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Larry Page reorgs staff, transfers leadership of core Google products to Sundar Pichai — Exclusive: Google CEO Larry Page Reorgs Staff, Anoints Sundar Pichai as New Product Czar — In a significant reorganization of Google management, CEO Larry Page is transferring leadership …
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Apple's music sales down 13% this year; Beats Music to relaunch as part of iTunes in 2015 — Apple iTunes Sees Big Drop in Music Sales — Dive of at Least 13% in Download Sales Underscores Music Industry's Fragile Recovery| Kelly Hodgkins / MacRumors: |
AT&T Locking Apple Interchangeable SIMs in iPad Air 2 and Retina Mini 3 — Apple's new Apple SIM card in the iPad Air 2 and the Retina iPad mini 3 is designed to be universal, usable across a variety of wireless carriers in the US and UK, including AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and UK's EE.
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| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
Nest Acquires Home Automation Hub Revolv, but Will Stop Selling It — Nest today said it had acquired Revolv, the smart-home automation device maker, for its developer platform. — The deal closed this morning with undisclosed terms. It wasn't about adding the Revolv home automation hub …
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Nokia Lumia to become Microsoft Lumia; Nokia branding to continue on entry-level phones — Say hello to Microsoft Lumia — When we announced that the Nokia Devices & Services business would become part of Microsoft, we also shared that Lumia, our smartphone brand, would become part of the Microsoft family.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Deezer Buys Stitcher, Adds 35K Talk Radio Shows And Podcasts To Its Music Platform — Deezer, the Paris-based music streaming service that competes against the likes of Spotify and Rdio, is switching up its game in the battle for more differentiation, more users and a higher profile in the U.S …
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Amazon Quietly Launches A Functional App Store Within Its Main Android Application — Until recently, if you wanted to install an application from Amazon's own Appstore onto your Android device, you would have to install the Amazon Appstore app separately. And this is a bit of a hassle … | Brad Stone / Businessweek: |
Only employees, not Wall Street, can pressure Bezos to slow spending on new Amazon initiatives — Amazon Employees, Not Investors, Will Have to Pressure Jeff Bezos to Slow Down — Thursday's quarterly earnings report from Amazon spooked Wall Street. The 95 cents per share loss …
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Google adds information about video games to Knowledge Graph in search results — Google search finally adds information about video games — Google has expanded its search engine with the ability to recognize video games. If your query references a game, a new Knowledge Graph panel … | John Markoff / New York Times: |
Google VP Alan Eustace breaks Felix Baumgartner's world record for highest-altitude jump — Alan Eustace Jumps From Stratosphere, Breaking Felix Baumgartner's World Record — Credit: J. Martin Harris Photography/PSDC — ROSWELL, N.M. — A well-known computer scientist parachuted …
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| Gregg Keizer / Computerworld: |
Apple awards eight top executives stock worth up to $27M each; vesting begins in April 2017 — Apple hands 8 execs stock awards worth up to $27M — Apple recently awarded eight executives stock grants that were worth almost $13 million each at Thursday's closing price, with as much as another $14 million up for grabs.
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Tim Cook says bringing Apple Pay to China is his top priority there — China Exclusive: Tim Cook: Apple wants everything it develops to enter China market — Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook said he hopes to adapt all of Apple's developments to work for the Chinese market, which he describes as a “key market” for the tech giant.
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iPad Mini 3 teardown reveals an NFC controller and that hot glue is used to affix the home button — Teardown shows iPad mini 3's “hastily glued” Touch ID Home button makes for difficult screen repairs — Following a teardown of the new iPad Air 2 earlier this week …
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