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Rarely do you see the CEO of a $180 billion company care much about its warehouse workers. Since 2012, Amazon has offered a program called “Career Choice,” where the company pays 95% of tuition for its fulfillment and customer service...
Uber has agreed to stop operating in Portland, Oregon, for three months while city officials create new regulations for taxis. But Uber will keep running cars in the Portland metro area outside the Portland city limits, the company said...
Yahoo is poised to surpass Twitter next year to become the third-biggest company in U.S. mobile advertising, bolstering a key part of CEO Marissa Mayer's turnaround effort. Underlying the market-share increase is a meeting that Ms. Mayer held in early...
Lyft is accusing a former executive of sharing company secrets with rival Uber, reports The Wall Street Journal's Douglas MacMillan. Lyft has filed a lawsuit against its former chief operating officer, Travis VanderZanden, whom it alleges downloaded a number of confidential documents...
A new family of malware has been discovered, and it's targeting Apple products. It's called "WireLurker." The malware was discovered by cyber security software maker Palo Alto Networks. WireLurker zeroes in on OS X desktop software and Apple's iOS mobile...
With the help of browser extensions, you can read your News Feed, send messages to friends and post status updates from your browser's toolbar. Extensions can also improve your experience on the Facebook site itself with special tools, such...
You can get Taylor Swift's new album for just $0.99. All you'll need is Windows 8 and Microsoft's newly launched Music Deals app. The app is offering "1989," which dropped on Monday, at that low price until Nov. 3. The iTunes store is...
Facebook rolled out an update to its app on Monday that adds a new way to quickly organize and post small batches of photos from your smartphone. Now, when users upload multiple photos from its iPhone or Android app, the app generates a quick preview...
When Apple unveiled its new iPads earlier this month, the company boasted that there are now 675,000 apps optimized for the iPad in Apple's App Store. That's a lot to choose from. And, of course, some apps are better and...
Google released a new email app called Inbox on Wednesday that can best be described as Gmail-lite. Intended to be less time-consuming than Google's original email service, Inbox borrows some of Gmail's features like prioritizing important messages and leaves out others,...
What should happen to people who post random pictures to their blog or website? In many cases, the fallout is harsh: Getty Images, relying on software that prowls the web for unauthorized images, identifies those people and then rains down lawsuit threats until they agrees to pay...
Spotify will give its Premium subscribers the ability to add up to four accounts for family members, all managed through one billing account. The Spotify Family feature, announced on Monday, doesn’t mean those extra accounts are free – they’re half-price – but it does...
"League of Legends," one of the most popular e-sports video games in the world, had its pinnacle moment on Saturday night. That's where people watched two teams face off in the finals of the "League of Legends" World Championships. It was held in a...
It looks like Facebook could still be mulling over a possible Facebook phone — this time without HTC's help. Facebook is reportedly in talks with Samsung regarding a possible collaboration on a new smartphone, according to The Korean Herald and The Korea Times (via 9to5Google). According...
When Warren Buffett talks about investing, everyone listens. Now, those listeners can sign up for a constant stream of Buffett's investing wisdom, along with insight from other major investing names including Carl Icahn, George Soros, and Ray Dalio through an app...
Nearly 7 million Dropbox usernames and passwords have been hacked, apparently via third-party services that hackers were able to strip the login information from. The Next Web was the first to notice the leak on a site called Pastebin,...
Google Hangouts users can now chat and make calls from their desktops without opening their browser The company rolled out a new desktop app for Chrome OS and Windows users Thursday and announced new social polling features for Google+. The desktop app allows chats...
26 million users of Apple’s iTunes software have downloaded U2’s free albumSongs of Innocence in its entirety since the rock band released for free it at Apple’s iPhone 6 press event in September, according to a Billboard report. An additional 55...
Airbnb has always been illegal in San Francisco. That’s right: the city that gave rise to the $10 billion room-renting site never allowed the service to operate—at least not officially. But that all changed on Tuesday, when San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors...
There's been a lot of chatter lately about the adoption rate of iOS 8, but the reason might lie in the phone's storage capacity. iOS 8 adoption has increased just 1% since Apple last published stats on the operating system. Some have...