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WhatsApp: We're Not Selling to Google — Popular messaging app WhatsApp says it is not in discussions to sell the company to Google. — Neeraj Arora, WhatsApp's business development head, told AllThingsDigital today that the company is not holding sales talks with Google.| Francis Bea / Digital Trends: |
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| James Kanter / New York Times: |
Europe Receives Complaint About Google's Android — BRUSSELS — European antitrust regulators have received a formal complaint about Google's Android operating system for mobile devices, even as they move to the final stages of their inquiry into the company's search practices.
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| Sarah Silbert / Engadget: |
Intel announces next-gen Thunderbolt with 20 Gbps throughput, 4K support — Here at NAB, Intel just introduced the next generation of its Thunderbolt interface, which promises a data rate of 20 Gbps in both directions (on each of the two channels) as opposed to 10 Gbps for the previous version.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Nearly 60K Low-Quality Apps Booted From Google Play Store In February, Points To Increased Spam-Fighting — Google has stepped up its efforts to remove spammy or otherwise non-compliant applications from its mobile application marketplace, Google Play, in recent weeks.
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Microsoft planning Xbox event for May — Microsoft had originally been planning to unveil its next-generation Xbox details at an event in April, but The Verge has learned that the company has pushed this back to May. Windows watcher Paul Thurrott revealed recently that Microsoft is planning …
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| Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal: |
New Threat to Aereo TV — Legal Issues in West, Precipitated by Rival Aereokiller, Cloud Diller's Startup — The TV industry's best hope of shutting down TV startup Aereo Inc. anytime soon could rest, bizarrely enough, on a legal case involving something called Aereokiller LLC.| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
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How Wired Magazine Changed the Way We Talk About Technology — Wired co-founders Jane Metcalfe and Louis Rossetto Photos courtesy of Louis Rossetto — Imagine a time before smartphones. Before laptops. Before Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and even the mighty Google.| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Spotify Launches Ad Campaign On YouTube — Spotify's digital music service has 24 million users, and 6 million subscribers. But it wants a lot more. — So it's advertising on the Web's most popular music service: Starting tonight, Spotify is running a one-day “takeover” ad on YouTube's homepage …
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Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet — “When people don't see stuff on Google, they think no one can find it. That's not true.” — That's according to John Matherly, creator of Shodan, the scariest search engine on the Internet. — Unlike Google ( GOOG, Fortune 500) …
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Tiny Chiplets Are a New Level of Micro Manufacturing — PALO ALTO, Calif. — Under a microscope, four slivers of silicon — electronic circuits called chiplets — perform an elaborate, jerky dance as if controlled by a hidden puppet master. Then on command, they all settle with pinpoint accuracy … | Jamie Rigg / Engadget: |
EE plans to double 4G spectrum allocation, will boost first ten cities by summer — While EE scrambles to spread its LTE network far and wide before the other UK carriers get into the 4G business, it also wants to flex some spectrum muscle. The network's announced it's planning to double …
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Confirmed: Apple Kicks AppGratis Out of the Store for Being Too Pushy — Apple has ousted a popular app-discovery application from its iTunes App Store, claiming the app circumvented App Store rules preventing applications promoting other apps and direct marketing.
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| Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
Samsung's $399, 16GB Galaxy Note 8.0 Will Launch In The U.S. On April 11 — After showing off the international version of its pint-sized Galaxy Note 8.0 back at Mobile World Congress, Samsung is gearing up to launch its newest Note tablet in the U.S. in just a few days.| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Just Six Months After Being Acquired, Twitter's Vine Hits #1 Free Spot On Apple's App Store — Twitter acquired the mini-video-taking app Vine last October before it ever launched, sending everyone into a frenzy about the company getting into the video space. — In late January, Twitter finally launched the app to much applause.| Heather Harde / Facebook: |
As to recent allegations that have been leveled at my former business partner, Michael Arrington: Michael recruited me to be his CEO. TechCrunch was a calling for him, not just a business venture. That he trusted me to grow it from his bedroom-based hobby to a leading media outlet speaks most authentically of his regard for women.
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CourseSmart E-Textbooks Track Students' Progress for Teachers — SAN ANTONIO — Several Texas A&M professors know something that generations of teachers could only hope to guess: whether students are reading their textbooks. — They know when students are skipping pages … | Erica Ogg / GigaOM: |
Hey, Tim Cook: We found an executive to run Apple Retail for you — Ron Johnson is out as CEO of J.C. Penney. After less than two years on the job, it's not quite clear what the next step would be for him. Luckily for him, it just so happens that Johnson's former employer, Apple …
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Move Over, Apple and Google: Apperating Systems Are Taking Over Your Phones — Last week's Facebook announcement was not much of a surprise. Everyone knew Zuck & Co. were out to invade Android, offering big, blue and white thumbs to stamp on every aspect of a user's mobile experience.
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Google's AdMob Drops iOS SDK Support for UDIDs as Apple's May 1 Deadline Nears — Google has released an updated version of its AdMob SDK for iOS (version 6.4.0) that retires access to Unique Device Identifiers (UDID), weeks before Apple's official deadline for deprecating the system.
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BlackBerry Q10 will be available in Canada on April 30th — BlackBerry is on the cusp of releasing their second BlackBerry 10 device. The Q10 has the iconic design of years past, but updated with the new BlackBerry 10 OS. Many loyal BlackBerry users have been waiting for this physical QWERTY/Touch …
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