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Android Software Creator Unveils ‘Essential’ Phone

A creator of the Android software powering most of the world's smartphones stepped into the competitive hardware market...

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Snapchat Faces Harsh Reality Check After Earnings Miss

Snapchat's hopes to become the next big social media platform hit a brutal reality check with the first earnings report...

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What To Do With $256 Bn Cash Pile

It is a sign of Apple's success but also a thorny problem: its cash stockpile has hit a staggering $256.8 billion,...

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Sports Broadcasting Giant ESPN Forced To Reinvent Itself

ESPN, the giant of American sports television channels, has been losing subscribers by the millions while being...

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Twitter Gets Lift From Uptick In User Numbers

Twitter shares surged Wednesday after its quarterly update showed improving growth in user numbers, offsetting concerns...

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Twitter Gets Lift From Uptick In User Numbers

Twitter shares shot higher Wednesday after its quarterly update showed improving growth in user numbers, offsetting...

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Facebook Pushes To Augment Reality Through Smartphones

Facebook on Tuesday launched a mission to make smartphone cameras windows to augmented reality, focusing on what people...

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Samsung Eyes Rebound With Galaxy S8 Phones, Virtual Assistant

Samsung on Wednesday unveiled its new Galaxy S8 smartphones, incorporating the virtual assistant Bixby, as the market...

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Twitter Eyes Paid ‘premium’ Service For Power Users

Twitter has begun surveying members on a paid subscription service that would give frequent users more tools for using...

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Twitter Eyes Paid ‘premium’ Service For Power Users

Twitter has begun surveying members on a paid subscription service that would give frequent users more tools for using...

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Google Boycott Could See the End of Automated Ad Placement

The feud sparked by Google's failure to remove extremist content from its site Youtube could lead to the end of...

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Google Ad Boycott Could Aim Ire At Ad-Serving Software

Google's money-making foundation is strong enough to endure a current boycott by advertisers, but the movement could...

International

IPhone 7 Helps US Giant Return To Growth

A continued slowdown in iPhone sales - which account for two thirds of income - led to Apple reporting a drop in annual...

International

Why Is It Doing So Well Despite Galaxy Note 7 Fiasco?

Samsung Electronics saw profits surge 50% in the last three months of 2016, despite the Note 7 phone fiasco. The 9.2...

International

Google Expected To Unveil New Phones At San Francisco Event

Alphabet Inc's Google is expected to unveil new smartphones at an event on Tuesday, the company's latest effort to sell...

International

Apple Says Initial Quantities of IPhone 7 Plus Sold Out

Initial quantities of the iPhone 7 Plus have sold out globally as Apple Inc prepares to roll out its new gadget in...