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Dropbox unveils Carousel for organizing your photos and videos — Dropbox today announced Carousel, a product to store and manage your photos and videos. It incorporates features from Snapjoy, a photo startup that Dropbox acquired in December 2012. The launch of Carousel represents a bid … | Brad Molen / Engadget: |
Dropbox brings the popular Mailbox email app to Android and desktop — Dropbox is proclaiming that it's ready to launch “a new chapter,” but what exactly does that mean for the cloud storage king? In addition to its ability to combine business and personal storage accounts … | The Dropbox Blog: |
Dropbox Chapter 2: the “magic folder” is now “a home for life” accessed with a family of apps — A home for life — Technology should ‘just work’ and make us happy. But with all the different apps, devices, and data out there, things gets complicated pretty quickly.
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Mailbox's Auto-swipe feature intelligently predicts which messages to archive and snooze — Inbox hero: inside Mailbox's master plan to make email suck less — Mailbox introduced the world to snoozing messages for later. Now it's introducing a way to predict what you'll archive next| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
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Thanks:@mattlynley| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Jony Ive shakes up Apple's software design group, iPhone interface creator Greg Christie departing — Following friction between top Apple Human Interface Vice President Greg Christie and Senior Vice President Jony Ive, Apple's hardware and software design is being dramatically shaken up, according to sources familiar with the matter.
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Heartbleed bug puts the chaotic nature of the Internet under the magnifying glass — A major flaw revealed this week in widely used encryption software has highlighted one of the enduring — and terrifying — realities of the Internet: It is inherently chaotic, built by multitudes and continuously tweaked …
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Facebook Is Forcing All Users To Download Messenger By Ripping Chat Out Of Its Main Apps — Facebook is taking its standalone app strategy to an extreme new level today. It's starting to notify users they'll no longer have the option to send and receive messages in Facebook for iOS and Android …
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Thanks:@joshconstine| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
KGI forecast: iWatch at multiple price points, two iPhone models, 12" high resolution MacBook Air, 12.9" iPad Pro, more — Apple's 2014 Product Roadmap: New iWatch, iPhones, iPads, Apple TV, and MacBooks Coming — Apple is set to release a slew of new products during the third quarter …
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Google is testing new UI and features for Google Calendar — Much in the same way that Google is currently testing features out for Gmail, we are now seeing updated UI and new features for the Google Calendar Android app. — Like many other companies, Google tests a lot of their software internally … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Franken: Comcast called Time Warner Cable a competitor until they wanted to merge — Comcast has repeatedly said the biggest reason US regulators should approve its $45.2 billion purchase of Time Warner Cable (TWC) is that the two companies do not compete against each other.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
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One Kings Lane CEO Doug Mack Departs to Run Fanatics — According to an internal memo just sent out at online home decor site One Kings Lane, CEO Doug Mack is departing the company to become CEO of Fanatics, a sports site. The interim CEO will be Dinesh Lathi, who has been CFO and COO.| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Sources: Apple not interested in acquiring Square, Jack Dorsey not keen on selling it to Google — A Sale or IPO or More Funding? Here's What Might Be Next for Square. — Of all the many high-profile Internet companies, perhaps none has attracted more speculation than Square. It makes sense.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Mingleton Is Tinder For Strangers In The Room With You — A startup called Mingleton is introducing a new mobile dating application that uses iBeacon technology to help you connect only with people you can see around you, or, as one of the founders puts it, it's like Tinder “for the people in your immediate vicinity.”| Brad Stone / Businessweek: |
Automattic, Steward of Wordpress, Snaps up Longreads — In the desert of short news bites and unsatisfying blog posts, the website and weekly email Longreads is a refreshing anomaly. Since 2009, the small Oakland-based company has been linking to stories of over 1,500 words … | Shane Cole / AppleInsider: |
Apple nabs senior RF engineers from Broadcom amid rumors of new in-house baseband team — At least two high-level baseband hardware engineers have left wireless semiconductor company Broadcom for new positions at Apple this year, adding weight to speculation that the iPhone maker is planning … | Reuters: |
BlackBerry may consider exiting handsets, eyes investments — (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd would consider exiting its handset business if it remains unprofitable, its chief executive officer said on Wednesday, as the technology company looks to expand its corporate reach with investments, acquisitions and partnerships.
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