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Sources: Comcast to drop proposed Time Warner Cable takeover deal after FCC staff recommends hearing; announcement as soon as Friday — Comcast Plans to Drop Time Warner Cable Deal — Comcast Corp. is planning to walk away from its proposed $45 billion takeover of Time Warner Cable Inc. …
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Apple Watch teardown reveals 205mAh battery, Apple S1 CPU, inside view of Taptic Engine and Digital Crown — Apple Watch Teardown — Time flies: it's been eight months since Apple announced its (digital) crowning achievement: the Apple Watch. Join us as we make time stand still by tearing …
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Amazon Web Services generated $5.16B in revenue last year, $1.57B in revenue last quarter, up from $1.1B in the same quarter last year — Amazon breaks out cloud results for first time on Q1 earnings report — Summary:Analysts and shareholders have been waiting many moons for Amazon … | Stephanie M. Lee / BuzzFeed: |
Apple shares list of must-have apps for Watch, including Twitter, Instagram, New York Times, Mint, Citymapper, Strava, and more, as Watch App Store goes live — Apple Thinks You Should Use These Apps On The Apple Watch — As the App Store for the Apple Watch goes live today, Apple reveals which apps it thinks are must-haves.
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Filings: Kleiner Perkins offers to waive nearly $1M in legal fees if Ellen Pao doesn't appeal, offered $965K settlement last year — Kleiner Perkins Is Seeking Nearly $1 Million in Legal Fees From Ellen Pao — Silicon Valley venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers filed legal …
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Microsoft's Q3 revenue grew 6% YoY to $21.7B, Surface revenue up 44%, Commercial Cloud revenue up 106%, Office 365 hits 12.4M subscribers — Microsoft Beats In Its FQ3 With Revenue Of $21.7B, EPS Of $0.61 — did not Today following the bell, Microsoft reported its fiscal third quarter financial results …
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Dropbox's Collaborative Note-Taking Service, Dropbox Notes, Heads Into Beta Testing — Earlier this month, Dropbox was spotted testing an early version of an online note-taking service dubbed “Project Composer,” which appeared to have roots in the company's 2014 acquisition of collaborative docs startup HackPad.
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Samsung reveals next-gen Gear smartwatch will have round face while announcing SDK release — Samsung's next Gear smartwatch will have a round screen — Samsung has announced that it'll release the SDK for its next smartwatch to developers before the product launch itself — and in so doing … | JP Mangalindan / Mashable: |
Facebook testing new notifications tab that acts as news hub, includes birthdays, events, local news, nearby friends, and more — Facebook's new notifications tab is a robust mini-news hub — Facebook wants notifications to become much more than a perfunctory list of recent behavior, events and invitations.Thanks:@jpmanga
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Google misses estimates with $17.26B revenue, rising US dollar and slowing growth to blame — Google Revenue Hurt by Rising Dollar — Revenue, earnings fall short of analyst expectations — Google Inc. reported weaker-than-expected first-quarter revenue and profits, hurt by slowing growth and the rising U.S. dollar.
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Acer unveils a new 15-inch Chromebook, Iconia One 8 tablet and gaming-centric Predator tablet — At a press event held in New York earlier today, Acer announced a slew of new products that will all be available sometime this year. The company announced a very budget-friendly Chromebook and tablet …
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Reproductive health app Glow now allows men to track factors affecting their fertility and link with partners' accounts — An App for Hacking Fertility Now Also Works for Men — In our culture, reproduction is often seen as women's work. From pregnancy to childbirth through nursing a newborn child …
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Social music app Smule raises $38M in debt and equity round led by Adams Street Partners — Musical social network raised $38M for expansion — Musical social network Smule raised $26 million in equity and $12 million in debt funding on Thursday to grow its platform.
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