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Microsoft plans holiday assault on Chromebooks with $199 HP laptop, $249 laptops from Acer and Toshiba — Microsoft launches a price assault on Chromebooks — Microsoft is aiming straight for Google's Chromebooks this holiday season. At the company's partner conference today …
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Secret raises $25M series B, launches ‘Collections’ feature and anonymous Facebook login — Onward — The next six months — Six months into growing and evolving Secret, our community has shown us how much demand there is for a social network centered around honest conversations.
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| Jenna Wortham / New York Times: |
Six-month-old Secret valued at more than $100M after latest funding round — Secret Reaches Beyond Tech Set, and Raises $25 Million — Secret, the app that lets people post messages anonymously, has been beloved by the tech insiders who use the service to gossip about their jobs and love lives.
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| Jeff Elder / Wall Street Journal: |
Google Directors Wanted Page, Brin to Court Facebook Employees — Google considered having its cofounders personally recruit Facebook workers and instituted a policy to make counteroffers within an hour to workers offered jobs by Facebook, according to newly released documents … | Dan Frommer / Quartz: |
The Eric Schmidt email confirming Google's one-hour window to counter Facebook job offers — More fascinating emails continue to trickle out of the Google/Apple/Intel/Adobe wage-conspiracy case in California. In one exchange revealed last week, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt confirmed …
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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Sources: AOL CEO Tim Armstrong would love to merge with Yahoo, but Marissa Mayer finds the idea backward-looking — Two Years and Still Stuck in a Revenue Rut, Will Yahoo's Mayer Bite the AOL Bullet? — Maybe AOL and Yahoo will merge. Maybe not. Maybe they should. Maybe they shouldn't.| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple's 5.5-inch ‘iPhone 6’ faces production issues, launch may be pushed to 2015 — Apple's rumored 5.5-inch “phablet” iPhone model is said to be facing issues with its new in-cell touchscreen panel, as well as color unevenness on the new “iPhone 6” metal casing …
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| Liam Spradlin / Android Police: |
Exclusive: Google Prepping Play Store Update That's One Step Closer To Material With Beautiful New Listing UI — When we first wrote about Quantum Paper (the internal name for the material in Material Design), we noted that Google was anticipating a series of updates to its own apps between … | New York Times: |
eBay partners with Sotheby's to live stream the auction house's sales worldwide, giving eBay's 145M customers bidding access — A Warhol With Your Moose Head? Sotheby's Teams With EBay — Convinced that consumers are finally ready to shop online for Picassos and choice Persian rugs … | Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept: |
GCHQ developed tools to manipulate online polls, inflate pageviews, censor videos, more — Hacking Online Polls and Other Ways British Spies Seek to Control the Internet — The secretive British spy agency GCHQ has developed covert tools to seed the internet with false information …
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| Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
LinkedIn acquires Newsle, a Google Alerts-style service for you and your network — LinkedIn's has announced it has acquired Newsle, a service that lets you import your contacts from Facebook or LinkedIn and scans the Web to alerts you whether anyone in your network has been mentioned on the Web.| Stephen Hall / 9to5Google: |
Former Google [X] director and head of Glass Babak Parviz joins Amazon — Google X director Babak Parviz founded and led both the Google Glass and contact lens projects at Google, but it appears he has now left the Mountain View corporation in favor of Amazon.
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Thanks:@rsgnl| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Comcast Acquired PowerCloud Systems, Gears Up For Smart Home Play — Update. I have now confirmed that Comcast has indeed acquired PowerCloud Systems, a spinoff from PARC that developed hardware and software to monitor broadband usage in your home or office.| Alina Selyukh / Reuters: |
Internet Association representing Google, Netflix, Amazon, and others pushes for net neutrality in FCC filing — U.S. web companies press demands for net neutrality with FCC — (Reuters) - Major U.S. web companies on Monday urged regulators to restrict the ability of Internet providers …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
MakerBot 3D printers now available in a dozen Home Depot stores — The Home Depot's core business revolves around helping you craft things, so it stands to reason that you'd eventually find 3D printers there, doesn't it? Sure enough, that's what's happening today.
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| Nick Hide / CNET: |
Ingress invades iOS: Google's augmented reality game hits iPhone — Google reaches across the aisle to Apple's platform with its hit game, which sees you running around real-world locations claiming them for your team. — Google — Ingress, Google's innovative augmented reality game … Sponsor Posts
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