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Sources: Verizon approached AOL about possible acquisition or joint venture to strengthen mobile-video offerings — Verizon Said to Approach AOL About Possible Takeover or Venture — Verizon Communications Inc. has approached AOL Inc. (AOL) about a potential acquisition or joint venture …
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Fortune, Politico, DSLreports, TheStreet.com, Wall Street Journal, Tech Times, VatorNews, Quartz, Ars Technica, CNET, Benzinga, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com, Telegraph, Bloomberg, Reuters, USA Today, Consumerist and The Verge
Tweets: @howardlindzon, @pkafka, @jyarow, @zackwhittaker, @om, @tim_stevens, @mattzeitlin, @puiwingtam, @ow, @caseynewton and @rafat
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Apple now selling SIM-free unlocked iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in the US, from $649 — As we reported yesterday, Apple is now selling contract-free iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in retail stores and online. Following historic pattern, the 16 GB base model iPhone 6 costs $649 with higher tiers costing $100 extra.
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AppleInsider, CNET, Macworld, BGR, MacRumors, The Verge, BetaNews, SiliconANGLE, Electronista, TmoNews, Gizmodo, InfoWorld, iPhone in Canada Blog and MacRumors
| Austin Carr / Fast Company: |
Interviews with dozens of Amazon employees reveal the story behind Jeff Bezos's Fire phone debacle — The Real Story Behind Jeff Bezos's Fire Phone Debacle And What It Means For Amazon's Future — “What the hell happened?” — It is a cold day in early December in Midtown Manhattan … | Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Razer OSVR: an Android-based open source VR platform with a $199 dev kit headset — Razer introduces OSVR, the ‘Android of virtual reality’ — OSVR takes a shot at unifying the world of virtual reality — For a year or more after the Oculus Rift got people talking about virtual reality, the two were nearly synonymous.
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Re/code, TechCrunch, Backchannel, PC World, Gizmodo, VentureBeat and Engadget
| Ev Williams / Medium: |
Metrics based on a single number, like MAU, are a poor proxy for value for Internet companies — A mile wide, an inch deep — I was recently quoted as saying, “I don't give a s**t” if Instagram has more users than Twitter. If you read the article you'll note there's a big “if” before my not giving of said s**t.
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Business Insider and The Equity Kicker. Tweets: @jayrosen_nyu, @mattcutts, @sippey, @fmanjoo, @ow, @joshelman, @ia, @cpen, @nilofer, @hunterwalk, @mikeisaac, @wblau and @om. See also Mediagazer
| David Kravets / Ars Technica: |
FBI says search warrants not needed to use “stingrays” in public places — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is taking the position that court warrants are not required when deploying cell-site simulators in public places. Nicknamed “stingrays,” the devices are decoy cell towers … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Glassdoor Closes $70M Funding Round Led By Google Capital And Tiger Global — Glassdoor, the site that lets employees rate their companies' work environment and anonymously disclose their salary information, today announced that it has raised a $70 million funding round led by Google Capital …
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Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, Reuters, Glassdoor, Glassdoor Blog and PE Hub Blog
| James Kendrick / ZDNet: |
CES 2015: Lenovo unveils Yoga tablets, laptops, and new pen technology — Summary:Lenovo intends to continue riding its Yoga line of tablets and laptops, and launched a Yoga Tablet 2 with a strange feature, along with the Yoga 3 and ThinkPad Yoga laptops. — The Yoga line of tablets …
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Lenovo Newsroom, Re/code, Engadget, CNET, Blogging Windows, Gigaom, PC World, The Verge, Wired, Liliputing, Business Insider and AnandTech
| Ross Miller / The Verge: |
Sony announces new high fidelity Walkman NW-ZX2 with 128GB onboard storage running Android 4.2, coming spring for $1.2K — This is the new Sony Walkman — All signs pointed to a new Sony Walkman (literally) at CES 2015, and the signs didn't lie. The new Walkman ZX2 is real …
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ABC News, Business Insider, Phandroid, Ubergizmo, Electronista, The Next Web, Tech Times and Android Police
| Mathew Ingram / Gigaom: |
Radiohead's Thom Yorke, most legally-downloaded BitTorrent artist in 2014, may have made up to $20M with BitTorrent Bundles — Thom Yorke made as much as $20M from his BitTorrent experiment — Credit: Nikola Spasenoski / Shutterstock.com — Credit: Nikola Spasenoski / Shutterstock.com| Florence Ion / PC World: |
Hands-on: Alcatel's Watch is a cross-platform smartwatch for the budget conscious — LAS VEGAS—It seems like smartwatches are all you hear about anymore, but it's really a young product category, and not terribly popular in the larger scheme of things. One of the reasons you don't see smartwatches …
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Gizmodo, Telegraph, Engadget, PC Magazine, Pocket-lint, The Verge, Android and Me, TechnoBuffalo and Android Authority
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
HP delivers workstations on the go with thin-and-light Zbook laptops — What will be hot in consumer electronics and computing in 2015? Read VB's full coverage of International CES 2015 to find out. — The 2015 International CES is all about consumers.
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ZDNet, Electronista and Virtual-Strategy Magazine
| Austin Carr / Fast Company: |
Amazon executes sweeping reorganization of hardware group Lab126 following Fire Phone flop — Following Fire Phone Flop, Big Changes At Amazon's Lab126 — In recent months, a string of departures and managerial changes has hit Amazon's Lab126, the company's Silicon Valley-based R&D group … | Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Bitstamp confirms exchange hacked, has lost less than 19K bitcoins worth about $5M — Bitstamp exchange hacked, $5M worth of bitcoin stolen — The European bitcoin exchange suspends its service after it was hacked, ZDNet can confirm. Less than 19,000 bitcoins were stolen from an operational wallet.
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CoinDesk, BetaNews, Engadget, Wired, The Verge, Tech Times, The Next Web and CNBC. Thanks:@zackwhittaker
| Daniel Jalkut / Bitsplitting.org: |
Historical perspective on the notion that Apple has reached a peak of bugginess or that its marketing is prevailing — The Functional High Ground — Marco Arment laments his perception that Apple's software quality is in such a rapid decline that the company has “completely lost the functional high ground.”
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Marco.org, TUAW, And now it's all this, MacStories, The Huffington Post, Daring Fireball and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @jimyoull
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Samsung updates SmartThings Hub, unveils subscription home monitoring service, coming April 2015 — Samsung unveils next-gen smart home hub and monitoring service — Looks like you didn't have to wait long to see what Samsung would do in the smart home world after acquiring SmartThings … | Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Key wireless charging groups A4WP, PMA agree to merge — The alliance should help bring a little bit of clarity to the fragmented world of wireless charging technologies. — Powermat technology, pushed by the PMA, is already available at select Starbucks. — LAS VEGAS—Two down, one to go.
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rezence.com, Android Authority, iMore, 9to5Mac, BGR, Re/code, The Digital Reader and Wall Street Journal
| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
CarPlay and Android Auto will be in Volkswagen cars this year — At CES this week, Volkswagen finally announced its plans for Apple's CarPlay and Google's Android Auto: both will be available later this year. The technologies will work on VW's MIB II dash electronics … | Tim Culpan / Bloomberg: |
HTC Q4 beats analyst estimates, posts first sales growth in three years — HTC Posts First Sales Growth in 3 Years on New Models — HTC Corp. (2498) posted its first quarterly revenue growth in more than three years as new mid-range handsets helped offset competition from high-end models such as Apple Inc.'s iPhone.
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Gigaom, Android Authority, CNET, ZDNet, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Verge, Wall Street Journal and Android Central
| Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
Samsung is adding Slingbox-like features to its new smart TVs — Janko Roettgers — Credit: Kobby Dagan / Shutterstock.com — Credit: Kobby Dagan / Shutterstock.com — This is interesting: Samsung is adding what amounts to a kind of Slingbox to all of its new smart TVs …
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BGR, The Next Web and The Next Web
| Nick Summers / Engadget: |
Moonpig API vulnerability exposed data of 3M customers for 17 months — Moonpig flaw leaves customer accounts wide open for 17 months (update) — Over the years we've seen our fair share of security breaches and loopholes, but rarely do they take the companies involved almost 17 months to patch them up.
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Paul's Blog, The Register, Inquirer, Help Net Security, Guardian, ITworld.com, Netcraft, CNET, Gizmodo UK, The Next Web, Business Insider and TechWorm. Tweets: @gcluley
| Ruth Reader / VentureBeat: |
Yahoo Mail mobile app now tracks packages on iOS — Yahoo Mail just issued an update to its iOS app that will help you keep an eye on your goods while they're still in transit. — In the Yahoo Today section of the mobile app users can track packages from Amazon, eBay, Zappos, Target, Best Buy, Macy's and others.
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Intel Turns Off Russian Forums, Blogs & Comments In Response To Russian Blogging Law — Back in April of last year, we were among the first to report on a very dangerous new law in Russia targeting bloggers, requiring any blogger or social media user with more than 3,000 “visitors” a day to register their real name with the government.
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