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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 …
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Computerworld, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, The Register, The Next Web, WinBeta, Pocket-lint, AppleInsider, AndroidOS.in, 9to5Google, iMore, Business Insider, TUAW, Pocketnow, App Advice, Apple Bitch, iDownloadBlog.com, Neowin, LAPTOP Magazine, The Verge, BGR and Gotta Be Mobile. Tweets: @reneritchie
| 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 … | Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
| Ian Sherr / Wall Street Journal: |
Computer Sales in Free Fall — 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 is the latest sign …
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| Aaron Ricadela / Bloomberg: |
| 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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9to5Google, The Next Web, CNET, The Verge, ProgrammableWeb and Droid Life
| 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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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
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| 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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BGR, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, AndroidGuys and SlashGear
| 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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ACLU, The Next Web, TechnoBuffalo, Techlicious Blog …, Hillicon Valley, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Raw Story, WebProNews, The Register and SlashGear. Thanks:@bendreyfuss
| 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: @thestalwart, @binarybits, @jwherrman, @thestalwart, @davidclinchnews and @stroughtonsmith
| Sue Marek / FierceWireless: |
Verizon CEO: 50% of our wireless traffic is video — LAS VEGAS—Video accounts for 50 percent of Verizon Wireless' (NYSE:VZ) network traffic today and by 2017 the carrier estimates video will make up two-thirds of all traffic over the network. Speaking at the National Association …
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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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| 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.| 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 … | 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: |
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Wants To Operate .Search As A “Dotless” Domain, Plans To Open .Cloud, .Blog And .App To Others — If it gets it, Google wants to turn .search into a “dotless domain,” the company told ICANN a few days ago. Last year, Google applied to manage the .app, .blog, .cloud … | 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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| 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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The Next Web, VentureBeat, Techdirt and Electronista
| 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, GigaOM, VentureBeat and ZDNet
| 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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