Best Buy customers can now pay for good and services with Apple Pay. BEST BUY Best Buy shoppers can now use Apple Pay to complete purchases made through the electronics retailer’s app, a coup of sorts for Apple in the intense mobile-payments business. For now, Apple Pay transactions are limited to Best Buy’s app, but …
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Nokia calls reports it will resume smartphone manufacturing false. SARI GUSTAFSSON/AFP/Getty Images Nokia Technologies said Sunday it has no plans to resume smartphone manufacturing, denying recent reports it would return to a business it famously abandoned not so long ago. “Nokia notes recent news reports claiming the company communicated an intention to manufacture consumer handsets out of a R&D facility …
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Walk in and walk out with your Apple Watch, no preorder necessary. Maxfield If you want an Apple Watch in your hands on Friday, and you didn’t preorder one, don’t bother lining up at an Apple Store. Instead you’ll need to head to one of a handful of luxury boutiques around the world — and soon, apparently. Apple began taking …
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Yahoo’s search partnership allows either company to terminate the deal. Yahoo Yahoo’s recently renewed search pact with Microsoft includes a termination clause that allows either company to walk away from their years-long partnership. The clause, part of an amended search partnership announced last week between the two companies, allows either company to terminate the arrangement at any time after October …
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Etsy offers a variety of vintage and artisanal items for sale. The company priced its IPO on Wednesday. CNET Online crafts marketplace Etsy priced its initial public offering at $16 a share on Wednesday, at the high end of its expected range of $14 to $16 a share. The Brooklyn, NY-based company raised $267 million by selling 16.7 million shares, …
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IBM’s new health platform will tap patient data information collected by Apple devices. James Martin/CNET Apple is part of a collective formed by IBM to develop new technology that will help health care companies analyze patient data collected from millions of wearable Apple devices. IBM on Monday unveiled Watson Health Cloud, a cloud-based platform that will allow health researchers to …
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Apple isn’t limiting Apple Watch buyers to one device. CNET The midnight launch of the Apple Watch cleared up at least one mystery: how many devices consumers will be able to purchase. While buyers won’t be able to snap up as many watches as they like, they will be able to purchase twice as many as previously thought — namely …
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The Apple Watch will go on sale at midnight Friday. CNET Apple’s online store went offline Thursday with its familiar Schwarzenegger-esque “We’ll be back” message ahead of the expected midnight rush to order the Apple Watch. Apple will start taking preorders for its first wearable, which costs from $349, £299 or AU$499 all the way up to $17,000, £13,500 or …
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The LG G4 will be here before the month is out. LG LG has dialed up a novel way to drum up consumer buzz for its latest flagship smartphone before its expected launch later this month. The South Korean handset maker announced plans Tuesday to choose 4,000 people in 15 markets to “test drive” the LG G4 for a few …
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Twitter is tweaks its quote tweet button to add room for additional comments. Twitter Twitter has revamped its “quote tweet” functionality to let users say more about the original message they are retweeting. The overhaul will now embed the original tweet instead of displaying it as a text version, the company announced late Monday. The tweak will also allow Twitter …
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