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Google and Facebook still dominate tracking on the web

By Russell Brandom 4

Charter officially owns Time Warner Cable, creating the US's second largest cable provider

By Jacob Kastrenakes 13

Apple announces app development accelerator in Bangalore, India

By Sam Byford 11

New rules allow anyone to invest up to $2,000 a year in startups

Ben Popper May 16, 2016 03:44 pm05.16.2016 6

Way back in 2012, Barack Obama signed the JOBS Act into law. Part of the legislation was aimed at making it easier for average people to invest in startups, potentially reaping the rewards on the next...

Who wants to be a VC?

Charter gets final approval to buy Time Warner Cable

Adi Robertson May 12, 2016 02:54 pm05.12.2016 5

Charter Communications has gotten the last stamp of approval it needs to acquire Time Warner Cable, creating the nation's second-largest cable provider. Bloomberg reported this afternoon that the...

Deal expected to close next week

Trump: Bezos and Amazon have 'a huge antitrust problem'

Vlad Savov May 13, 2016 04:02 am05.13.2016 56

Donald Trump, widely known for playing a successful businessman on TV, has some pointed business advice for Amazon: beware the regulator. Now the presumptive nominee to become the Republican party's...

Trump beef

A long talk with Facebook about its role in journalism

Casey Newton May 12, 2016 01:00 pm05.12.2016

A year ago today, Facebook introduced Instant Articles — a quick-loading news format, hosted on Facebook’s own servers, that opens inside the company’s flagship app up to 10 times faster than the mobile...

With its eyes on VR and indoor mapping, Google will expand Project Tango next week

By Ben Popper

Western Digital officially closes SanDisk acquisition

By James Vincent 4

Huawei sees ample business opportunity in our dystopian future

Vlad Savov May 11, 2016 09:02 am05.11.2016 3

Kevin Ho, president of Huawei's handset business, is clearly a man of fine judgment, having recently started following me on Twitter. He also appears to be a part-time futurist, as evidenced by his...

Turning cyborg immortality and robot apocalypse prevention into big business

Staples and Office Depot are calling off their merger

Jacob Kastrenakes May 10, 2016 07:34 pm05.10.2016 14

Staples' attempted acquisition of Office Depot is done for. The two companies announced today that they would put an end to their merger agreement, following a federal judge's decision to side with the...

This is Staples' second failed Office Depot merger

Uber reaches a deal with major New York drivers' union

Ben Popper May 10, 2016 11:55 am05.10.2016

Uber and the unions representing drivers have been at odds for years. But today the ride-hailing giant announced it has struck a five-year deal with the Independent Drivers Guild — one of the more...

Brought to you by the letter 'U'

Jimmyjane took vibrators from sleazy to chic — now, can it take them mainstream?

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Amazon's drone program acquires a team of Europe's top computer vision experts

Ben Popper May 10, 2016 10:32 am05.10.2016

The most important attribute in today's cutting-edge drones is the ability to see and understand the world so that the drone can safely navigate to its destination and around obstacles. Last week The Verge...

I see you down there

The creators of Siri just showed off their next AI assistant, Viv, and it's incredible

Ben Popper May 9, 2016 11:39 am05.09.2016

Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheyer created the artificial intelligence behind Siri, Apple's iconic digital assistant, and one of the first modern apps to capably handle natural language queries on a smartphone....

One bot to rule them all

FCC approves Charter acquisition of Time Warner Cable

Russell Brandom May 6, 2016 03:52 pm05.06.2016 12

The Federal Communications Commission has officially approved Charter's acquisition of Time Warner Cable, according to a statement issued by the FCC. Together, the companies will constitute the s...

Charter will be the second largest cable company in America

YouTube says its primetime audience is bigger than the top 10 TV shows combined

Ben Popper May 6, 2016 02:44 pm05.06.2016

For the last three years, YouTube has put on a series of increasingly extravagant parties meant to convince advertisers that the video platform is the best place to spend their marketing dollars. The...

Now watch me whip

Tim Cook reportedly traveling to China following closure of Apple's online stores

James Vincent May 6, 2016 06:46 am05.06.2016 28

Apple CEO Tim Cook is heading to China this month, according to a report from Reuters, to meet with "high-level government officials" including those in charge of "propaganda." Such a visit would be...

iBooks and iTunes Movies were closed last month
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