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Amazon now officially owns Twitch

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Twitch was initially meant to be purchased by Youtube, or so the story went. This rumor was dispelled last month however as Amazon announced its plans of acquiring the streaming platform. A listing on SEC reveals that the deal is now finalized and Amazon is the proud owner of Twitch. The retailer giant had to pay $970 million in order ...

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Facebook drones will deliver internet connections

Drones have been all the rage lately, with the Amazon Prime Air drones, Google’s Project Wing and DHL’s Parcelcopters. Facebook is getting in on the business, but with a much more interesting cause driving the company. Facebook will use the unmanned drones to deliver an internet connection to areas where people don’t have access to it. Facebook plans to implement ...

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Amazon expanding to the wearable and home automation market

Amazon is one of the biggest e-commerce sites out there and the company has started developing its own electronics for consumers since 2007. We’ve seen the Kindle, Kindle Fire, Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Voyage, along with the Fire phone and Kindle Fire HDX. It seems that Amazon is going to try its luck with another two markets: wearable technology and ...

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Dell Venue 11 Pro vs Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9

Even though convertible tablets like the Asus Transformer Book T100, Lenovo Yoga Pro 2 and Lenovo Switch 11 are enjoying increasing popularity, the saturated tablet market remains noteworthy, because people still tend to gravitate towards powerful tablets like the Dell Venue 11 or Amazon’s Kindle Fire HDX. Tablets are becoming an integrated part of our lives, almost as much as ...

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Kindle Voyage – smaller high-res e-book reader listed

Almost a year has past since Amazon updated the Kindle line, the Kindle Paperwhite being the last device released by the company. A refresh to the tablet line was an expected occurrence, and some diligent people have spotted a Kindle Voyage listing on German and Japanese Amazon stores. The Kindle Paperwhite featured a 6 inch E-ink screen with 1024*768 resolution and 212 ...

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Amazon Fire TV: UK Release Date Revealed

Amazon’s Fire TV box has launched earlier this year in America and it is set to launch on October 23 in the UK and Germany, according to Amazon’s Vice President of Product Marketing Peter Larson’s announcement at IFA 2014. Pre-orders are now available and the TV streaming box is up for grabs at £79. Amazon Prime subscribers have a limited-time ...

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Microsoft, Amazon and Samsung rumored to be interested in Cyanogen

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Word on the street lately is that a lot of companies are interested in a possible partnership with the Cyanogen team. They are well known for the CyanogenMod custom ROM, which is based on the Android operating system, but can be customized in various ways. However, the team is perhaps even more famous for their work on the software that’s running on ...

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Amazon Fire Phone is not selling very good according to analysts

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I’m sure most of you remember the insane amount of hype that surrounded the Amazon Fire Phone a while back. The device launched about two months ago, but we haven’t heard much about it since then and the hype died down lately as well. This could only mean that the handset wasn’t actually that interesting after all, but what exactly went wrong? ...

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