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Huawei took to the public today and announced their new Ascend P6 smartphone, which aims to be the thinnest smartphone in town. However, the company is making news in other respects, with the possibility that the Chinese-based company is considering acquiring Nokia, according to Huawei’s chief Richard Yu. Speaking with the Financial Times, Yu says
Amazon recently picked Alpha House as one of its new original series coming to the company’s Instant Video streaming service. However, unlike Netflix, Amazon won’t be releasing the entire season all at once. It’s not certain what release model Amazon will use, but the company has said that it will indeed be a “different model.”
Making this the second big departure for Tumblr in just a few weeks, the company’s media director Mark Coatney (one of the initial employees at Tumblr) has announced that he’s resigning from his role at Tumblr. He didn’t say what his future plans were, other than that he has “a hungry baby to feed,” but
On June 11, Google made public a letter it sent to the Attorney General and the FBI requesting permission to include FISA and similar data requests in it Transparency Report. A couple days later, Facebook and Microsoft revealed aggregated government data request numbers, followed soon after by other companies. Now Yahoo! has revealed its own
An aircraft engine’s brackets need to be strong and firm, but due to the
heavy metal materials commonly used to make these parts, they are a bit
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There are some industries where getting a handful of marketshare is an uphill battle, with the world of smartphones being one such example. That hasn’t stopped HTC‘s former header of sales Michael Coombes, and HTC’s former marketing head in the United Kingdom, Jame Atkins, from launching their own smartphone-centric startup, Kazam. The business aims to
There’s been a lot of talk and controversy over used games recently. They’ve been a huge factor in the gaming industry, and frugal gamers rely on used games in order to fulfill their entertainment needs. However, many people have come forward and said that if games were actually good, there would be less of them
Last week, we saw a lot of new games jump into the limelight for both the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4, but one thing that wasn’t mentioned was the price of these games. Gamers were left worried that these next-generation titles would see yet another price bump up to $69.99. However, it seems Microsoft
Earlier this week, companies began to seek permission to release the number of government data requests it receives, something that was kicked off by Google with a letter it made public on one of its blogs. It has only been a couple days, but permission has been granted, and both Facebook and Microsoft have posted
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