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| Sundar Pichai / The Official Google Blog: |
From TVs to tablets: Everything you love, across all your screens — When I was growing up, my family had a single screen we huddled around every day: the television set in the living room. Nowadays, we “huddle” around multiple screens—laptops, smartphones and tablets …
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See also Mediagazer| Ben Gilbert / Engadget: |
Google introduces Chromecast, a $35 HDMI streaming solution for televisions (video) — Google's Chromecast is Mountain View's next foray into the television market: a $35 HDMI dongle that mirrors content watched nearby on a tablet, smartphone or computer. Hrm, that sounds familiar.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Launches Google Cast SDK For iOS, Android and Chrome, Lets Developers Stream Their Apps To Chromecast — Google launched its $35 Chromecast device today that allows users to stream their Chrome tabs and videos to their TVs from virtually every popular platform.
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Android 4.3 announced, rolling out to Nexus devices today — Google's famously breakneck Android update pace may have slowed in recent times, but that's what makes point upgrades like today's newly revealed Android 4.3 all the more interesting. Shipping with the new Nexus 7 and retaining … | Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Android 4.3 images for the Nexus 4, 7, 10, and Galaxy Nexus now available — Prepare for more jelly beans: Android 4.3 is finally official. — Android 4.3 is finally here, and those of you who buy Nexus phones and tablets primarily for the fast updates won't be disappointed.
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google: |
Google hits 70M tablet activations, 1M apps in the Play Store — Live from Google's Android and Chrome event this morning, Google's Sundar Pichai just provided an update on some of the company's stats for tablet activations and Google Play content downloads.
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| Dave Burke / Android Developers Blog: |
Android 4.3 and Updated Developer Tools — Today in San Francisco we announced Android 4.3, a sweeter version of Jelly Bean that includes great new features for users and developers. Android 4.3 powers the new Nexus 7 tablet that's coming soon to Google Play and retail outlets …
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| Harrison Weber / The Next Web: |
Google launches Android's answer to Apple's Game Center: The Google Play Games app — Following a slew of announcements, including a new Nexus 7, Google has announced the launch of Google Play Games, an app which highlights games and brings together your gamer friends.
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Facebook Reports Second Quarter 2013 Results — Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) today reported financial results for the second quarter, which ended June 30, 2013. — “We've made good progress growing our community, deepening engagement and delivering strong financial results, especially on mobile …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Monthly Users Up 27% YOY To 1.15B, Dailies Up 21% To 699M, Mobile MAU Up 51% To 819M — In Q2 of 2013, Facebook grew to 1.15 billion monthly active users up from 1.11 billion at the end of Q1, 669 million daily active users from 665 million, and to 819 million mobile monthly active users from 751M.
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| Terrence O'Brien / Engadget: |
Google announces thinner, lighter Nexus 7 with higher-res screen, arrives July 30th for $230 — When we reviewed the Nexus 7 last summer, we said it was the best tablet $200 could buy. A year later, that still might be true if it wasn't for the fact that there's a new Nexus 7 in town.
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Tweets: @fmanjoo, @dannysullivan, @googlenexus, @tapbot_paul and @reckless
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
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| Jeff Elder / The Technology Chronicles: |
Twitter fakes real users' tweets to promote ad platform — What if one of the most powerful media companies in the world made words come out of its customers' mouths to promote its new ad platform? — Twitter posted on its blog today about a new, wider release of an integration the company is doing with TV commercials.
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June Tablet Update: iPad Usage Share Surpasses 84% — Since Chitika Insights' last study on the tablet market, Apple iPad users' share of U.S. and Canadian tablet Web traffic has increased by nearly two percentage points, from 82.4% in May 2013, to 84.3% in June 2013 - now the iPad's highest share since the beginning of 2013.| Jeffrey Grubb / VentureBeat: |
EA made more money on Apple's App Store than through Origin — Updated at 2:40 p.m. — corrected inaccurate comparison to platforms. — The mobile-based future is here, and publisher Electronic Arts is reaping the rewards. EA reported today that it made more money through Apple's App Store than any other retail distributor.
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| Dan Frommer / TechCrunch: |
Apple's Growth Rocket Has Hit A Wall. What Will Get It Started Again? — Apple's stunning growth over the past decade has been one of the biggest stories in all of tech. Even as the company released new product after new product, and grew larger and larger, its growth rate continued to accelerate, far surpassing its competitors.| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
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Michael Dell ups buyout offer; shareholder vote pushed off to Aug. 2 — Dell announced today that its founder Michael Dell, along with partner Silver Lake, will pay $13.75 per share to bring the company private. — Dell founder Michael Dell, along with his partner, investment firm Silver Lake …
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| Alistair Barr / Reuters: |
Exclusive: Zulily hires banks for possible IPO - sources — (Reuters) - Zulily hired investment banks in recent weeks to advise the fast-growing e-commerce company on a possible initial public offering, according to two people familiar with the situation. — Zulily, a “flash sales” …
| Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
Feds put heat on Web firms for master encryption keys — Whether the FBI or NSA have the legal authority to obtain the master keys that companies use for Web encryption remains an open question, but it hasn't stopped the U.S. government from trying. — Large Internet companies have resisted … | Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley: |
FTC finalizes Google patents settlement — Following a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission finalized its settlement with Google on Wednesday over the anticompetitive use of patents. — The commission first announced the terms of the settlement in January at the end of a nearly …
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Google Adds Grooveshark to its Piracy Search Filter — There are certain words Google doesn't want its users to see without explicitly searching for them. — Type in the first letters of any private body part, cuss word, or a non traditional sexual orientation and you'll notice that Google holds … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia Brings Kepler To Mobile, Offers Same Graphics Power As iPad 4 With One-Third The Battery Drain — At the SIGGRAPH conference going on this week, Nvidia has made a potentially huge announcement regarding the future of mobile gaming: the company is bringing its Kepler graphics architecture … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Ubuntu Edge smartphone raises $4.8M (and can now be reserved for $675) — Mark Shuttleworth discusses Ubuntu Edge hardware. — Canonical has now raised $4.8 million as part of its quest to develop a smartphone that can run both Android and the Ubuntu phone operating system.
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| Brad Molen / Engadget: |
Nokia Lumia 1020 review — There was no shortage of stunned faces in the audience when Nokia CEO Stephen Elop announced the 808 PureView at Mobile World Congress 17 months ago. Who would have thought a Symbian-powered device would be a show-stealer — in 2012?
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