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ELECTRONICS 
February 25, 2016 LG Electronics Senses Breakout Moment With G5 Smartphone
LG’s new G5 smartphone getting a run-through in Barcelona this week. ENLARGE LG’s new G5 smartphone getting a run-through in Barcelona this week. PHOTO: JOAN CROS/NURPHOTO/ZUMA PRESS By MIN-JEONG LEE in Seoul and JONATHAN CHENG in Barcelona Feb. 24, 2016 12:05 a.m. ET 17 COMMENTS After several years lost in the shuffle of Android handset […]
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February 25, 2016 Sassy Woman or Machine? Tech Giants Divided Over Digital Assistants
When users ask Siri, Apple’s digital assistant, what she likes to drink, she is quick with an answer. “I have a thirst for knowledge,” she responds. Her counterpart at Microsoft, Cortana, opts for a very, very dry martini. But M, the digital assistant Facebook is testing, deflects the question. “I don’t have an opinion about […]
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February 25, 2016 Why the US Government and Tech Firms Can’t Agree About Encryption
Your phone is getting better and better at protecting your privacy. But Uncle Sam isn’t totally comfortable with that, because it’s also complicating the work of tracking criminals and potential national-security threats. For decades, tech companies have steadily expanded the use of encryption – a data-scrambling technology that shields information from prying eyes, whether it’s […]
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February 25, 2016 Apple’s Failed Retail Revolution: Beacons Still Won’t Be Big on Black Friday
Hari Gottipati, an independent tech consultant, saw the future of shopping in 2013. In its annual update to the software for its mobile devices, Apple had just made it possible for its phones to allow super-precise location services-and that would be a major coup for the staid world of coupons. While the global positioning system […]
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February 25, 2016 Black Friday Sales: The Best Online Deals for International Buyers
Wondering how you can make the most of Black Friday deals that are available right now in the US? While you can’t really get hold of most of the heavy appliances, you can easily buy other gadgets online and have them delivered to your place in India. Below are some of the best deals we […]
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February 25, 2016 For Some People, the Older the Smartphone, the Better
Between splashy launches, lavish new-phone offers (get a free HDTV on activation!) and frequent software updates that slow down your old handset, it sometimes feels like the entire technology industry is pushing you to buy the latest smartphone. Yet some holdouts resist. Take Zak Sommerfield, 35, a software analyst in New York, who has hung […]
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NEWS 
February 24, 2016 Billionaire Wisdom: 8 Insights From a Quartet of the World’s Most Effective Entrepreneurs
Until very recently, taking on grand challenges was off-limits for most people. Historically, going big meant huge capital outlays and multi-decade bets. It meant staging personnel in dozens, sometimes hundreds, of countries. Assembling the astounding array of talent required an infrastructure for hiring, retaining and retraining it as technology evolved. But with the wealth of […]
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February 24, 2016 These Are the World’s Top 10 Young Billionaires
Life isn’t fair. Some earn their billions; others are born into them. Most of the world’s youngest billionaires fall in the latter category, but not Mark Elliot Zuckerberg. The 31-year-old hoodie clad programming prodigy is without a doubt a standout self-made billionaire, striking it beyond rich with a social media game-changer that forever transformed how humans […]
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NEWS 
February 24, 2016 This City Just Unseated New York City as the Billionaire Capital of the World
Beijing just surpassed New York City to become the city with the most billionaires in the world. A hundred billionaires are based in the Chinese capital compared to New York City’s 95, according to findings from theHurun Global Rich List, an annual wealth ranking from the Shanghai-based Hurun Report. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are […]
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February 24, 2016 Every Successful Entrepreneur Had These Skills
What is Entrepreneurship? It is the ability to flourish, organize, and command a business model involved with risks in order to a get a profit. It is an engine, which, when combined with Land, Natural Resources, and Capital can drive the economy in a positive manner. Entrepreneurs are characterized by their vision, their innovative techniques […]
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February 24, 2016 Want to Sell Your Phone? Get a Better Deal With These Startups
Selling off old phones and other gadgets can be tricky, because it’s hard to know what value you can expect for it. You could always go in for an exchange offer (there are several even when buying online, and at the local store) but the deal you get is rarely as good as when you […]
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February 24, 2016 2016 Samsung Galaxy A7, Galaxy A5, Galaxy A3: What’s New and Improved
Samsung finally took the wraps off its three new Galaxy A (2016) smartphones on Wednesday that are a definitive upgrade over its predecessors. The new smartphones namely Samsung Galaxy A3 (2016), Galaxy A5 (2016), and Galaxy A7 (2016) feature metal build and will also be available in dual-SIM options. The Galaxy A7 (2016) is the […]
