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Meet the Long Islander who won $100K playing Candy Crush on the LIRR — now he's gunning for $1M
"The LIRR became a lot sweeter when I began to play Candy Crush Saga. From there, beating levels became a staple in my day," he bragged.
Abandoned village in Alabama to be remade into neighborhood for homeless veterans
An abandoned village in southern Alabama is reportedly set to become a neighborhood for homeless veterans — giving new life to a small community that never recovered from the industrial...
Defrocked priest fled to Italy with teen he had been 'grooming': cops
"I believe there was some grooming that's gone on, and you've got a much older adult interacting with teenage girls in an inappropriate way," Sheriff Paul Burch told NBC 15. He also...
Flipping out for flip phones? Where to buy one in 2023 to fit in with Gen Z
QWERTY? I don't know her.
FCC demands answers after nationwide T-Mobile outage
Federal regulators have vowed to get to the bottom of a widespread T-Mobile network outage that left customers across the country with no cell service. Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit...
Starbucks readies barista-free store
Starbucks Corp. will open a dedicated mobile-order-and-pay store next week in its Seattle headquarters building as it tests how to best serve convenience-oriented customers, the company said in a letter...
Foursquare finds itself a new CEO
Dennis Crowley is getting kicked upstairs at Foursquare. The struggling mobile app’s hipster founder, 39, is being replaced as chief executive by operating chief Jeff Glueck as the company raises...
Sports Illustrated to release movies on digital channel
Time Inc. is taking another step to diversify its offerings. It plans to release six new films for desktop and mobile consumption before year-end via its newly unveiled Sports Illustrated...
Kim Kardashian talks social media at tech conference
It’s high tech vs. low tech in a California conference war. The Wall Street Journal had Jack Ma and Tim Cook speaking while Digital media destination Re/code offered up Kim...
Ex-Bloomberg exec challenging terminals with mobile platform
To say Morgan Downey has an uphill climb would be understating the obvious. Downey, former global head of commodities at Bloomberg for four years, plans to take on his former...
Sports Illustrated rebuilding its mobile and web sites
Sports Illustrated is looking to get its digital game on. SI will relaunch its mobile and Web offerings Tuesday in a bid to break into the top 10 in the...
Free Passover assistant app created for Android and iPhone
Bubbe should have had it so easy. A free cellphone app takes some of the schlep out of Passover — the most labor-intensive Jewish holiday of the year — by...
FTC gives Facebook go-ahead on WhatsApp deal: source
Facebook has gotten regulatory approval for its controversial acquisition of WhatsApp, a source close to the situation said. The Federal Trade Commission was close to hitting its deadline to approve...
Mobile banking is huge for small businesses
The lucrative business that could flow from mobile banking is one cash cow that profit-starved US banks don’t need to nickel-and-dime customers in order to milk. A new study by...
Report reveals average US family owns four mobile devices
America has become a nation of TV-, smartphone- and tablet-screen zombies — addicted to the glow so absolutely that many can’t even look away when they’re in the bathroom. In...
Doctor duo's healthcare app joins burgeoning industry
Forgeddabout ObamaCare. New York doctors are on the cutting edge of the latest mobile healthcare technology. And it makes medicine more affordable and accessible, professionals say. Such high-tech advances as...
Mobile shopping searches peak on Christmas Eve
Procrastinators rule holiday shopping, according to a new report on mobile search. Mobile searches for store locations and gift ideas peak on Christmas Eve, not Black Friday, the so-called biggest...
Twitter coming to mobile phones without Internet
Twitter is tying up with a Singapore-based startup to make its 140-character messaging service available to users in emerging markets who have entry-level mobile phones which cannot access the Internet. U2opia Mobile,...
Obama denied iPhone for 'security reasons'
The troubled mobile phone maker BlackBerry still has at least one loyal customer: President Obama. At a meeting with youth on Wednesday to promote his landmark health care law, Obama said he...
Linkedin revenue soars 56%
LinkedIn Corp announced strong user growth and better-than-expected third quarter revenue of $393 million on Tuesday, a 56 percent jump from a year ago, but issued a conservative revenue forecast...