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| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
Google has established a “right to be forgotten” form following EU ruling — Begrudgingly, Google Offers a Form for People Who Want to Be Forgotten — Europe's highest court on May 13 decided that its citizens could ask search engines to delete search results about themselves.
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| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
How Google's New “Right To Be Forgotten” Form Works: An Explainer — Google has taken a big step forward with complying with the European Union's new “Right To Be Forgotten” that was established after a court ruling earlier this month. The company has established a new form allowing …
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Mark Zuckerberg and his wife to donate $120 million to needy Bay Area schools — The world's most innovative community shouldn't also be a home for struggling public schools. Today Priscilla and I are announcing a $120 million commitment to support efforts to improve education for underserved communities in the Bay Area.
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| Parmy Olson / Forbes: |
Microsoft to offer a sensor-rich smartwatch that measures heart rate, syncs with iPhones, Android and Windows Phones — Exclusive: A Microsoft Smartwatch Is Coming — Microsoft is the latest technology giant preparing to jump into the wearables market, with plans to offer a sensor-rich smartwatch …
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| Reggie Ugwu / BuzzFeed: |
Amazon Prime to offer music streaming service with songs six months old or older, coming June/July; Sony, Warner on board — Exclusive: Amazon Prime To Offer Music Streaming Service — With 6-Month-Old Songs — The internet giant has reached deals with major labels for a service to launch this June or July.| Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom: |
Apple's upcoming smart home program is about ‘Made for iPhone’ certification, not deep product integration — Here's how Apple's smart home program will work — Apple's move into the smart home isn't actually the grand experience I had hoped for.
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| Michael Vakulenko / Medium: |
Beats is a platform, connecting artists with fans; Apple's users will enable network effects on it — To understand Beats you need to understand Lady Gaga — Look beyond headphones, play lists, music streaming, wearables and label deals — The news are finally out—Apple is buying Beats for 3 Billion Dollars.
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| ESPN: |
Steve Ballmer to buy LA Clippers for $2B; agreement signed by Sterling, pending NBA approval — Former Microsoft CEO bids $2B — Former Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has submitted a bid of $2 billion to buy the Los Angeles Clippers, sources have confirmed to ESPN.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter's Emerging Market Strategy Includes Its Own Version Of A “Facebook Zero” Like Service Called “Twitter Access” — Mobile carriers around the world are touting their involvement in a program called “Twitter Zero,” but that's not its real name. — In 2010, Facebook revealed …
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| Renu Rayasam / HERE Three Sixty: |
Nokia buys SRI International spin-off Desti to add AI-based personalization to its HERE maps — Creating location services that understand you with Desti — Today, we took a step forward in our ability to personalize search by welcoming Desti's team to HERE.| David Ulevitch / OpenDNS Blog: |
OpenDNS will be ad-free for all users starting June 6 — No more ads — TL;DR: We've always tried to put user experience first, even when that gets in the way of making more money. Browsers have changed, we've become a security company, and we've shifted our business to rely …
| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Sunrise is the first great calendar app for Android and web — The search results for “calendar” in the Google Play Store leave a lot to be desired. — You'll find Agenda and Cal, two decent free apps, and Business Calendar, a pricey app with lots of features but no sense of style.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Salesforce CRM apps coming to Windows and Windows Phone — Summary: Salesforce and Microsoft have agreed to tighten ties between Salesforce's CRM apps and platform and Microsoft's Windows and Office. — Salesforce.com is building new Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.1 CRM apps …
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Tweets: @levie, @emilyparkhurst and @satyanadella
| Grant Gross / PC World: |
Bill would prohibit FCC from reclassifying broadband as utility — A U.S. lawmaker has introduced legislation that would prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from reclassifying broadband as a common-carrier utility, a move many net neutrality advocates have called for.
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Shock resistant Galaxy S5 Active available from AT&T for $199.99 on two year contract — AT&T releases shock-resistant Samsung Galaxy S5 Active — The Samsung Galaxy S5's waterproofing was one of its headline features, but if you need a little more resilience AT&T may have you covered.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Hipmunk Raises $20M Round For Its Agony- And Ecstasy-Based Travel Search — Flight and hotel search startup Hipmunk is announcing that it has raised $20 million in Series C funding. — The round was led by Oak Investment Partners. Hipmunk co-founder and CEO Adam Goldstein told …
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| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Security experts to complete audit of TrueCrypt, may revive it after mysterious shutdown — Exclusive: Security enthusiasts may revive encryption tool after mystery shutdown — (Reuters) - A team of security experts may seek to restore and improve a popular computer encryption system … | Mike Isaac / Re/code: |
Foursquare's COO, Biz Dev Head Are Leaving — Foursquare has undergone major changes to its entire product lineup. Now it faces an executive shuffle. — Current Chief Operating Officer Evan Cohen will leave the company in the coming weeks, after spending the past four and a half years at the company.
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