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Apple Worldwide Developers Conference Kicks Off June 2 at Moscone West in San Francisco — Developers Can Apply for WWDC Tickets Starting Today — Apple® today announced that it will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 2 through June 6 at San Francisco's Moscone West.
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| Associated Press: |
US govt secretly created “Cuban Twitter” to stir unrest, sought funding from Jack Dorsey — US secretly created “Cuban Twitter” to stir unrest — You are here — Home » United States government » US secretly created ‘Cuban Twitter’ to stir unrest
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Tweets: @tbridis, @paulcarr, @paullewis, @wjrue, @oireachtas_rx, @themurdochtimes, @katrinanation and @nxthompson
See also Mediagazer| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 7 bug allows anyone to disable Find My iPhone and bypass Activation Lock without a password — Starting with iOS 7, deleting an iCloud account or restoring a device requires Find My iPhone to be disabled. Find My iPhone, in turn, requires the user to enter the password for the Apple ID attached to the iCloud account.
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| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Google: |
Google plans significant overhaul of many of its native and web apps in 'Google 2.0′/wearable push — Yesterday we got a look at a beta version of the upcoming Gmail app for Android which includes new Travel, Purchases, and Finance categories in addition to the Social, Promotions … | Russell Holly / Geek.com: |
Google is testing an army of new features for Gmail — There's a whole new wave of features being considered for Google's popular email client, and on the list is more tabs, a new pin system, and the ability to temporarily quiet an email notification. — Email is one of those things …
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Google mulls offering wireless voice and data services in Fiber markets, talked with Sprint, Verizon about buying, reselling network access — Google Weighs a Plunge into Mobile Phone Services — After thrusting itself into competition with U.S. cable operators, Google is inching closer to competing with wireless carriers, too.
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| Jenna Wortham / New York Times: |
Imgur, the Image-Sharing Site, Raises $40 Million From Andreessen Horowitz — If you spend any measurable amount of time on the Internet, you've likely visited — or at least looked at — an image hosted on Imgur (pronounced “image-er"). — The photo-sharing service is extremely popular … | David Meyer / Gigaom: |
European Parliament passes strong net neutrality law, along with major roaming reforms — European fans of the open internet can breathe a sigh of relief: the European parliament has passed a major package of telecoms law reform, complete with amendments that properly define and protect net neutrality.
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See also Mediagazer| Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
Intel outs 64-bit KitKat Android, ‘Braswell’ chip for Chromebooks — Intel is touting a future system-on-a-chip for low-cost PCs and tablets and a 64-bit version of Android 4.4. — Toshiba's Chromebook uses a low-cost Intel Celeron processor. Intel's upcoming Braswell chip could find its way into future Chromebooks.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
How Amazon Fire TV Stacks Up To Apple TV, Chromecast And Roku — Amazon has just announced its streaming TV media device, the Fire TV, and that means it now faces off against other tech giants and incumbents in yet another category. So how does the Amazon TK compare to the likes of the Apple TV …
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| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Inside Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab; see what Zuck saw just weeks before Oculus buy — If You Like Immersion, You'll Love This Reality — The news that Facebook paid $2 billion for a virtual reality start-up, Oculus VR, might strike you as a bit zany.
Tweets: @charlesgoulduk, @fmanjoo, @nytimesbusiness, @davidsackman and @mrlerner
| Eric Lam / Bloomberg: |
Google stock split creates nonvoting class, lets founders retain control when new stock issued — New Google Shares Hit Market as Founders Cement Grip With Split — More than 330 million new shares of Google Inc. (GOOG) land in the U.S. equity market today, completing a two-year process through …
| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Twitter details its “Manhattan” real-time distributed database that helps it scale — This Is What You Build to Juggle 6,000 Tweets a Second — When you open the Twitter app on your smartphone and all those tweets, links, icons, photos, and videos materialize in front of you, they're not coming from one place.
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The Twitter Blog. Tweets: @kevinweil, @jeffsand, @andypiper, @scode, @andresplazar, @henrikjoreteg and @syrneus
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Tesco Buys Into Ad Tech As Big Data Division Dunnhumby Nabs Sociomantic For Over $100M — UK-based Tesco, the world's second-largest retailer after Walmart, has made a killing in its sector by jumping early into the use of big data, collected via loyalty cards as well as through stores and online …
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MediaNama, Sociomantic Labs, AdExchanger, Skift and ExchangeWire.com
| Reuters: |
Turkey lifts Twitter ban: official — A Turkish national flag with the word ‘offline’ projected on it, is seen through a Twitter logo in this photo illustration taken in Zenica, March 21, 2014. — (Reuters) - Turkey's telecoms authority lifted a two-week-old ban on Twitter on Thursday … | Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom: |
FireChat's anonymous, off-grid messaging app arrives on Android — FireChat has been on a rollercoaster ride since developer Open Garden released it for iOS last month, peaking at well over 100,000 iTunes downloads a day last Tuesday. Open Garden is now hoping for a repeat performance, this time on Android.
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| Bobby Yip / Reuters: |
Alibaba's Jack Ma invests $532M for controlling stake in financial software firm Hundsun Tech — Alibaba's Jack Ma invests $532 million in financial software firm — (Reuters) - Jack Ma, the founder of China's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, the world's biggest e-commerce firm …
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| Rich Trenholm / CNET: |
TomTom Runner Cardio sport watch has its finger on your pulse — The TomTom Runner Cardio gives rival fitness trackers and smartwatches a run for their money with built-in GPS and heart rate monitoring. — The TomTom Runner Cardio sports watch with GPS and heart rate monitor. — TomTom
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Clari, A Mobile-First Predictive Sales Tool, Comes Out Of Stealth With $6M From Sequoia — CRM behemoths like Salesforce and Oracle have made some significant inroads into mobile and specifically apps for mobile salespeople, but a new startup believes that its streamlined, mobile-first solution can do it better.| Klint Finley / Wired: |
Open-source laptop Novena launches crowdfunding campaign, allows hacking its hardware — The Almost Completely Open Source Laptop Goes on Sale — The Novena open source laptop. Photo: Crowd Supply — Andrew “bunnie” Huang and Sean “xobs” Cross want to sell you a laptop you can completely trust.
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Crowd Supply, bunnie's blog, Technology Personalized, Liliputing, Geek.com, Geeky Gadgets, Mashable, The Next Web and VentureBeat. Thanks:@mariedomingo
| Amy Schatz / Re/code: |
Tech Giants Team Up With Pharma to Protect Software Patents — Concerned that the value of their patents could be in some danger, Apple, Microsoft and IBM have teamed up with major pharmaceutical companies and manufacturers to launch a new industry group to talk up the value of the current patent system …
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Reuters, MacRumors, VentureBeat, iMore, A Smarter Planet Blog, Fortune and Electronista
| Charles Luzar / Crowdfund Insider: |
Crowdfunding site Indiegogo allows campaign nearing $1M for a dubious calorie-counting device — Indiegogo's Reputation May Hinge On Outcome Of GoBe Campaign … The above excerpt is from Dr. David Ahn's writeup today in iMedialApps, and it does a great job in outlining some of the concerns surrounding … | Martin Bryant / The Next Web: |
IFTTT now works with iOS push notifications and looks great on the iPad — If you're a user of popular personal productivity service IFTTT (If This Then That) who also has an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, maybe you've wished that you could use iOS push notifications in your recipes.
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9to5Mac, TechCrunch, iMore, Lifehacker, MacStories and Cult of Mac
| Chip Cummins / Wall Street Journal: |
Just Eat Joins Parade of London Tech IPOs, with £1.5-Billion Market Cap — The tech IPO parade continues in London. — Online restaurant-delivery company Just Eat PLC said Thursday it priced its initial public offering at 260 pence a share, giving it a market capitalization of £1.47 billion ($2.44 billion.)| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Boundary raises $22M to watch all your apps and infrastructure — These days, companies use lots of tools to ship code and deploy applications. Keeping track of everything can mean keeping a ton of browser tabs open and struggling to identify the biggest issues of the moment.
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