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Inside Nadella's plan to reinvent Microsoft, starting with HoloLens, a flatter org chart, and a willingness to forge new partnerships — Satya Nadella's Got a Plan to Make You Care About Microsoft. The First Step? Holograms … REDMOND MISSED MOBILE — The old Microsoft never gained turf in smartphone operating systems.
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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
BlackBerry CEO Wants Legislators To Make Developing BlackBerry Apps Mandatory — At this point, BlackBerry and Windows Phone fans are probably used to having a much smaller selection of apps than their counterparts on iOS and Android smartphones. After all, diehard devotees of BlackBerry and Windows Phone …
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| Horace Dediu / Asymco: |
Apple paid iOS app developers $10B in 2014, more than Hollywood's US box office revenues — Bigger than Hollywood — Apple paid $10 billion to developers in calendar 2014. Additional statistics for the App store are: — $500 million spent on iOS apps in first week of January 2015| Deborah Gage / Wall Street Journal: |
Persado Raises $21 Million to Replace Human Copywriters With Computers — Persado Inc. has raised another $21 million for software that aims to replace copywriters with computers, in another demonstration of the power of machines to solve problems that used to be the sole domain of humans.
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| Nick Bilton / New York Times: |
In-flight Wi-Fi is getting slower, less reliable, and more expensive as demand increases — The Sorry State of In-Flight Wi-Fi — 35,000 FEET, SOMEWHERE OVER THE MIDWEST — I've finally found something on commercial flights that's worse than airplane food: the Wi-Fi.| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Uber study of US drivers: average earnings are $19/hour, more than for taxi drivers; 40K joined in December; 70% drivers active after six months — Uber Study Shows Its Drivers Make More Per Hour And Work Fewer Hours Than Taxi Drivers — The people who drive for Uber generally … | Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Kim Dotcom Launches Skype Competitor MegaChat — Kim Dotcom, the infamous entrepreneur behind Megaupload, has released his latest product. Currently in beta, MegaChat is a browser-based encrypted video calling and file-sharing platform that is being positioned as a Skype competitor.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Gift Card Marketplaces Raise Grabs $56 Million From NEA And Others — A company offering a marketplace where consumers can buy and sell their unused gift cards, Raise.com, announced this morning it has taken in a sizable $56 million round of Series B funding, led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA).
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Button Raises $12 Million to Make the App World as Interconnected as the Web — Could 2015 be the year of “deep linking?” — One startup trying to ride that wave is Button, a New York City-based company which is today announcing a $12 million Series A investment less than a year after its launch.| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
The case for Marissa Mayer, as key metrics suggest the turnaround at Yahoo is on track — Marissa Mayer's Plan for Yahoo Takes Hold. The Question Now Is Time. — When Marissa Mayer was offered the chief executive job at Yahoo in the summer of 2012, she had a script for returning …
Tweets: @fmanjoo, @fmanjoo, @anildash, @vindugoel, @pmarca, @wucker and @ruthcoxeter
| Brian Beach / Backblaze Blog: |
Backblaze: 4 TB HGST and Seagate hard drives are most reliable, 3 TB Seagate and WD drives fail often — What is the Best Hard Drive? — It was one year ago that I first blogged about the failure rates of specific models of hard drives, so now is a good time for an update.
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| Michael Carney / PandoDaily: |
Braintree opens private beta allowing US merchants to accept bitcoin via its v.zero SDK and Coinbase integration — Paying for Uber with Bitcoin? Braintree opens up bitcoin payments to its thousands of merchants — Two of the biggest forces in modern payments collided today …
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| Paul Rosania / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter rolls out “While you were away” feature to iOS users, coming soon to Android and web — While you were away... Today we're introducing something new to your home timeline: a recap of some of the top Tweets you might have missed from accounts you follow.
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Tweets: @gaberivera, @jayrosen_nyu, @caseynewton and @fraying
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Tumblr's Creatrs Network connects Tumblr's top artists with brands to help make ads — Tumblr wants its best artists to create ads people actually like — Tumblr's beautiful, GIF-filled feed is what keeps bringing visitors back, and it wants to make sure the feed stays that way even as brands begin to fill it with ads.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces Office 2016, coming in the second half of 2015 — At its Windows 10 event yesterday, Microsoft unveiled the touch-optimized version of Office. Today, the company offered more details about that version, and then snuck in another announcement: the next desktop version …
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| Jack Clark / Bloomberg: |
Amazon Agrees to Buy Israel's Annapurna Labs for AWS Cloud Unit — Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) agreed to acquire Israeli semiconductor company Annapurna Labs, seeking to improve performance within its Amazon Web Services cloud unit. — A deal has been reached but hasn't yet closed …
| Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless: |
T-Mobile to let lower-credit customers who pay on time get access to $0-down smartphones — T-Mobile US (NYSE:TMUS) is giving every customer with a monthly voice plan who has made or makes 12 consecutive on-time monthly bill payments access to zero-down financing for smartphones regardless of their credit score.
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Sources: Google is preparing to sell wireless plans running on Sprint and T-Mobile networks — Google's Next Telecom Move: Becoming a Wireless Carrier — Google is preparing to sell mobile phone plans directly to customers and manage their calls and mobile data over a cellular network …
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