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Google Removes Amazon's App Listing From Google Play Search Following Addition Of Appstore, Instant Video Integrations — In October, we spotted that Amazon had quietly launched a hidden and functional app store within its main Android application which was available for download on Google Play.| S Somasegar / MSDN Blogs: |
Microsoft acquires cross-platform crash analytics and distribution service HockeyApp — Microsoft acquires HockeyApp, leading mobile crash analytics and beta distribution service for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone — Today I'm pleased to announce that we have acquired HockeyApp … | Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Adobe acquires stock photo giant Fotolia for $800 million in cash — Buried within its fourth quarter earnings report, creative technologies company Adobe today revealed it plans to acquire Fotolia, a stock photo site which hosts 34 million images and videos.
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| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Adobe sees strong Q4 with $1.07B in revenue, 644K new paying Creative Cloud subscribers — Adobe now has 3.454 million paying Creative Cloud subscribers, the company revealed in its fourth quarter financial report today. — Adobe originally predicted it would reach 3.3 million paying subscribers by the end of 2014.
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Business Wire, Re/code, The Next Web and Tech Trader Daily
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Oculus acquires skeletal hand tracking firm Nimble VR and 3D mapping company 13th Lab, hires motion capture expert Chris Bregler — Nimble VR, 13th Lab, and Chris Bregler join Oculus — Computer vision is at the heart of delivering comfortable and incredible virtual reality.
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Gizmodo, TechCrunch, CNET, Gigaom, The Verge, Nimble VR, 13th Lab, Engadget, Gamasutra, Connectedly, SlashGear and Seeking Alpha
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Qualcomm, Intel, and others speak out against Title II net neutrality — Much of the fight over how to handle net neutrality has been between the two industries that have the most obvious stake in it: cable companies and web services. Today, though, 60 tech companies, including Intel …
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| Edward Wyatt / New York Times: |
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn Rolls Out A Simplified Homepage With Analytics And News Feed Front And Center — LinkedIn, the social network for the working world, today gets around 198 million monthly unique visitors globally to linkedin.com spending on average 4.6 minutes per visit, according to comScore …
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Official LinkedIn Blog, Re/code, Gigaom, TheStreet.com, SiliconBeat, ReadWrite and WebProNews. Tweets: @ingridlunden
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Canada's Competition Bureau probing Apple's contracts with domestic wireless carriers, says it has found no evidence of wrongdoing so far — Canada competition watchdog probing Apple mobile carrier deals — (Reuters) - Canada's Competition Bureau is investigating allegations … | Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple now requires cases protect devices from 1m drops, meet new environmental standards — Apple recently started requiring case manufacturers in its Made for iPhone (MFi) licensing program follow new requirements that will ensure cases better protect Apple devices and cover glass from impact …
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BGR, MacNN, Ubergizmo, App Advice, InvestorPlace, MacRumors, MacDailyNews and iLounge. Tweets: @applespotlight. Thanks:@apollozac
| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Apple online retail stores in US and UK now accepting PayPal — Apple's Online Store Starts Accepting PayPal — Apple.com shoppers in the U.S. and the U.K. have a new way to pay for the latest iPhone or iPad: PayPal. Previously available as a payment option only in Apple's app and content stores …
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft ready to show off Windows 10 mobile SKU on January 21 — Summary:Microsoft will share more about the Windows 10 ‘consumer experience’ at an event on January 21 in Redmond. — Microsoft officials sent invitations on December 11 to selected press and analysts to its next Windows 10 reveal event.| Martin Beck / Marketing Land: |
Zuckerberg Dislikes The Idea Of A Facebook “Dislike” Button — “That's not something that we think is good for the world,” the Facebook CEO said during his second town hall Q&A. — Don't go looking for a “dislike” button on Facebook; Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he has no interest in giving people the means to be mean.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Dropbox launches Microsoft Office collaboration features for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on Windows and Mac — Dropbox today launched its much-anticipated Project Harmony functionality, which brings collaboration tools to Microsoft Office desktop applications.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft makes its MSN consumer apps available on iOS, Android, Amazon devices — Summary:Microsoft is continuing its cross-platform push, bringing a number of its MSN-branded consumer apps to iOS, Android and Amazon devices. — The team inside Bing that built some of the best “Metro Style” …
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The Verge, The Fire Hose, BGR, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Gigaom, MacRumors, 9to5Google, 9to5Mac, Android Police, WebProNews and AfterDawn.com
| Jack Clark / Bloomberg: |
Hortonworks prices IPO at $16, above its $12-$14 range, raises $100M — Hortonworks Raises $100 Million, Pricing IPO Above Range — Hortonworks Inc., a startup that sells services and support for the Hadoop free data-analysis technology, raised $100 million in an initial public offering …
| Maya Kosoff / Business Insider: |
Uber Is Suspending Operations In New Delhi Following Allegations Of Rape Against One Of Its Drivers — Uber will suspend operations in New Delhi and review its Indian operations, according to a company blog post on Thursday. The announcement comes three days after Delhi, India's capital territory, banned the service.
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Uber Blog, CIO.com, TIME, SlashGear, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Next Web and MediaNama. Tweets: @ellenhuet
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Latest Salesforce Product Lets Enterprises Roll Out Their Own App Stores — As companies develop more mobile apps, they need an organized way to distribute them and track usage. Salesforce announced a product today called AppExchange Store Builder that gives companies what they need: their very own AppExchange.| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
App-analytics company New Relic picks up $115M in its IPO, setting price at $23 — New Relic today announced that it has raised $115 million from investors before it hits the New York Stock Exchange on Friday under the symbol NEWR. — The company set the price of its shares at $23 …
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| Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority: |
Chromecast app's new Guest Mode option allows others to cast to your TV without a WiFi password — (Update: video) Chromecast update: screen casting for 4.4.2 devices, Material design, guest mode — Tired of updates yet? Neither are we! The Chromecast Android app is next in line, and the new update brings some awesome features.| Chris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg: |
Facebook tries to block 381 search warrants issued by NY prosecutor last year, the biggest set it's ever received — Facebook Seeks to Block N.Y. Prosecutor's Search Warrants — Facebook Inc. (FB) is asking a New York appeals court to block the largest set of search warrants the company …
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| Amy Gesenhues / Search Engine Land: |
Bing Rolls Out International Hotel Booking Feature & Updates Mobile Search Results — Bing released two updates today, adding a new hotel booking feature in partnership with TripAdvisor, as well as updating its mobile search results to include details like deep links and time-stamps.
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Search Blog, Ubergizmo and WinBeta
| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
CenturyLink acquires predictive analytics company Cognilytics — If you thought CenturyLink was only focused on building an extensive cloud-computing portfolio, think again. The telecommunications company is announcing today that it has bought 200-person predictive analytics company Cognilytics.
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