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Apple Stops Selling Jawbone Up, Nike FuelBand in Stores — Making Way for the Apple Watch — Apple has removed competing fitness bands from its retail stores as the company prepares to ship its own wearable, the Apple Watch. — Checks of major stores in San Francisco, Palo Alto … | Kevin Rose / TechCrunch: |
Apple Watch Edition won't appeal to the technologist, the collector, or the gold lover, only the douchebag — The Gold Apple Watch Is Perfect For Douchebags — Editor's Note: Kevin Rose is the founder of Digg, a technology investor, and CEO of North Technologies, creator of the watch news aggregator, Watchville.
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Medium lets select publications host Medium stories at their own domain in limited beta — Custom domains for publications — Everyone's stories and ideas, in more places. — Everyone who posts on Medium already owns the rights to the original content they publish …
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BBC to give 1M mini-computers to 11-year-olds across UK as part of Make it Digital initiative — BBC in school computer giveaway — The hardware is a nod to an earlier scheme to put BBC Micros in schools during the 1980s — The BBC will be giving away mini-computers to 11-year-olds across … | Bloomberg Business: |
In under 24 hours, 11K people signed up for Stanford's cardiovascular study using ResearchKit — Thousands Have Already Signed Up for Apple's ResearchKit — (Bloomberg) — Stanford University researchers were stunned when they awoke Tuesday to find that 11,000 people had signed …
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Macworld, iMore, bizjournals, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, TechnoBuffalo, Consumerist and App Advice
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After its sale from Sony, Vaio launches first mid-range nondescript Android phone in Japan — Here is VAIO's first smartphone — No longer a part of Sony, VAIO likes the look of that smartphone market, and has decided to go up against its former parent company's Xperia series with its own creation … | Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Lyft Has Raised $530 Million In Series E Funding Led By Rakuten, Is Now Valued At $2.5 Billion — Ride-hailing startup Lyft has closed $530 million in new funding led by Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten, TechCrunch has learned. The new financing, which is slated to be announced tomorrow …
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| Bogdan Petrovan / Android Authority: |
Cyanogen OS 12 will ship with Boxer as default email app — Boxer will be the default email app for Cyanogen OS devices, starting with the Lollipop-based release 12, due in the following months. — Through its boisterous CEO, Kirt McMaster, Cyanogen has made no secret of its plans to “take away Android from Google.”| Serena Saitto / Bloomberg Business: |
Sources: Alibaba to invest $200M in Snapchat at a valuation of $15B — Snapchat Is Raising Money From Alibaba at a $15 Billion Valuation — (Bloomberg) — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. plans to invest in Snapchat Inc., the mobile application for sending disappearing photos …
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Early 2015 Retina MacBook Pro teardown gives first look inside new Force Touch trackpad — Following dismantling the latest refreshed MacBook Air models yesterday, today iFixit dives inside the new MacBook Pro model that arrived this week with upgraded internals and more.
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iFixit, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, iMore, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, O'Grady's PowerPage and MacRumors
| Kevin Bocek / Venafi Blog: |
Clinton email server not encrypted or authenticated by a digital certificate for first three months of her term at State Department — Digital Certificate Forensics: What Venafi TrustNet Tells Us about the Clinton Email Server — 3-month gap before encryption enabled for browsers, smartphones, and tablets starting in 2009
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Facebook to face U.S. class action over children's online purchases — (Reuters) - A federal judge said Facebook Inc must face a nationwide class-action lawsuit seeking to force the social media company to provide refunds when children spend their parents' money on its website without permission.
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One of Google's Project Loon balloons can cover an area the size of Rhode Island with LTE service; remote locations still primary target for commercial service — Google balloons, “cell towers in the sky,” can serve 4G to a whole state — A single Project Loon balloon can cover an area the size of Rhode Island.
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Team behind Facetune releases Enlight, a powerful mobile photo editing app to challenge Adobe — One of the quieter and more remarkable mobile success stories of the past two years is Lightricks, the Jerusalem-based startup that released the Facetune photo editing app in March 2013.
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The Next Web, TechCrunch, Re/code, GeekTime and Macworld
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Apple Pay enables hackers to use credit cards stolen online in retail stores, which were previously only useful for online fraud — Apple Pay: Bridging Online and Big Box Fraud — Lost amid the media firestorm these past few weeks about fraudsters turning to Apple Pay is this stark … | Wall Street Journal: |
India's cab-hailing firm Ola to raise $400M from DST Global and others at a valuation close to $3B — India's Cab-Hailing Firm Ola Close to Raising $400 Million — Startup Could be Valued at About $3 Billion| Michael Carney / PandoDaily: |
SignalFx exits stealth with $28.5M in backing, promises Facebook-caliber systems monitoring off the shelf — As a budding startup, it can be challenging to say the least to hire the best and brightest technical talent in this industry. Often that talent is lock inside giants like Facebook …
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Judges reject Uber, Lyft requests that drivers be deemed contractors, say juries must decide — Uber, Lyft rebuffed in bids to deem drivers independent contractors — (Reuters) - Ride hailing apps Uber and Lyft failed to persuade separate U.S. judges on Wednesday to rule that their drivers …
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Business Insider, BostonGlobe.com, Ars Technica, bizjournals, The Verge, Bloomberg View, VentureBeat and SlashGear. Tweets: @efeng
| Michael Davidson / Xconomy: |
Microsoft to Create Free Online Programming Courses for EdX — Microsoft is dipping its toe in the world of free online education, partnering with Cambridge, MA-based EdX to create courses for software developers. — EdX announced Tuesday that the courses would be the latest addition …
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Cisco, Microsoft target cloud vendors with new platform combining Azure and Cisco's networking devices — Cisco, Microsoft target cloud vendors in expanded partnership — Summary:The companies launched a new platform that combines the Microsoft Azure Pack with networking devices and servers from Cisco's ACI.
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