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Facebook introduces Messenger Platform for building apps that integrate with Messenger and Businesses on Messenger, which lets users communicate with businesses — Introducing Messenger Platform and Businesses on Messenger — Today at F8, we launched Messenger Platform and announced Businesses on Messenger.
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See also Mediagazer| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Facebook is poised to become the gateway to the mobile internet by building an app ecosystem to rival that of Apple and Google — Facebook Is Eating The Internet — For years now there've been two competing versions of Facebook. It's either an app on your phone or it's your entire homescreen.| Cade Metz / Wired: |
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Twitter launches Periscope: replays are its killer feature, push notifications are noisy — Periscope, Twitter's answer to Meerkat-style live-streaming, is now available — Live-streaming apps are the thirstiest of all media. A Facebook post wants a like, a tweet begs for favs, and a snap means little without a response.
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| Mat Honan / BuzzFeed: |
Meet Periscope, Twitter's New Live Video App — The interactive video app is gorgeous and fast. But is it enough to beat Meerkat's head start? — BuzzFeed News San Francisco Bureau Chief — There's a whistle and a vibration in my pocket and I pull out my phone and its John Hodgman.| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
HTC One M9 to go on sale for $649 unlocked tonight — Never mind that M9+ thing in China. Back in the US, it's all about the M9 for local HTC fans, as the device is about to hit the official online store at midnight ET for $649 unlocked (it'll have the same bands as the AT&T model).
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| Amy Schatz / Re/code: |
FTC Denies Report That Agency Ignored Staff Recommendation on Google — Three Federal Trade Commission members denied media reports that the agency essentially ignored a staff recommendation to sue Google during its 2012 investigation of the search giant's practices.
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Apple acquired UK-based data analytics company Acunu in late 2013 to expand its cloud-computing services — Apple's FoundationDB Acquisition Builds on Earlier Database Buy — (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc.'s acquisition of FoundationDB LLC gives it some top engineering talent …
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| Michael Zelenko / The Verge: |
Tinder hack fools men interested in female bait profile into unwittingly flirting with each other — A brilliant Tinder hack made hundreds of bros unwittingly flirt with each other — Man is a thirsty beast, and nowhere is that thirst more acutely exemplified than on Tinder …
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| Zac Bowden / WinBeta: |
Microsoft working on successor to Surface 2 tablet running full Windows instead of Windows RT, and Intel Atom or Core M processor — EXCLUSIVE: Microsoft is building a successor to the Surface 2 (RT), here are the first details — The Surface 2 is currently Microsoft's latest iteration of its Windows RT based tablet line-up.| Bloomberg Business: |
Apple to expand iPhone trade-in program to China as soon as March 31 in partnership with Foxconn — Apple Plans China IPhone Trade-In Program With Foxconn — (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. plans to introduce a trade-in program for iPhones in China, people familiar with the effort said, after a similar program bolstered sales in the U.S.| New York Times: |
Apple unable to persuade record labels to lower licensing costs for Beats streaming music service; will be priced similarly to rivals at around $10 — Apple and Beats Developing Streaming Music Service to Rival Spotify — In what would be the biggest change to its music strategy in years …
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Tweets: @mgsiegler, @mattrosoff and @pkafka
See also Mediagazer| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Smart home security device Canary, which started on Indiegogo, is now available at Best Buy, Amazon, and other major retailers for $249 — Indiegogo Darling Canary Hits Best Buy For $249 — Canary, the all-in-one smart home monitoring system that launched on Indiegogo in summer of 2013 … | Bob Brown / Network World: |
Ingres RDBMS creator Michael Stonebraker wins the $1M 2014 A.M. Turing Award — Database pioneer Stonebraker rocks $1M “Nobel Prize in Computing” — A.M. Turing Award recognizes Ingres RDBMS creator — Michael Stonebraker, whose database software breakthroughs helped …
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| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Meerkat's Series B investors includes an array of Hollywood names along with lead Greylock — Meerkat Confirms It Raised A Round Led By Greylock, Josh Elman Joins Meerkat's Board — Late last week, our own Jordan Crook reported that Meerkat, the trendy, Twitter-centric livestreaming app … Sponsor Posts
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