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Schmidt: Google Glass is a long-term project put under Fadell to “make it ready for users” and is a big, fundamental platform for Google — Google Isn't Giving Up on Glass, Schmidt Says — Google is sticking with its controversial Glass Internet-connected eyewear …
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| Miguel Helft / Forbes: |
How Cyanogen got started and its plans to disrupt Android, including upcoming first Cyanogen OS phone without Google apps from Blu — Meet Cyanogen, The Startup That Wants To Steal Android From Google — It's a little hard to take Kirt McMaster seriously at first.
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Cyanogen Raises $80 Million With Backing From Twitter, Telefonica and Rupert Murdoch — After months of passing around the hat, open Android startup Cyanogen said Monday it has closed an $80 million funding round that includes backing from a number of strategic investors.
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| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Instagram reveals Layout, its own photo collage app — If you've ever seen a collage in your Instagram feed, it was likely created by one of several third-party apps — Diptic and Framatic are a couple that spring to mind — that let you arrange multiple photos in a variety of grids.
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Square Introduces Square Cash for Businesses, With a Low 1.5 Percent Processing Fee — Five years ago, Square introduced a sleek card reader to the small-business world that made it easy for everyone from taxi drivers to craft sellers to coffee shop owners to accept credit card payments for the first time.| Ben Woods / The Next Web: |
Twitter partnering with Foursquare to let you tag specific locations in tweets — Twitter users will soon be able to specify and tag locations pulled from Foursquare's database thanks to a tie-up between the two companies. — The deal gives Twitter access to Foursquare's full location database …
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| Steven Levy / Backchannel: |
With interviews from Cook, Ive, others, Becoming Steve Jobs is opposite of Isaacson's bio, providing rounded image of Jobs and contextualizing bad behavior — The War Over Who Steve Jobs Was — Walter Isaacson's official biography of Apple's genius leader is being challenged by a new book supported by Jobs's inner circle.
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New York Times, Computerworld, GeekWire, CNET, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacNN, AppleInsider, iMore, App Advice, Cult of Mac and Bloomberg View
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| Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: |
Cisco IP Phones Vulnerable to Eavesdropping — Some of the IP phones designed by Cisco for small businesses are plagued by a vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to eavesdrop on conversations and make phone calls from affected devices, the company revealed last week.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Stripe Connect helps companies like Lyft and Kickstarter accept payments in 18 countries where Stripe is live, allowing quicker international expansion — Stripe's New Product Helps Marketplaces Go Global More Quickly — Payments company Stripe is today unveiling a new product designed …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Samsung is bundling Microsoft's Office apps on some Android tablets — Samsung is expanding on its recent partnership with Microsoft to preinstall Office on select Android tablets. The move follows a similar bundling on Samsung's Galaxy S6 handsets, with Microsoft's Skype, OneDrive … | Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Livestreaming service YouNow has 100M+ monthly visitors, engaged community, a business model, and is paying its broadcasters via partnership program — The live-streaming app where amateurs get paid to chat, eat, and sleep on camera — Tayser Abuhamdeh doesn't have what most people would call an exciting job.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Facebook open-sources Augmented Traffic Control, a Wi-Fi tool for simulating 2G, Edge, 3G, and LTE networks — Facebook today open-sourced Augmented Traffic Control (ATC), a Wi-Fi tool for testing how mobile phones and their apps handle networks of varying strength, over on GitHub.
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