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Source: internal Apple message narrows Apple Watch launch date to “spring” 2015; customers will be able to try on different models in stores — Apple Retail SVP Angela Ahrendts: Apple Watch launching in “Spring” — The Apple Watch's launch is scheduled to occur in the “spring …
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| Kevin Roose / New York Magazine: |
Why podcasts are back: shows are better and cheaper, playing smartphone audio in a car is easy — What's Behind the Great Podcast Renaissance? — The mid-aughts audio scene is making a big comeback. — Shares — In 2001, Steve Jobs announced the original iPod …
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| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
As the biggest winners get bigger, VCs accelerate their valuations of companies like Slack — Fundraising Acceleration Is The New VC Investment Thesis — There was a quite a jolt on Friday from the news that Slack, a company whose eponymous enterprise communications platform …
Tweets: @stewart, @joel_withrow and @mims
| Micah Lee / The Intercept: |
How Micah Lee securely connected Edward Snowden with Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald — Ed Snowden Taught Me To Smuggle Secrets Past Incredible Danger. Now I Teach You. — Late on the evening of January 11, 2013, someone sent me an interesting email.| Liam Spradlin / Android Police: |
Gmail 5.0 With Exchange Support And Material Design Has Landed — The day is finally upon us - the Gmail 5.0 APK has landed, and we have it for your (production-signed) downloading pleasure. — As we've expected since we first saw the app more than a week ago, the new Gmail is very... “material.”
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| Economist: |
Dark net e-commerce is growing with more listings on Silk Road 2.0 and others than ever before — The Amazons of the dark net — Business is thriving on the anonymous internet, despite the efforts of law enforcers — THE first ever e-commerce transaction, conducted by students …
Tweets: @misterburton, @ryanxcharles and @declanm
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft stops selling consumer versions of Windows 7 to computer makers — Microsoft today stopped providing Windows 7 Home Basic, Windows 7 Home Premium, and Windows 7 Ultimate licenses to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), including its PC partners and systems builders.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
| Stuart Elliott / New York Times: |
CNET's print magazine to debut on Monday, part of an effort to become a multiplatform brand — Technology Website CNET to Jump From Screen to Page — A LEADING technology website, CNET, is expanding into a platform that its users praise as portable, accessible and affordable.
Tweets: @harrymccracken, @inafried, @danackerman and @caro
| Wall Street Journal: |
New EU Commissioner for Digital Economy is considering “Google-tax”, EU-wide data protection agency, was strong Google antitrust settlement opponent — New EU Digital Chief Floats Tough Anti-Google Regulations — Incoming European Commissioner for the Digital Economy … | Benedict Evans: |
With Pay, Apple partners with and simultaneously destabilizes payment incumbents like Chase — Apple Pay, partnerships and software as disruption — With Apple Pay just launched and some sort of TV product floating on the horizon, it strikes me that there are three ways to think about how Apple changes industries.
Tweets: @yougo, @startupljackson and @benbajarin
| Liam Spradlin / Android Police: |
Google's Copresence Looks Like A Contactless, Cross-Platform Version Of Android Beam — Several months ago, we discussed something called Nearby, a project that - at the time - seemed to be Google's effort to let “people, places, and things” know when a user is, well, nearby.| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
How the NFL uses Zebra Technologies' RFID tags to track every player on the field — How the NFL tracks everything on the field but the ball — From Chinese women's soccer to the American big leagues, real-time motion tracking is coming to sports — Most people know radio-frequency identification … | Don Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
Japan's MegaChips acquires SiTime for $200M, a sign VCs can make money on chip startups — Chip Deal Provides a Ray of Hope for Silicon Startups — Venture capitalists have a well-known aversion to putting money in chip startups. The fear is frequently traced to the heavy cost …
Tweets: @donal888
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