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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung and Carriers Back Anti-Theft Measures for Smartphones — With several states and municipalities considering various mandatory “kill-switch” laws for mobile devices, the wireless industry announced a voluntary commitment to include new anti-theft technology on phones starting next year.
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| Zach Epstein / BGR: |
Amazon's 4.7-inch 720p smartphone to have glasses-free 3D UI, four head-tracking infrared cameras — This is Amazon's smartphone — BGR gives the world an exclusive first look at the unannounced smartphone Amazon is set to debut in the coming months — After years of development …
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Gearburn, VatorNews, The Droid Guy, PandoDaily, TechSpot, ExtremeTech, I4U News, Gigaom, DailyTech, iPhone Hacks, ParisLemon, iPhone in Canada Blog, Phandroid, Redmond Pie, Electronista, Unwired View, The Mac Observer, Geek.com, App Advice, Phones Review, AppleInsider, PC World, SlashGear, GeekWire, Android Beat, Neowin, Android Community, TIME, TechCrunch, Gigaom, Android and Me, Gotta Be Mobile, Android Central, Engadget, 9to5Google, dailywireless.org, MobileSyrup.com, MacRumors, Digital Trends and Softpedia News. Tweets: @reneritchie
| Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Building blocks: how Project Ara is reinventing the smartphone — A handful of Google engineers and designers are building a phone the DARPA way — In a spare, drab office park in Sunnyvale, California, a bunch of two-by-fours and foamboard have been nailed together into a makeshift model of a shipping container.
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| Seth Rosenblatt / CNET: |
Google targeting Project Ara modular phone for January 2015 — The company wants a base “gray phone” model of its Project Ara modular smartphone available by early next year. — Google's Project Ara project coordinator David Fishman and team leader Paul Eremenko — Seth Rosenblatt/CNET| Reuters: |
Samsung plans to launch Tizen smartphones in Q2 and an Android Wear smartwatch later this year — Samsung executive says Galaxy S5 to outsell S4, sees second quarter rollout for Tizen phone — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's new Galaxy S5 smartphone should outsell its predecessor …
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The Next Web, Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, TechEye, The Verge, Android Beat, SlashGear, Pocketnow, Ubergizmo and Android Central
| Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable: |
The Rise and Fall of AIM, the Breakthrough AOL Never Wanted — When we think about the spectacular collapse of once untouchable Internet properties, companies like MySpace and Pets.com come to mind. The rise and fall of AOL Instant Messenger rivals them all.
Tweets: @hunterwalk, @gootecks, @chelseabot and @jasonrosenthal
| Wall Street Journal: |
Inside Alibaba, China's e-commerce giant with 2X Amazon's revenues, and plans for a $15B IPO — Alibaba Flexes Muscles Before IPO — Chinese E-Commerce Giant Speeds Toward $15 Billion Deal — Jack Ma still has the spartan apartment in the Chinese city of Hangzhou where the former English teacher started Alibaba.com in 1999.| Jon Gertner / Fast Company: |
Inside Google X: lab reveals it experimented with space elevators and hoverboards — The Truth About Google X: An Exclusive Look Behind The Secretive Lab's Closed Doors — Astro Teller is sharing a story about something bad. Or maybe it's something good. At Google X, it's sometimes hard to know the difference.
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Engadget, Quartz, 9to5Google, BGR, Business Insider and VentureBreak
Tweets: @hunterwalk, @fastcodesign and @mattcutts
| Reuters: |
New CEO Nadella pushes data culture at Microsoft — (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp needs a “data culture” to thrive in the new computing environment, according to chief executive Satya Nadella, in his third public appearance in three weeks putting his imprint on the software company.| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
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Thanks:@_trendspotter| Wall Street Journal: |
Mt. Gox gives up plan to rebuild under bankruptcy protection, files for liquidation — Mt. Gox Files for Liquidation — Defunct Bitcoin Exchange Gives Up On Plan to Rebuild — Defunct bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has given up its plan to rebuild under bankruptcy protection and has asked …
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PC World, Gizmodo, Tech in Asia, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Reuters, The Verge and BBC. Tweets: @mochi_wsj
| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
Exclusive: Automattic seeking to raise more than $100 million — The round will value the company behind WordPress.com at north of $1 billion. — FORTUNE — Automattic, the company that runs blogging platforms WordPress.com and WordPress VIP, is out raising between $100 million and $150 million … | Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Yahoo's Q1 Earnings as Meh as Expected, But China's Alibaba Doing Great! — Yahoo pretty much came in on target in the first quarter with what Wall Street had been expecting, earning 38 cents a share on $1.087 billion in revenue. Minus traffic acquisition costs, that meant a pretty weak one percent increase in revenue.| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Play Still Tops iOS App Store Downloads, And Now Narrowing Revenue Gap, Too — Android's position as the most dominant smartphone platform worldwide is also having an impact on mobile app download growth, and now, increasing revenue. Google's app marketplace, Google Play …
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App Annie Blog, Tech in Asia, Cult of Mac, Re/code, Android Community, iDownloadBlog.com, Marketing Land, Gamasutra and Business Insider. Tweets: @benbajarin
| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Investors Send Twitter Up 11.4% Following Gnip News, Adding $2.7B To Its Market Cap — Twitter had a massive day in the markets, soaring more than 11 percent following news this morning that it has acquired Gnip. — Gnip is a company that provides other firms with access to social media information streams.
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| Jana Messerschmidt / The Twitter Blog: |
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Tweets: @lyongreg, @sacca, @paulmwatson, @markzohar, @anildash, @eringriffith and @dickc
| John Biggs / TechCrunch: |
Weev Talks About Life In Prison And His Plans To Open A Hedge Fund, TRO LLC — Weev, aka Andrew Auernheimer, is free. The 29-year-old hacker, released from the Allenwood Federal Correctional Center in Pennsylvania last weekend, has spent the past few days celebrating a federal appeals court decision …
Tweets: @charnyr, @tsimonite and @essobi
| Hunter Walker / Business Insider: |
NY state senator: NY Post report on prostitutes using Airbnb points to gambling, drug activity next — New York Lawmaker Warns That AirBNB Could Be Used For Gambling And Drugs Next — New York State Senator Liz Krueger issued a statement saying a New York Post report published Monday …
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New York Post, Valleywag, nysenate.gov, SiliconBeat, TechHive, The Technology Chronicles and Gothamist. Tweets: @ron_miller
| Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
Netgear adds BitTorrent Sync to its network-attached storage drives — Now this is smart: BitTorrent Inc. has teamed up with Netgear to take its P2P-powered Dropbox competitor BitTorrent Sync to the next level. Owners of a ReadyNAS device can now install apps for Sync directly on that device … | Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
LaCie's online store was compromised for nearly a year, exposing credit cards and contact info — Hardware Giant LaCie Acknowledges Year-Long Credit Card Breach — Computer hard drive maker LaCie has acknowledged that a hacker break-in at its online store exposed credit card numbers …
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LaCie, Threatpost, The Verge, Ubergizmo, ZDNet, Softpedia News, eSecurityPlanet, SC Magazine UK and The Mac Observer
| Jack Purcher / Patent Bolt: |
Google Invents Micro Camera System for Future Contact Lenses — Last month Google surprised the market with a new wearable Glass off-shoot project relating to future smart contact lenses. Our report that was titled “Google Takes their Glass Vision to Smart Contact Lenses,” …
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