Information Technology
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Dragalia Lost — first Nintendo built-from-scratch mobile game — off to weak start
Oct 06, 2018 1:00 am - Nintendo Co.'s experiment with a built-from-scratch mobile game is off to an underwhelming start. Dragalia Lost, released last week, is the company's first smartphone ti...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook: Giving up your data for better services is 'a bunch of bunk'
Oct 06, 2018 1:00 am - Apple chief executive Tim Cook urged consumers not to believe the dominant tech industry narrative that the data collected about them will lead to better services. In an...
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Jack Dorsey's Square rolls out lending for customer purchases
Oct 06, 2018 1:00 am - Square Inc. is offering loans to customers to pay for goods and services from merchants that use its payments platform, another move by the company to push deeper into f...
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That Facebook group you joined years ago? It might now be supporting Brett Kavanaugh - or his accuser.
Oct 05, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - To the naked eye, thousands of users on Facebook are backing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. But some of the groups that seem to advocate for his Sen...
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Amazon announces it will boost minimum wage to $15 for all workers after facing criticism
Oct 02, 2018 1:00 am - Amazon.com announced Tuesday that it would raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour for all employees, a move that comes after the tech giant faced harsh criticism for payi...
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Can wireless challenge cable for home internet service?Oct 01, 2018 1:00 am - NEW YORK - Cellular companies such as Verizon are looking to challenge traditional cable companies with residential internet service that promises to be ultra-fast, affo...
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Analysis: Forget robots - retailers need people power
Sep 30, 2018 1:15 am - The ongoing fight for talent in the retail industry appears to be kicking into higher gear. Bloomberg's Matthew Boyle wrote Friday that Walmart Inc. has surveyed workers...
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Should you hand over your Fitbit data to your insurance company?
Sep 29, 2018 1:15 am - Life insurance company John Hancock made a splash recently with the news that soon all of its policies would come bundled with the option to let the company track your f...
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The much-mocked minivan: driverless car of the future?
Sep 29, 2018 1:15 am - But can someone please come up with a cooler name? For the past 15 years, the Knoche family minivan has been frozen in traffic half a mile from the White House. The Dodg...
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Essay: Strong encryption saved me when my phone was stolen. Don't let the government weaken it
Sep 29, 2018 1:07 am - I had just left a meeting at the Justice Department, and stopped at a nearby coffee shop with colleagues for a debrief and to gab. As I was gathering my things to leave,...