Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. formally announced its Galaxy A7 smartphone back in January, and since that time it has gone on sale in various global markets. Billed as Samsung’s thinnest phone yet at a thickness of only 6.3 mm, the phone packs a serious punch without the serious price likely to be asked for by ...

The freemium music model favored by Spotify Inc. is under pressure with reports that at least one major record company is pressuring the company to change its free tier. The Financial Times reports that Universal Music Group is using license negotiations with Spotify to push for changes to the company’s free service “privately arguing that it is ...

Google’s original “don’t be evil” mantra has once again proved to be worth nothing more than keyboard it was typed on with news that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) found in 2012 that Google was intentionally manipulating its search results to discriminate against competitors. The revelation came via The Wall Street Journal, which reports that ...

Amazon.com’s dream of drone deliveries became a step closer to reality Thursday after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) gave the e-commerce giant approval to test the service. The formal terms give Amazon an “experimental airworthiness certificate,” which the FAA says it typically issues to manufacturers and technology developers to operate Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) that ...

Swiss watchmaker TAG Heuer S.A. will officially join the smartwatch market with an expected announcement Thursday that it will be launching a new luxury watch in a partnership with Intel Corp. According to Reuters, the new watch will differentiate itself from the current crop of smartwatches and instead offer a digital replica of its Black Carrera ...

New York-based advertising technology firm AppNexus, Inc. has acquired rival Yieldex, Inc. in a move speculated to be leading to an Initial Public Offering (IPO). Officially, the price of the acquisition was not disclosed; however, The Wall Street Journal puts the figure at $100 million in a mixture of cash and stock. Claimed to be the largest ...

The United Kingdom has decided to embrace the opportunities afforded by Bitcoin with an announcement Wednesday that it will seek to regulate Bitcoin exchanges. The announcement, which came as part of the 2015 Budget, is part of a push by the U.K. government in its own words “to apply anti-money laundering regulation to digital currency exchanges ...

Viral content sharing startup PlayBuzz, Ltd. has raised $16 million in Series B in a round led by 83North Ltd. that included Saban Capital Group, Inc. and previous investors Carmel Ventures and FirstTime Ventures. Founded in 2012, PlayBuzz is a content platform that enables publishers, marketers, bloggers and others to create, distribute and embed quizzes, polls, ...

Darknet market Evolution, one of the most popular markets on the darknet following the collapse of Silk Road and Silk Road 2, is offline Wednesday with reports the admins may have scammed users and stolen millions. The site opened in January 2014, and like Silk Road before it dealt in drugs, as well as illegal ...

Is your pet pregnant? Are you worried you’ll miss the birth? Well, salvation is at hand with a new device that promises to alert you when your fur child is about to deliver little fur kids to the world. The Addik Pet is a birthing detector for your pet. This patented device detects the first significant ...