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Apple live stream of “Spring forward” media event, viewable in Safari on OS X and iOS, and Apple TV — Apple live stream of its media event, viewable in Safari on OS X and iOS, and Apple TV — Spring forward. The keynote will begin at 10 a.m. PDT. You can follow the posts below before the show starts.
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Wall Street Journal, I4U News, iPhone in Canada Blog, Daring Fireball and iLounge. Tweets: @tomwarren
| The Verge: |
Live Blog: Apple expected to unveil Watch launch details, apps, and pricing — Join us at 1PM ET for our Apple ‘Spring Forward’ Watch event live blog — Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock. We're counting down the minutes until Apple's “Spring Forward” event begins … | Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Square, now shifting its focus to small businesses, plans to introduce instant deposits and disputed purchase protection on Monday — The Payment Start-Up Square Expands Its Reach Into Small Businesses — What is Square? — The six-year-old payments start-up began by offering small … | Jonathan Mahler / New York Times: |
With abusive posts still rampant on Yik Yak, some college campuses are taking steps to ban the service — Who Spewed That Abuse? Anonymous Yik Yak App Isn't Telling — During a brief recess in an honors course at Eastern Michigan University last fall, a teaching assistant approached the class's three female professors.
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Tweets: @nathanjurgenson, @tomgara, @nicktimiraos, @msuster, @vindugoel and @abrams
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Confirmed: SugarCRM Buys Mobile Startup Stitch, Shuts It Down — SugarCRM, a CRM and open source rival to Salesforce, has made an acquisition to help the company raise its game on the mobile front. It has acquired and is shutting down Stitch, a startup co-founded by ex-Salesforce execs …
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| Damon Darlin / New York Times: |
With Emoji a product of Japanese origins, America needs new Emoji symbols that reflect its own culture — Dispatch: America Needs Its Own Emojis — America Needs Its Own Emojis — There's so much we can't express because the symbols don't exist: no Vulcan salute, no pickup truck, no bacon.
Tweets: @adrjeffries
| David Shamah / ZDNet: |
PayPal to pay $60m for Israeli security startup CyActive — Summary:CyActive's predictive cyber-defense system is the US firm's second acquisition in Israel. — In what will be its second acquisition in Israel, PayPal is set to acquire Israeli cybersecurity firm CyActive.
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Reuters, Tech Trader Daily and Seeking Alpha
| Stuart Dredge / Guardian: |
Ex-VP of online marketing Sean Percival shares MySpace lessons: lack of focus after News Corp takeover, deceptive ads, failure to build on unique music deal — MySpace: what went wrong - by its former VP of online marketing — Sean Percival on corporate interference, Punch The Monkey … | Michael Brown / PC World: |
Samsung's Milk streaming music service now available through a free web client — Samsung is celebrating the first anniversary of its Milk Internet radio service by a web browser client. You'll still need a Samsung device to use the Milk app on a smartphone, tablet, or television.
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Engadget, The Next Web and AndroidHeadlines.com
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Feelreal shows off mask that attaches to VR headsets to simulate weather and provide scents — Smellovision masks are here, and they're basically implements of torture — Virtual reality is great, but it's... sometimes difficult to stomach, as evidenced by the fact that a device not making people throw up was major news at GDC.| Patrick Howell O'Neill / The Daily Dot: |
Tor developers discuss setting a goal of 50% non-US government funding by 2016, plan crowdfunding campaign in May — Tor developers look beyond U.S. government funding — Developers behind the Tor anonymity service are aiming to fundamentally transform how the project is financed by changing …
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Wired.co.uk and Slashdot
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
How one man had most of his online life compromised and $3000 taken after his email was hacked — Anatomy of a Hack … In the early morning hours of October 21st, 2014, Partap Davis lost $3,000. He had gone to sleep just after 2AM in his Albuquerque, New Mexico, home after a late night playing World of Tanks.
Tweets: @patphelan, @dsilverman, @codinghorror and @dtunkelang
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