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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft's Office for iOS, Android: Not until fall 2014? — Summary: An alleged roadmap for Microsoft's two-year wave of coming Office updates implies Office for iOS and Android may be further away than many industry watchers thought. — An alleged roadmap for Microsoft's coming ‘Gemini’ wave … | Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows: |
A Theory about the Office on iPad Schedule — Could Office for iPad really be delayed until late 2014?? — Mary Jo Foley has published a fascinating peek at the timetable for Outlook RT, as well as coming versions of Office on iPad, Android, Mac OS X, and Windows RT. And while the dates …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Exclusive: Microsoft's next Xbox will take over your TV, interact with your cable box — The fight for the living room continues — Microsoft is investing in TV in a big way with its next Xbox console as part of a fight for the living room. Multiple sources familiar with the company's Xbox plans …
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| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins And Andreessen Horowitz Team Up As “Glass Collective” To Invest In Google Glass Ecosystem — Today, Google Ventures announced a partnership with two of the biggest technology venture capital firms in the world, Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins, on what they're calling the “Glass Collective.”
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Glass Explorer Edition To Ship Within The Next Month, Google Confirms — Today during Google Venture's “Glass Collective” event, Google told us that it hopes to get the Glass hardware into the hands of developers “within the next month.” The exact date for when Google plans to ship …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Well, That Was Fast: Twitter Already Shut Down Ribbon's Newly Launched In-Stream Payments Feature — This morning, payments startup Ribbon announced support for “in-stream” payments on Twitter.com, allowing users to click a button directly within a tweet in order to make a purchase without having to leave the Twitter.com website.
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple's Ouster of AppGratis Is Just the Start of an App Store Crackdown — Simon Dawlat, founder of AppGratis — the app-discovery application removed from the iTunes App Store this week for developer guideline violations — said he's “in total disbelief” at Apple's action. And it's hard to blame him.
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| Matthew Boesler / Business Insider: |
Bitcoin Is Crashing — It's shaping up to be a pretty ugly day for Bitcoin. — After soaring past $250 earlier, it's tumbled all the way down to current levels around $156. — Bitcoin is now 41 percent off its intraday high of $266. — The chart below shows Bitcoin prices since April 7.
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Tweets: @stroughtonsmith, @thestalwart, @binarybits, @jwherrman and @thestalwart
| Kellex / Droid Life: |
Google Babel News: Google Voice Support “Eventually” Coming, Synced Notifications, “First Class” iOS Experience — Whenever Google Babel does arrive for public consumption, we're starting to believe it will be everything we have ever asked for in a unified messenger service.
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| Clare Jim / Reuters: |
Hon Hai first quarter sales down as iPhone disappoints — (Reuters) - Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd, the main manufacturer of Apple Inc products, posted a 19 percent decline in sales in the first quarter compared with a year earlier, hurt by disappointing demand for the iPhone.| Ian Sherr / Wall Street Journal: |
IDC: Global PC Shipments Drop 13.9% in First Quarter — Worldwide shipments of personal computers fell 13.9% in the first quarter, according to market researcher IDC, in the biggest decline since the firm began issuing quarterly numbers in 1994. — The grim estimate of 76.3 million units shipped …
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| Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
IRS claims it can read your e-mail without a warrant — The ACLU has obtained internal IRS documents that say Americans enjoy “generally no privacy” in their e-mail messages, Facebook chats, and other electronic communications. — The Internal Revenue Service doesn't seem to believe …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Launches Partner Categories, 500+ Generic Profiles To Target Ads Better, With Data From Datalogix, Epsilon, Axciom — Facebook today is taking another step ahead in its ad targeting strategy, which serves users advertising based on their location and online purchasing and browsing histories.| Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal: |
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
In Midst of Mobile Pivot, Mozilla CEO Kovacs to Step Down Later This Year — Gary Kovacs, who has been CEO of Mozilla for just over two years, will be stepping down later this year, the company announced this morning to employees. The Mountain View, Calif.-based open source software nonprofit foundation … | Jennifer Martinez / Hillicon Valley: |
Cybersecurity bill advances in House — The House Intelligence Committee passed a controversial cybersecurity bill on an 18-2 vote Wednesday. — The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, known as CISPA, is expected to be voted on in the House next week with a set of other cybersecurity-focused bills.
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| iFixit: |
Oculus Rift Teardown — Let's face it, the year is 2013. Where are our flying cars? Why isn't deep space travel a thing yet? Why hasn't virtual reality become, well, reality? The Oculus Rift seeks to fill that lack of virtual reality in our lives. Still in its early developmental stage …
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| Alex Williams / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox For Teams Gets Dropped In Re-Branding To Reflect “Business” Focus — Dropbox is renaming Dropbox Teams to better reflect its change in business focus. The move comes in tandem with Dropbox's new support for single sign on (SSO) and partnerships with Okta and other identity providers.| Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg: |
Yahoo Dealmaker Reses Targets Mobile Talent in M&A Spree — Yahoo Dealmaker Targets Mobile Talent in M&A Spree — Marissa Mayer's strategy of using deals to reignite growth at Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) will hinge on the success of a private-equity veteran named Jacqueline Reses who was largely unknown in Silicon Valley six months ago.
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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
LinkedIn Beefs Up Recruiter, the Company's Biggest Revenue Driver — Ask any tech trader on the Street — LinkedIn is consistently crushing it every earnings season. Question is, how does the one tech company outperforming all its peers on the public market keep up that momentum?
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TechCrunch, The LinkedIn Talent Blog, ZDNet, GigaOM and VentureBeat
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Website Testing Service Optimizely Raises $28M Round Led By Benchmark, Plans Global Expansion — Optimizely, a Y Combinator-incubated startup that helps companies A/B test different versions of their websites, has raised $28 million in Series A funding. — That would be a sizable Series …
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The Optimizely Blog, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Forbes and bizjournals. Tweets: @paulg. Thanks:@alexia
| Stefan Constantinescu / Android Beat: |
Here are the first three commercials for the Samsung Galaxy S4 — Don't ask me why, but every once in a while I'll do a YouTube search for “Galaxy S4″ just to see if something new has turned up. There are plenty of reviews already posted from people in Russia, the Ukraine, and Denmark if you know where to look.
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Engadget, Android Central, Engadget, 9to5Google, Android and Me, Android Community and Gotta Be Mobile. Thanks:@whatthebit
| Jungah Lee / Bloomberg: |
Samsung Office Searched by Police in OLED Technology Leak Probe — South Korean police searched the offices of Samsung Electronics Co. (005930)'s display-making unit yesterday in connection with an investigation into alleged technology theft. — Samsung Display Co., which dominates …
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