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Apple Store retail plan for Watch: 15-minute appointments, at least 10 try-on stations, some employees dedicated to assisting Edition buyers — Apple Store retail plan for Watch: 15 min. appointments, 10+ try-on stations, Experts for Edition — Apple will introduce several major initiatives … | Astrid Wendlandt / Reuters: |
Tag Heuer to announce Intel-powered smartwatch with a design identical to its sporty Carrera analog watch, coming next fall — LVMH's Tag Heuer surfs wave of smartwatch partnerships — (Reuters) - Tag Heuer plans to unveil a smartwatch on Thursday among a wave of partnerships expected …
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Slack launches app for Windows 7 and above — Press the Start Button: Slack for Windows Has Arrived — Every week, hundreds of thousands of people all around the world sign into Slack from a web browser on Windows. Each of them is (we imagine) yearning for something more.
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| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
After Six Months of Rejections, Launcher Returns to the App Store — When Greg Gardner, an independent developer based in San Francisco, released Launcher for iOS last year, he didn't think his handy utility would make headlines around tech blogs and push other developers to approach widgets for iOS 8 differently.
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Former Facebook employee Chia Hong sues company for sex discrimination, sexual harassment, represented by law firm representing Ellen Pao in KPCB suit — Former Facebook Employee Sues for Sex Discrimination, Harassment — A former Facebook employee is suing the company for a number of claims … | CBS News: |
Target agrees to $10M settlement in class-action suit for 2013 data breach, up to 10K/person — Target agrees to pay $10 million to data breach victims — MINNEAPOLIS — Target has agreed to pay $10 million under a proposed settlement in a class-action lawsuit stemming from a massive 2013 data breach …
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Ad tech firm AppNexus acquires rival Yieldex for $100M+ in cash-and-stock deal — AppNexus Buys Yieldex for $100 Million … Two New York-based startups are merging, with potential IPO ramifications. AppNexus Inc., the automated online advertising technology firm, is acquiring rival Yieldex, the companies are set to announce.| Adrian Wan / South China Morning Post: |
Yahoo to close Beijing research center, its only office in China, and to lay off 350+ employees — Yahoo to close Beijing research centre as company seeks to downsize — US internet giant Yahoo will close its research and development centre in Beijing as the firm seeks to consolidate some jobs into fewer offices....| Fast Company: |
Tim Cook on Apple's Future: Everything Can Change Except Values — Tim Cook: Steve felt that most people live in a small box. They think they can't influence or change things a lot. I think he would probably call that a limited life. And more than anybody I've ever met, Steve never accepted that.
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Amazon Will Shut Down Amazon Webstore, Its Competitor to Shopify and Bigcommerce — Amazon has started telling online merchants that it plans to shut down its Amazon Webstore business, which helps small and midsize retailers create and run their own online shop, according to sources.
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MSBuild Engine is now Open Source on GitHub — Today we are pleased to announce that MSBuild is now available on GitHub and we are contributing it to the .NET Foundation! The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is a platform for building applications. By invoking msbuild.exe on your project …
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Dark Web's top drug market, Evolution, vanishes overnight, in what appears to be a $12M scam — Dark Web's ‘Evolution Market’ Vanishes — The Evolution Market, an online black market that sells everything contraband — from marijuana, heroin and ecstasy to stolen identities … | Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Sony's PlayStation Vue streaming TV service launches today in NYC, Chicago, and Philadelphia, starts at $50/month with about 50 channels including CBS, Fox, NBC — Sony's PlayStation Vue streaming TV service launches today in New York City, Chicago, and Philadelphia
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Acer Chromebook 15 review: great trackpad, performance, and battery life, looks clunky and cheap — Acer Chromebook 15 review: the big Chromebook has arrived — Say the word “Chromebook,” and the image that comes to mind for most people is a small, cheap, basic computer. That's exactly what most Chromebooks are.
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Guardian, FT, CNN, Reuters, and Economist launch new programmatic advertising alliance Pangaea to take on Facebook and Google — Guardian, FT, CNN and Reuters in ad deal to take on Facebook and Google — Pangaea Alliance initiative will give brands access to more than 110 million online readers using programmatic advertising system
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Skype for Business will offer phone numbers to Office 365 users, available in preview this summer — Earlier this week, Microsoft launched previews of Office 2016 for Windows and Skype for Business, but the Skype news didn't end there. The Microsoft-owned company today detailed its plans for the next year …
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