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Microsoft CEO announces departure of Tony Bates and Tami Reller, names Mark Penn Chief Strategy Officer, Chris Capossela CMO — Satya Nadella announces changes to senior leadership team — In the past month, I've had the opportunity to talk with many of you - in person, on Yammer …
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| Chris O'Brien / Los Angeles Times: |
Microsoft puts creator of ‘Scroogled’ ads in charge of strategy — Mark Penn, Microsoft's new head of strategy, was chief strategist of Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign. (Win McNamee / Getty Images / January 5, 2008) — Anyone who thought new Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella might …
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Facebook in talks to buy Titan Aerospace for $60M, plans to use solar drone tech for providing internet access — Facebook In Talks To Acquire Drone Maker Titan Aerospace — Facebook, one of the primary backers of the Internet.org initiative, which aims to bring affordable Internet access … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft's digital assistant Cortana will support nicknames, “Notebook” system for accessing personal info, Google Now-like notifications — This is Cortana, Microsoft's answer to Siri — Microsoft's upcoming Windows Phone 8.1 update will include Cortana …
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| Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
Dish just secured rights to launch an internet TV service — Dish and Disney confirmed a Wall Street Journal report that they've reached a retransmission agreement late Monday, and they did so with a bang: Not only does the agreement force Dish to turn off automated ad skipping for ABC shows …
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| Robert McMillan / Wired: |
The Inside Story of Mt. Gox, Bitcoin's $460 Million Disaster — From a distance, the world's largest bitcoin exchange looked like a towering example of renegade entrepreneurism. But on the inside, according to some who were there, Mt. Gox was a messy combination of poor management, neglect, and raw inexperience.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft wants Xbox Live to power Android and iOS games — Xbox Live is primarily used in Microsoft's consoles and Windows or Windows Phone games for achievements, friend lists, and game matchmaking. While Microsoft has experimented with achievements on iOS and Android recently … | Amy Schatz / Re/code: |
Justice Department Backs Broadcasters in Aereo Dispute — In a Supreme Court filing Monday, the Justice Department backed broadcast networks in their fight against online video streaming startup Aereo. — Justice Department lawyers argued that Aereo's broadcast television streaming service infringes …
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| Paul Liberatore / Marin Independent Journal: |
Twitter installing century-old log cabins from Montana in dining room of SF headquarters — Lib at Large: Novato contractor supplies century-old log cabins for new Twitter headquarters — WHAT'S NEW IS old at Twitter's new San Francisco headquarters. — The high-tech firm has a new look …
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| Tess / Uber Blog: |
Uber to update its iOS app this week allowing users to be notified if surge pricing ends within 30 minutes — What Goes Up Must Come Down: Introducing Surge Drop — Last Monday, in his keynote address to the Launch Festival, our CEO Travis hinted at a new feature that would …
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GeekWire, App Advice, Business Insider, VatorNews, The Verge and TechCrunch. Tweets: @loyalelectron
| Bertel King, Jr / Android Police: |
Microsoft Makes The Office 365 Android SDK Available For Download — Today Microsoft has released the Office 365 software development kit for Android. With it, the company wants to invite developers to access Office data inside their apps. The SDK provides APIs granting permission …
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Bill Gates regains world's richest title with net worth of $76B — Forbes today released its annual rankings of the world's richest, and there's a familiar face back on top. — After a four-year hiatus, Bill Gates is once again the world's richest with a net worth of $76 billion — up from $67 billion last year.| Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat: |
Game-rental service Gamefly now getting into movies to compete with Netflix — Updated at 3:40 p.m. PST with a response from Gamefly CEO Dave Hodess. — Video game rental service Gamefly has launched a new movie rental business that will take on Netflix's disc-by-mail business.
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Engadget, SlashGear and Gigaom Research
| Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom: |
Verizon's new prepaid ALLSET plans start at $35/month, lets you buy data that rolls over — Verizon tweaks its prepaid plans with rollover data — Verizon Wireless is overhauling its prepaid data plans for smartphones. Instead of offering different price tiers, Verizon has reverted to a single plan … | Capital New York: |
Culture blog The Awl bolsters its tech writing talent, hires Buzzfeed's John Herrman and The New Yorker's Matt Buchanan — The Awl hires Matt Buchanan from The New Yorker, John Herrman from Buzzfeed — Matt Buchanan and John Herrman are leaving their positions at The New Yorker and Buzzfeed …
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| Stuart Dredge / Guardian: |
Flappy Bird clones account for 95 out of 300 new iOS games in 24 hour period — Here are 95 Flappy Bird-inspired iOS games... released in the last 24 hours — From Tappy Bieber and Annoying Flappy Fly to Flappy Beard Hipster Quest and Flying Mustache — Tappy Bieber is just one of the Flappy Bird clones hitting the App Store.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft to start nagging Windows XP users about April 8 end-of-support date — Summary: With Windows XP's end-of-support date just over a month away, Microsoft is turning up the warning volume. — On March 8, Microsoft will begin notifying Windows XP users via a pop-up notification …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Police hid use of cell phone tracking device from judge because of NDA — A police department in Florida failed to tell judges about its use of a cell phone tracking tool “because the department got the device on loan and promised the manufacturer to keep it all under wraps,” … | Marc Andreessen / Andreessen Horowitz: |
Marc Andreessen: “I dispute all accusations that I have violated any of my duties to eBay shareholders” — My Statement on eBay Director Role and Governance — False and misleading accusations have been made against eBay and against me in my role as an eBay director.
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
With Square Capital, Square Begins Offering Controversial Merchant Cash Advances — Square's search for new revenue streams is pushing it toward a controversial industry: Merchant cash advances. — The financial product, which operates outside of the regulation of loans … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Self-Destructing And Encrypted Message App Wickr Raises $9M Series A Led By Alsop Louie — Microsoft's Cortana Gets A Sneak Preview, Looks Like A Circle And Will Call You Whatever You Want — The sale of WhatsApp to Facebook for $19 billion and the heightened awareness of data security … | Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: |
Samsung spent nearly $20M on ad time during Oscars; Galaxy Note 3 used for Ellen's selfie shot — Behind Oscar Selfie: Samsung's Ad Strategy — Marketer Spent Nearly $20 Million on Ad Time—and Got Product Placement for Galaxy Phone — Samsung Electronics Co. likely spent nearly $20 million …
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