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| Nathan Olivarez-Giles / Wall Street Journal: |
Pebble Time smartwatch: color display, 20% thinner body, microphone, new “Timeline” interface, to retail for $199 with pre-sale on Kickstarter now — Pebble Unveils Color-Screen Time Smartwatch as Apple Threat Looms … Smartwatch pioneer Pebble is facing the toughest threat of its short life: the Apple Watch.
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NEWS.com.au, SiliconANGLE, AnandTech, Daring Fireball, The Verge, Slate, USA Today, TechCrunch, Guardian, Gizmodo, ReadWrite and Gotta Be Mobile
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| Lisa Eadicicco / Business Insider: |
Pebble Time sells out at lowest $159 tier on Kickstarter, passes $3M in pre-sales in under two hours
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Kickstarter, Engadget, Engadget, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, MobileSyrup.com, Forbes, The Technology Chronicles, Los Angeles Times, PSFK, GeekWire, The Verge, Mashable and VentureBeat
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| Steven Levy / Backchannel: |
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Wired, The Verge, The Register, ABC News, The Kickstarter Blog, PhoneDog.com, PandoDaily, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Next Web, The Verge, Inquirer, New York Times, 9to5Mac and SiliconBeat. Tweets: @stevenlevy
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Reddit now prohibits posting nude photos or videos of sex acts without prior consent from the people depicted in them — In Privacy Update, Reddit Tightens Restrictions on Nude Photos — For nearly a decade, Reddit, the huge online message board, has been known for its freewheeling stance on letting its users govern themselves.
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See also Mediagazer| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
Former Kleiner Perkins partner Trae Vassallo to testify she was harassed by same partner as Ellen Pao — Venture Capitalist Trae Vassallo to Testify She Was Harassed by Same Partner as Ellen Pao — One of the first witnesses in the gender discrimination case brought by former partner Ellen Pao …
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bizjournals, Fortune, USA Today, TechCrunch, Bloomberg Business and Timmins Press
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft removing Google Talk integration and discontinuing support for Facebook chat in Outlook — Microsoft kills off Google and Facebook chat for Outlook.com — Microsoft is revealing today that it plans to kill off Google and Facebook chat from its Outlook.com email service “within the next couple of weeks.”
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| Brandon Walkin / Facebook Code: |
Facebook releases Origami Live, a new app for testing app prototypes designed with Origami on iPhone or iPad — Introducing Origami Live — Just over a year ago, we released Origami — a free tool for designing interactive user interfaces. We've used it here at Facebook to design …
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iMore, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Ubergizmo and VentureBreak
| BBC: |
Internet of things starter kit unveiled by ARM and IBM — A “starter kit” designed to spur on the invention of internet-connected gadgets has been announced as part of a tie-up between two leading tech firms. — Chip designer ARM and cloud services giant IBM say it can take just five minutes …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Google Tests Live Chat With Businesses From Search Results — Google is testing out a service that incorporates live chat with businesses right into search results, via a new link that shows whether a business is currently available, and immediately launches a chat via Google Hangouts (on either desktop or mobile) if they are.
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Search Engine Land, 9to5Google and Understanding Google …
| Caroline Humer / Reuters: |
Anthem says breach may have also affected up to 18.8M Blue Cross Blue Shield customers — Anthem says at least 8.8 million non-customers could be victims in data hack — (Reuters) - Health insurer Anthem Inc, which earlier this month reported that it was hit by a massive cyberbreach … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Google Acquires Facebook Marketing Startup Toro — Toro, a startup that helps developers promote their apps on Facebook, just announced that it's been acquired by Google. — The company was originally known as Red Hot Labs, and it's led by Amitt Mahajan and Joel Poloney.
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| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Twitter's global head of developer and platform relations, Jeff Sandquist, is departing after less than 18 months — Twitter's Global Developer Lead Jeff Sandquist Departing — Twitter's global head of developer and platform relations, Jeff Sandquist, is leaving the company at the end of the week … | Mic Wright / The Next Web: |
Visa announces credit card tech that could speed up Apple Pay's arrival in Europe — Visa Europe has announced that it's introducing a secure way to pay with your smartphone while keeping your credit card details concealed. Bringing the method to Europe could speed up the arrival of Apple Pay …
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9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, InvestorPlace, O'Grady's PowerPage, Fortune, iPhone in Canada Blog, BGR, MacRumors, App Advice, iLounge and iMore
| Joey-Elijah Sneddon / OMG!: |
Google says Chromebook Pixel 2 is coming soon, pulls video of announcement made at an event — Google Say Chromebook Pixel 2 Will Go On Sale Soon — Google has confirmed that a second generation Chromebook Pixel will go on sale ‘soon’. — Speaking at the Team Work 2015 event this week …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple to overhaul Genius Bar, changing appointments and using phones as pagers — Apple will soon make a significant change to retail store Genius Bar appointments to improve the customer experience, according to several sources briefed on the upcoming shift.| IDC: |
Android and iOS take 96% of smartphone OS market in Q4 and calendar year 2014 — Android and iOS Squeeze the Competition, Swelling to 96.3% of the Smartphone Operating System Market for Both 4Q14 and CY14, According to IDC — Android and iOS inched closer to total domination …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Firefox 36 arrives with full HTTP/2 support and a new design for Android tablets — Mozilla today launched Firefox 36 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Major additions to the browser include full HTTP/2 support and a new tablet user interface on Android.| Joab Jackson / PC World: |
IBM brings location awareness to MobileFirst apps — Enterprise apps built with IBM's MobileFirst management and development platform can now be made more aware of their surroundings. — The new capabilities, included in an upcoming MobileFirst update, could give app users more information …
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PR Newswire and Patently Apple
| Rachel King / ZDNet: |
HP posts mixed Q1 results as revenue slipped 5% year-over-year to $26.8B; strong US dollar cited as culprit — HP posts mixed Q1 results as revenue slips with weak Q2 outlook — Summary:Wall Street was looking for earnings of 91 cents per share with $27.34 billion in revenue.
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HP, The Register, Fortune, Re/code, PC World, New York Times, Business Insider, Tech Trader Daily, bizjournals and VentureBeat
| Matthew Goldstein / New York Times: |
Wall St. and Law Firms Plan Cooperative Body to Bolster Online Security — The threat of ever-larger online attacks is bringing together Wall Street banks and the big law firms that do work for them in an alliance that could result in some sharing of basic information about digital security issues.
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The Hill and PC Advisor
| Carmel DeAmicis / Gigaom: |
Snapchat's “Our Stories” are generating tens of millions of views — Screenshots of Twitter users whose snaps saw tens of millions of views in a Snapchat “Our Story” — Screenshots of Twitter users whose snaps saw tens of millions of views in a Snapchat “Our Story”| Owen Williams / The Next Web: |
Sense sleep tracker now available for purchase, shipping to backers today — After a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign in 2014 that raised $2.4 million, Hello is today announcing that the Sense sleep tracker is shipping for Kickstarter backers and pre-orders of the devices.
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Wired, New York Times, The Verge, Crowdfund Insider and Gigaom
| Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Lab: |
Medium adds tags, simplifies posting, and redesigns presentation of posts as it aims for shorter, off-the-cuff content — Medium, known for going long, wants to go shorter — Medium announced some new updates to its publishing platform today. They include a tagging system …
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Medium, Medium, Ink, Bits, & Pixels, TechCrunch, Gigaom, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Boing Boing and SlashGear
Tweets: @bluechoochoo, @ow, @racheldamgen, @davewiner, @mathewi, @rsarver, @mutlu82 and @pkafka
See also Mediagazer| Mark Hachman / PC World: |
AMD claims Carrizo chip offers substantial performance, battery life boosts — In January, AMD said that its upcoming Carrizo chip for notebooks and low-power desktops would cut power significantly over the prior generation, Kaveri. On Monday, AMD explained how.
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