Facebook replaces "Hide All" button with "Unfollow"

Facebook Inc (FB.O) has replaced its "Hide All" button with the more succinct "Unfollow," letting users block all messages and posts from selected friends.As with the previous button, it gives users the option of blocking content from certain people without offending them, say through de-friending....

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First look: Moto G smartphone

You're not getting the best or the latest technology with Motorola's $179 Moto Gsmartphone. What you do get is a great price for something close.Motorola bills the Moto G as the phone for the rest of us -- the ones who can't afford $500-700 for a high-end smartphone. That's a big deal overseas,...

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Amazon starts pilot project with India post to test cash-on-delivery model

  Amazon may be testing drones to drop off packages but in India, the world's biggest ecommerce company is looking to try out something decidedly low-tech that could give it an unbeatable edge on deliveries.Its secret weapon? The postman. Amazon already sends packages by India Post but ...

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Apple charges Indians the most for iPhone 5S: Study

It is not a secret that Apple gadgets cost a fortune in India, where even the base variant of the iPhone 5S costs over half-a-lakh rupees. Now, a study has shown that Indians end up paying the most for the Apple smartphone - across the world!According to data compiled by technology...

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Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is world's wealthiest bachelor: Report

With an estimated personal fortune of $15.3 billion, 60-year old Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is the world's wealthiest bachelor, followed by 79-year old Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani who has a net worth of $10.9 billion, says a report.According to the Wealth-X, a global wealth intelligence...

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Google takes on Amazon by cutting cloud service prices

Google Inc will lower prices on cloud services as the search giant gears up to take on Amazon.com Inc, International Business Machines Corp and Microsoft Corp in the fast-growing market of Internet services for corporations.In a Monday blogpost, Google outlined key features and pricing for "Compute Engine," part of a broader service...

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Edward Snowden sharpened his hacking skills in Delhi

The hacker who shook the US intelligence machinery and had world leaders railing against Washington for spying on them picked up crucial skills in India. Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency contractor-turned-whistleblower, spent a week in New Delhi training in core Java programming...

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Amazon's drone delivery: Logistics will be dizzying, do we really need it?

  The novelty of flying cars never materialized. But flying novels are right around the corner.If you aren't nervous enough reading about 3-D printers spitting out handguns or Google robots with Android phones, imagine the skies thick with crisscrossing tiny drones."I know this looks like science...

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Google joins Microsoft, IBM and Amazon to control computing through public clouds

Google already runs much of the digital lives of consumers through email, Internet searches   and YouTube videos. Now it wants the corporations, too.The search giant has for years been evasive about its plans for a so-called public cloud of computers and data storage that...

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Info Edge invests Rs 10 cr more in Applect

Info Edge, which runs online portals naukri.com and jeevansaathi.com, today said it has invested Rs 10 crore in online education and assessment firm Applect Learning Systems.The additional investment of Rs 10 crore by Info Edge was made through website www.meritnation.com, Info Edge said in a filing with the...

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Mobile Internet drives up subscriber base to 198 mn

Driven by growth in Internet usage through mobile phones, total Net subscriber base in the country increased by 20.38 per cent to reach 198.39 million during the April-June quarter."Total number of Internet subscribers including Internet access by mobile device subscribers increased from 164.81 million at the end of March'13 to 198.39 million at the end of June'13, registering a quarterly...

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Instagram business head Emily White to join Snapchat as COO

Facebook-owned Instagram's business head, Emily White is reportedly poised to join photo-sharing service Snapchat as its COO. White has been the executive in charge of bringing advertising to Instagram and the move is touted as a major talent grab by the auto-destruct picture sharing...

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Yahoo acquires mobile-video app Ptch

Continuing with its start-up acquisition spree, Yahoo has reportedly purchased mobile-video app Ptch that was funded by Dream Works Animation for an undisclosed amount. The Ptch iPhone app lets users create montage videos out of clips and photos. According to Cnet, the Ptch team is expected...

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Flatpebble raises around Rs 1 cr from angel investors

 Flatpebble, a Hyderabad based photography crowdsourcing website, has announced raising an initial round of funding of around Rs 1 crore from a group of angel investors including Raghu Bathina, Lax Gopisetty, Ram Jayam and Sitaram Banda.The firm, which aims to...

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