Mary Meeker, at the 2015 Code Conference, for the past two decades has offered insights on the direction of technology in her annual reports. Asa Mathat for Recode Messaging apps will likely take over our mobile lives, that is if they haven’t already. That’s one of the insights from venture capitalist Mary Meeker’s annual report …
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A Time Warner Cable truck in Brooklyn last year. The cable giant now has a new suitor, Charter Communications, after its deal with Comcast fell apart. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Charter and Time Warner Cable want US regulators to know one simple thing: This time it’s different. Just a month after government concerns scuttled Comcast’s $45.2 billion bid for TWC, Charter …
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At Elemental Path’s office with co-founder JP Benini and a prototype of his company’s talking dinosaur. Sarah Tew/CNET Sitting in his company’s small Midtown Manhattan office, JP Benini speaks casually into his smartphone. “Hello!” Suddenly, a fluorescent-green plastic dinosaur sitting on the table in front of him springs to life. “Hi JP, what’s up?” it says in a gravelly cartoonish …
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The future of eBay may be eBay. eBay Amazon Prime may be getting a little more competition. Online retailer eBay plans to test a new buyer loyalty program in Germany called eBay+, starting in the second half of this year. In exchange for an annual membership fee, buyers will get new perks, including fast, free shipping and returns. EBay is …
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Amazon’s Prime Now is planning to expand its coverage area for groceries and add more stores. Amazon Amazon is working with a handful of stores in Manhattan to expand its one-hour delivery service to include pasta salads, cookie sandwiches and rotisserie chickens. The e-commerce giant said its Prime Now speedy-delivery service — which offers thousands of items from paper towels …
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An image of the updated StubHub app, which will include new artist pages. StubHub StubHub wants to get to know you better. The company, which provides a secondary marketplace for fans and venues to buy and sell tickets to Broadway shows, football games and concerts, shook up its mobile app Wednesday to offer more personalization features so it can recommend …
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ARM’s Simon Segars, left, and Unicef’s Erica Kochi in New York on Tuesday. Kochi holds Literacy Bridge’s listening device — a product both Unicef and ARM are supporting — which is used in Ghana to provide health and education information. Ben Fox Rubin/CNET NEW YORK — No one today would call a smartwatch vital to someone’s life. There’s an effort …
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Asus Chairman Jonney Shih onstage at the company’s ZenFone 2 event Monday. Sarah Tew/CNET NEW YORK — You may know Asus from its laptop business, but when it comes to smartphones in the US, it’s strictly, “Asus who?” Asus is the world’s fifth-largest PC manufacturer, but wants to expand its presence in the faster-growing mobile business, where it has a …
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PayPal neither confirmed nor denied wrongdoing in its settlement with the consumer watchdog. Getty Images The US consumer finance watchdog has ordered PayPal to pay $25 million in refunds and fines, stemming from the regulator’s claims the payment company illegally signed up users for PayPal Credit, its online credit service. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Tuesday PayPal deceptively advertised …
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A worker registers incoming goods at an Amazon logistics center in Germany. Third-party merchants may be able to skip this step and ship directly to customers. Getty Images Amazon already offers more than 20 million items for free, two-day shipping under its $99-per-year Prime membership. The number of eligible items may be increasing, perhaps substantially. The e-commerce giant has been …
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