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Apps & Software
Google Offers $15 for App Referral Sign Ups
Google is desperate to get businesses to use its apps. It has gone to a great length to add customers. Under a new plan, it will pay $15 to people who refer…
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Technology
Himax Technologies: Is Now the Time to Buy In?
ThinkstockShares of Himax Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: HIMX) are on a tear Monday, up more than 10% and setting a new 52-week high in the process. And share volume is nearly double the…
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Apps & Software
Google Offers Bounty for New Signups at Google Apps
On its official enterprise blog site, Google announced Monday that it is kicking off a new referral program for its online office and productivity programs, Google Apps. Current users can receive $15…
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Apps & Software
Privacy Group Challenges Facebook’s Acquisition of WhatsApp
Public interest advocacy group Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a complaint on Thursday with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) opposing the recent $19 billion acquisition of messaging service WhatsApp by…
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Apps & Software
Windows 8.1 Available Early
Microsoft Windows 8.1, which is not supposed to be available until later this year, can be downloaded now, if PC owners know a very few tricks. It is unusual that such an…
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Consumer Electronics
Intel Makes the Next Move in Smartwatches
Intel has made the latest move in wearables by reportedly acquiring smartwatch maker Basis Science. The details were not revealed, but it is believed to have cost Intel between $100 million and…
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Telecom & Wireless
Three Stocks That Could Win Big in the Changing Bandwidth Landscape
In a new report, the telecom service analysts at Cowen highlighted three stocks likely to benefit in the huge broadband and fiber infrastructure build-out that is underway.
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Technology
Facebook, Google in a Space Race?
Facebook is reportedly in discussions to acquire start-up drone maker Titan Aerospace. Facebook would use the drones to provide Internet access to areas of the world that are currently not connected.
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Apps & Software
Android Crushes Apple in Global Tablet Sales
Consumer electronics companies sold 195 million tablets last year. Unfortunately for Apple, which virtually invented the category, the share its iOS had of the global market dropped. Apple is desperate for the…
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Apps & Software
Google Allows Users to Search Menus
Wikimedia CommonsAmong the thousand of products and services Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) offers free to users, it would be hard to imagine a new one, or, at least one which could draw a…
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Cars and Drivers
Apple Taking the Driver’s Seat
Ferrari SpASmart cars are the next “next big thing,” and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) plans to dominate the space just as it has dominated MP3 players, smartphones, and tablets. At the Geneva…
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Consumer Electronics
Apple Beats Back Patent Case in German Court
A regional court in Mannheim, Germany, dismissed a $2 billion claim against Apple made by IPCom, a Germany-based patent-owning company. The dismissal was made without comments.
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Investing
The Five Stocks That Could Cause the S&P to Fall
Some experts believe the S&P 500 has risen too much, because the increase has little support from the general economy and corporate earnings. A sudden weakness of a few large cap stocks…
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Technology
Is Google Worth as Much as Exxon?
Wikimedia CommonsWe’re about to see another change near the top of the rankings of the most valuable publicly traded U.S. companies. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) looks secure for a while at number…
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Military
Boeing Black Smartphone: Secret, Secure, Self-Destructing(!)
ThinkstockThe Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) has filed documents with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a smartphone it calls the Boeing Black and that the company is developing as a means of…