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Pinterest and Apple launch App Pins to let you discover and download apps without leaving Pinterest; Apple launches curated App Store board — Aiming to Ease App Discovery, Apple Pairs With Pinterest — There are more than 1.4 million mobile applications in Apple's App Store.
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Thanks:@jamiefavazza| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook lets users set a legacy contact, who will be able to manage their accounts in a limited way when they pass away — Facebook Heir? Time to Choose Who Manages Your Account When You Die — The social network now lets you designate a ‘legacy contact’ for your digital afterlife
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| Dennis Schaal / Skift: |
Expedia buying Orbitz for $1.6B at $12 per share, will acquire all of Orbitz's brands — Expedia Buying Orbitz for $1.6 Billion — Barney Harford, the CEO of Orbitz. Orbitz Worldwide — Skift Take: It's just Priceline Vs. Expedia now in the U.S., at least for now. — Dennis Schaal| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Pinterest Is Working on a Plan to Introduce a ‘Buy’ Button as Soon as This Year — Move over, Pinning. Here comes buying. — Pinterest, the digital scrapbooking service, is laying the groundwork for an e-commerce offering with a “Buy” button that could launch in as little as three to six months, according to multiple sources.| Edgar Alvarez / Engadget: |
ESPN consolidates SportsCenter iPhone app and ScoreCenter iPad app into single ESPN iOS app as part of brand-wide makeover — ESPN is getting a brand-wide makeover, starting with its iOS app — Up until now, ESPN has had two separate apps on iOS for news and scores, one designed for iPhone …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows 10 for phones preview now available to download for selected Lumia devices — Windows 10 for phones preview now available to download — We've seen Windows 10 on PC and tablets, and now it's time to preview Microsoft's latest operating system on phones.
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| Lauren Goode / Re/code: |
Fitbit responds to complaints that its latest fitness trackers cause skin irritation, advises affected users to “take a break from the device” — Fitbit Advises Rash Sufferers to Take a Break from Wearing the Wearable — Fitbit has already been through a recall.
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| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Dell is launching a new Chromebook 11 alongside a $299 Windows-based counterpart — Dell's education-focused Chromebook 11 was surprisingly one of the best Chromebooks we've ever used, even though it was notoriously difficult to actually purchase for much of last year.
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| Tzahi Hoffman / Globes Online: |
Sources: Microsoft acquires Israeli digital pen company N-trig, creators of the Surface Pro 3 stylus, for $200M — Microsoft buys digital pen co N-trig for $200m — The Kfar Saba based company has been in financial difficulties. — Microsoft Corporation (Nasdaq: MSFT) is buying Israeli digital pen company N-trig.
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| Mark Stockley / Naked Security: |
Facebook fixes vulnerability reported by security researcher that could have allowed hackers to delete every photo on Facebook — How one man could have deleted every photo on Facebook — Facebook is probably the biggest database of photographs ever compiled.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
LinkedIn revamps its developer program to focus on partnerships, will limit its APIs on May 12, 2015 — LinkedIn today announced it is revamping its developer program, moving away from an open API model to a partnership one. The company plans to limit its open APIs beginning on May 12, 2015.
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Facebook will show live relevance scores for ads based on expected feedback from target audience to help advertisers improve ad effectiveness — Showing Relevance Scores for Ads on Facebook — On Facebook, we try to show people the ads that are most pertinent to them.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
WPP To Pay $46.13/Share For 15-20% Of ComScore In New Kantar Partnership — Some consolidation in the world of market analysis. Kantar, the research division of advertising giant WPP, has entered into a global alliance with comScore, the company that measures traffic and other audience metrics of online and mobile properties.
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WPP, comScore and AdExchanger
| Karen Kaplan / Los Angeles Times: |
Researchers create $34 smartphone dongle that can detect HIV and syphilis within 15 minutes — ‘Dongle’ turns smartphone into mobile lab to diagnose HIV, syphilis — Engineers have taken an ordinary smartphone and made it a whole lot smarter. — They created a compact … | Matthew Zeitlin / BuzzFeed: |
Slack has over 500K daily active users after one year, quadrupling in last six months — On Its First Birthday, Slack Declares Itself The “Fastest Growing Business App” Ever — And its daily users have doubled twice in six months. — Slack could be the only business application …
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