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Sources: Google plans to announce a product connecting its search users with home-service providers this spring — Google Wants To Send You A Plumber — The company is readying a new product intended to connect search users with local home-service providers.
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Wall Street Journal, 9to5Google, Search Engine Land, Ubergizmo, TechSpot, Android Central, GeekWire, Forbes, Business Insider and Inc.com. Tweets: @digiphile. Thanks:@fwd
| Abhijeet M. / SamMobile: |
Samsung's round smartwatch to be called Gear A, come in two variants, one with Bluetooth, one with 3G and calling support — Exclusive: Samsung's round smartwatch to be called Gear A, have 3G and calling support — A perfect smartwatch? There's no such thing, but Samsung …
| Napier Lopez / The Next Web: |
HBO Now launches in US on Apple TV, iOS, and Cablevision's Optimum Online for $14.99 per month — HBO Now goes live for Apple TV, iOS and Optimum users — We knew HBO's new Now streaming service would launch ahead of the Season 5 premiere of the popular Game of Thrones series …
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MacRumors, TechCrunch, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Los Angeles Times, Daily Mail, 9to5Mac, Quartz, VentureBeat, Tubefilter, Ars Technica, CNET, SlashGear, O'Grady's PowerPage, blog.chron.com, Business Insider, PhoneDog.com, Cult of Mac, PC Magazine, BGR, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, Macworld, Re/code, DSLreports and WebProNews. See also Mediagazer
| Brad Heath / USA Today: |
US Justice Department and Drug Enforcement Administration secretly tracked billions of international calls for nearly a decade before 9/11 — U.S. secretly tracked billions of calls for decades — Starting in 1992, the Justice Department amassed logs of virtually all telephone calls …
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| Jim Edwards / Business Insider: |
Angela Ahrendts tells employees to encourage customers to order Watch and new MacBook through Apple Store app and online store as part of “change in mindset” — Angela Ahrendts has told Apple employees ‘a significant change in mindset’ is coming to the way the company launches products
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MacRumors, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, ZDNet, AppleInsider, Forbes, App Advice, CNET, The Verge, Engadget, Computerworld, The Mac Observer, Macworld, Guardian, Wired.co.uk, Pocketnow, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gotta Be Mobile, SlashGear, Digital Trends, Consumerist, Redmond Pie, iDownloadBlog.com, InvestorPlace, BGR, internetretailer.com, iLounge and MacDailyNews
| Don Reisinger / CNET: |
iFixit teardown shows Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge is difficult to repair, gives it 3 out of 10 for repairability — Teardown shows Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge is tough to repair — The smartphone, which has a curved screen at the edge, received a score of three out of 10 for repairability from iFixit.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google Moderator, a service that ranked user-submitted questions, suggestions, and ideas, is closing on July 31 — Google Moderator is shutting down on July 31, 2015 — Google has quietly announced Google Moderator will be shut down on July 31, 2015. Users can download their Google Moderator data …
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| Brad Stone / Bloomberg Business: |
Uber accounted for 47% of all ground transportation business expenses of US companies using Certify software last month; Lyft accounts for 1% — Uber Is Winning Over Americans' Expense Accounts — The app accounts for nearly half of all ground transportation business expenses at many companies in North America
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Certify, BuzzFeed, Certify, VatorNews, ZDNet, Uber Blog and Business Insider. Tweets: @kimmaicutler
| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Google and Microsoft case could determine what constitutes a “reasonable royalty” when patents are used as part of a standard — Google Will Battle Microsoft (Again) Over the Value of Patents in Tech Standards — Google and Microsoft will face off in a San Francisco appeals court Wednesday …
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| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Former Uber CTO launches Ride, a carpool-organizing service for co-workers, backed by Uber investor TPG — Early Uber Architect Launches Carpooling App ‘Ride’ — A new smartphone app with ties to Uber aims to make carpooling easier for millions of daily commuters.| Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
Meld, creator of smart oven knobs with automatic temperature controls, launches Meld Knob and and Clip on Kickstarter — With Meld, Another Step Toward the Internet of Tasty Things — SEATTLE — Most demonstrations of new technology do not involve cooking and then tasting freshly fried potato chips …
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Kickstarter, Engadget, Digital Trends, GeekWire, VentureBeat, Fast Company, Forbes, Mashable, Popular Science, SlashGear and CNET
| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Kleiner general partner Matt Murphy, who fired Ellen Pao, to leave KPCB — Kleiner Partner to Leave After Trial — Matt Murphy says he will look for a new opportunity — Venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers will move on from its three-year legal battle … | Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Square launches tools to help brick and mortar businesses create and track the effectiveness of email marketing campaigns — Square Brings Accountability To Email Marketing — Square is in the process of building up a series of products and services that use its payments platform as a foundation.
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Marketing Land, AdExchanger, VentureBeat, Re/code, Square, VentureBeat and The Verge
Tweets: @panzer and @mikeisaac
| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Data integration company Informatica goes private after $5.3B acquisition by private equity firm Permira — Informatica goes private in $5.3 billion deal — Summary:The data integration and management software provider will pursue its growth plans as a private company owned by Permira and Canada's pension plan.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Imgur introduces embed option for online publishers to repost and attribute photos on their own site — Image-hosting platform Imgur is making it easier for publishers and bloggers to use its content, with the launch of a new embed feature. — Similar to how you can embed videos hosted on YouTube …
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The Imgur Blog, TechCrunch, The Verge, tech.co, The Next Web and WebProNews
| Cecilia Kang / Washington Post: |
FTC to review complaint that YouTube Kids over-advertises to children — The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday said it will review complaints by consumer groups that YouTube Kids is a hyper-commercial app with junk food and toy ads flooding the video service.Sponsor Posts
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