Tag: Million
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iPhone 6S Predicted To Sell 10m On Release
It seems that for as long as we have known, Apple and their iPhone have dominated the sales statistics of the smartphone market. As it always is, there has to be a leader in any sort of industry, and it so happens to be them. You might say it’s their charm, or their style, or […]
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Apple Buys LinX Camera Company
Apple are always ready for the next yearly iPhone release – the mobile phone has had a brand new version come out for the holiday season for close to ten years in a row, or since 2007. The mobile phone pretty much set the standard for modern smartphones, and carries on doing so with every […]
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British Gas Buys Hive Owner AlertMe
Home automation systems are a great new way to make it a lot easier to get your central heating and hot water boiling in order. Systems such as Hive and Google’s Nest are both prominent products in the field, and now it seems that the British Gas partner Hive is to be fully acquired by […]
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Researcher Leaks 100M Passwords Online
Don’t worry, your password is safe, but yes, a researcher named Mark Burnett has leaked a huge collection of usernames and passwords onto the internet, with the main reason for doing so being a good one. Burnett’s leakage is designed to make it easier for other researchers to understand the trends behind the passwords people choose. […]
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Apple To Fund $848 Million Solar Farm
Apple are about to take a leap forward into the future of clean energy, as the tech giant is set to pour a huge sum into the building of a brand new solar farm, which is expected to generate huge amounts of energy from the sun’s rays and send it direct to Apple’s premises as […]
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Snoop Dogg To Fund US Pot Startups
There’s a whole lot of money going into weed right now. There’s a new wave of cannabis fueled industries in states in the US that have newly embraced the legal status of the recreational substance, with some reporting massive profiteering off the herb. In fact, Colorado has said recently that they have raised $60 million from […]
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WhatsApp Grows To 700 Million Users
WhatsApp has been going forward in leaps and bounds with regards to user numbers – the messaging network now boasts a user base of 700 million, and apparently messages sent on the service every day total to around 30 billion. The numbers we see today in the tech world get more staggering every year, and […]
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7.9 Million Players Now Using PS Plus
Sony is usually a bit reluctant to release detailed figures on how many gamers have got involved with PlayStation Plus, an add-on service which delivers free content, discounts and additional features to users on the online PlayStation Network. The service rivals Microsoft’s Xbox Live Gold package, and whilst Sony’s free to play multiplayer on the […]
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Zuckerberg Pledges 25Mil to Ebola Care
Facebook bossman and known philanthropist Mark Zuckerberg has thrown his massive fortune in front of the advancing ebola epidemic which plagues coastal west Africa as we speak. The deadly virus was discovered in Guinea in December last year, and has gradually spread to neighbouring Sierra Leone and Liberia, claiming thousands of lives by means of […]
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Tesco Buys Music Streaming Site We7 for £10.8m
Supermarket giant Tesco has confirmed that they have bought a controlling stake in internet radio site We7.
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Apple’s iCloud Hits 125 Million Users
The online storage and syncing service which ensures that your iOS devices are up-to-date and sync’d across all your Apple products, has reached the 125 million user milestone..
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Netflix Loses $100 Million In First Quarter Of 2012, Blames European Expansion
Netflix shares took a tumble today after the company revealed thay they lost $100 million during the first quarter of 2012, which has been attributed to cost in bringing the service to the UK & Ireland. Their US division lost $5 million, which accounts for 88% of its 26 million subscribers. Netflix made $60 million […]