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Pharmaceutical giant AbbVie on Wednesday announced it was teaming up with Google-fundedCalico, the life sciences initiative aimed at helping patients deal with diseases and other negative effects associated with aging. ...

Uber is attempting to polish its image with a defense of its driver recruitment tactics following publication this week on The Verge of accounts of sabotage, dirty tricks and generally ruthless behavior toward Lyft and other competitors in the ride-sharing space. ...

Twitter last week reported success with its BotMaker spam-prevention system ...

Google has launched a new service that lets advertisers track their ads' success at generating phone calls following user clicks ...

Pinterest announced Wednesday that it has signed a deal that will allow users to create boards that include their favorite Vevo music videos ...

NPR last week launched a mobile app that gives modern listeners a new way to access personalized radio content ...

Smartphone maker Xiaomi has been on a tear. It has risen from a lowly device maker to king of the Chinese market in just a year, according to a new report from Canalys ...

Google on Wednesday unveiled a handful of new features for Google Apps for Business designed to attract more enterprise customers ...

Bubblews, a social media platform that offers to pay users for their posts, last week moved out of its testing phase, which began in 2012. It emerged with a new look designed to attract users who might be dissatisfied with other social media offerings ...

Facebook this week launched a feature that allows users to save content from their News Feed that they might want to read or watch later ...

Secret last week announced that a recent round of funding, to the tune of US$25 million, would help it expand its reach in the social networking space ...

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Sprint last week unveiled a mobile hotspot designed to satisfy all the wireless needs of a consumer in one 4.7 x 4.7-inch device ...

Mobile payment app Isis is focusing on rebranding following the emergence of the militant Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS ...

Google on Monday announced that it is bidding farewell to Orkut, its first attempt at a social network, which saw fair international success before Facebook took over the scene ...

Salesforce and Philips last week announced they had teamed up on a cloud computing initiative designed to transform existing healthcare platforms ...

The German Publishers and Booksellers Association (Borsenverein) on Tuesday complained to German antitrust authorities that Amazon was in violation of competition regulations ...

Cruise aims to spark a revolution among autopilot technology with a US$10,000 accessory that consumers can use to create a self-driving car, of sorts. ...

The United States' hopeful tinkerers and entrepreneurs gathered Wednesday on the White House lawn to showcase their innovative ideas at the Maker Faire ...

Facebook on Monday unveiled an iPad app update designed to make the site a hub for game, video and content discovery. A new panel appears on the right-hand side of the iPad providing news and entertainment ...