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Groupon Stock Bounces Back as Company Emerges From IPO Quiet PeriodEmerging from its post-IPO quiet period on Wednesday, Groupon trumpeted holiday sales success and expressed defiance at a flurry of recent negative press coverage as its stock continued a partial comeback Thursday from last week’s steep decline. The daily deals site reported in a blog post... Siri Hack Opens Your Car Door and Starts the Engine [VIDEO]A simple Siri hack essentially allows users to control their vehicles with their voices. Using the Viper Control plugin and Siri Proxy, Brandon Fiquett uploaded a video on YouTube demonstrating the capabilities of Apple’s voice-activated technology when it’s been connected to a Cobra r... Ebook Sales Expected to Reach $9.7 Billion by 2016 [STUDY]Ebook sales are expected to generate $9.7 billion worldwide in 2016, more than three times the $3.2 billion the category is expected to generate this year, according to one forecaster. Strong demand for tablets will drive the growth, UK-based Juniper Research said in a report published Thursday. ... YouTube Gets Its Biggest Makeover Ever, Becomes More Google-LikeWe already knew about YouTube’s redesign, which tech-savvy readers have been enabling for the past 10 days. As of now, however, the new YouTube is available to everyone. Unlike parent company Google, which tends to roll out redesigns over a period of days, YouTube pressed the button and s... Google+ Hangouts Now Offer Free Voice CallsGoogle+ is rolling out a feature that allows its users to make free conference calls within Hangouts. Google staffer Jarkko Oikarinen – also the inventor of Internet Relay Chat, the first-ever Internet chat function – used his Google+ page on Thursday to announce that outside phone calls can... Sprint Hopes to Resolve iPhone 4S Growing Pains SoonWhen the iPhone 4S arrived last month, some Sprint customers began complaining about slow or inconsistent connection speeds with their new handsets. Now, the nation’s third largest carrier hopes to clear up the issue by initiating some much-needed network “enhancements,” according to CNET. ... Twitter Account Will Post a Bible Verse Every Day for 86 YearsIn the beginning, Twitter created tweets and … Bible-related Twitter accounts? Yup, and the latest religious handle, @TweetTheBible86, plans to take its sweet time retelling the Christian Bible, tweeting one verse per day for more than eight decades. Three friends launched the 86... What Every Entrepreneur Should Know About Asking For Help [VIDEO]Marissa Evans created her company, Go Try It On, as a means of answering that age-old question, “What should I wear?” Along the way, she recruited a technical team, launched her product at South By Southwest and was able to land $3 million in funding. Check out Marissa’... Top 20 Online Home Delivery SubscriptionsAri Meisel is co-founder at Less Doing, where he works on making every task in life and business more efficient. He used self-tracking to overcome Crohn’s Disease and compete in Ironman France. You can follow him on Twitter @liontex and read his blog at arimeisel.com. You know that counter ... How Bose Headphones Sparked the Noise-Cancellation RevolutionThe Tech Innovators Series is supported by Lenovo. Lenovo does not just manufacture technology. They make Do machines — super-powered creation engines designed to help the people who do, do more, do better, do in brand new ways. We’ve all been on a crowded plane with screaming babies.... |