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Walmart to launch Cyber Monday on Sunday night with great range of tech deals
Walmart Stores, Inc., have announced that Cyber Monday is now Cyber Sunday night with its traditional online specials being brought forward a day. The retailer will begin offering Cyber Monday deals starting this Sunday, November 29, starting at 8 p.m. Eastern in an attempt to capture shoppers looking for great Cyber Monday deals before they ...
Coinbase teams with Shift for a new Bitcoin Visa debit card
Bitcoin exchange Coinbase, Inc. is taking Bitcoin places it hasn’t gone before in the United States with the company announcing its first debit card Monday. The Shift Visa Debit card is available to Coinbase customers in twenty-four states in the U.S. and allows them to spend Bitcoin online and offline at over 38 million merchants ...
FAA proposes that pilots of drones over half a pound need to be registered to fly them
A United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) task force has delivered a report (pdf) on drone licensing with a surprising conclusion: instead of registering unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) as it currently does with planes, it has recommended that pilots be registered instead. Under the proposed rules any person who wishes to fly a drone that ...
Malware porn apps on the rise as security firm Zscaler discovers two new ones
Malware. Porn. Apps. Seems like a match made in heaven and that’s exactly what security-as-a-service firm Zscaler, Inc. has found with two new apps currently doing the rounds on independent Android app sites. The worst offender of the two discovered masquerades as a porn video player that is said to scare the user with a ...
Automattic builds on PHP to create a RESTful, open source backend WordPress interface
Automattic, Inc., the company behind the ever-popular WordPress content management system, have announced a major refresh of its hosted blogging platform WordPress.com along with a number of extras that are sure to please bloggers and developers alike. Top of the list is what the company is calling Calypso, a major overhaul of the WordPress back ...
The Pepsi phone is now on sale in China for those who don’t like Coca-Cola
Soft drink maker PepsiCo has officially entered the mobile phone marketplace with its first phone going on sale in China. The Pepsi P1s is manufactured by Shenzhen Scooby Communication Equipment Co. and is aiming squarely at the middle of the market with a phone that sports some decent specs even if it’s not going to ...
Apple’s “quality control” fails again as reports emerge that the iPad Pro is seriously faulty
Apple, Inc. has long been famed for its quality control, so much so that the company has always demanded a premium price for its products, but that claim to fame is being called into question yet again with news that their new, top of the line iPad Pro has a serious problem. According to various ...
Amazon Black Friday 2015 list includes some great bargains on tech and electronics
Black Friday is now one week away and the celebration of wild discounts wouldn’t be complete without an offering from the king of all online retailers: Amazon.com, Inc. This year Amazon has no intention of disappointing its millions of customers and has delivered a strong list of heavily discounted electronic and tech gadgets for those ...
Terrorists win: European Union to crack down on Bitcoin post Paris terrorist attacks
The European Union is set to let the terrorists win and strike a blow against freedom by cracking down on Bitcoin. In a meeting set to be held Friday, European Union interior and justice ministers will gather for a crisis meeting following the Islamic terrorist attacks on Paris last week where they will urge the ...
Fintech Bitcoin payroll startup Bitwage raises $750k seed round
Fintech Bitcoin payroll startup Bitwage Ltd. has raised $750,000 in a seed round that included Orange Silicon Valley, Draper Associates, Cloud Money Ventures, Bitcoin Capital, Saeed Amidi and BnkToTheFuture. Founded in 2013, Bitwage aims to make international payroll transfers better by reducing payroll costs and increasing transfer speeds while at the same stage increasing the ...









