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| Cameron Johnson / The Official Netflix Blog: |
Introducing Netflix Social — Movies and TV shows are better with friends. — We get suggestions from our friends for new things to watch and we connect with our friends through the shared enjoyment of a great movie or TV show. — Starting today, Netflix members in the U.S. can share …
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| Bloomberg: |
Netflix Adds Social Options, Facebook Ties for U.S. Users — Netflix Inc. (NFLX), the online video service, began offering U.S. subscribers the ability to peer into each others' digital movie libraries in a long-awaited partnership with Facebook Inc. (FB) — The software, updating features offered … | Bloomberg: |
Samsung Targets Galaxy 4 at Apple's Core IPhone Market — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) is making its biggest run yet at the iPhone's U.S. loyalists, unveiling the new Galaxy S4 a few blocks from Apple (AAPL) Inc.'s flagship store in New York and broadcasting the event live in Times Square.
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| Dan Graziano / BGR: |
Galaxy S IV reportedly won't have eye-scrolling technology or an eight-core processor in the U.S. … With just over one day left until Samsung (005930) unveils the Galaxy S IV, new details have begun to trickle out. Earlier reports claimed the company's flagship smartphone …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Google I/O 2013 Registration Sells Out In 49 Minutes As Users Report Problems Early On Making Payments — Google opened registration for its annual I/O developer conference today at 7 AM PDT, and just as it did last year, the event sold out pretty quickly. This year it took only 49 minutes … | iFixit: |
Pebble Teardown — Welcome to the future of watch evolution. The Pebble E-Paper Watch is the “first watch built for the 21st century.” It can track your bikerides, display your text messages, and even tell the time! We had no choice but to bust the Pebble open and see what made it tick.
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
VMware merges vCloud, Nicira to chase software defined data center — Summary: The company will launch VMware NSX, a combination of vCloud and Nicira technology, in the second half of 2013 to aim at the software defined data center. — VMware said it will merge its vCloud networking … | Barb Darrow / GigaOM: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Samsung Outspends Apple on Phone Advertising — In the smartphone business, following the money leads right to Samsung Electronics Co. — Outspent by rival Apple Inc. more than three to one in advertising for mobile phones in the U.S. in 2011, Samsung responded with a marketing blitz on TV … | Amar Toor / The Verge: |
Apple Stores in France banned from forcing employees to work late — A Paris court this week banned seven French Apple Stores from forcing employees to work night shifts, in response to a complaint filed by a group of national labor unions. As the AFP reports, the court also ordered Apple …
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| Jane Justice Leibrock / Facebook: |
User Experience Lab: How we designed a new News Feed using your feedback — “My feed is cluttered.” That's a piece of feedback the News Feed team has heard countless times. An obvious interpretation could be that people think the design of Feed is too busy and want it to be simplified …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Dell announces XPS 18: a giant all-in-one Windows 8 tablet starting at $899 (hands-on) — When we reviewed the best Windows 8 all-in-one desktop computers, it was a giant, bulky, pricey Dell desktop that rose to the top of the heap. Today, Dell's trying its hand at a radically different Windows 8 experience …
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| Terrence O'Brien / Engadget: |
Alleged Google Now for iOS video leaks on YouTube, is promptly pulled — iOS fans jealous of Jelly Bean's creepy Google Now might finally have something to get excited about. An October update to the Google Search app finally delivered an updated voice recognition experience to Apple's platform …
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| Eliza Kern / GigaOM: |
Study: One in four teens access the internet primarily through mobile — Want to know what U.S. smartphone adoption might look like next year? You'd do well to start by taking a look at today's teenagers, who are owning smartphones and accessing the internet through mobile in increasing numbers.
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| Taylor Hatmaker / ReadWrite: |
Peter Thiel On Not Selling Facebook To Yahoo - And Much More — As it turns out, the man who wants to build a sovereign ocean community off the coast of California is really down to earth. — Tuesday at South by Southwest (SXSW), serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist …
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Greed is Groupon: can anyone save the company from itself? — The team sitting around the table at Groupon's Chicago headquarters in the early spring of 2011 were some of the brightest minds in technology and business. Marc Andreessen, the man who created the modern web browser and Silicon Valley's hottest venture capitalist.
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| Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD: |
How Apple Gets All the Good Apps — Apple tightly controls its software and hardware, and is fiercely competitive in battling its rivals, especially in the mobile market. And yet, while the company never creates apps for anyone else's mobile system or device, each of its major mobile-platform foes …
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: HTC One Headed to Verizon, Too — It looks like HTC's One really will be the one flagship for the Taiwanese phone maker. — When HTC announced the phone last month, it said the One would be sold at AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile. A mention of Verizon was noticeably absent.| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
White House Petition Against CISPA Gets Over The 100,000 Signature Threshold — Yet another White House petition has made it over the 100,000 signature mark, which is necessary to get a response. This one is asking the White House not to support CISPA, arguing that the terms are too broad …
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| Owen Thomas / Business Insider: |
Amazon Has An Estimated 10 Million Members For Its Surprisingly Profitable Prime Club — Amazon hasn't disclosed how many people have signed up for its Prime program, which offers free two-day shipping, a Netflix-like video service, and other perks for a $79 annual fee.
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| Alexis Santos / Engadget: |
Unannounced Motorola Android phone surfaces, isn't the fabled ‘X phone’ (video) — The fine folks at Tinhte have gotten their mitts on a Motorola-made Android phone that hasn't made its official debut. Right out of the gate, the outlet notes that it's not the rumored “X phone” … | Brian Crecente / Polygon: |
Shigeru Miyamoto on Nintendo's innovative past, unsteady present and optimistic future — Before we talk, we play. — Set up in a backroom of Nintendo's Midtown Manhattan offices, Shigeru Miyamato sports a green Luigi t-shirt under a blue sports coat, matching pants and, as always, a smile.
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| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
The Only Thing That Has Really Changed At Apple Is That There's No More Reality Distortion Field — Apple! — A year ago analysts were tripping over themselves to raise their price targets. — This year, they're tripping over themselves to lower their price targets.
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| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
PayPal Acquires Mobile App Development Studio Duff Research To Work On Its Mobile And Digital Wallet — PayPal is acquiring mobile app development studio Duff Research today. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. … Duff Research, which has not raised any venture capital to date … | Marvin Ammori / Slate: |
Uber, Lyft, Sidecar: Can the FTC fight local taxi commissions? — Taxi commissions are crushing disruptive transportation apps. — In 1984, the Federal Trade Commission released a report that explained why taxis could charge customers exorbitant prices for dismal service.
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| Jim Dalrymple / The Loop: |
∞ Apple's Maps being updated often and significantly — Apple's Maps being updated often and significantly — There is no doubt that Apple is working hard on improving its iOS Maps application in the past few months. The results can be seen in an update to the app this week in Japan …
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