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Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) was arguably the catalyst for the social media explosion seen over the past ten years, but the company has been working to expand its portfolio as consumer preferences shift and attention spans become increasingly shorter. WhatsApp Proves A Solid Investment In 2014,...

More than 65,000 people were killed in car crashes over the past two years. According to data analyzed by Erie Insurance, one out of every 10 crashes involved a distracted driver. Top Distractions Of the top 10 distractions related to fatal automobile accidents, general distraction and...

A recent article in ComputerworldUK noted that Domino’s Pizza (NYSE: DPZ) believes most customers will place their orders via mobile devices by 2015. Perhaps that's true, or perhaps Domino's hopes it is; if any pizza company were positioned to take advantage of that prediction, it...

U.S. stocks were higher as the back-end of 2014 kicked off. The Dow came within less than two points of reaching the 17,000 mark as investors and traders found plenty of positives in a better-than-expected June auto sales and an expansion in U.S. manufacturing. The S&P 500 also traded at...

IBM (NYSE: IBM) confirmed its acquisition of artificial intelligence startup, Cognea, via a blog post Tuesday. Cognea offers a stable of virtual assistants that communicate with people via relatable personalities. Depending on the user, IBM said, Cognea’s virtual assistants would focus on “...

Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) new 4.0 version of its iOS search app now comes with a number of new features, according to 9to5 Mac. For starters, the app recognizes voice search “cues” and can participate in conversational input similar to the way Apple's Siri works. One example regarding version 4...

Strange as it seems, it would appear that is the case. Whether it is an “under the radar” feature by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) or comes with Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) blessing, was not known according to iMore. What is known is that Passbook, a feature of iOS 6 that allows users to store tickets,...

Asked about its acquisition of speech recognition technology company, Novauris Technologies, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) told TechCrunch, “Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans.” According to TechCrunch the technology held by...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) CEO Tim Cook said last year he expected China to become Apple’s largest market. But the China-Apple relationship has had its share of problems. One current mess are dueling patent lawsuits.  Both Apple and the Chinese company Zhizhen Network Technology claim to have...

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is getting a lot of buzz for creating the Open Automotive Alliance, but Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry doesn't expect Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) to follow suit. "Apple has no interest in the car market," Chowdhry told Benzinga. "Not really. That [does not] fit their...

After asking Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) Siri and Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) Google Now a series of 800 questions on a variety of topics, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster concluded both are ever so slightly above average, with each achieving an overall grade of C+. Asking questions both indoors and...

According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) recently acquired social search company Topsy Labs Inc. for at least $200 million. Never heard of Topsy? If you’re looking to analyze all of the Twitter data since 2006, Topsy is (or was) your company of choice. You could figure out...