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| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Windows Phone 8.1 review: a magnificent smartphone platform — It's a 0.1 update that feels like a 2.0 update. — For the growing number of Windows Phone users, Windows Phone 8 was a frustrating release. The major difference between Windows Phone 7.5 and Windows Phone 8 was invisible to end users …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows Phone 8.1 Developer Preview now available to download — Windows Phone 8.1 now available to download — After 18 months since the last major Windows Phone update, Microsoft is finally releasing Windows Phone 8.1 to developers today. The software maker detailed the update … | Jessica Dolcourt / CNET: |
Cortana vs. Siri vs. Google Now: An early look at how Cortana stacks up (hands-on) — Can Windows Phone's new voice-activated assistant stand up to Siri and Google Now? We put an early version to the test. — The iPhone has Siri. Android has Google Now. And Windows Phone now has Cortana.
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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Early internal document reveals Android was initially designed without touchscreen support — Here's What Android Looked Like Before the iPhone — One of the more interesting documents that came to light during the Apple-Samsung document last week was an early internal Google document …
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| Kaylene Hong / The Next Web: |
Facebook is reportedly prepping an e-money service, and is close to getting approval in Ireland — Facebook wants to be more than a social network — it is planning to facilitate financial services in the form of electronic money and remittances, the Financial Times reports (as spotted first by Benedict Evans).
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| Erich Schwartzel / Wall Street Journal: |
Relativity Media offers to buy Maker Studios for up to $900M in stock — Relativity Media Bids for Maker Studios — LOS ANGELES—Midsize film and entertainment company Relativity Media LLC has made a bid to buy Maker Studios, the online-video producer that is preparing to vote this week on a separate bid from Walt Disney Co.
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| New York Times: |
How and why startups like Lyft and Quora are increasingly taking big late-stage investments — Rich Start-Ups Go Back for Another Helping — Quora, a question-and-answer website, didn't need to raise money. It had barely touched $60 million in venture capital that it accepted just two years ago.| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Beauty And E-Commerce Brand Julep Raises $30M To Disrupt The $160B Cosmetics Industry — Julep, a cosmetics and beauty brand and e-commerce platform, has raised $30 million in Series C financing; Azure Capital, Madrona Venture Group, Altimeter Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and Maveron all participated in the round.
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| Mike Isaac / Re/code: |
As Lockup Date Looms, Twitter Says Its Big Shareholders Aren't Selling Anytime Soon — As an important date for Twitter shareholders looms, the company's top brass wants Wall Street to know one thing: They're in it for the long haul. — Dick Costolo, Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey …
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New York Times, TechCrunch, Softpedia News and Business 2 Community
| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
Free of the desire to do the right thing, highest-paid CEO Larry Ellison does what he wants — Still No. 1, and Doing What He Wants — It is good to be the king. It is even better to be Larry Ellison. — Most of us spend much of our lives thinking that we should do the right thing …
Tweets: @nickbilton, @obrien, @ryantate, @timbray, @poornimagupta, @darlin, @vkopytoff and @caseynewton
| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
How Zuck met Oculus: The story behind Facebook's big bet on virtual reality — CEO Brendan Iribe recounts the steps leading up to the $2 billion deal. — FORTUNE - Mark Zuckerberg's acquisitions have a formula: They never, ever leak because they come together quickly.
Tweets: @cdixon
| Jeremy Kirk / PC World: |
Akamai admits its OpenSSL patch was faulty, reissues keys — Akamai Technologies, whose network handles up to 30 percent of all Internet traffic, said Sunday a researcher found a fault in custom code that the company thought shielded most of its customers from the Heartbleed bug.
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cra-arc.gc.ca, The Akamai Blog, SiliconANGLE, BetaKit and InfoWorld
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