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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
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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VentureBeat, Business Insider, VentureBeat, The Next Web, The Verge, GeekWire and Computerworld. Tweets: @om. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| 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.| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
AT&T adds ‘administrative fee’ to wireless bills, stands to rake in hundreds of millions from unwitting customers — AT&T has introduced a new “Mobility Administrative Fee” to its postpaid contracts. The $0.61 monthly fee ($7.32 per year) is being categorized “below the line” alongside tax and fees as an administrative surcharge.
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9to5Mac, TechHive, Wall Street Journal, The Tech Block, Electronista, iClarified, iDownloadBlog.com and Gotta Be Mobile
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| 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 at 10 AM PT Monday, June 10, at Moscone Center in San Francisco. Not a big surprise, as that is the day the event kicks off.
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Macworld, IntoMobile, VentureBeat, Gotta Be Mobile, The Next Web, Ubergizmo, Pocketnow, AppleTell, iPhone Hacks, Pocket-lint, TUAW, iDownloadBlog.com, Macgasm, iMore, MacNN and AppleInsider
| 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 … | Bloomberg: |
Google Said to Face New Antitrust Probe Over Display Ads — Google Inc. (GOOG) is facing a new antitrust probe by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission into whether the company is using its leadership in the online display-advertising market to illegally curb competition, people familiar with the matter said.| 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 …
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The Verge and Softpedia News
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google debuts Chrome 28 beta with rich notifications for apps and extensions on Windows; Mac and Linux coming soon — Just two days after releasing the stable version of Chrome 27, Google has announced the release of Chrome 28 beta for Windows, Mac, and Linux.| 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.| 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 …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Jeff Bezos grilled over violent games, movies during Amazon shareholder meeting — Amazon just wrapped up its annual meeting of shareholders at Seattle Center, with Jeff Bezos giving a broad overview of the company's business and fielding questions from shareholders.| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Ex-Googler Ben Ling Brings His Operations Experience To Khosla Ventures — Former Badoo COO and ex-Googler Ben Ling has joined Khosla Ventures, according to sources. Ling, who has held senior operations roles for a number of big companies in the mobile and Internet space … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google brings your Google+ photos right into Search, serves results via computer vision and machine learning — Google on Thursday announced a very interesting integration between its main search service and Google+ Photos. The company now lets you find your photos both on Google+ and Google Search just by, well, searching for them.
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Inside Search, 9to5Google, CNET, The Verge, Engadget, TechCrunch and Search Engine Land
| Jordan Novet / GigaOM: |
Box acquires Folders technology to enrich iOS offering — Box indicated on its blog Thursday that the cloud-storage company has “acquired the technology” for the Folders iOS app enabling users to open many kinds of files on the iPhone. The deal marks Box's third acquisition, closely following on news of the Crocodoc deal.
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The Box Blog, The Next Web, InfoWorld, Rude Baguette, ZDNet, TechCrunch, AllThingsD and TUAW
| 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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MacRumors, Los Angeles Times, iPhone Hacks, Cult of Mac, Geek.com and iDownloadBlog.com
| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Microsoft's Sculpt Mobile Mouse and Sculpt Comfort Mouse have built-in Start buttons, arrive in the coming weeks — File this under “things we could have sworn already existed.” Microsoft just announced two mice, the Sculpt Mobile Mouse and Sculpt Comfort Mouse, and believe it or not …
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The Windows Blog, ZDNet, TechSpot, PC World and Gizmodo
| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Microsoft Xbox 360 did not infringe Motorola patents, rules ITC — The International Trade Commission has ruled that Microsoft did not infringe upon any Motorola Mobility patents with the Xbox 360. The decision represents the end of an investigation that stretches back to 2010.
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Ars Technica, CNET, ZDNet, Engadget, Reuters, GeekWire and Electronista
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
New Colors Rumored for iPhone 5S and Lower-Cost iPhone, Dual LED Flash for iPhone 5S? — Macotakara has released a report with new details on a number of upcoming products, including the rumored low cost iPhone, the iPhone 5S, and the iPad 5. Citing information from several different sources …
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Macotakara, CNET, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, BGR, BGR, AppleInsider, PhoneArena, Pocket-lint 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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PandoDaily, CNET, VentureBeat, TechCrunch and Macgasm
| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
Google Considers Outbidding Facebook To Buy Waze For ~$1 Billion - Report — Google is considering a bid for Israeli mapping startup Waze, Bloomberg News reports. — Waze is a mapping app for smartphones that's infused with cool social features. — For example, users can tap an icon … | 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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TaskRabbit Blog and GigaOM
| 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 … | 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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| 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.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google App Engine Drops Some High Replication Datastore Prices By Up To 25% — At Google I/O last week, Google announced that its Google App Engine High Replication Datastore (HRD) - its schemaless object data storage service - currently processes over 4.5 trillion transactions per month …
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