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Lyft Lifts $60 Million From Andreessen Horowitz, Gives 30,000 Rides A Week A Year After Launch — It was almost one year ago (to the day!) that my colleague Kim Mai-Cutler wrote our first story on Lyft, and how the company was going to offer some lower-priced competition to on-demand ride leader Uber in San Francisco.
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| Owen Thomas / ReadWrite: |
Mailbox Takes Its Email App To iPad, With Android Waiting In The Wings — What has Mailbox founder Gentry Underwood and his team been up to since selling the email-app maker to Dropbox for a reported $100 million in March? — Mostly working on new versions of the product …
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Fortune, BetaNews, GigaOM, VentureBeat, Android Community, iMore, MacRumors, AllThingsD, TechSpot, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, Pocket-lint, Gotta Be Mobile, TechCrunch, CNET and Macgasm
| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple's WWDC Keynote Scheduled for Monday, June 10 — Apple today said the keynote address for its annual Worldwide Developers Conference will occur on Monday, June 10, at Moscone Center in San Francisco. Not a big surprise, as that is the day the event kicks off.
| Sharif Sakr / Engadget: |
Facebook won't bring HTC First smartphone to the UK after all (update: due to bad feedback in the US) — After a series of rumors about the HTC First not selling too well in the States, we've now heard that the customized Facebook / Android handset won't be coming to the UK.| Edward Wong / New York Times: |
In China, Hacking Has Widespread Acceptance — BEIJING — Name a target anywhere in China, an official at a state-owned company boasted recently, and his crack staff will break into that person's computer, download the contents of the hard drive, record the keystrokes, and monitor cellphone communications, too.
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| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo Acquires Gaming Platform Startup PlayerScale — Another day, another acquisition by Yahoo. — Today Yahoo is announcing it's acquired PlayerScale, a California-based startup that makes software infrastructure for cross-platform gaming. Financial details haven't been disclosed …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia launches its GeForce GTX 780 for PC gaming that is faster than Xbox One — You could wait for the Microsoft Xbox One or the Sony PlayStation 4 to arrive this fall, or you could play PC games with better graphics now. Nvidia is launching its GeForce GTX 780 graphics chip today … | Gregg Keizer / Computerworld: |
Google engineer bashes Microsoft's handling of security researchers, discloses Windows zero-day — Microsoft confirms probe of vulnerability hackers could use to gain additional privileges on targeted PCs — A Google security engineer accused Microsoft of treating outside researchers with …
| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Jack Dorsey's digital payments company Square expands beyond North America, landing in Japan first — Red hot payments startup Square is invading Asia after it announced that its service has launched in Japan, which becomes its third market worldwide in addition to the US and Canada.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Shazam Revamps Its iPad App For Second Screen Action, Can Now “AutoTag” In Background While You Watch TV — Although the majority of Shazam's over 93 million U.S. users still use the app on their smartphones to identify, tag and share the songs they're “hearing,” a growing chunk of that user base … | Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Kim Dotcom accuses Google, Facebook, and Twitter of violating his two-step security patent — Hours after Twitter rolled out support for two-step verification, Kim Dotcom has claimed credit for inventing the security feature. In a series of tweets, the embattled Megaupload founder points …
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Business Insider, IPcopy, TorrentFreak, SiliconANGLE, CNET, Techdirt, TechSpot, Inquirer, memeburn, BetaNews and Gizmodo
| Harrison Weber / The Next Web: |
Confirmed: Microsoft's revamped Kinect for Xbox One will also come to Windows next year — Microsoft has clarified that the next iteration of Kinect, the motion tracking peripheral unveiled alongside the Xbox One earlier this week, will be coming to Windows next year.
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| Quentin Fottrell / MarketWatch: |
Why iPhone repair costs have soared — A broken screen can now cost more than $200 to fix … The company charges as much as $229 to replace an iPhone 5 with a broken screen. That's more than the $200 price of the device with a two-year contract, and more than a third of the $650 cost of the phone without a contract.
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BGR, Cult of Mac and iPhone Hacks
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Temping fate: can TaskRabbit go from side gigs to real jobs? — The errand marketplace hires for longer-term work, and may add benefits — Not long ago, Chris Mok worked in the advertising department for Macy's in San Francisco, booking models for the department store's catalogs.
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TechCrunch, The Next Web, AllThingsD, GigaOM and TaskRabbit Blog
| Bloomberg: |
Lenovo Quarterly Profit Rises 90% on Market Share Gains — Lenovo Group Ltd. (992), the world's second-biggest maker of personal computers, reported a 90 percent gain in fourth-quarter profit after increasing its market share and boosting smartphone sales. — Net income climbed to $126.9 million …
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Lenovo Newsroom, Wall Street Journal, CNET, TechEye, ZDNet, Quartz, The Verge, Softpedia News, ITworld.com, SlashGear, Neowin and ZDNet
| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
Evernote Launches Reminders — In the years I've spent using and recommending Evernote, I've always noticed a chasm between people who rely on the service to store reference material and notes, and those who want to also use Evernote as a “getting things done” system to keep track of their todos.
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Evernote Blog, TechCrunch, The Next Web, MacRumors, Macworld, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, Business Insider, Macgasm, SlashGear and Cult of Mac
| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
With New Mobile App, Nextdoor Unveils Its Take on the Neighborhood Watch — Think of what you're used to in a local neighborhood-watch group: Signs posted around a community with contact information, perhaps monthly meetings to discuss safety issues and concerns.
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VentureBeat, PandoDaily, CNET, TechCrunch and Macgasm
| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Surprise! Mozilla can produce near-native performance on the Web — In a bid to make JavaScript run ever faster, Mozilla has developed asm.js. It's a limited, stripped down subset of JavaScript that the company claims will offer performance that's within a factor of two of native … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Launches TV Ad Targeting, Twitter Amplify For Real-Time Videos In Stream — Twitter today made the latest push in its bid to cozy up to Madison Avenue and the world of big-budget advertising, by tapping more into the kind of mainstream mediums where advertisers like to spend their money.| Wall Street Journal: |
Wary of China, U.S. Steps Into Sprint's Board — SoftBank Corp. is readying a plan to allow the U.S. government an unusual level of influence over the operations of Sprint Nextel Corp., a concession to ease security concerns raised by the proposed cross-border takeover.
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eWeek, Ars Technica, The Verge, MoneyBeat, The Next Web, Reuters, ZDNet, Quartz and Computerworld
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
HP redesigns Envy and Pavilion laptops for 2013, including one with a 3200 x 1800 screen — Last year, Hewlett-Packard decided to unify the design of every thin and light laptop it sold, applying the same basic curves across every keyboard, touchpad, hinge, lid, and frame.
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VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, ZDNet, Engadget, SlashGear, Gotta Be Mobile, Gearburn and Gizmodo
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