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Facebook now offers free friend-to-friend payments in its Messenger app using debit cards, to roll out to Android, iOS, and desktop in US over coming months — Facebook Introduces Free Friend-To-Friend Payments Through Messages — When you chat with friends about settling debts or splitting the bill …
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Sources: Apple offers to share viewer data with partners for online TV service to enable better ad targeting — Apple offers to share TV data to entice programming partners — Apple is offering to share data with programming partners to get them on board with its cable-like TV network package, The Post has learned.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
NBC plans cable-dependent Apple TV app for second half of 2015 — Despite reports that NBC Universal is not involved in negotiations for Apple's upcoming subscription TV replacement service, NBC still hopes to arrive on the Apple TV as soon as the second half of 2015, according to a source with knowledge of NBC's digital roadmap.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
App Submissions On Google Play Now Reviewed By Staff, Will Include Age-Based Ratings — Google Play, Google's marketplace for Android applications which now reaches a billion people in over 190 countries, has historically differentiated itself from rival Apple by allowing developers …
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Nintendo Partners With DeNA To Bring Its Games And IP To Smartphones — Nintendo is finally bringing its games and characters to mobile after the company surprised the tech world with an alliance with Japanese mobile gaming firm DeNA. — The duo announced a collaboration that will see them jointly develop games for “smart devices.”
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| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Adobe sees solid Q1 with $1.11B in revenue, 517K new paying Creative Cloud subscribers — Adobe now has 3.97 million paying Creative Cloud subscribers, the company shared within its first quarter 2015 financial report today. — Adobe aims to hit nearly six million paid subscribers by the end of 2015 …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Windows Hello and Microsoft Passport: Unlock Windows 10 devices and apps with your finger, iris, or face — Microsoft today announced biometric authentication is coming to Windows 10. Windows Hello will let you unlock your Windows 10 device, whether it be a PC, tablet, or a smartphone, with your finger, iris, or face.
| Eric Johnson / Re/code: |
Nvidia announces developer kit for self-driving car platform Drive PX, available in May for $10K — Nvidia Announces Drive PX, Its Self-Driving Car Platform — A developer kit for Nvidia's self-driving car platform, the Drive PX, will go on sale in May for $10,000, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang …
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Premera Blue Cross of Washington state, Oregon and Alaska hit by sophisticated hack this January, with up to 11M affected by breach — Premera Blue Cross hit by “sophisticated” hack, 11M affected — Summary:The multi-state health insurance company was attacked in January and is working …
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| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
IBM unveils developer tools and cloud-based data analysis services mining Twitter data — IBM Introduces Twitter-Fueled Data Services for Business — When IBM announced its partnership with Twitter last October, the move seemed both promising and logical.
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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Carbon3D's 3-D printing grows objects from a pool of resin, is 25-100 times faster than conventional layer by layer method — Startup Says New 3-D Printing Technique Could Shift Use From Prototype to Production — Already, 3-D printing has emerged as a means for rapidly making prototypes of new products.
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| Telis Demos / Wall Street Journal: |
Tweet-analysis firm Dataminr raises $130M Series D round led by Fidelity, valuing the company at about $700M — Tweet-Analysis Firm Dataminr Raises Funding — Deal values firm at about $700 million — Dataminr Inc., which analyzes tweets and other information streams to create alerts for traders …
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TechCrunch, bizjournals, Bloomberg Business, Financial Times and ZDNet
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft's new modern browser, codenamed Project Spartan, will have a distinct name and brand in Windows 10, says CMO Chris Capossela — Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand — While Microsoft has dropped hints that the Internet Explorer brand is going away …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Sling TV launches on Xbox One today, and you can try it free for a month — Sling TV is debuting on its first gaming console today. Microsoft just announced that the internet TV service is now available to Xbox One owners — as is the month-long free trial we heard about back in January.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
FiftyThree raises $30M to push its Paper and Pencil creativity tools in enterprise and education — FiftyThree, the company behind popular drawing app Paper and a smart stylus called Pencil, has raised $30 million to help push its presence in the enterprise and education realm.
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FiftyThree News, The Verge, Mashable, iMore, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com, GeekWire and TechCrunch
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Rdio taps Songkick to display live tour date information for artists — Music-streaming service Rdio made a handful of announcements at the SXSW festival today, including Songkick integration that will surface live concert information on artists directly within the Rdio app.
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The Next Web, hypebot and Songkick Blog
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft Band expanding to Amazon, Target and Best Buy, launching in UK, with increased supply — Microsoft will expand the availability of its Microsoft Band wearable device, boosting inventory at its own online and physical retail stores and offering the device through third-party retailers … | Deborah Gage / Wall Street Journal: |
Birst Banks $65 Million for Business Intelligence and Analytics … Business analytics vendor Birst Inc. on Tuesday added itself to the list of private software companies raising money from public-market investors, with a $65 million round led by Wellington Management Co. — Total funding in Birst is now $156 million.
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