Retailers seen unlikely to warm up to Apple Pay
(Reuters) – Apple Inc’s launch of its own tap-to-pay system using near-field communication in its new iPhones and smartwatches may not be a game changer...
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Google building fleet of package-delivering drones
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google’s secretive research laboratory is trying to build a fleet of drones designed to bypass earthbound traffic so packages can be...
Google buys video-processing service provider Zync Render
(Reuters) – Google Inc (GOOGL.O) said it bought Zync Render, the visual effects cloud-rendering technology company behind Star Trek Into Darkness. Rendering is the process...
Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg on tech’s diversity gap
Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, author of best seller Lean In, is one of the leading voices on the diversity gap in Silicon Valley...
Commence Your ‘Steve Jobs Is Alive’ Theories
You can add Apple co-founder Steve Jobs to the list of dead people that could possibly be alive because they’ve been spotted but are also...
Google Announces New Ranking Signal
Google announced that HTTPS is now a ranking signal used in its algorithm. The company has been pushing the use of HTTPS (HTTP over TLS/Transport...
Strategies: Facebook entices small firms with mobile ads
This summer, the company launched Facebook Fit, a five-city small-business boot camp tour wrapping up Tuesday at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. I traveled...
Technology: Facebook acquires video ad company LiveRail
(Reuters) – Facebook Inc is acquiring video advertising company LiveRail in the Internet social network’s latest step to make video ads a bigger part of...
Opinion: Hollywood’s hopes in China rest on Youku
By Rob Cox The author is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist. The opinions expressed are his own. Look around the subway in Beijing or Shanghai and...
Technology: 5 reasons why the internet can be dangerous for children and teens
Are you the parent of a child or a teenager who wants to use the internet, if they don’t already? If so, you may have...