Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has identified new products and mobile investments as among several strategies aimed at keeping the company relevant as it tries to compete against the likes of Google and Facebook. On Monday, Mayer highlighted ...
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer says the company plans on a big comeback in the Internet search business, which means directly taking on industry giant Google. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last ...
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New legislation introduced by a bipartisan group of 10 U.S. senators would nearly double the number of H-1B visas that companies can get each year to hire foreign high-skill workers, including technology employees. The Immigration ...
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Microsoft will begin selling worldwide on Tuesday the new consumer version of the Office suite, making it available both via a subscription model and perpetual licenses. Consumers have historically bought Office in the traditional way, ...
Could the personal healthcare and fitness market be an important target for BlackBerry's 4G smart phone, the BlackBerry 10? The inclusion of Bluetooth Smart and NFC follows the trend we have seen from other smartphone suppliers such as ...
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Australian subscribers will pay $119 per year for what Microsoft calls its Office 365 Home Premium - more than US subscribers who will pay $US100 per year. Its release comes six months after Microsoft previewed the new-look Office, which ...
Twinword, Inc. has unveiled its new level testing service, called "Levelpump". Levelpump compares your knowledge of vocabulary against a database of associated words in order to assign you to the proper English vocabulary level. SEOUL, ...
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Google today announced it would again host its Pwnium hacking contest at a March security conference, but boosted the maximum amount it will pay to $3.14 million and changed the target to its browser-based operating system, Chrome OS. ...
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Microsoft waived its right to a hearing before European antitrust regulators to further answer charges that it failed to offer customers a browser choice screen, according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ...
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Google's charitable arm, its Google Giving fund, is providing funding for the Raspberry Pi Foundation. The company's Executive Chairman, Eric Schmidt, has been visiting a Cambridge school where he and Raspberry Pi creator Eben Upton have ...
Google has published detailed maps of North Korea, based on information entered by users via its online Map Maker tool. The maps now include details about the ultra-secretive nation including highways and smaller roads, country borders, ...
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Acer’s still hoping for Windows 8 sales to take off, but in the meantime, the company has been pleasantly surprised with sales of its Chromebooks. Since November, Chromebooks have accounted for 5 percent to 10 percent of ...
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It’s finally go time at Research In Motion. After delays that have tested the resolve of even its most enthusiastic customers, the Canadian company will finally launch its BlackBerry 10 OS on Wednesday and the stakes couldn’t be ...
Twitter has released new numbers showing that the social network complied with government data requests 69 percent of the time in the U.S., as government requests for user information worldwide continue to rise. The total number of ...
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Is it possible to gift a friend a cup of coffee or massage by sending a token to their digital wallet? What if you're a manager who would like to reward 10 staff with a free drink token for working long hours. Or you're a retailer who ...
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