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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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Box opens at over $20 per share, 44% above IPO price, giving it a valuation of around $2.5B — Box Skyrockets 50% To More Than $21 Per Share In First Minutes As A Public Company — Bam. — Today Box opened at around $20.50, far above its $14 IPO price, giving the company a valuation of around $2.5 billion.
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple HomeKit incompatible with home automation accessories not licensed as MFi products that connect over WiFi, like Nest Thermostat — Apple details HomeKit compatibility with competing home automation platforms, rules out rival Wi-Fi gear — Apple will allow its upcoming Siri-controlled …
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Winklevoss Twins Aim to Take Bitcoin Mainstream With a Regulated Exchange — Bitcoin, the virtual currency that was once the talk of the financial world, has been taking a beating over the last year with the price tumbling downward. — Now two of the biggest boosters of the virtual currency …
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Andreessen Horowitz explains 16 tech trends of interest including VR and machine learning — 16 Things — We don't invest in themes; we invest in special founders with breakthrough ideas. Which means we don't make investments based on a pre-existing thesis about a category.
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Microsoft Acquires Revolution Analytics To Bolster Its Analytics Services — Microsoft today announced that it has acquired Revolution Analytics, an open-source analytics company with a strong focus on the highly popular R programming language for statistical computing.| Marco della Cava / USA Today: |
Ford opens new Silicon Valley research lab to attract tech talent, work on autonomous cars — Ford's new Silicon Valley outpost seeks tech talent — PALO ALTO, Calif. — The earth-toned office building looks like any other here in Silicon Valley, an airy low-rise designed …
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Google Joins Apple, Others Cutting Off Crimea, Blocks AdWords, AdSense, Google Play — Yet more developments around how U.S. sanctions on Crimea, in retaliation against Russia's annexation by Russia, are being adopted by tech companies: Google is the latest to start complying with the orders …
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Expedia Acquires Travelocity for $280 Million — The Roaming Gnome, Travelocity's mascot, takes part in the company's 16th birthday festivities at its Southlake, Texas headquarters. Max Faulkner / Fort Worth Star-Telegram/MCT) — Skift Take: Expedia is expected to retain the Travelocity brand.
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| Fortune: |
Cover story on the rise of unicorns: 80+ private companies achieve valuations of at least $1B — The Age of Unicorns — Stewart Butterfield had one objective when he set out to raise money for his startup last fall: a billion dollars or nothing. If he couldn't reach a $1 billion valuation for Slack …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Ulbricht Confessed to Running Silk Road, His College Friend Testifies — In this courtroom sketch, defendant Ross Ulbricht listens to proceedings from the defense table during opening arguments in his criminal trial in New York, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015. Elizabeth Wlliams/AP
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GoPro, NHL team up to offer live HD footage from the player's perspective starting All-Star Weekend — GoPro and NHL: New Partnership Will Change the Way You Watch Hockey — In an unprecedented first for GoPro, a new partnership with the National Hockey League (NHL) and the NHL Players' Association … | Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Verizon: Don't expect us to offer a data rollover plan — Verizon CFO Fran Shammo says the carrier won't be following AT&T and T-Mobile's lead. — Don't hold your breath for Verizon Wireless to counter AT&T and T-Mobile with a data rollover program. — That's according to Verizon Chief …
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| Reuters: |
Obama quietly abandoned proposal to put phone metadata collected by NSA under non-governmental control — Obama abandons telephone data spying reform proposal: U.S. officials — (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's administration has quietly abandoned a proposal it had been considering …
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