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| Kelton Lynn / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter launches mobile app install ads, integrates MoPub ad-buying — A new way to promote mobile apps to 1 billion devices, both on and off-Twitter — We are excited to announce new ways for marketers and developers to drive app installs and app engagements using our new mobile app promotion suite …
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| Vindu Goel / New York Times: |
Twitter Goes After a Facebook Cash Cow — Sometimes the rivalry between Twitter and Facebook is like a children's game of copycat. Facebook copied Twitter's hashtags and trending topics. Twitter copied Facebook's profile page design and automatic display of images in the feed.
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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Marissa Mayer's Secret Plan to Get Apple to Dump Google and Default to Yahoo Mobile Search — Wall Street gave Yahoo stock a big boost today — largely due to the stellar quarterly performance of China's Alibaba, in which the Silicon Valley Internet giant has a big stake.
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| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Why Yahoo's Not Going To Steal The Search Default For iPhone Away From Google — Apparently Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer wants to be the default search for Apple's Safari browser on iPhone and iPad and has been preparing to make a solid pitch. Well, we all want things we can't have … | Adam Satariano / Bloomberg: |
Apple is planning to integrate song-identification into iOS 8, in partnership with Shazam — Apple Said to Prepare Song-ID Feature for IPhone Software — Apple Inc. (AAPL) wants to help you name that tune. — The company is planning to unveil a song-discovery feature in an update …
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Inquirer, LAPTOP Magazine, PC Magazine, ZDNet, Patently Apple, The Mac Observer, DailyTech, TechnoBuffalo, WebProNews, 9to5Mac, iLounge, TechCrunch, App Advice, Softpedia News, PhoneArena, Phones Review, Gizmodo, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacNN, everythingiCafe, The Next Web, The Verge, Ubergizmo, CNET, iMore, AppleInsider, Engadget, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com and SlashGear. Tweets: @sarahfrier
| Wall Street Journal: |
Drop in Tech Stocks Hits Startup Funding — Venture Capital, IPO Investors Get Cautious About Silicon Valley — Tech stocks have taken a pounding over the past month, putting pressure on the ecosystem for financing startups and taking them public. — The market's recent downturn … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Confirmed: Nasty Heartbleed bug exposes OpenVPN private keys, too — Private encryption keys have been successfully extracted multiple times from a virtual private network server running the widely used OpenVPN application with a vulnerable version of OpenSSL, adding yet more urgency to the call … | Christopher Mims / Quartz: |
Amazon and Google are in an epic battle to dominate the cloud—and Amazon may already have won — In technology, it's sometimes good to let a pioneer figure out the pitfalls of a new market. Apple's iPod transformed music listening after countless lesser MP3 players failed to make a real dent.
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| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Nokia suspends Lumia 2520 tablet sales in Europe due to safety concerns over faulty charger — Nokia suspends Lumia 2520 tablet sales due to electric shock risk — Nokia has suspended sales of its Lumia 2520 tablet in the UK, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Russia, and Switzerland after discovering a fault with its charger.| Carlos Hernández / Google Research Blog: |
How the Lens Blur mode in Google's new Camera app simulates shallow depth of field — Lens Blur in the new Google Camera app — One of the biggest advantages of SLR cameras over camera phones is the ability to achieve shallow depth of field effects (also known as bokeh).
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| Russ Garland / Wall Street Journal: |
U.S. Venture Capital Investment Highest Since 2001 — Venture capital investment continued to trend upwards in the first quarter of 2014 with $10.74 billion raised by U.S. based companies, up 18% from the fourth quarter of last year and the most raised since the first three months of 2001.| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Google Misses in Q1 With Revenue Of $15.42B, EPS Of $6.27 As Its Cost-Per-Click Fell 9% — Following the bell, Google reported its first quarter financial performance, including revenue of $12.20 billion excluding traffic acquisition costs (ex-TAC), $15.42 billion including those costs, and earnings per share of $6.27.| Bobby Burch / bizjournals: |
Google Fiber picks Kansas City to test Internet service for small businesses — Google Fiber picks KC to test business service — The Google Fiber bunny is finally hopping closer to Kansas City businesses. — After nearly two years of insisting they “hang in there,” …
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Eye-Fi Cloud backs up every photo, no matter what you use to take it — The SD card maker branches out into cloud storage — Seamlessly backing up your photos and making them easily shareable seems to be the dream for cloud storage services. Dropbox and Google have put a lot of effort …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Google I/O To Elevate Focus On Design — For Google to win, it needs to attract the best designers to its team and get beautiful third-party apps built for its platforms. Yet right now it's Google's rival Apple and the iOS ecosystem that are known for their style.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Samsung And Amazon Team Up For Custom Galaxy Kindle E-Book App — So much for trashing the Kindle. Today Samsung is announcing a new app, Kindle for Samsung, created in partnership with Amazon, that will let Galaxy device users using Android 4.0 and up, starting with the Galaxy S5 …
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| Reuters: |
Weibo cuts IPO size amid selloff in technology stocks — (Reuters) - China's Weibo Corp, a Twitter-like messaging service company, raised a less-than-expected $286 million after it cut the size of its U.S. initial public offering amid a selloff in technology shares and concerns about slowing user growth.| Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom: |
Time Warner Cable bets big on easy and secure Wi-Fi, rolling out Hotspot 2.0 networkwide — Time Warner Cable has turned on the Hotspot 2. capabilities across its public Wi-Fi network, letting customers with newer smartphones or tablets connect to its 33,000-node wireless network without entering passwords … | Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo Acquisitions Power Flickr's New Object Recognition Search, Editing And Video Capture — Today, Yahoo launches new Flickr app for Android (and iOS coming soon.) They include the ability to shoot video in the apps, or upload it directly. There is also better search … | Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Line opens its ‘creators market’ to let you sell your own stickers on its messaging service — Few companies have done more to pioneer the concept of stickers than Line, and now the Japanese company is democratizing sticker production after it opened a marketplace where anyone can upload packs to sell via its messaging app.| Vinay Shet / Google Online Security Blog: |
Google's latest street number recognition algorithm can solve 99% of its own reCAPTCHA puzzles — Street View and reCAPTCHA technology just got smarter — Have you ever wondered how Google Maps knows the exact location of your neighborhood coffee shop? Or of the hotel you're staying at next month?
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Google's ‘Project Tango’ Smartphone Uses Apple's PrimeSense Technology — Earlier this year, Google unveiled “Project Tango,” an experimental smartphone that incorporates 3D sensors to allow users to map indoor and outdoor environments. — Reports suggested that the smartphone's 3D capabilities …
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| Tom Dotan / The Information: |
Last-minute cancellation of flagship original series raises questions in Hollywood about Hulu's stability — Hollywood Questions Hulu as Video Landscape Shifts — When the owners of the online video site Hulu pulled the company off the auction block for the second time last summer …
| Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal: |
Campaign Monitor, a decade-old Australian email marketing startup, raises $250M from Insight — Australia's Campaign Monitor Raises $250 Million from Insight … A 10-year-old “startup” in Australia is joining the rarefied strata of buzzy young companies like Uber and Dropbox.| Amy Schatz / Re/code: |
AT&T Threatens Boycott if TV Airwaves Auction Rules Aren't Changed — At least one of the largest wireless carriers in the U.S. is unhappy about the Federal Communications Commission's new proposed rules for an upcoming auction of TV airwaves, which would reserve some licenses for smaller companies.
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Spotify Starts Shutting Down Its Massive P2P Network — When Spotify launched its first beta in the fall of 2008, we branded it “an alternative to music piracy.” — With the option to stream millions of tracks supported by an occasional ad, or free of ads for a small subscription fee …
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