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There were plenty of big companies wanting to take Imgur under their wing, but the top image hosting site ended up heading to Yahoo for support. Imgur, the image hosting site, receives 100 million monthly unique visitors, it announced last month. That’s big. The company still isn’t, though — tiny an
These statistics go out the door if you enter a local coffee shop, of course. One in three Americans now owns a tablet, or 35 percent of the population aged 16 and older. At the same time, one in four US citizens at least 16-years-old now owns an e-reader. Mixing up these two device types, […
The days of being frugal with cell phone minutes are pretty much behind us, but data is a whole other topic. People protect their bandwidth tooth and nail. Here’s an interesting perspective on why sharing might make a ton of sense. Internet access for all would benefit society at large; so muc
It’s important to have a proper vision of the future when building a company or planning a project, but sometimes you have to look beyond the map in order to see the big picture. There’s a reason Vanity Fair covered Jay-Z. He went far beyond the label of recording artist, blew past the concept
There are two possible outcomes in the near future. Either Silk Road and now Black Market Reloaded are harbingers to a successful crackdown of the bad worlds on the web, or they’re simply going to drive it all deeper into the dark corners of the internet. Black Market Reloaded, one of the most
If Edward Snowden thinks there’s a chance that he could be caught by the US government, he could face even more serious charges for bringing files into Russia than the ones he currently faces. For this reason, it’s hard to know whether or not he’s sincere in his claims that the NSA
The government shutdown has brought the nefarious acts of the NSA out of the spotlight, but it will return. When it does, there’s a villain that the American people can point their people at, but is he really the one who’s to blame? After eight years manning the Bush and Obama administra
Android has always had an edge on the custom business app realm… until now. When it comes to supporting mobile devices, businesses tend to allow both iOS and Android devices. The latest report from Good Technology shows a slight gain sequentially for iOS, which accounted for 72 percent of devi
Just like a big, rich kid, Elon Musk does exactly what he wants. His latest endeavor – building a car that operates under water. When the car-turned-submarine from the 007 classic “The Spy Who Loved Me” was sold at auction in September for nearly a million dollars, the identity of
Apple has claimed that their iMessage encryption cannot be broken, but researchers are saying otherwise. A close look at Apple’s iMessage system shows the company could easily intercept communications on the service despite its assurances to the contrary, researchers claimed Thursday at a security c
Someone needs to buy BlackBerry, if only to make the news trend for the failing mobile company change. Lenovo Group Ltd. is actively considering a bid for all of BlackBerry Ltd., according to people familiar with the matter. The Chinese personal-computer and smartphone maker has signed a “nond
The horrifying feeling that you get when you see that you have a virus just got more personal with the latest wave of malware. Malware that takes computers hostage until users pay a ransom is getting meaner, and thanks to the growing prevalence of Bitcoin and other digital payment systems, it’
