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Sources say Amazon readying an Android-based Web TV box competing with Apple TV and Roku, for March rollout — Amazon Gets Its TV Box Ready, Again — Amazon is gearing up to take on Apple and Roku, again. — Industry sources say Amazon is getting ready to launch a Web TV box …
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| Mike Isaac / Re/code: |
Facebook's WhatsApp Deal Could Jumpstart Internet.org Plans — What's cooler than $19 billion? How about changing the world? … Mark Zuckerberg took a step closer to realizing a dream to bring the Internet to everyone on the planet with Facebook's $19 billion acquisition of mobile messaging service WhatsApp on Wednesday.
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WhatsApp: the Bomb That Shook Silicon Valley — On Wednesday afternoon, in a modern office building in San Francisco, entrepreneur Daniel Raffel saw a news alert cross his phone: Facebook Inc. had just paid $19 billion for messaging startup WhatsApp. — The founder of mobile app Snapguide … | Amir Efrati / The Information: |
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Thanks:@ericnewcomer| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Google Acquires Spider.io To Help Spot And Stop Online Ad Fraud — London-based Spider.io has been acquired by Google, the company's DoubleClick advertising blog announced today (via Re/Code). Spider.io is a startup that specialized in weeding out fraudulent clicks around online ads.| Adam Bryant / New York Times: |
Satya Nadella, Chief of Microsoft, on His New Role — This interview with Satya Nadella, the new chief executive of Microsoft, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. — Q. What leadership lessons have you learned from your predecessor, Steve Ballmer?
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Thanks:@petewootton| Matt Brian / Engadget: |
New Google WiFi app could automatically log you into Starbucks and other private hotspots — Google is working on a new WiFi app that could take a lot of the drudgery out of accessing wireless hotspots. According to our sources, the search giant has built Android and iOS versions of an app … | Brad Stone / Businessweek: |
Invasion of the Taxi Snatchers: Uber Leads an Industry's Disruption — Ray Markovich started driving a taxi in Chicago three years ago after shuttering his struggling wireless phone store. Driving a cab wasn't particularly gratifying or lucrative—he had to pay $400 a week just to lease his 2011 white Ford Escape.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Launches Project Tango Smartphone To Experiment With Computer Vision And 3D Sensors — Google today announced Project Tango, an Android-based prototype 5″ phone and developer kit with advanced 3D sensors out of its Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) hardware skunkworks group.
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4G data: The USA is second-slowest while Australia is fastest — OpenSignal has released a report today looking at the state of LTE coverage and speeds around the world, revealing that, contrary to what you might expect, not all LTE networks perform comparably.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
More Cortana details: Siri/Google Now-like virtual assistant to replace Bing search feature in Windows Phone 8.1 — Apple has Siri, and Microsoft is about to get Cortana — Microsoft has been in a state of “shut up and ship” with Windows Phone for more than a year now.
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| Carl Franzen / The Verge: |
Steve Jobs will appear on a US postage stamp in 2015 — Many of his creations reduced the need to send physical mail, but late Apple founder Steve Jobs will still get a fitting tribute from the US Postal Service: his likeness will appear on a postage stamp beginning in 2015, according to a document obtained by The Washington Post.
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Amazon in talks with brand retailers like Neiman Marcus and Abercrombie to feature their listings as it contemplates Prime rate hike — Amazon Tempts the Anti-Amazons — Offer to Showcase Goods Comes Amid Plan to Boost Price of Prime — Amazon.com Inc. is in talks to bring listings for J. Crew khakis … | Timothy J. Seppala / Engadget: |
Microsoft is hand-picking users to test Xbox One's next software update — BY TIMOTHY J. SEPPALA @TIMSEPPALA FEB 20TH 2014 10:53PM — Ahead of Xbox One's second spring update Microsoft is inviting a handful of gamers to test the patch's mutiplayer features.
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Korea's dominant text messaging service Kakao preparing for IPO at $2B valuation — Kakao Close to Signing Morgan Stanley, Samsung Securities as IPO Advisers — Offering Possibly Poised to Value Text-Messaging Company at More Than $2 Billion — Kakao Corp. is close to signing Morgan Stanley … | Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
Apple's iPhone led 2013 US consumer smartphone sales with 45% share - NPD — With more than 120 million smartphones sold in the U.S. in 2013, Apple's iPhone accounted for nearly half of those, taking a 45 percent share in its home market last year, new data released by the NPD Group on Thursday reveals.| Pankaj Mishra / TechCrunch: |
With $8M In Fresh Funding, Ezetap Is More Than Just A Square For Emerging Markets — There are almost 900 million active cell-phone users in India now, and from newer startups to some of the biggest companies in the world, everybody is chasing the next mobile disruption that could potentially result …
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Google creates ‘near-real-time’ deforestation tracking tool — Google and several partners have launched Global Forest Watch, a website that makes it possible for users to track global deforestation. — Google is bringing awareness to global deforestation with a new website that lets users …
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“Twitch Plays Pokémon” is so big, it's overloading Twitch's servers — Twitch Plays Pokémon fights a Haunter. Kind of. — We're a little over a week into the phenomenon that is Twitch Plays Pokémon (TPP), and the “social experiment” is still going strong—so strong … | Reuters: |
Nokia considers buying Juniper to expand network unit: report — (Reuters) - Finland's Nokia is considering buying U.S.-based Juniper Networks to merge into its telecommunications network gear business, German's Manager Magazin Online reported, citing unidentified sources.| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Former Motionloft CEO Jon Mills Arrested By The FBI — Jon Mills, the founder and former CEO of real-world analytics startup Motionloft, has been arrested by the FBI, the bureau has confirmed. The arrest follows allegations that Mills lied to investors about an acquisition of his company …
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