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| Kevin Dallas / Building Apps for Windows: |
Windows 10 coming to Raspberry Pi 2, developers can use it for free — Windows 10 Coming to Raspberry Pi 2 — This blog was written by Kevin Dallas, General Manager, Windows IoT Group. — Today the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced the retail availability of their new board, the Raspberry Pi 2.
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| Lester Haines / The Register: |
Raspberry Pi 2 is 6x faster than its predecessor, features a quad-core SoC with 1GB of RAM, available today for $35 — Turbocharged Raspberry Pi 2 unleashed: Global geekgasm likely — El Reg lays claws on surprise new quad core chipped fruity minicomputer
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Pebble has now sold over 1 million smartwatches; new hardware and software are planned for this year — New hardware and software are planned for this year — While Google and Apple have been getting the lion's share of attention for smartwatches lately, indie darling Pebble … | Bloomberg Business: |
RadioShack in Talks to Sell Half Its Stores to Sprint, Shutter the Rest — Don't Miss Out — (Bloomberg) — RadioShack Corp. is preparing to shut down the almost-century-old electronics chain in a bankruptcy deal that would sell about half its stores to Sprint Corp. and close the rest …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Sony Sells MMO Publisher And EverQuest Creator Sony Online Entertainment — Sony has sold Sony Online Entertainment, the studio and publisher that created EverQuest (and, to a large extent, the modern MMO genre), in a deal that will see it owned by investment management firm Columbus Nova and rebranded as Daybreak.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Tinder Plus, The Paid Version Featuring An Undo Button And More, Arrives In U.S. Next Month — Tinder Plus, the long-awaited “premium” version of Tinder's service, offering features like an Undo button for errant swipes and a Passport option for searching outside your current geographic region …
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| Vindu Goel / New York Times: |
Twitter tests instant timeline, which shows tweets to new users who haven't followed anyone — Twitter Displays Its Value With Instant Timeline for New Users — Anyone who has created a Twitter account knows how difficult it can be to get value from the service.| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Google, Microsoft, and Amazon pay maker of Adblock Plus to have their ads whitelisted — Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are paying to get around Adblock Plus — Some of the web's biggest companies have been paying to get around Adblock Plus, according to a new report from Financial Times.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
More “Zombie” apps: 83% of apps in App Store did not appear in any top list at least a third of the time in Dec., up from 74% in Jan. — “Zombie” Apps On The Rise - 83% Of Apps Not On Top Lists, Up From 74% Last Year — With the app economy showing no sign of slowing …
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| Cordell Eddings / Bloomberg Business: |
Apple Plans $5 Billion Bond Sale; Fourth Since 2013 — Don't Miss Out — … (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. is planning to sell $5 billion of bonds in the iPhone maker's fourth multi-billion dollar debt offering in the past two years as it preserves its overseas cash hoard, according a person with knowledge of the matter.
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Amazon partners with Purdue, UMass Amherst, and UC Davis to sell course materials, offer next day Student Prime delivery; plans on-campus distribution centers — Amazon takes on textbook sales at major universities — Amazon is set to open distribution centers at two large US colleges …
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| Martin Beck / Marketing Land: |
Hashtags featured in 50% of Super Bowl ads; 4 Facebook mentions, 3 Twitter, 1 Snapchat — Super Bowl Commercials With Hashtags Slipped To 50% In 2015 — Facebook is the most mentioned social network with four; Snapchat makes its debut. — Fifty percent of 2015 Super Bowl ads carried hashtags … | Jeremy Hsu / Backchannel: |
How Riot Games' behavioral testing of its 27M daily League of Legends players is helping it curb toxic behavior — Inside the Largest Virtual Psychology Lab in the World — Riot Games wants you to behave yourself when you play League of Legends, so it's turned the game into a virtual labSponsor Posts
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