Uber will soon join an ugly but exclusive club: Unprofitable companies worth more than $50 billion

This is Uber's central challenge as it moves from the cozy confines of the Bay Area, where venture capital and private equity firms fund futuristic projects, to the rigors of Wall Street.

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The dead may outnumber the living on Facebook within 50 years

New analysis predicts the dead may outnumber the living on Facebook within 50 years, a trend that will have grave implications for how we treat our digital heritage in the future.

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Here's how Amazon robots could make the deliveryman extinct

Amazon revealed a plan to offer Prime members one-day shipping, but the biggest logistics innovation from Jeff Bezos may depend on Scout, a robot.

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Legal gambling from your phone could be a $150 billion industry, but making it happen will be tough

FanDuel and DraftKings are racing to capture the $150 billion sports-betting market, but they have a treacherous road ahead of them.

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Google Bans Chinese App Developer With 600 Million Downloads From Play Store: Report

Google is banning Chinese app developer DO Global, which has around 100 apps in Play Store, following accusations of ad fraud.

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Why Amazon's ad sales growth has slowed (and why it may pick up again)

The hype around Amazon's ad business has faded and advertisers are thinking more carefully about which platforms provide the highest return.

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Rebel Tesla rebuilder with a popular YouTube channel is now opening a shop to fix cars Tesla can't

Rich Benoit turned his Tesla obsession into a viral YouTube channel. Now, he's opened the doors on an all electric car repair business outside of Boston.

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Facebook sues firm for Instagram fraud

In order to "protect the integrity" of its platform, social networking giant Facebook has sued a New Zealand based fraud company that sold inauthentic likes, views and followers for Instagram posts and accounts for an undisclosed amount.

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Facebook thinks data localisation in India could be risky

India's data localisation demands are understandable but allowing it for one nation can trigger a demand from countries which are much more authoritarian and can misuse the citizens' data, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said.

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Accounts of the dead on Facebook might surpass those of living in next 50 years

Accounts of dead people on Facebook might surpass the number of accounts of those who are alive, in the coming 50 years, a study has found.

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Google removing 100 apps from Chinese developer on Play Store

Suspecting malicious cyber attacks and data breach possibilities, Google is removing apps from a Chinese Android app developer - DO Global - which holds roughly 100 apps in the Play Store with over 600 million installs and is partly owned by Internet major Baidu.

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PayPal invests $500 million in Uber: Report

​PayPal has been working with Uber providing payment services since 2013 and is its lead processing partner in the US and Australia (but not the only one globally), according to TechCrunch.

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Tiny robots powered by magnetic fields could help drug-delivery nanoparticles reach their targets

MIT engineers have designed tiny robots that can help drug-delivery nanoparticles push their way out of the bloodstream and into a tumor or another disease site. Like crafts in "Fantastic Voyage"—a 1960s science fiction film in which a submarine crew shrinks in size and roams a body to repair damaged cells—the robots swim through the bloodstream, creating a current that drags nanoparticles along with them.

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Chemists manipulate the quantum states of gold nanoclusters

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Chemistry have found a way to control the lifetime of the quantum states of gold nanoclusters by three orders of magnitude, which could lead to improvements in solar cell and photocatalysis technologies. Their study is published in the April 18 issue of Science.

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Nanoparticles take a fantastic, magnetic voyage

Engineers have designed tiny robots that can help drug-delivery nanoparticles push their way out of the bloodstream and into a tumor or another disease site. The magnetic microrobots could help to overcome one of the biggest obstacles to delivering drugs with nanoparticles: getting them to exit blood vessels and accumulate in the right place.

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A personality test for ads

People leave digital footprints online, and this information could helps marketers personalize ads based on individual personality types.

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