Sprint is trying to get more T-Mobile users to connect to its own network. Sprint Sprint has fired a shot over competitor T-Mobile’s bow. Between now and April 9, T-Mobile subscribers can walk into a Sprint store and immediately receive at least $200 in credit for any working smartphone if they switch to Sprint’s network, …
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Mega now has a new service: MegaChat. Mega The controversial Mega, a storage locker for online content, on Thursday launched MegaChat, a communication platform designed to compete with the likes of Skype. According to Mega founder Kim Dotcom, the new platform allows users to engage in end-to-end encrypted video and audio communication. MegaChat, which was announced last year but didn’t …
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Shazam Entertainment-discovery app Shazam is worth a serious sum of cash, the company revealed on Tuesday. Shazam raised $30 million on a $1 billion valuation in its latest funding round, the company announced in a blog post Tuesday. While Shazam has not revealed who provided the funding, the company’s chairman, Andrew Fisher, told Bloomberg Television in an interview on Tuesday …
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Amazon’s new line of diapers apparently left some buyers unsatisfied. Pictured here: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. CNET E-commerce giant Amazon has decided to temporarily stop selling its own brand of diapers, the company has confirmed. Amazon started selling diapers to Amazon Prime members under its Elements brand last month. But now, just seven weeks later, “customer feedback” has prompted it …
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The former home page of Silk Road 2.0 Another arrest has been made in connection with black market site Silk Road 2.0. Brian Richard Farrell, a 26-year-old man from Seattle, was arrested Tuesday for allegedly acting as a “key administrator” for Silk Road 2.0, acting US Attorney Annette Hayes announced. Farrell, who allegedly used the handle “DoctorClu” on the black …
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Twitter has acquired India-based ZipDial, as it seeks to appeal to the billions of people who are expected to come online for the first time in the next several years. ZipDial, which has been a strategic business partner with Twitter in India for the last two years, focuses on mobile users. Its service allows them to place a toll-free call …
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Sheryl Sandberg and Mark Zuckerberg, surrounded by fellow Facebook employees, cheer at the ceremonial opening bell the morning Facebook went public. Facebook A Facebook-commissioned study says the world’s largest social network is making a tsunami-sized splash on the global economy. According to the study, conducted by Deloitte, Facebook added $227 billion to the global economy and helped to support 4.5 …
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A look at smartphone shipments between 2013 and 2015. TrendForce Samsung had a somewhat rough 2014, as its global smartphone market share slipped almost 5 percent, new data from research firm TrendForce shows. According to TrendForce, Samsung continued to lead the pack in 2014, owning 28 percent of the smartphone market, but that number was down from 32.5 percent in …
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A little glue goes a long way in fooling a fingerprint scanner. Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Mobile applications that rely on biometrics — everything from fingerprint scanning to facial recognition — are set to take off in the next four years, according to new data released Tuesday from Juniper Research. The research firm predicts that in 2015 mobile users worldwide …
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Alibaba has big plans for the US. Alibaba Group China-based e-commerce giant Alibaba has a new service that’s meant to make it simpler for companies in the United States to sell their products to China’s consumers. The goal of the platform — called Alipay ePass — is to eliminate barriers to market that come from not having a physical presence …
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