Internet
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Retailers tailoring websites, promotions for you - just youApr 04, 2015 7:30 am - WASHINGTON - After years of using customer data to fine-tune their marketing efforts to smaller and smaller groups, retailers are now making a massive and expensive effo...
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Amazon.Com unveils Dash Button for when you need detergent nowApr 04, 2015 7:30 am - In its quest to connect people and products faster than ever, Amazon.com Inc. is testing a new service that lets customers instantly order household items like laundry d...
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IBM's making a new business unit just for the Internet of ThingsApr 04, 2015 7:30 am - Weather forecasters get a bad rap for getting things wrong, but what if your insurance company had a forecast so accurate that it could send you an alert to move your ca...
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Why the cable companies you hate may be forced to compete onlineApr 04, 2015 7:30 am - NEW YORK - The largest U.S. cable companies may be approaching a cliff they've long tried to avoid: competition with one another. As a slew of companies, from Dish Netwo...
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Questionable tweets by new 'Daily Show' host Noah draw fireMar 31, 2015 1:00 am - NEW YORK - A day after Trevor Noah was declared the new host of "The Daily Show," complete with the blessing of the exiting Jon Stewart, graphic tweets targeting women, ...
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How the golden age of domain trolling was bornMar 28, 2015 7:38 am - The 2016 race has scarcely begun, and presidential hopeful Ted Cruz already has an image problem. Typing tedcruz.com into your URL bar returns a black page that says "SU...
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App reviews: Meerkat, Crossy RoadMar 28, 2015 7:37 am - Meerkat Every year, the buzz at the technology and artistic confab known as South by Southwest seems to crown an unofficial app of the year. This year, that app is ...
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Is the Internet giving us all ADHD?Mar 28, 2015 7:36 am - Tell me if this scenario sounds familiar to you: You get into work. You're feeling productive. You've powered through approximately three emails/order forms/whatever qua...
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What you don't know about Internet algorithms is hurting youMar 28, 2015 7:34 am - Until about three weeks ago, Pinterest was - hands down, no contest - my absolute favorite social network. Yeah, I know it lacks the cachet of Twitter or Snapchat. I und...
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Facebook's 'On This Day' seeks to fix problem social media createdMar 28, 2015 6:00 am - The Internet is obsessed with the now, the new, the “trending”: It takes only minutes for Facebook posts to fall out of our News Feeds or for tweets to disappear into th...