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Nintendo once laughed Xbox execs out of the room over a Microsoft acquisition offer

Microsoft’s Xbox consoles are considered a pillar of the industry, part of a trifecta that makes up modern gaming. The first Xbox launched in 2001; the Xbox Series X and S arrived just last year. Today, Xbox is a powerhouse, yet it wasn’t always so. Bloomberg’s Dina Bass published an oral history on the creation […]

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Facebook ordered to pay $4.7M to Italian developer over copycat feature

Facebook has been ordered to pay €3.83 million (around $4.72 million) in damages to an Italian developer over the social network’s “Nearby” feature. Reuters reports that the Milan-based appeals court upheld a 2019 ruling saying Facebook had copied the feature from developer Business Competence’s Faround app. The case dates back to 2012. That year, Business

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7 Reasons You Should Own a Seedbox

Seedbox is a dedicated cloud server used to upload and download files online using the BitTorrent protocol, very quickly! If you have downloaded torrent files, and the download is quick, chances are that these files were seeded by some seedbox.  Seedboxes provide incredible upload and download speeds, but their advantages are not limited to these.

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Trump signs executive order blocking transactions with Alipay, WeChat Pay, and six other Chinese apps

President Trump has signed a new executive order prohibiting transactions with the companies behind eight Chinese apps, including Ant Group’s Alipay and Tencent’s QQ and WeChat Pay. Transactions will be prohibited in 45 days, according to text of the order shared by Voice of America White House bureau chief Steve Herman on Twitter. Reuters was

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