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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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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.| iFixit: |
Google Project Tango smartphone prototype teardown — Project Tango Teardown — It's 2014 and the future is now. Google's engineers have been hard at work bringing the virtual to reality with projects like Google Glass, and their newest 3D mapping tech, Project Tango.
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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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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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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Study: 37% of the roughly 781M games owned on Steam have not been played once — Introducing Steam Gauge: Ars reveals Steam's most popular games — Right now, I can tell you that about 37 percent of the roughly 781 million games registered to various Steam accounts haven't even been loaded a single time.
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Samsung launches website highlighting ‘meaningful’ design — In the midst of a major “copycat” lawsuit, Samsung has launched a site that highlights original design from the company. Emblazoned with the tagline “make it meaningful,” it's described as “a platform to present influential design stories … | 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
| Cadie Thompson / CNBC: |
Google expected to post big revenue, but watch out for margins — While Google is widely expected to post an impressive quarter when it reports earnings after the bell on Wednesday, investors will want to keep a close eye on the company's operating margins.
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Q&A with Zuckerberg about Facebook unbundling, anonymity, acquisitions, and innovation — Can Facebook Innovate? A Conversation With Mark Zuckerberg — For my column this week about Facebook's new approach to creating social apps, I spent some time talking to Mark E. Zuckerberg, the company's co-founder and chief executive.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
8 GB iPhone 5c now available in the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Sweden, Poland, Italy, Ireland and several others — After a brief period of downtime, the Apple Store website around the world has now gone back up. Aside from a bit of Mother's Day promotional advertising, there is no change to most regions.
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MacRumors, Gigaom, MacDailyNews, Electronista, Softpedia News, SlashGear, Phones Review, iDownloadBlog.com, App Advice, CNET and iMore. Thanks:@mikebeas
| 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: @tsimonite, @essobi and @charnyr
| 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, Cult of Mac, Tech in Asia, Ubergizmo, Re/code, dailywireless.org, Android Community, iDownloadBlog.com, Gamasutra, Business Insider and Marketing Land. Tweets: @benbajarin
| 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 … | Michael Carney / PandoDaily: |
Grubwithus becomes Superb, a platform for discovering new places and which friends to share them with — Have you ever heard about a hot new restaurant far off the beaten path and wondered which of your friends would be willing to venture out and try it with you?
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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| 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: |
| 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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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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