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Tech hasn't kept up with food stamp users' needs

by Molly Wood and Kristin Schwab
Sep 14, 2017
A new app makes it easy for SNAP users to check their balances.
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How venture capital works

Following the venture capital money trail

by Molly Wood and Kristin Schwab
Sep 7, 2017
The investments VCs make impact industries beyond Silicon Valley.
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South Korean court sentences Samsung heir to 5 years prison

by Marketplace Contributor
Aug 25, 2017
Samsung accounts for about one fifth of South Korea's exports.
Samsung Group heir Lee Jae-yong leaves the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul on Friday.
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How Apple's technology affects the smartphone repair business

by Ryan Kailath
Jun 7, 2017
The company is rolling out its device to help fix cracked iPhone screens.
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The older generation wants to know more about smartphones

by Molly Wood
Mar 30, 2017
Predictive text, Wi-Fi and selfies were all on the lesson plan at a seminar in NYC.
Ismael Tubens of the AARP teaches a group of senior citizens how to zoom in on an Android phone.
Courtesy AARP
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Samsung hopes S8 phone launch will put out the company’s past fires

by Andy Uhler
Mar 29, 2017
The latest Samsung smartphone, the Galaxy S8, launches today in New York. It’s a totally different device than the Galaxy Note 7 … remember the one whose batteries caught on fire? But this is still a big unveiling for a company with a lot of making up to do. Click the audio player above to […]
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Apple will build iPhones in India, widening its market there

by Reema Khrais
Mar 23, 2017
Smartphone assembly in Bangalore starts in a couple months.
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Still using your Samsung Galaxy Note 7? A battery-killing update is likely headed your way

by Reema Khrais
Dec 28, 2016
The update to end all updates.
A Samsung customer browses a web page showing a fire-damaged Samsung Note 7 mobile phone, on a similar device, at a Samsung store in a mall beneath the company's headquarters in the Gangnam district of Seoul on October 12, 2016. 
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Smartphone: Enter stage left

by Ben Johnson and Danielle Stephens
Dec 12, 2016
How a play in New York is incorporating technology into its production.
Augmented reality allows audience members to see poppies growing around the stage. 
Courtesy of the Builders Association
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How Samsung's phone design caused battery problems

by Scott Tong
Oct 13, 2016
A lesson in the perils of the race to thinner, more energy-packed devices.
A South Korean employee works to provide replacement Samsung Galaxy Note7 smartphones at a telecommunications shop in Seoul.
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