CCO Ted Sarandos announced that his company will have...

Airbnb confirmed that it raised another $1.5 billion in funding

Airbnb may not be pulling in as much funding as Uber, but it's raising more than pretty much every other startup out there. First reported by the Wall Street Journal...

It looks like even Windows 10 can't save Microsoft's mobile business

Windows 10 was supposed to breathe new life into Microsoft's smartphone sales, but we haven't seen any evidence of that happening, and some analysts believe we never will. According to the...

The USPS will now send your physical mail to you in an email

Over the next several months, the United States Postal Service will be expanding its Informed Delivery service, which sends customers an email containing an image of the physical mail that they're...

Snapchat's publisher platform is becoming a little too crowded

A little under a year ago, there were less than a dozen publishers using Snapchat, but after seeing how useful the app's Discover platform is for tapping into the coveted millennial audience,...

Facebook is trying to figure out why certain posts go viral

Every now and then, a post that's trending or viral will make its way onto your News Feed, usually because it's interesting, but sometimes posts cheat their way onto your...

France considers restricting public Wi-Fi and Tor to combat terrorism

Often more frightening than terrorist attacks themselves are the asinine laws that politicians will propose in their wake. When the horrors of a terrorist attack are still fresh on everyone's mind,...

Australia wants to become a breeding ground for science startups

Australia is home to some of the world's most-brilliant scientists and most-innovative startups, but it's still only meeting a fraction of its potential. The country has been on the verge of...

Did Apple wait too long to enter the music streaming market?

When it comes to new markets and technologies, Apple generally likes to take things slow. Before entering new territory, the company makes sure that what it's getting into isn't just...

BMW CEO thinks Tesla is treating self-driving cars like they're apps

Self-driving cars may be the future of the automotive industry, but BMW CEO Harald Krüger thinks Google and Tesla are trying to push the technology out too quickly. According to him, these companies...

Mozilla has decided to remove advertisements from Firefox

When a company or organizations wants to make money from one of their products, but knows that charging people to use it would most-likely cause them to switch to a...

Google's laptop-tablet hybrid might be launching this week

Google hasn't put a lot of focus on its tablets in the last two years or so, but the rise of laptop-tablet hybrids has started to breathe new life into...