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The digital currency boom has resulted in countless celebrities endorsing new initial coin offerings, or ICOs, a process in which capital is raised to fund and promote a cryptocurrency venture. Music fans who will buy Bjork's album "Utopia" will receive 100 free Audiocoins, a two-year...

SAMSUNG ELECTRONIC KRW5000 (OTC: SSNLF) has extricated itself creditably, with its newest iteration of its flagship Galaxy smartphone. This should come as no surprise, as the Note 7 fiasco would have prodded the company to give its all to make the product a grand success. The Grand Launch The...

Television manufacturer Vizio, Inc. has come under fire after settling charges with the Federal Trade Commission and agreeing to pay a $2.2 million fine after it was disclosed that the company installed software on its TVs to collect viewing data on 11 million consumers without their knowledge or...

Recode's Kara Swisher and The Verge's Lauren Goode took a look back at what they consider to be the top 10 technology related stories of 2016. 10. Apple's Headphone Jack Coming in at No. 10 is Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)'s decision to say goodbye to its tangled earbuds which it...

Thousands of digital items are now on sale on Amazon.com. Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is hosting its first-ever "Digital Day" promotional event. For 24 hours, consumers can take advantage of steep discounts on thousands of apps, music TV shows, movies, games and other digital...

Pandora Media Inc (NYSE: P), once a pioneer and early mover in the online streaming music space, has seen its competitive positioning suffer at the hands of peers that offered an on-demand music streaming service. Platforms such as Spotify offer consumers the ability to listen to what they want,...

Shares of Samsung Electronics Co (KRXK: 005930) (which also trades (OTC: SSNLF)) stock on the South Korean exchange fell as much as 4.6 percent on Monday following various reports the company suspended production of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone. CNN Money, citing a "person familiar with...

Fitbit Inc (NYSE: FIT) is the world's biggest seller of activity trackers. The Fitbit Charge 2 has been called the best fitness tracker ever by Gizmodo, but The Verge said bugs plagued the product. Investors are seemingly concerned with Fitbit's new product sales, with the stock plummeting nearly...

Nilay Patel, editor-in-chief of The Verge, was a guest on CNBC's "Squawk Box" segment Friday morning to discuss what he views as "2 sides to Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL)'s story" — both of which occur within the Google segment. Patel stated that it is hard to look at Google's...

When famous whistle-blower Edward Snowden called reporters to his hotel room in Hong Kong to share some of the NSA’s secrets, he asked every one of them to put their cell phones in the minibar. And no, he hadn’t gone mad. The idea behind such a weird request was to block any unwanted...

Pokémon GO is the latest craze and helped boost the valuation of Tokyo-listed Nintendo Co., Ltd (TYO: 7974) (ADRs traded (OTC: NTDOY)) by around 25 percent. However, the augmented reality mobile game is also proving to be a safety concern. Here is a compilation of some of the injuries crimes and...

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)’s Worldwide Developers Conference will take place next week in San Francisco.The tech behemoth uses this event to preview new software. On this occasion, the company will also present its news revenue sharing scheme and other plans for its App Store aimed at...

A report from Variety said that Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) has decided to shut down its online video segment, Yahoo Screen. Variety noted that Screen livestreamed an NFL game in October, offered clips of "Saturday Night Live," and aired the TV series "Community." Yahoo...