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Sony is developing an e-paper smart watch, entire face and band will function as a display — Sony Said to Plan E-Paper Watch in Test of Innovation — Sony Corp. (6758) is developing a watch made out of electronic paper for release as soon as next year in a trial of the company's … | Danny Hakim / New York Times: |
European MP urging breakup of Google counsels law firm that represented German Magazine Publishers association, earns $15-75K annually from it — European Legislator Urging the Breakup of Google Has Ties to a Law Firm — Andreas Schwab, a German member of the European Parliament …
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US expresses ‘concern’ over EU proposal to break up Google — The United States Mission to the European Union says antitrust issues should not be “politicized.” — The United States doesn't seem to like the European Parliament's proposed breakup of Google.
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In Another Fire Sale, Amazon Cuts Phone Price to $199 Unlocked, Still With a Free Year of Prime — It's no secret that Amazon has a lot of unsold Fire Phones, but the question has been how the retailer would look to sell its inventory. — Screenshot by Re/code| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Tumblr Overtakes Instagram As Fastest-Growing Social Platform, Snapchat Is The Fastest-Growing App — With 1.35 billion active monthly users, Facebook continues to be the world's largest social network by some margin, but when it comes to picking up new users, it appears to have reached a saturation point.
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| Serena Saitto / Bloomberg: |
Uber Said to Be Raising Funds at $40 Billion Valuation — Uber Technologies Inc. is close to raising a round of financing that would value the mobile car-booking company at $35 billion to $40 billion, according to people with knowledge of the situation. — T. Rowe Price Group Inc …
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| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Netflix Sues a Former Exec — Now Yahoo's CIO — For Allegedly Collecting Kickbacks — Netflix says a former executive collected kickbacks from vendors he helped connect to the streaming video company. — Now Netflix is suing its former employee, who is currently Yahoo's chief information officer.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Mozilla reveals Firefox will soon offer one-click buttons for all your search engines — Mozilla today unveiled some of the new search features coming to Firefox. The company says the new additions are “coming soon to a Firefox near you” but didn't give a more specific timeline.
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| Jack Nicas / Wall Street Journal: |
GoPro to sell multi-rotor drones with high definition cameras late next year at $500-$1000 — GoPro Developing Line of Consumer Drones — Company Plans To Start Selling Multi-Rotor Helicopters With High-Def Cameras Late Next Year — GoPro Inc. is developing its own line of consumer drones …
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| William Alden / New York Times: |
Almost half of Airbnb's $1.45M of 2010 revenue in New York was from 119 users with over 3 listings, who may have violated the law — The Business Tycoons of Airbnb — Two years ago, when the monthly rent on his two-bedroom apartment rose to $5,000 from $2,800, a 35-year-old real estate agent in Lower Manhattan had a quick fix.
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Betaworks' latest experiment-turned-product is #Homescreen, a simple app that lets users share their iPhone home screens — Homescreen Is Betaworks' Latest Experiment-Turned-Product — When someone picks up their phone to take a peek, I can't help but take a peek, too.
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9to5Mac, App Advice, blog.chron.com and Laughing Squid
Tweets: @dannysullivan, @stevesi, @hunterwalk, @startupljackson and @chrismessina
| Julia Love / Mercury News: |
Union pushes for better conditions for security guards on Apple campus — As organized labor expands its efforts in Silicon Valley, a local union and civil rights activist the Rev. Jesse Jackson are pushing for better working conditions for the security guards who work at Apple's campus.
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| Kristin Cwalinski / CNBC: |
Twitter has talked to Bieber-backed Shots: Source — What's Twitter's target now? — The Fast Money traders discuss Twitter's potential acquisition of “Shots,” the Justin Bieber backed selfie app run by John Shahidi. — Twitter has held talks with Shots, the selfie app backed by singer Justin Bieber …
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Tweets: @stevekovach, @ajs, @mims, @ow and @amir
| David Gilbert / International Business Times: |
EU pushes Google to obey right to be forgotten requests from EU residents worldwide, including .com domains — EU Regulators Want ‘Right to be Forgotten’ Ruling Extended to Google.com — Regulators in Brussels have announced they believe links removed from search engines under …
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| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
Twitter declines to release full-archive search API to devs, wounds third-party clients again — New Twitter search API won't be available to third-party clients — This is just the next step in killing third-party apps. Twitter doesn't have the guts to just end them outright …
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