IBM and Lenovo closed on the sale of IBM’s x86 server business to Lenovo two years ago. It’s hard to find examples where the transfer of assets between two direct competitors work out well for both, but here we are, two years later…

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Our biggest bets have little to do with our classic products, print or digital.

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Watch out, Comcast and Apple. Chinese online video superstar LeEco is taking direct aim at the lucrative U.S. online video and smartphone markets, with plans for major new product launches later this month. I’ll admit I’m doing a bit of educated guessing here, since the company  formally known as LeTV hasn’t made any formal announcements yet on its U.S. ambitions.

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Make it easier for customers to try, buy and get help.

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Netflix‘s stock saw a marginal uptick when rumors of Disney‘s and Apple‘s potential interest in the streaming giant surfaced. Rumor has it that Disney is looking at a few acquisition options, and Netflix could be one of the main targets. Disney has been hurt by the prevalent cord-cutting trend, which has made the future of its lucrative ESPN business somewhat cloudy. Adding Netflix to its portfolio could change Disney’s fortunes overnight, as the media giant could easily leverage Netflix’s 80 million subscriber base and its international reach to bolster its entertainment properties.

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515,000 devices made by Chinese company Hangzhou XiongMai Technologies are vulnerable to simple hacks. Many were exploited to launch record DDoS attacks, researcher claims.

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Theranos, the formerly $9 billion company that FORBES revalued in July at $800 million, will shutter all its blood testing facilities.

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The worst thing about jumping on the bandwagon of really new tech is that, most of the time, it just doesn’t work that well. Remember the first mainstream touch screen devices of the late 90s? Or the first laptops? They were terribly clunky, unresponsive, and most important — pricey. But we do it anyway, because it’s human nature to want the shiniest, coolest thing. Heck, I still remember lugging around a bulky Sega Game Gear as a kid, so proud of having “cutting edge” portable gaming, even though the battery life was so bad my parents began yelling at me for asking them to buy too many batteries (the handheld needed six AA batteries just to run for three or four hours).

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Bloomberg News published a mouth-watering story recently about a drone experiment called Project Wing involving the delivery of… braised pork burritos?

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