Weapons and picture frames: Taser International acquires a photo sharing service

Video recording glasses

It may seem strange that one of the country's largest non-lethal weapons manufacturer is purchasing a Seattle-based tech startup that turns smartphones and tablets into digital picture frames, but Taser International is steadily growing beyond its widely adopted electric stun gun and into the first-person video market with products like Axon Flex and Evidence.com.

For Taser, capturing incidents on camera is a high priority

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Xiaomi is shaking up the Chinese smartphone market with quality, and rabbits

Xiaomi Phone

In three short years since its inception, Chinese company Xiaomi has sold 20 million smartphones, cornered five percent of its home country's smartphone market, and been valued at $10 billion. The Wall Street Journal spoke to the company's founder and CEO, Lei Jun, to find out what fueled such meteoric growth.

The answers include the use of user feedback to add features to upcoming handsets, and a focus on quality that makes phones like Xiaomi's Mi3 the technical equal of the iPhone 5C. T...


Amazon wins case for $600 million CIA contract

Amazon Press Event

A new ruling today clears the path for Amazon's planned $600 million cloud storage contract with the CIA. Experts say the cloud storage will be used for the agency's least sensitive and most commonly accessed information, with a higher tier of security protecting more classified data. Amazon had been named for the contract earlier this year, but a series of lawsuits with IBM threatened to reopen bidding. Today's ruling from the US Court of...

After losing Waze to Google, Samsung continues to court startups to improve software offerings

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It's no secret that Samsung is a hardware company first. The Korean firm became dominant in televisions and then mobile through efficiency and vertical integration in hardware development and production — not the software on its machines. In a world where a joint Google-Motorola and Microsoft-Nokia are following Apple as masters of both hardware and software, however, Samsung is starting to take the latter seriously. "The future for us is...

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