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Skype Translator preview goes live with English and Spanish language support — Skype Translator Preview - An Exciting Journey to a New Chapter in Communication — For more than a decade, Skype has been breaking down geographical barriers to make every day audio and video communications possible.
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Thanks:@reckel| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
Sony hackers offer to withhold posting emails from specific employees if they write in and ask — Sony Hackers Offer to Withhold Stolen Data From Promised Leak — A group claiming responsibility for the devastating hacking attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment on Sunday offered … | Matthew Bennett / The Spain Report: |
Spanish Newspaper Publishers' Association Now Asks Government To Help Stop Google News Closure — NEWS: AEDE announces it wants the Spanish government and EU competition authorities to stop Google closing Google News: “to protect the rights of citizens and businesses”.
| Gerry Shih / Reuters: |
Xiaomi made $56 million profit in 2013: filing — (Reuters) - China's Xiaomi Technology Ltd Co [XTC.UL] made a profit of 347.48 million yuan ($56.15 million) on 26.58 billion yuan ($4.30 billion) in revenue in 2013, Chinese securities filings dated Monday show.
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| Alex Heath / Cult of Mac: |
Workflow lets you easily chain together and automate hundreds of actions across iOS apps — Workflow pushes the limits of how powerful iOS can be — A new app called Workflow aims to close the divide between the power of OS X and the convenience of iOS.
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MacStories, TechCrunch, The Verge, AppleInsider, App Advice, MacStories, Seth Clifford, TodaysiPhone.com, SlashGear, MacRumors, The Next Web, iMore, TUAW, Business Insider, The Mac Observer, 9to5Mac and BGR
Tweets: @arix, @benbajarin, @viticci, @charlesarthur, @producthunt and @jasonfried
| Robin Wauters / Tech.eu: |
European long-distance ridesharing platform Carpooling arrives in the United States, partners with Uber — Munich, Germany-based Carpooling, previously known as Carpooling.com, is launching in the United States after having inked a deal with increasingly controversial ride-booking service Uber.
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| Donna Tam / CNET: |
This holiday season, more individuals are reselling toys in high demand on Amazon — That $119 ‘Frozen’ playset sells for $250 on Amazon. Let it go? — The art of retail artbridge — buying products from brick-and mortar stores and selling them online for a higher price — is alive and well.| Chine Labbe / Reuters: |
Ahead of taxi protest, France says UberPop to be banned — (Reuters) - The UberPop transport service will be forbidden in France beginning Jan. 1, the French interior ministry said on Monday, the latest regulatory hurdle for the controversial car service company.
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| Evan Ackerman / IEEE Spectrum: |
iRobot Announces Create 2: An Updated, Hackable Roomba — Building and maintaining robots is one of the biggest obstacles in robotics research: when you're spending all of your time just figuring out how to get a robot to work and then keeping it working, you end up spending none of your time teaching that robot to do anything useful.
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| Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post: |
Uber pressures regulators by mobilizing riders and hiring vast lobbying network — OUTSIDE IN: A new era of influence — On a Thursday in June, bureaucrats from Virginia's Department of Motor Vehicles made their move against Uber Technologies. The fast-growing ride-for-hire company …
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Business Insider and The Verge. Tweets: @howardlindzon, @declanm, @hunterwalk, @postroz and @tlpatweet
| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Google: |
T-Mobile teases a new uncarrier deal livestreaming tomorrow as it claims 50% faster LTE in NY — T-Mobile has announced that it will be unveiling its latest contract-free deal in a livestreamed ‘fireside chat’ tomorrow, Un-carrier 8.0. … The company hasn't hinted at any of the details, but we'll of course let you know ...
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T-Mobile Newsroom, T-Mobile Newsroom, iMore, BGR, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, TmoNews and SlashGear
| Zac Bowden / WinBeta: |
Consumer-focused Windows 10 build 9901 leaks with Cortana integration, numerous app and feature updates — First Look at an early version of the Windows 10 Consumer Preview (video) — Microsoft is yet to announce any consumer features which will be available in Windows 10 … Sponsor Posts
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