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Big Pharma Joins Google’s Quest for Aging Antidote

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 Hustles to Buff Up Its Image

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 Tromps on Spammers

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

Google Pinpoints Ads That Get Customers on the Horn

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

Vevo Music Videos Get Pinned

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

NPR One Lets Listeners Hear Radio Their Way

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

Xiaomi Wins Key to China’s Heart

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 Hangouts Get Down to Business

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

Bubblews Will Give You a Penny for Your Thoughts

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 Saves the Day From Slipping Away

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 ...

Investors Wise to Secret’s Tantalizing Promise

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 ...

Amazon Unlocks Vast E-Book Library for $10 a Month

ECT News Network Reporter Rachelle Dragani contributed to this story ...

Sprint Launches the Swiss Army Knife of Mobile Hotspots

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 ...

What’s in a Name? Ask the Other Isis

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

Google Gives Orkut Users Eviction Notice

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.com, Philips Launch Health Cloud Revolution

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

German Publishing Group Levels Charges Against Amazon

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

Cruise RP-1 Kit Transforms Regular Audis Into Driverless Cars

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 Maker Faire Gets the Obama Bump

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

Facebook Aims to Blaze New Gaming Trail on iPads

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 ...

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