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AOL To Lay Off About 150 People, Mostly In Sales; Folding Joystiq, TUAW Into Engadget — Some more details are emerging around AOL's reorganization plans. Sources tell us that the company will lay off around 150 people, with the majority in sales. As part of it, AOL is also consolidating some websites.| New York Times: |
Verizon Wireless to Allow Complete Opt Out of Mobile ‘Supercookies’ — Verizon Wireless, which has been under fire by privacy advocates since late last year, has decided to make a major revision to its mobile ad-targeting program. Users who do not want to be tracked with an identifier …
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Google Now adds over 40 new cards, fed by data from 30+ third-party apps like Airbnb, eBay, and Lyft — ‘Google Now’ Will Suck In Outside App Data — Google Inc. doesn't want to lose its perch atop the search market, and it's looking to the likes of Airbnb, eBay , Lyft and a couple dozen other companies to help it do just that.
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Snapchat's first original web series debuts tomorrow in Discover, with episodes available for 24 hours — Sasha Spielberg, Emily Goldwyn to Star in Snapchat Web Series (Exclusive) — Snapchat is making a web series. — Literally Can't Even comes from writers Sasha Spielberg and Emily Goldwyn …
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Jay-Z takes on Beats and Spotify with acquisition of music-streaming services Tidal and WiMP for $56M — Here's an interesting piece of acquisition news for a Friday morning: International rapping superstar Jay-Z is on the verge of buying Swedish company Aspiro AB — the firm that owns … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google Agrees To Change Privacy Policy In Settlement With UK's Information Commissioner — While Google continues to work through the best implementation of Right To Be Forgotten legislation in Europe, some more developments in the area of consumer data and privacy.| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Vine Kids, a separate app tailored for kids with child-friendly Vines, is available now on iOS — Vine Introduces Vine Kids — Vine is today introducing a new layer of the service called Vine Kids. It's meant to be a safe, kid-friendly space for a younger audience to play around with the app and watch vines.
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Android Shipped 1 Billion Smartphones Worldwide in 2014 — According to the latest research from our WSS (Smartphones) service, global smartphone shipments grew 30 percent annually to reach a record 1.3 billion units in 2014. Android accounted for 81 percent of all smartphones last year … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Secret Co-Founder Chrys Bader-Wechseler Steps Down Because It's Not About Design Anymore — One year after founding anonymish app Secret with fellow Googler David Byttow, Chrys Bader-Wechseler is leaving the company on amicable terms. He cites that Secret isn't about design and curation …
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| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Google's 3D mapping technology, Project Tango, graduates from the Advanced Technology and Projects group — Google spins out Project Tango from its Advanced Technology and Projects group — At the moment, it's not quite clear what's happening to Project Tango, Google's ambitious plan …
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Facebook directly querying 600 paid users about News Feed stories to improve ranking algorithms, may expand querying to general population — Revealed: Facebook's Project to Find Out What People Really Want in Their News Feed — Every weekday beginning at around nine … | Ross Miller / The Verge: |
Associated Press now writes 3K stories per quarter on US earning reports after teaming with Automated Insights, plans to expand globally — AP's ‘robot journalists’ are writing their own stories now — Minutes after Apple released its record-breaking quarterly earnings this week …
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| Antonia Massa / Bloomberg Business: |
Uber's internal privacy review recommendations: add whistleblower hotline, improve training, customer data access, and privacy disclosure practices — Uber Needs to Improve Privacy Program After Stumble, Review Says — Don't Miss Out — (Bloomberg) — Uber Technologies Inc …
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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
FCC AWS-3 spectrum auction bidding breakdown: AT&T: $18.2B, Dish Network: $13.3B, Verizon: $10.4B, T-Mobile: $1.8B — T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon Win Spectrum in FCC Auction That Raised $41.3 Billion — The Federal Communications Commission revealed the list of winning bidders …
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Tech Trader Daily, AT&T, Ars Technica and Gigaom
| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Google's search for sales, profit falls short — The search giant continues to pull in billions from its search and advertising business, even as the company looks for other ways to make money. — For the past few quarters, Google's finances have been the story of same-old, same-old … | Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
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