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January 29, 2015
Amazon Posts Strong Holiday Sales, Appeasing Impatient Investors
After two product flops, a red-faced Jeff Bezos is steering the company back toward its strengths
First, Amazon's Fire Phone tanked. Then, the company pulled its new line of diapers just weeks after they launched, due to design flaws. Investors, ever skeptical of CEO Jeff Bezos' aggressive emphasis on investments in growth and product innovation, began to lose the faith.
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Google Admits Glass Didn't "Have The Impact We Hoped For"
Google announced it's fourth quarter earnings Thursday.
Google announced it's fourth quarter earnings Thursday with revenues of $18.10 billion—compared to analyst estimates of $18.46 billion. Overall, however, the search company did improve in several areas, including year-over-year revenue.
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Qantas Will Offer Passengers Virtual Reality In-Flight
In-flight entertainment just got futuristic (for first class).
From Wall Street to the Sundance Film Festival, virtual reality seems to be everywhere these days—and now there's application to add to that list.
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Proposed White House Internet Privacy Bill Will Be A Thorn To Tech Companies
Tech firms may be fined $16,500 for each privacy violation.
Companies like Facebook and Google, whose business models rely on monetizing user-collected data, may be in for a rough ride.
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Imgur Releases High-Quality GIFmaker
Imgur's new Video to GIF releases the highest quality GIFs we've seen to date—but their new .gifv format isn't super easy to share.
GIF warriors dealing with the file format's crappy quality, take note: Today, Imgur released Video to GIF, a service that lets you easily snip clips from streaming video (like YouTube) and turn it into a GIF file—beautiful, high-quality GIFs, at that.
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Gap Ousts Designer Rebekka Bay
Bay's departure has us already speculating—and fantasizing—about who might replace her.
Today Gap, Inc. announced Rebekka Bay, the designer recruited in 2012 to help reboot the iconic brand, is out of the company.
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This Throwback Thursday, Please Enjoy The Amazing Legacy Of The Man Who Invented Lasers (Yes, Lasers, Bro!)
Nobel laureate Charles Hard Townes's work paved the way for everything from barcode scanners to Star Wars. He died this week at 99.
Between the Flash Gordon radio serials and Star Wars, one man turned the lasers of science fiction into science fact. Charles Hard Townes, inventor of the laser, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 99. As The New York Times succinctly explains, Townes's invention made it possible "to play CDs, scan prices at the supermarket, measure time precisely, survey planets and galaxies, and even witness the birth of stars."
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Nintendo Agrees To Split Ad Revenue With YouTube Creators
Nintendo is no longer playing the role of Bowser.
As little sense as it likely makes to anyone over the age of 35, even the most cursory glance at the most-subscribed channels list on YouTube will show you that there is big money in watching other people play video games.
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Apple And Samsung Are Tied As The World's Top-Selling Smartphone Makers
Competition hasn't been this close since Steve Jobs passed away.
For three years, Samsung was the world's top smartphone vendor. Now Apple has pulled even with the South Korean giant—thanks to the phenomenal success of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus.
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Ikea Acknowledges It Forgot The Internet
As growth slows, Ikea's executives admit it's time to go online.
If you've ever found Ikea's website too clunky, or its $99 truck delivery highway robbery next to Overstock or Amazon Prime, you aren't alone. Once a retail revolution, Ikea's pine- and umlaut-laden megastores have begun to see their profit margins wane in the online age, something the company's executives acknowledged during an earnings report yesterday.
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