Fitbit to buy troubled Pebble, rid of brand: Report

Fitbit will reportedly shutter the Pebble brand, as both fitness band companies have seen a decline in sales. The Apple Watch and Android Wear effect is beginning to kick in.

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GoPro lays off 15 percent of workforce, shutters entertainment division

GoPro's media aspirations are over, as it looks to turn to profitability.

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Amazon Lightsail: The private server killer

Amazon is going after hosting and virtual private server companies with its latest low-end cloud offering.

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Amazon, Intel partner on smart speaker reference design for Alexa products

At re:Invent, Amazon illustrated how the Alexa ecosystem is flourishing, make voice the next commonplace user interface.

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FBI gain expanded hacking powers after lawmakers' efforts to block fail

One leading senator called the expansion in powers "one of the biggest mistakes in surveillance policy in years."

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Box beats Q3 estimates, raises outlook for fiscal year

The enterprise cloud company also marked a corporate milestone in terms of quarterly revenue.

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​AWS' Snowmobile data transport truck highlights why cloud giant is so damn disruptive

Want to move petabytes of data to AWS? The cloud provider has a tractor trailer for that. The move is a bit nutty, but highlights how far AWS will go to gain workloads.

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