Amazon Passes Exxon and Is Now the 4th Most Valuable Company in the World
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A few days ago, Amazon officially passed Exxon to become the fourth most valuable company in the United States. Apple, Google (Alphabet) and Microsoft take the first three places. According to recent financial analysis, [..]
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Apple Sells Its Billionth iPhone, But Overall Sales are Down
On 27 July 2016, Apple sold its one-billionth phone. Its CEO, Tim Cook was ecstatic about this sale when he made the announcement at a meeting for the company’s employees in Cupertino, California. He termed the Apple [..]
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Verizon Acquires Yahoo, Inc for $4.8 billion. Now what?
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It has finally happened. Yahoo, Inc has been sold after a long and drawn-out process.
Verizon will pay $4.83 billion in cash for Yahoo’s core internet business, which includes Yahoo Mail, Fantasy Sports, photo storage [..]
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Jeff Bezos Briefly Passes Warren Buffett on World’s Richest List
The Bloomberg Billionaires Index briefly listed Jeff Bezos at the third spot in the world richest men behind Spain’s Amancio Ortega and Microsoft Owner Bill Gates (the richest man in the world). Bill Gates’ [..]
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Taxi Use Declining as Uber and Lyft Dominate Ground Travel
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Statistics indicate that taxis are seeing a 51% decline in the ground business travel industry.
At a phenomenal pace, services such as Uber and Lyft have essentially taken over the business ground travel industry as being [..]
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Sharing Netflix and HBO Passwords Now a Federal Crime; Should You Be Concerned?
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Having your girlfriend log into your Netflix account to binge on “Orange Is The New Black” was recently declared a federal crime. But should you be worried about going to jail? Probably not. If [..]
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Pokémon Go Now Has More Daily Users Than Twitter; About to Pass Snapchat
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Shortly after the release, Pokémon Go is now one of the most popular smartphone applications of all times. This app is at the moment the biggest any other game has ever been in the United States; it has surpassed the [..]
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Nintendo Announces It Will Release a Mini NES that Includes 30 Games
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Nintendo announced today that it plans on releasing a mini Nintendo Entertainment System Console on November 11, 2016. The NES Classic Edition will include 30 games.
The mini-console will come with a replica version of the [..]
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World’s First “Robot Lawyer” Overturns 160,000 Parking Tickets
The robo uprising has now spread to another human-dominated industry; law.
A chat bot called DoNotPay designed by a teenager is taking London and New York by storm after it was able to overturn parking tickets. Dubbed the [..]
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Elizabeth Holmes Banned from Running Her Own Startup
The Wall Street Journal reports US regulators have decided to ban the owners and operators of Theranos from running a lab for two years. That includes Founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes.
Federal Health [..]
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