Google is buying the crowdsourced mapping app developer Waze, in a move geared toward adding more real-time navigation tools to its own Maps software, the company announced Tuesday. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, though early ...
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After remaining quiet on the hardware front for years, Amazon.com's China business has finally brought the company's Kindle tablet and Kindle e-reader to the country. On Friday, both the Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Paperwhite went on sale ...
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A Moscow-based luxury taxi start-up is hoping to expand beyond Russia, targeting London as its next destination in a determined, technology-driven business plan. Wheely already operates a fleet of Mercedes around Russia's capital, ...
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Internet giant Google is closing in on Waze, an Israeli-based mobile app company that offers a free social GPS application featuring turn-by-turn navigation. Facebook and Yahoo in its bid to acquire the company, with an all-cash offer, ...
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France-based Store Electronic Systems (SES) has selected Identive’s near field communication (NFC) tags to power electronic shelf labels allowing consumers to access information on product pricing, composition, origin and ...
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Yes, now lightbulbs can glow red when your squeeze arrives The Philips Hue lightbulbs are the Internet of Things made real: multicoloured light bulbs with network connectivity and cloud control, with only the outrageous price preventing ...
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Facebook is reportedly pulling out of acquisition negotiations with mobile app provider Waze, opening the door for a Google buy. Citing unnamed sources,All Things D reported today that talks between Facebook and crowd-sourced mapping app ...
Wal-Mart plans to use big data about a customer's usual shopping to automatically create shopping lists for them on its mobile app. That's one of the tools the world's largest retailer plans to use to improve the in-store shopping ...
Tags: Wal-Mart, Shopping Lists, Mobile App
Lyft, the ridesharing service known for its fleet of pink mustache-festooned cars, is eyeing international expansion supported by its biggest funding round yet. The company will be looking at entering new markets, including overseas, ...
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Adobe has acquired Thumb Labs, a small mobile app agency, as part of its broader push to give its new cloud-enabled software offerings a more social flavor. Thumb Labs, based in New York, posted a message on its website and Twitter feed ...
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The 24th edition of LIGHTFAIR® International (LFI®) set new all-time attendance and trade show records for its five-day run in Philadelphia April 21-25, according to Jeffrey L. Portman, Sr., president and chief operating officer of ...
Bucking the BYOD trend, Canadian Tire is issuing BlackBerry Q10 and Z10 smartphones to its corporate employees. An overwhelming majority of the Toronto-based company's 3,000 corporate users requested the Q10, which features a physical ...
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Google is facing some tough questions from Congress over the privacy concerns raised by Glass, its fledgling augmented reality system for recording and receiving information on the fly. But on the ground at the company's I/O conference for ...
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Active in Time Limited (AiT) makers of the Splashpath Swimming App for iOS have partnered with Speedo International Ltd, the global swimwear brand to launch a new mobile app for swimming fans. Splashpath began over two years ago when Dan ...
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Today at Google I/O, Magisto, the automatic video editing solution that turns everyday videos and photos into movie magic, announced several new points of integration with Google, including launching on Google Chrome's Packaged App ...
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