Senate blocks USA Freedom Act and extensions to key provisions of Patriot Act, will reconvene just hours before expiration on May 31
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An exclusive early look at the new standalone Google Photos app on Android
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Amazon to stop funneling Europe sales through Luxembourg amid pressure from regulators, increasing its tax burden
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Sources: Charter may announce it is buying Time Warner Cable for $195 a share tomorrow, Bright House Networks will also be merged into the combined company
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Instagram sends “Highlights” email digests to re-engage users, its first promotional emails
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BlackBerry to Lay Off Undisclosed Number of Employees in Device Business
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Expedia sells stake in Chinese travel firm eLong to China-based Ctrip for $671 million
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Former employee of cybersecurity consultancy Tiversa says they extorted clients and fabricated evidence
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How Spotify plans to apply to video what it's learned with music
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Four years after ‘Jeopardy’ win, IBM's Watson program has seen applications in 75 industries including finance, healthcare, molecular biology
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Promo for Zedd's new album on Tinder lets you swipe right on a fake profile for the artist to get a discounted download price of $3.99
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Chrome for Android goes almost ‘entirely open source’
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AOL's MapQuest Inks UI Deal With Mapbox As It Prepares To Overhaul The Product
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Google Maps rolls out traffic alerts and alternate routes
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Young Saudis increasingly rely on mobile apps and social media to circumvent conservative strictures
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Inside the labs where Netflix tests the latest TVs for its Recommended TV program
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Social+Capital raises $600M in third investment fund, confirms Kleiner Perkins was interested in acquiring them
sounds like @kpcb couldn't cede power @FortuneMagazine http://fortune.com/... Eugene Berson / @bersonperson : Recruited 30000 people from across the country to use mobile phones that S23P tracks to se...
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