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| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
MacBook review: beautiful, but has disappointing battery life, struggles on performance-intensive tasks, having a single USB Type-C port is a pain — Apple MacBook Review: The Laptop of the Future Isn't Ready for the Present — Are you willing to give up battery life and convenience to own the most beautiful laptop ever?
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
MacBook review: great display and trackpad but performance is a step behind Broadwell-based Macs, and life with one port is a compromise — The 2015 MacBook previews a future that's not quite here — Review: This laptop is defined by the features it doesn't have.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Source: Google close to making Android Wear work with iPhone using companion app — Exclusive: Google is close to making Android Wear work on the iPhone — Google is working on getting its Android Wear smartwatch platform to work with the iPhone, and it is close to finishing the final technical details …
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
LinkedIn to acquire online learning firm Lynda.com in a cash and stock deal valued at $1.5B — LinkedIn buys Lynda.com for $1.5 billion — Summary:Executives for both companies said the deal, which is LinkedIn's largest acquisition to date, is the “kind of fit that benefits everyone.”
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| Ryan Roslansky / Official LinkedIn Blog: |
Welcome to the LinkedIn Family, lynda.com! — Many people don't know that I started my first company when I was a freshman in college. I didn't know the first thing about designing a website and relied on a Lynda Weinman web graphics book to get my site up and running.
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| Apple: |
Apple announces Watch pre-orders begin Friday 12:01am PT, in-store previews begin Friday, confirms orders will be online-only during “initial launch period” — Apple Watch In-Store Preview & Online Pre-Order Begin Friday — Available for Purchase Online April 24
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| Office Blogs: |
Microsoft and Dropbox partner to let you edit Dropbox files in Office Online — Office Online and Dropbox web integration now available — Last year Office announced an ongoing partnership to create better connections between Office and Dropbox. We continue to work closely with the Dropbox team …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Amazon announces new Elastic File System storage service for EC2 machines; preview coming soon — Amazon Launches New File Storage Service For EC2 — At its AWS Summit in San Francisco, Amazon today announced the launch of the Amazon Elastic File System (EFS), a new storage service … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon files first-ever suit over fake product reviews, alleging sites sold fraudulent praise … Amazon has filed suit against the alleged operators of sites that offer Amazon sellers the ability to purchase fake 4- and 5-star customer reviews of their products.| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Mophie launches Space Pack cases that add up to 128GB storage and expand battery life for iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, and iPad Mini — Mophie's new Space Pack lineup adds 128GB storage to iPhones and iPads — If you bought the latest iOS device but still find yourself running out of power and space, Mophie might have the answer.
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| Gillian Tan / Wall Street Journal: |
P2P lending service Prosper Marketplace raises around $165M led by Credit Suisse, doubling valuation to $1.9B — Prosper Marketplace's Valuation More Than Doubles to $1.9 Billion — New fundraising amounted to about $165 million and was led by Credit Suisse Group's Next Investors
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google-owned Snapseed photo app adds lens blur, spot healing, undo button, and more in first major update in two years — Google's Snapseed photo app gets its first major update in two years — The Google-owned Snapseed photo editing app has received a major update today, which promises to deliver …
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| Mitch Stoltz / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Entertainment Software Association seeks to prevent restoring functionality of old video games on copyright grounds, even for museums and archives — Videogame Publishers: No Preserving Abandoned Games, Even for Museums and Archives, Because All “Hacking” is Illegal
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
European Facebook Privacy Lawsuit Heads To Court In Vienna — A class action data privacy lawsuit that's being brought against Facebook in Europe — for participation in the NSA's PRISM dragnet surveillance program, among other alleged data protection violations — gets its first preparatory …
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