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Google Celebrates 25th Anniversary Of The Web With Guest Post From Its Inventor

Google is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the web with a guest post on the official Google Blog by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web. Berners-Lee briefly recounts how he came to invent the web and makes an impassioned plea for governments across the globe to reject censorship and adopt an official digital …

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Spotify Buys Echo Nest For Enhanced Music Discovery Engine

Spotify announced today that it has acquired music data platform The Echo Nest. Spotify says it will use the Echo Nest technology to continue improving user experience on Spotify and improve its music discovery engine. More specifically, Spotify will look to leverage The Echo Nest’s musical understanding and tools for curation to drive music discovery. …

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Facebook in drone business

Facebook Is Now In The Drone Business

If you thought that Facebook dropping $19 billion (and change) to buy WhatsApp would have put the social network out of the deal-making space for the next several quarters—after all, even Mark Zuckerberg only has so many billions to spend—you assumed…

Android Chewing Away at iPad’s Market Share - Convergent1 - Houston, TX

Android Chewing Away at iPad’s Market Share

Apple’s iPad—long the dominant force in tablets—faces increasing competition from touch-enabled devices running Google Android. While that’s not necessarily a shocking revelation—Android has spent the past several years steadily gaining market…