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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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| 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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How Pebble built Pebble Time amidst looming competition from Android Wear and Apple Watch — A Pebble in Apple's Shoe — In the battle for your wrist, a small company thinks it can hold off the tech giants by going back to its Kickstarter roots— with a watch called Time
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Pebble Time sells out at lowest $159 tier on Kickstarter, passes $3M in pre-sales in under two hours
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| 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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At $765B+, Apple's market cap is double any other publicly traded US company — Apple Is Now More Than Double the Size of Exxon—And Everyone Else — Just how ginormous is Apple Inc. now? — As the iPhone-maker's shares continue to set fresh record highs, its market cap is now above $765 billion.
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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.| Facebook: |
Facebook counts 2M businesses as advertisers, launches Ads Manager app on iOS — Introducing Ads Manager App — As business owners and marketers spend less time on desktop computers and more on mobile devices, advertisers have a growing need to manage Facebook campaigns on the go.
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Plex for Roku gets updated with flat design for smoother, faster access to your library — The Plex for Roku app today received a visual overhaul with a new flat design and carousel layout that sees more content fit on the user's home screen, adding faster access to their library.
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Apple Acquires Popular Instrument and Effect Plug-In Maker Camel Audio — Apple appears to have acquired popular music plug-in and effect maker Camel Audio, based on information found on corporate registry site Companies House [PDF]. Camel Audio's address has been updated to 100 New Bridge Street … | 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.
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Majority of health sites send troves of data about your medical searches to third-party companies — Looking Up Symptoms Online? These Companies Are Tracking You — It's 2015—when we feel sick, fear disease, or have questions about our health, we turn first to the internet.| Google: |
Google updates adult content policy for Blogger, states public sharing of sexually explicit images and video will not be allowed after March 23 — Adult content policy on Blogger — Starting March 23, 2015, you won't be able to publicly share images and video that are sexually explicit or show graphic nudity on Blogger.
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| Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom: |
Artemis is building 4G network using its pCell technology on Dish spectrum to cover most of SF — Artemis is building a 4G network in SF to prove its pCell tech works — Source: Shutterstock / Max Krasnov — Credit: Shutterstock / Max Krasnov — Source: Shutterstock / Max Krasnov| Barry Levine / VentureBeat: |
Marketing firm Adnear experiments with drones in LA to determine location of mobile devices — Drones overhead in L.A.'s Valley are tracking mobile devices' locations — Obsessed with mobile growth? Join us February 23-24 when we reveal the best technologies and strategies to help your company grow on mobile.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Twilio Acquires Two-Factor Authentication Service Authy — Twilio today announced that it has acquired Authy, a Y Combinator-backed startup that offers two-factor authentication services to end users, developers and enterprises. The two companies declined to disclose the financial details of the transaction.
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| Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post: |
FTC fines marketers of two apps that claim to detect melanoma — A screenshot of advertising for MelApp. (Courtesy of the FTC.) — The Federal Trade Commission on Monday announced two enforcement actions against the makers of two smartphone apps — “Mole Detective” and “MelApp” … | Toby Wolpe / ZDNet: |
Mirantis and Google ease Kubernetes Docker cluster manager onto OpenStack — Summary:Uptake of Docker containers stands to get a further boost from integration work to put Google's Kubernetes on OpenStack, according to Mirantis. — The previously tricky business of using Docker cluster-manager Kubernetes …
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