“Pandora For E-Commerce” StyleSeek Raises $750K More In Seed Funding

Chicago-based StyleSeek has raised $750,000 more in pre-Series A funding for its e-commerce recommendations service for lifestyle products, which is today primarily focused on men's and women's fashion. Though the service competes with a number of product aggregators on the market, like Wanelo, Fancy, Want, Fresh, TheFind and others, StyleSeek instead is betting on algorithms and data over social… → Read Mo ...

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How NASA Will Use 3D Printers In Orbit

In June 2014, astronauts whizzing by high above us in the International Space Station may be able to print a highly detailed plastic Yoda head or, barring that, important parts that they may need while in orbit. → Read Mo...

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Amazon’s annual Kindle sales estimated at $4.5 billion

Just how much money does Amazon generate from selling its Kindle eReaders and tablets? It's tough to say because Amazon never releases specific sales figures for its devices. AllThingsD points us to new research from Morgan Stanley that estimates Amazon will sell $4.5 billion worth of Kindle-branded devices this year, a 26% increase from 2012. The Morgan Stanley researchers also think that Kindle sales will total $5 billion next year and...

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The Pirate Bay unveils web browser that bypasses government, ISP censorship

The Pirate Bay is working hard to help out citizens in the United Kingdom who might soon have their favorite porn sites taken away. The infamous file-sharing site has announced that it has created a new web browser that will bypass governments' and ISPs' attempts at censoring content on the web. The Pirate Bay describes its new PirateBrowser as a "simple one-click browser that circumvents censorship and blockades and makes the site instantly...

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The 1.6 percent of the Internet that NSA “touches” is bigger than it seems

 In a memo issued last Friday, the National Security Agency provided details of its ongoing network surveillance operations intended to assuage concerns about its scope, content, and oversight. As Ars' Cyrus Farivar reported, the NSA tried to set the context of its activities with a Carl Sagan-like metaphor: According to figures published by a major tech provider, the Internet carries 1,826 Petabytes of information per day. In its ...

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BlackBerry announces that it may sell the company

The BlackBerry smartphone. BlackBerry said on Monday that it is considering a range of options to put an end to its struggles, including putting itself up for sale. BlackBerry will "explore strategic alternatives to enhance value and increase scale in order to accelerate BlackBerry 10 deployment," the company said in its announcement. "These alternatives could include, among others, possible joint ventures, strategic partnerships...

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Internet Numbers

Time Warner Cable posts weak Internet numbers, sparks deal talk By Liana B. Baker Thu Aug 1, 2013 11:23am EDT span class="articleLocation">(Reuters) - Time Warner Cable Inc reported quarterly revenue below analysts' estimates as it added less than half the number of subscribers for high-speed data services that analysts had expected. Shares still rose 3.2 percent on Thursday as analysts said the cable company's management did not necessarily rule out a merger or takeover during a conference call.Time Warner Cable,...

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