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Microsoft and Yahoo Agree to Amend Search Partnership — SUNNYVALE, Calif. & REDMOND, Wash.—(BUSINESS WIRE)— Today Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) announced that the companies amended their search partnership to improve the search experience, create value for advertisers …
| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Ahrendts memo: no Apple Watch in-store purchases until June, pre-orders start arriving this Friday; April 24th launch date removed from Apple's website — No Apple Watches in store until June, Ahrendts tells staff as April 24th date removed from website — Angela Ahrendts has told Apple Store staff …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Leaked emails from Sony Pictures hack indicate that Snapchat gave 0.11% of its stock to former Apple executive Scott Forstall to be an adviser — Snapchat Is Paying Ex-Apple Exec Scott Forstall 0.11% To Be An Advisor — A leaked email from the Sony Pictures hack indicates Snapchat set aside .11% … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple officially names Steve Dowling as Vice President of Communications — Apple has officially named long time director of public relations Steve Dowling as its new Vice President of Communications, as noted on the company's executive bios webpage. Dowling succeeds former Apple Communications …
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Slack confirms raising $160M at a $2.8B valuation with new investors including DST Global, IVP, and Horizons Ventures, claims 750K daily users — Slack confirms $160M funding round at $2.8B valuation — Slack, that San Francisco startup with an increasingly popular team communication app …
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| Brett Howse / AnandTech: |
AMD's Q1 earnings miss with non-GAAP loss of $0.09/share on $1.03B revenue, down 16.9% from last quarter — AMD Posts Q1 2015 Results: $180 Million Net Loss — Today AMD released their Q1 FY 2015 financial results, and the company reported revenue of $1.03 billion for the quarter.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Cyanogen partners with Microsoft to bundle and create native integrations of Bing, Skype, OneDrive, OneNote, Outlook, and Office on Cyanogen OS — Microsoft will bundle its apps on Cyanogen's Android OS — Rumors of a Microsoft and Cyanogen partnership have been making the rounds recently … | Russell Holly / Android Central: |
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| Natt Garun / The Next Web: |
WikiLeaks launches easy search interface for 30K documents and emails from Sony Pictures hack — WikiLeaks releases a searchable archive of hacked Sony Pictures emails and documents — WikiLeaks today released “The Sony Archives,” a searchable online database that the organization claims contains … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google's mobile search results on Android now prompt users to install apps that have content relevant to the search query — Google's Mobile Search Results On Android Now Prompt Users To Install Apps With Relevant Content — Google's mobile search results on Android will now prompt … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Netflix will stop asking ISPs to exempt its videos from data caps — Netflix regrets striking cap-exempt deal in Australia. — Netflix says it regrets striking a deal that exempted its videos from data caps imposed by an Internet service provider and will avoid such arrangements in the future.
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| Ellen Cushing / BuzzFeed: |
Apple buys around 36K acres of private forestland to be managed by The Conservation Fund and sustainably harvested for packaging — Apple Is Buying Up 36,000 Acres Of Forest To Conserve It — The partnership with The Conservation Fund help supply the company's virgin paper fiber.
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Medium, The Conservation Fund, Business Insider, Tech Times, The Next Web, CBS San Francisco, iLounge, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, Cult of Mac and MacNN. Thanks:@mat
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Updated Google app for Android lets you locate and ring your device by typing “find my phone” into Google search box on desktop — You can now Google your lost Android phone — Despite all its efforts in various markets, Google is still primarily a search company.
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| Lizette Chapman / Wall Street Journal: |
Navdy, maker of a gadget that projects info onto car windshields, raises $20M Series A at $80M valuation led by Upfront Ventures — Driving Display Startup Navdy Raises $20M to Start Commercial Production … Seeking to end the dangerous juggle many smartphone-wielding drivers do when navigating …
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Airware Launches Its Commercial Drone Operating System — Drones could save businesses big money by doing dull, dirty, and dangerous jobs much better than humans or helicopters. The problem is that drones can be difficult to program and pilot. Airware is out to change that with today's launch of its Aerial Information Platform.| TechCrunch: |
Etsy Stock Surges 86 Percent At Close Of First Day Of Trading to $30 Per Share — Etsy, the online marketplace for handmade goods, went public today. It turns out Wall Street investors like those homespun crafts. Shares opened at $31 on the NASDAQ, popping up 94 percent from the initial set price of $16 per share.| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
Mobile shopping app Spring raises $25M Series B led by BoxGroup, with participation from Yuri Milner, Google Ventures, and others — Swipe-to-buy app Spring raises $25 million to become the first big mobile shopping mall — Spring, an eight-month-old shopping app that partners with hundreds of brands …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla prepares marketing and product push in attempt to stop its decline, will release Firefox for iOS; president Li Gong and mobile VP Rick Fant to leave — As Mozilla Prepares Firefox Fightback, President Li Gong And Mobile VP Rick Fant Leave — Mozilla and its Firefox browser …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple Seeds First OS X 10.10.4 Yosemite Beta to Developers — Apple today seeded the first beta of OS X 10.10.4 to developers, just over a week after releasing OS X 10.10.3 with the Photos for OS X app to the public. — The new beta, build 14E7f, can be downloaded from the Mac Developer Center.
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9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com and iMore
| Michael Ducker / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter's Fabric adds tools to let developers add Tweet timelines to iOS and Android apps, let apps access content from API without user login — Introducing timelines and guest authentication to Twitter Kit — Today, we're pleased to introduce two new features for Twitter Kit on Fabric …
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The Next Web, SlashGear and VentureBeat
| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Problems & Solutions: Analyzing The EU's Antitrust Charges Against Google Over Shopping Search — After years of investigation, we finally have a formal EU antitrust complaint against Google in search. It's narrow — all about shopping search. Here's a look at the specific charges and what they might mean for the search engine.| Kyle Russell / TechCrunch: |
Google launches “Works With Google Cardboard” program to certify VR headsets that are compatible with Cardboard software — Google Announces Certification Program For Cardboard Clones — Google Cardboard has been a surprise hit among early adopters, giving an intentionally cheap … | Alexandra Alter / New York Times: |
Scribd adds more than 9K audiobooks to its catalog with Penguin Random House deal — Scribd Expands Audiobook Catalog in Deal With Penguin Random House — E-book subscription services are bulking up and expanding their libraries and services, as the competition to become the Netflix of books escalates.
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Ink, Bits, & Pixels, Digital Book World, The Next Web, Digital Trends, The Verge, Good E-Reader and Pocket-lint. Thanks:@2blyndsey. See also Mediagazer
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