It’s one of those unofficial but everyone just pretty much knows anyway things: Apple will open its first offline store in Taiwan. The Silicon Valley icon already runs 36 stores in China and five in Hong Kong. Different from independent vendors of Apple gear, the official stores are airy, two-floor affairs crawling with staffers who help users understand how each device works, be that a Mac, iPad or iPhone. Staff people are supposed to be so good that some stores offer a “Genius Bar” or “Genius Grove” where would-be customers can sit with the employees and siphon off their knowledge. You can sit for a drink in some stores or attend their training sessions.

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In the week where the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus hit the retail shelves and then promptly sold out, Apple’s main rival Samsung has had to deal with the increasingly caustic fallout from the flawed battery in the Galaxy Note 7 phablet.

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YellowDog, founded as part of Oracle?s startup incubator in Bristol, England, is tapping public cloud infrastructure to give creative firms the processing power they need to produce complex 3-D renderings of their work.

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It’s no question that Smule has become one of the world’s most powerful social media tools. 4% of the world’s population –350 million people — have used Smule, and their numbers are growing every day. But beyond that, Smule is a testament to the intrinsic human love for music, especially when the power to share and collaborate is placed easily in our hands.

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Corporate leaders can unleash greater productivity by championing equality, according to tennis legend Billie Jean King, who spoke at Oracle OpenWorld.

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Think Google Fiber is the hottest thing in Internet connectivity? Well, there’s a new kid on the block in the form of Project AirGig from AT&T.

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