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Apple targets Watch battery life of 2.5 hours heavy use and 3.5 hours standard use; pure standby battery life likely to be 2-3 days; CPU said to be A5-caliber — Apple targets for Apple Watch battery life revealed, A5-caliber CPU inside — Although Apple has said that the Apple Watch …
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Underwriter: Box IPO priced at $14 per share, valuing company at $1.67B — Box IPO priced at $14 per share: underwriter — (Reuters) - Box Inc's (BOX.N) initial public offering has been priced at $14 per share, an underwriter said, valuing the online data storage provider at about $1.67 billion.
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Google Suggesting Firefox Users Change Their Search Engine & Home Page — Now that Yahoo has gained search share from Google thanks to its Firefox deal, the search giant seems to be finally hitting back with moves to get users to switch to Google. — I've been checking each week since … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
J.Crew CEO Millard Drexler is retiring from Apple's Board of Directors; no replacement named — Apple Director Millard Drexler to retire, replacement yet to be named — In a filing for shareholders today, Apple announced that Millard Drexler, a member of the eight-person Board of Directors, is retiring from the Board.
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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 … | 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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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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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
In addition to Project Spartan, Windows 10 will include Internet Explorer for enterprise sites — After unveiling its new Project Spartan browser for Windows 10 yesterday, Microsoft today offered more details. The company confirmed that Windows 10 will also include Internet Explorer for enterprise sites …
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Journalist and Anonymous advocate Barrett Brown sentenced to 63 months in prison on charges stemming from Stratfor hack — Barrett Brown has been sentenced to 63 months in prison — After years of legal battles, Barrett Brown's legal saga has finally come to a close.| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Surface devices running Windows RT will not be updated with a full version of Windows 10 — Microsoft's Windows RT isn't dead...yet — The software giant says it's working on an update for the versions of its Surface tablet that used an ARM-based chip. But it will only have some of the functionality of Windows 10.
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Twitter launches Bing translation of tweets on iOS, Android, and web — Twitter Officially Rolls Out Bing Translation — Tweets in users' non-native languages will automatically trigger translations. After being reintroduced on TweetDeck earlier this month, the feature has been added to iOS, Android and Twitter.com.
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Apple's Logic Pro X 10.1 adds new sounds and popular musical genres — Apple updated Logic Pro X to 10.1 today, adding new features, new drummer profiles and more tools for easier music creation. The launch of Logic Pro X last year brought with it a redesigned interface and tons of new tools …
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Spotify updates iOS app with Touch Preview, a quick way to sample and discover music using gestures — Spotify unveils Touch Preview, a beautiful new music discovery tool — An audible solution for a visual problem — Last year was a busy one for Spotify. It hit 10 million paid subscribers.
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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.| Sean Michael Kerner / eWeek: |
Ravello raises $28M round led by Qualcomm and SanDisk Ventures for nested cloud virtualization — Ravello Funding Hits $54M for Nested Cloud Virtualization — Ravello Systems announced on Jan. 20 that it has raised $28 million, bringing its total funding to date to $54 million.Sponsor Posts
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