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Panasonic Reports Q3 Earnings Beat, As Shares Tank After Tesla's CATL Partnership
Monday, February 3, 2020 - 3:19am | 436Panasonic Corporation's (OTC: PCRFY) posted better-than-expected earnings for the third quarter of the financial year that ended in December 2019 on Monday, after shares tanked earlier in the day. What Happened The Japanese electronics maker reported an operating profit of about $924 million in...
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Rant Against Diversity By Google Software Engineer Goes Viral, Leads To Dismissal
Monday, August 7, 2017 - 9:22am | 736A 10-page rant against Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL)'s moves toward diversity has gone viral at a time when Silicon Valley is under fire for its treatment of women and minorities. The memo by an unnamed male software engineer at the company, which prompted a pointed rebuke from...
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What To Know About Click Farms, The Sweatshops Of The 21st Century
Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - 9:48am | 979There are many instances when the fate of a product is decided by reviews posted online by users or the number of Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) likes, Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) followers and Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG)'s YouTube video views. However, do these metrics really reflect the...
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Hooked On Horsepower: Intel To Sell 18-Core Processor For Speed Freaks
Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - 12:51pm | 475Think your dinky quad-core computer is fast? Computer geeks are freaking out over the horsepower-heavy new processor unveiled by Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), which sports a blistering 18 cores and 36 threads. “This is the most extreme desktop ever introduced,” Gregory Bryant, Intel...
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Homer Simpson's Grease-Stealing Idea Comes To Life: What Else Has Springfield Spawned?
Saturday, May 20, 2017 - 8:22am | 644Business Insider's Will Martin made a keen observation recently by correlating the theft of grease to "The Simpsons." Sounds crazy, but smart criminals know where the money is. Restaurants hire waste handlers to safely remove and dispose of leftover grease from their fryers and...
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A Supreme Court Hearing On Printer Cartridges May Decide The Future Of Retail And Resale
Thursday, April 6, 2017 - 8:04am | 691A landmark case that could have ramifications for more than one industry is before the U.S. Supreme Court, and the case has polarized people as varied as companies, scholars, consumer advocacy groups, government and the legal fraternity as well. The Printer Cartridge Patent Case The U.S. Supreme...
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Here's Why The New York Times Really Bought The Wirecutter
Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - 8:38am | 312The New York Times has announced it is buying The Wirecutter, a five-year-old online consumer guide/product-recommendation service for a reported $30 million. The Wirecutter, founded by former editor at Gizmodo Brian Lam, provides recommendations for technology products "...
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Fitbit Is Crashing, But Mizuho Believes Initial Charge 2 Sales Are 'Strong'
Thursday, September 29, 2016 - 2:37pm | 308Fitbit 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...
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Amazon May Have Spoiled Apple's iPhone 7 Debut
Wednesday, September 7, 2016 - 12:52pm | 306Someone at Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) may have made a giant blunder. According to Gizmodo, Amazon accidentally released its shopping page for iPhone 7 accessories a full hour ahead of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) official announcement and release of the new phone. The pictures on Amazon's...
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Mark Zuckerberg: 'No Evidence' Conservative Topics Were Suppressed In Trending Topics
Friday, May 13, 2016 - 9:06am | 348Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB), said he found "no evidence" with respect to a report that said the social media giant's contractors "routinely suppressed conservative news" in trending topics. Zuckerberg responded to the report with a following post on...
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Ex-Facebook Employees Say They 'Routinely Suppressed Conservative News'
Monday, May 9, 2016 - 11:14am | 317The trending news section of Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) has sometimes pushed stories that weren't trending at all, a report on Gizmodo reported. "Workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers," the report read. "Several former curators described using something called...
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The Dozen Journalists Behind The Most Valuable Real Estate On The Internet
Wednesday, May 4, 2016 - 5:08pm | 352Mark Zuckerberg wants Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) to take over the digital news business. The first step in that process may be the company’s experimental “trending news” project. The trending news section has been around since early 2014. The section appears in the top right...
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Drone Companies Are Teaming Up To Lobby Politicians And GoPro Is Involved
Tuesday, April 5, 2016 - 10:45am | 415'Drone Manufacturers, Assemble!' The Drone Manufacturers Alliance, a four-company strong coalition of drone developers, is made up of 3DR, DJI, Parrot and GoPro Inc (NASDAQ: GPRO) and while it is the thing of science fiction or superhero comics, it does provide a glimpse into an innovative and...
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Amazon To Put Roots Down With Bookstores?
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 - 9:00am | 558E-commerce giant Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has been blamed for falling sales at brick and mortar competitors like Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) and Macy's, Inc. (NYSE: M). The company's dominance in the retail market was often attributed to the convenience of online...
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Is BlackPhone 2 Replacing BlackBerry?
Monday, March 2, 2015 - 10:57am | 265Silent Circle claimed at a launch event that its new secure smartphone, the Blackphone 2, it is going to replace BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ: BBRY), according to a Gizmodo report. The company's security specialist, Mike Janke, said, "We don't care that BlackBerry's CEO is throwing...