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| Megan Geuss / Ars Technica: |
Source: Google to announce new payments API, Android Pay, at I/O in May — Google will launch Android Pay at I/O in May — Source tells Ars that the company will revitalize its payments platform with a new API. — A source close to the matter told Ars on Wednesday that Google …
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PC World, SiliconANGLE, BGR, PYMNTS.com, Android Community, Pocketnow, SlashGear, PhoneDog.com, 9to5Google, Business Insider, Phandroid, Android Central, iDownloadBlog.com and Droid Life
Tweets: @arnoldkim and @mdudas
| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
LG's ‘luxury’ Watch Urbane LTE doesn't use Android Wear — LG has already pre-announced the Watch Urbane, its “luxury” smartwatch that it's showing off in Barcelona next week, and now even more details have been revealed ahead of Mobile World Congress. It turns out the Watch Urbane has a second …
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Engadget, BetaNews, CNET, TechCrunch, Telecoms.com, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, Android Police and The Next Web
| Quentin Hardy / New York Times: |
Google researchers have created an AI system that taught itself to play and win 49+ 1980s games; could be used for robots, driverless cars in future — A Google Computer Can Teach Itself Games — In a big step in the development of computers capable of independent reasoning … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Following Google deal, Softcard is shutting down its Android and Windows Phone apps — Two days ago, Google announced a deal with Softcard to pre-install Google Wallet on U.S. carrier devices. News surfaced today that the Softcard wallet app, available for both Android and Windows Phone, will soon be shut down.
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Windows Central, WMPoweruser, SlashGear, USA Today, The Register, Pocketnow, PhoneDog.com, Neowin and Gigaom
| Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider: |
WSJ: YouTube remains unprofitable, breaking even with revenue of $4B in 2014 — YouTube still doesn't make Google any money — YouTube still isn't a profitable business for Google, sources tell The Wall Street Journal's Rolfe Winkler. — Thanks to a premium ads push last year called …
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Wall Street Journal, The Register, ITProPortal, Neowin, Engadget, AdExchanger, SlashGear, Seeking Alpha, Android Central, 9to5Google, Music Week and Beyond Search
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See also Mediagazer| Moxie Marlinspike / Moxie Marlinspike's Blog: |
GPG, with its old technology, bad design, and small userbase, is dead; it's time for a more usable encryption system — Blog >>- GPG And Me — I receive a fair amount of email from strangers. My email address is public, which doesn't seem to be a popular choice these days …
| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Lytro Cuts Jobs, Raises $50M in Shift Toward Virtual Reality and Video — Workers at Lytro got a mixed bag of news on Wednesday, with the photography startup telling employees both that it has raised a further $50 million, but also that it intends to cut a significant chunk of its workforce.
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| Bloomberg Business: |
HP in Talks to Buy Aruba Networks for Wi-Fi Infrastructure — Don't Miss Out — (Bloomberg) — Hewlett-Packard Co. is in talks to acquire Aruba Networks Inc., a maker of wireless-network infrastructure used by hotels, universities and shopping malls, people with knowledge of the matter said.| Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom: |
Broadcom has an Android Wear platform with 3G, NFC and more — Broadcom wants to make it easier for hardware makers to build an Android Wear smartwatch, complete with features that Google's software doesn't even support yet, notes PhoneScoop. The chip company introduced its watch platform …
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Broadcom, Electronista, Phone Scoop, CNET and Android Central
| David Kravets / Ars Technica: |
Revenge porn boss wants Google to remove his “identity related” info — Craig Brittain wants links to stories of FTC dinging his site wiped from search. — What do you do if you're a revenge porn site operator and the Federal Trade Commission has barred you from publishing nude images of people without their consent?
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Google Mulling ‘Strategic Investment’ in Device Maker Jawbone — Google is considering making what several sources close to the situation describe as a “strategic investment” in Jawbone, the high-profile San Francisco maker of a number of wireless and wearable devices such as the Up fitness tracker.| Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom: |
Net Neutrality day is here: a guide to today's vote — Credit: Gigaom illustration adapted from Shutterstock — Credit: Gigaom illustration adapted from Shutterstock — What is the right way to run the internet? After months of pitched debate over so-called net neutrality …
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| Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom: |
Google Play increases free music storage limit from 20,000 to 50,000 songs — You can now store 50,000 songs online with Google Play Music — Google just made its Play Music service a bit more appealing, even if you don't use a Google Android phone. You can now upload 50,000 songs …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Lenovo.com has been hacked, possibly by Lizard Squad — Lenovo.com has been hacked. Starting at 4PM ET, users visiting the site saw a slideshow of disaffected youths, set to the song “Breaking Free” from High School Musical. At 4:17, the site seemed to have reverted to its normal self …
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| Conor Dougherty / New York Times: |
Google to propose new headquarters in Mountain View this week but the city fears being overrun — Google Plans New Headquarters, and a City Fears Being Overrun — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Apple is moving into a headquarters building that looks like a spaceship.
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Tweets: @nytimesbits and @eldon
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Yo Tries To Make Itself Useful With Photo And Link Alerts From 150 Sources — “It was just a way to annoy your friends” Yo co-founder Or Arbel tells me. His minimalist messenger hit 3.5 million users at its peak thanks to the mainstream press' sudden fascination with an app that only let you send people the word “Yo”.
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Medium, Tech Times, iDigitalTimes.com, KnowTechie, Daily Mail, Entrepreneur, SocialTimes, Engadget, MobileSyrup.com and The Daily Dot. Thanks:@joshconstine
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Google Merges European Operations To Square Up To Regulators And Rivals — United we stand, divided we fall. So goes the old saying that search and mobile giant Google is now taking to heart in Europe, as it faces off with regulators and rivals in the region.| Niall Kennedy / The Twitter Blog: |
The official Twitter plugin for WordPress is here — Today, we're releasing an official Twitter plugin for WordPress that bundles Twitter features and functionality into an installable package for sites powered by WordPress. — WordPress software powers millions of sites around the web …
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GitHub, TechCrunch, The Next Web, SocialTimes, Post Status, Marketing Land and VentureBeat. Tweets: @janamal
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Chat App Viber Opens Its Games Service To All Users Worldwide — Messaging app Viber has quietly made its games service available for all users worldwide following a two month pilot in five countries. — The company, which was bought by Rakuten for $900 million a year ago …
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Digital Trends, VentureBeat, The Next Web and MediaNama
| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Q&A with Dick Costolo on Twitter's lack of broad appeal and plans to handle harassment — Dick Costolo Thinks It's O.K. To Never Tweet — In a recent earnings report, you said Twitter had 288 million active users a month — only a few million more than in the quarter before.
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Guardian, Dustin Curtis, SiliconBeat and Business Insider
Tweets: @hunterwalk and @timcohn
See also Mediagazer| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
As Gemalto downplays breach by NSA and GCHQ, experts say six day investigation was likely insufficient — World's Largest SIM Card Maker Has No Clue Whether It Was Hacked by the NSA — Last week, new documents leaked by Edward Snowden revealed one of the NSA and GCHQ's most daring operations …
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The Intercept, Techdirt, Ars Technica, BGR, RT, Light Reading, Guardian, MobileSyrup.com, USA Today, Mobile Industry Review and Reuters. Tweets: @csoghoian
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
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