Information Technology
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Amazon sellers seek more clout with new 'merchants guild'
Mar 24, 2018 1:00 am - The millions of merchants who sell products on Amazon.com Inc. have long craved more leverage over their powerful benefactor. Now some are creating a trade association i...
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Why are Tinder and Bumble fighting?
Mar 24, 2018 1:00 am - Are Tinder and Bumble essentially the same dating app? That's the question at the heart of a lawsuit that Tinder has filed this month against its dating-app competitor B...
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The next ferry you board might run on batteries
Mar 24, 2018 1:00 am - Not far from Norway's North Sea oil rigs, shipbuilders are assembling some of the first ferryboats ever to be powered entirely by batteries. For years, the yard, nestled...
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Google pours $300M into effort to aid news publishers
Mar 24, 2018 1:00 am - Google is making its grandest overture to the news business yet. Alphabet Inc.'s search giant is providing a new suite of tools to help media publishers grow subscriptio...
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Commentary: Before you #DeleteFacebook, try taking control
Mar 24, 2018 1:00 am - #DeleteFacebook is trending on social media. But you don't have to do anything as radical as deleting the app that keeps you in touch with friends, family members and so...
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Commentary: Here's how to actually help stop cyberbullying
Mar 24, 2018 1:00 am - Melania Trump set off a nationwide eye roll when she announced she would fight cyberbullying as first lady. Taking a hammer to the Tweeter-in-chief's smartphone would ce...
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In a corner of Reddit, Robert Mueller is Yoda, Gandalf and Batman combined
Mar 24, 2018 1:00 am - When the history books eventually tackle Donald Trump's surprising climb from reality television to the White House, r/The_Donald will no doubt go down as one of the odd...
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How Facebook played down ties to Cambridge Analytica figure
Mar 23, 2018 1:00 am - The psychologist who disseminated Facebook user data to an analytics firm working for the Trump campaign had a closer relationship with the social network than it has le...
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Facebook's Zuckerberg: I am really sorry data breach happenedMar 21, 2018 1:00 am - NEW YORK - Breaking five days of silence, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized for a "major breach of trust," admitted mistakes and outlined steps to protect user dat...
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Self-driving Uber strikes and kills pedestrian
Mar 19, 2018 1:00 am - Uber has halted testing of its autonomous vehicles across North America, the company announced, after a woman was struck and killed by one of its self-driving cars in Te...