Amazon rates itself, AT&T misses the mark, Microsoft’s first laptop and more.
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Amazon rates itself, AT&T misses the mark, Microsoft’s first laptop and more.
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Nearly two in every three US adults presently engage with a social networking site, which represents a stratospheric rise from Pew Research’s figure of just 7 percent a decade ago.
After a scathing report on Amazon’s extreme workplace culture hit this summer, the company is now surveying employees on a daily basis to make sure things are moving in the right direction.
The good news: iPhone users can finally make standard phone calls over wi-fi with AT&T. The bad — er, sickening news: you can’t use it overseas, which effectively defeats its primary purpose.
Hard though it may be to believe, it has taken until 2015 for Microsoft to ship its own branded laptop. The 13.5-inch Surface Book ships later this month for $1,499 and up.
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BlackBerry’s CEO has stated that it must move 5 million phones a year, or else it may pull out of the industry it helped define just a decade ago.
The most popular major for females at Stanford University? It’s now computer science, a program where nearly one in three people enrolled are ladies.
As Amazon continues its march to become the Alibaba of North America, it has launched Handmade — a rival to Etsy that features handmade goods from 60 countries.
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