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Chicken Nugget Tweet Breaks Twitter Record
A tweet from a teenager asking a US fast food chain for a year’s supply of chicken nuggets has become the most...
Amazon’s New Alexa Speaker Has A Screen Too
Amazon on Tuesday unveiled the latest member of its family of devices powered by its Alexa digital assistant -- this...
Amazon Leads Surging Connected Speakers Market
Amazon has grabbed more than two-thirds of the fast-growing market in the US for connected speakers with its family of...
Portrait of the Artist As A Gunshot Victim
Having yourself shot, locked up, crucified, dangled naked from a rope, kicked down stairs or clamped to the floor near...
Google Coughs Up 306 Million Euros In Italy Tax Settlement
Google said Thursday that it would pay 306 million euros ($334 million) to settle a tax dispute in Italy, where it was...
Verizon Wins Streaming Rights For NFL London Game
US telecom giant Verizon has won the right to stream a National Football League game from London in September,...
Twitter, Bloomberg Team Up For Streaming News Channel
Twitter is launching a 24-hour streaming news channel in partnership with the Bloomberg news agency, in a major...
Google CEO Made Nearly $200 Million Last Year
Google CEO Sundar Pichai received nearly $199.7 million in compensation last year, double the amount he made in 2015,...
US Regulator Vows To Roll Back ‘net Neutrality’ Rules
A top US regulatory official on Wednesday unveiled plans to roll back so-called "net neutrality" rules that require...
Beyonce Outsold Drake In 2016
Until today, we thought Drake's Views was the best-selling album of 2016, but new music industry figures suggest...
Trump-Era ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Presages Totalitarian Future
Decades after the release of "The Handmaid's Tale," Margaret Atwood's dystopian sci-fi fable and foundational feminist...
Stores Are Closing At An Epic Pace
This week it was Bebe. Last month it was Staples. In February it was JCPenney. Stores are closing at an epic pace. In...
Britain Loses 1bn Pounds Through VAT Fraud, Error By Amazon, EBay Sellers
Britain is losing up to 1 billion pounds a year in value added tax (VAT) because of fraud or error by sellers using...
Katy Perry Trolled By Indians For Goddess Kali Post On Instagram
Pop star Katy Perry is facing the wrath of Indians online after uploading an image of the Hindu goddess Kali with the...
Tech Firms Urge Court To Toss Trump Travel Ban
Scores of technology firms including Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft joined a legal filing urging a judge to...
Amazon Aims For India As Flipkart Holds On To Market Top Spot For Now
With 100 million new internet users every year, Amazon is betting big on India, but a major new investment in homegrown...
Amazon, Flipkart Battle In India For E-Commerce’s ‘last Frontier’
With 100 million new internet users every year, Amazon is betting big on India, but a major new investment in homegrown...
‘Skinny Bundles’ Step Up Challenge To US Big Cable
For years, US cable operators got rich by offering fat "bundles" of hundreds of channels and raising prices regularly...
Apple Eyes Backing Hon Hai Bid For Toshiba Chip Unit
Tech giant Apple is considering backing Hon Hai's multi-billion dollar bid for Toshiba's lucrative memory chip...