LG shows off a functional Open webOS-based smartwatch with Audi car integration at CES
Exclusive: The hottest smartwatch of CES isn't running Android Wear — it's Open webOS — We bring you the inside look at the most mysterious timepiece of CES 2015
Facebook says video posts per person have increased 75% globally, 94% in US since last year
What the Shift to Video Means for Creators — We're increasingly seeing a shift towards visual content on Facebook, especially with video. In just one year, the number of video posts per person …
Sony to delay sale of PlayStation 4 in China
(Reuters) - Sony Corp will delay sales of the PlayStation 4 gaming console in China, originally scheduled for Jan. 11, due to “various factors”, according to a statement on Thursday. — Sony Computer...
LG's webOS smartwatch is scheduled for early 2016, says WSJ
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Super cookies allow sites to track users using most popular browsers even in privacy mode
Browsing in privacy mode? Super Cookies can track you anyway — For years, Chrome, Firefox, and virtually all other browsers have offered a setting that doesn't save or refer to website cookies, bro...
Samsung expects fourth-quarter profit to drop 37 percent from year ago
Decline in quarter would mark fifth consecutive quarterly drop for the world's largest maker of smartphones. — Samsung Electronics said Wednesday that it expects its fourth-quarter earnings report t...
GraphLab, Now Dato, Raises $18.5M for Machine-Learning Applications
The Series B round comes from Vulcan Capital …
Amazon is building an end-to-end platform for hardware startups, part of an effort to become their main sales channel
Amazon Secretly Working on New Platform for Inventors — Amazon sells most of the name-brand electronics you can think of. Now, it appears, it wants to be the place …
AT&T Sells Cricket's Muve Music Service To Deezer For Under $100M In New Partnership
Deezer, the music streaming service based in France that competes with Spotify, is making another move to expand its customer base in the U.S.: it has acquired the assets of Muve music from Cricket …
Apple: App Store sales grew 50% and generated $10B+ for developers in 2014, responsible for creating 1M+ US jobs
Apple Touts U.S. Job Creation, Says App Store Sales Rose 50% — Apple Inc. (AAPL), which has faced criticism for manufacturing its computing devices overseas instead of in the U.S. …
Google Capital Invests In Indian Real-Estate Platform CommonFloor
CommonFloor, which claims to be India's largest online real estate platform, has raised an undisclosed amount of new funding from Google Capital. What's notable about the funding is that it marks Goo...
Samsung unveils its smart home strategy at CES, plans to develop open Internet of Things platform for developers
Samsung's Smart-Home Master Plan: Leave the Door Open for Others — The most important product at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show may not actually be a product at all.
Yelp says the FTC has ended its inquiry, won't act on complaints that reviews were manipulated
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Riot building a dedicated network for League of Legends traffic, should be ready end of March
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HTC's action camera can now stream live footage to YouTube
HTC is making its periscope-shaped Re camera a whole lot more functional with a software update that lets users live stream footage via YouTube. The camera's Android app will receive the update on Ja...
Fab Cofounder Bradford Shellhammer Is Launching Design Sales Site Bezar
After a year of soul-searching, Fab cofounder and former creative director Bradford Shellhammer is back in the flash sales game with his forthcoming startup Bezar, an online short-term sales hub for...
Sarah Lane to leave TWiT, join TechCrunch as executive producer of video
THE NEW NEW — Hey! So my big announcement is that I'm joining the team at TechCrunch as Executive Producer of Video. And I've been trying to figure out how to post news about my own little new car...
FBI Director: Sony's ‘Sloppy’ North Korean Hackers Revealed Their IP Addresses
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Vuzix inks deal with Nokia to bring HERE maps to smart glasses
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FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler proposes raising definition of broadband from 4Mbps downstream and 1Mbps upstream to 25Mbps down and 3Mbps up
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Tom Wheeler says FCC will vote on net neutrality on February 26th
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A 19-year-old college student describes how and why his demographic uses the various social media platforms
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BlackBerry announces redesigned Passport for AT&T and BBM support for Android Wear
CES 2015 is finally here and there has been a lot of news. AT&T : The Newly Redesigned BlackBerry Passport Arrives Exclusively at AT&T Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch : BlackBerry Pushing BBM Onto Android ...
Huawei to bring contract-free Honor smartphones to US sometime in 2015
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Kantar: Apple's share of smartphones up in nearly all markets on strength of iPhone 6 and 6 Plus for the three months ending November 2014
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Intel Compute Stick: quad-core CPU, built in Wi-Fi, on board storage; plugs into any HDMI display, ships with Windows for $149, or Linux for $89, avail. March
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T-Mobile scores 2.1M total new customers in Q4
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VHX raises $5M from Comcast, Union Square, others, to help filmmakers sell their movies online
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Twitter Returns Bing Translator To TweetDeck
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Evernote lays off 20 employees globally in a partial restructuring
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