In its biggest acquisition yet, tech giant Facebook has snapped up popular messaging app WhatsApp for $19 billion in cash and stock. The acquisition finally makes Facebook a big player in the world of mobile messaging, a sector
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Increasingly data-hungry retailers have been quietly leveraging customers’ smartphones to track their movements within stores in recent years. But a new website will allow you to opt out if you’d rather not have these
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Now heading to Wall Street, King Digital, the maker of the wildly popular game, is hoping it can better predecessors like Zynga, maker of once hot games, which have now fallen flat
A Valentine’s Day sequel
Facebook wants to help its employees escape the tyranny of roads by offering them a water taxi service. The new corporate ferry, currently in a pilot program, carries employees from San Francisco, Calif. to Redwood City, which is …
The power of The Force will soon be at your fingertips—if you’re a Netflix subscriber. The company is adding Star Wars content to its streaming service for the first time ever.
A sixth season of the animated show “Star Wars: …
Social giants keep ripping each other off
It’s for hair dye
PayPal President David Marcus has been the victim of credit card fraud, he said on Monday. The leader of the online payments company revealed via Twitter that his credit card information had been stolen on a trip to the United …
For all the single people dreading Valentine’s Day this week, Pizza Hut is there for you. The fast-food chain is trying to find “the one” on OkCupid and is promising a lifetime supply of pizza to the person it declares its
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New features aimed at the masses
In a rare public disclosure, Apple has offered some illuminating details about its ongoing battle with patent assertion entities, more commonly known as patent trolls. In a public comment to the Federal Trade Commission for an
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