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Intel will be rolling out its own pop-up stores starting later this month

Intel will be rolling out its own pop-up stores for the holidays, the first of which will be opening in New York. The stores will only remain open during the holiday...

Android accounts for 80% of all smartphone sales, half of which are from China

Android accounted for 81.9% of all smartphone shipments in the last quarter thanks to massive sales in China. China accounted for 41%, or half, of all Android sales in the...

Apple is spending billions to acquire new production line tech

In order to beat out Samsung, Apple is spending billions to acquire new production line tech. The company has spent over $10 on robots, lasers, and a number of exclusive machinery deals....

Mozilla isn’t planning to release its Firefox smartphone in the U.S.

Mozilla executive Mitchell Baker has admitted that the company has no plans to release its Firefox smartphone in the U.S. The company will instead be focusing on markets in developing nations...

Sprint waives fees for calls and messages to the Philippines from the U.S.

In an effort to help those who have suffered from Typhoon Haiyan, Sprint has decided to waive all fees for calls and messages to the Philippines from the United States....

Google and KKR invest $400 million into six solar plants

Google is once again investing in renewable sources, having already invested over $1 billion in renewable energy. The company has joined forces with KKR, a global investment firm, to acquired six solar...

Facebook app creates new status updates for you and posts them

A new Facebook app for the laziest of the lazy called What Would I Say digs through your post history and generates new status updates for you based on your previous posts....

Google is becoming Apple’s biggest competitor in the education market

Google has launched Google Play for Education, an extension of Google Play that is designed specifically for K-12 schools. The new tool provides educational apps, videos, and books for teachers and...

Snapchat turned down a $3 billion acquisition offer from Facebook

Snapchat Co-Founder and CEO Evan Spiegel has said that the company turned down Facebook's$3 billion acquisition offer because it wanted to wait a few months so that growth in its user base will...

Yahoo is getting ready to sell off some domains that it has been keeping but never used

Yahoo is getting ready to sell 29 highly specific domains for anywhere from $1,000 to $1.5 million each. This is a great opportunity for people interested in buying sandwich.com, crackers.com,...

Spin Master releases new robotic dog for children

Spin Master has released a new $99 robotic canine companion for children. The company claims that the dog is “most technologically advanced robotic dog ever made” and, though it falls somewhat...

New update for YouTube Capture on iOS adds clip splicing and iTunes soundtracking

YouTube capture is a tool for YouTube content creators that lets them quickly and easily share videos of any length with their subscribers on an Apple mobile device. The latest...

Facebook enables students to gain college credits for open source contributions

Open Academy is a new program launched by Facebook that sets up a special class where students get college credit for contributing to open source projects. Facebook's pnew program sets up...

Modular smartphones may soon become a reality

The ZTE Corporation, a Chinese  telecommunications company, has a new design concept for a modular smartphone they call the Eco-Mobius. The Eco-Mobius will allow users to replace and upgrade any piece of hardware...

Electrically charged seawater could help regrow the shrinking number of oyster reefs

Researchers at Texas A&M Corpus Christi have found a way to speed up the growth of oyster reefs in the Gulf of Mexico. Oyster reefs are very important to certain...

How the Finns have turned Helsinki into a hub for gaming startups

The Finnish government’s tech funding agency, Tekes,  injects more than €500 million ($671 million) into research and development, about 27% of which goes directly into startups. This is part of...

Amazon expands its cloud services with two new Web Services tools

Amazon is launching two new Web Services products that will expand the company's cloud services. The tools will allow users to stream apps, games, and even desktops from the cloud. The...

Pay-TV companies losing tens of thousands of subscribers as more customers cut the cord

The pay-TV industry, which includes cable, satellite and phone companies offering video service, lost 113,000 subscribers during the third quarter making this year the industry's worst 12-month stretch ever. This year will...

Home Depot is offering trade-in discounts on LED Christmas lights

Home Depot is offering discounts on LED Christmas lights to customers who trade in their old lights. LED lights consume a lot less power than regular lights, making them very...

Facebook received 8,500 requests from the E.U. during the first half of this year

European legislators who had convened at a hearing in Brussels to learn more about ongoing U.S. digital dragnet operations were instead treated to news of their own governments’ snooping habits. According to Facebook...