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Facebook acquires speech recognition and voice developing startup
Facebook has acquired Y Combinator startup Wit.ai. The startup, founded 18 months ago, is aiming to create an API for building voice-activated interfaces. In…
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Mark Zuckerberg has started a book club and his first book choice is pretty much sold out
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg crowdsourced his New Year’s resolution on the social network and the post solicited plenty of suggestions. Someone suggested that he…
These were BurnTV’s 8 most popular videos for 2014
On the BurnTV channel on YouTube, we unbox new products, review products, features, games, apps and give startups the chance to pitch their ideas….
Sony Pictures threatens Twitter with legal action for leaked document tweets
Sony’s lawyer has threatened Twitter with legal action if the social networking company doesn’t not ban accounts that are sharing documents leaked from the…
Xiaomi reportedly raises $1-billion in funding, company valued at $45-billion
Xiaomi, the world’s third-biggest smartphone maker, has reportedly raised US$1-billion, according to Wall Street Journal. A Xiaomi spokesperson declined to comment. Though the Xiaomi…
Instagram purge deletes millions of fake accounts
Instagram, the four-year-old photo and video sharing service owned by Facebook, apart from updating its photo editing filters this week, has gone on a…
One sixth of Europeans say they’ve never used the internet
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Sony Pictures cancels ‘The Interview’ release following hacker threats
Following threats by Guardians of Peace, the group that hacked Sony Pictures, the entertainment studio has now decided to cancel The Interview. The company…
Twitter and Foursquare are partnering to improve location in tweets
Twitter and Foursquare are planning to partner together in 2015 to power location in tweets. In fact, the geo-location feature could be introduced as…
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