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LG debuts the G4 with a 5.5-inch QuadHD 2560 x 1440 screen, camera with f1.8 lens aperture and autofocus, Snapdragon 808 processor, and leather back — LG's new G4 is a powerhouse phone wrapped in leather — LG's new flagship smartphone, the G4, is official.
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| Joshuah Bearman / Wired: |
The rise of Silk Road: how Ross Ulbricht built a global drug bazaar — The Rise & Fall of Silk Road — I am a great admirer of your work. Brilliant, utterly brilliant! I will keep this short and to the point. I want to buy the site. I've been in the business for over 20 years.
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| Roya Soleimani / Inside Search: |
Google app on Android adds Google Now cards for 70 new apps, including Zipcar, Circa, Spotify, OpenTable, and Runkeeper — New in the Google app: more Now cards from your Android apps — Our phones help us find answers to questions large and small, stay on top of what's happening … | Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon launches Amazon Business marketplace with exclusive merchandise and better prices, phases out Amazon Supply — Amazon Expands Business-Sales Marketplace After Three Years — After three years of testing, Amazon.com is hoping to widen the reach of its business customer marketplace site … | Twitter: |
Twitter Reports First Quarter 2015 Results; Lowers Full-Year 2015 Expectations — SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - April 28, 2015 - Twitter, Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2015, and outlined lower 2015 expectations.
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Unable to restructure debt, game console maker OUYA looks for a buyer, hires Mesa Global to handle sale — Exclusive: Gaming startup OUYA needs to find a buyer quickly — Gaming company OUYA is on the auction block after tripping a debt covenant, according to a confidential email sent …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
China's Great Firewall has been replacing Facebook Connect's Javascript module with redirection code en route since Sunday, seemingly for DDoS purposes — Facebook's login system is being hijacked by China's Great Firewall — For the last three days, China's Great Firewall has been intercepting …
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Loop Commerce Raises $16 Million For Its “E-Gifting” Checkout Service For Online Retailers — Loop Commerce, a company that has developed an alternative checkout technology for e-commerce sites that allows customers to more easily buy gifts for friends without having to worry with product details … | Nitasha Tiku / The Verge: |
Uber is bringing its food delivery service to New York City and Chicago — This week Uber is launching its food delivery service, UberEats, in New York City and Chicago. The company has already piloted the program in Los Angeles and Barcelona. UberEats will be accessible from within Uber's existing app …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Dropbox now allows users to comment on shared files; feature can be turned off on any file — You can now post comments directly on Dropbox files — Dropbox today started rolling out the ability to add comments to files. The feature, first available in March as part … | Ara Shirinian / Daily Bruin: |
Opinion: patent troll Nathan Myhrvold is a bad role model, and a poor choice for UCLA's commencement keynote — Students need a voice in commencement speaker decisions — At this year's graduation ceremony, the class of 2015 will get the chance to learn an important lesson: In the real world … | Ina Fried / Re/code: |
T-Mobile Gains 1.8 Million Customers in First Quarter as Revenue Slightly Exceeds Expectations — T-Mobile on Tuesday reported that added 1.8 million customers in the first quarter, including 1.1 million core postpaid customers under the T-Mobile brand. — The carrier also said it expects …
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| Frank Catalano / GeekWire: |
Amazon launches Whispercast 3.0 tool, emphasizes free services for schools … Amazon is intensifying its efforts to go after education market customers by releasing a significant upgrade to its Whispercast tool — plus tossing in a free service to ease the transition from paper to pixel.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
PayPal brings One Touch payments to the web to let users shop without re-entering information — PayPal Brings Its Instant Checkout Service “One Touch” Across The Web — PayPal today is making a change to its online payment service on the web, which will now allow customers to checkout …
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| Buster Hein / Cult of Mac: |
Apple's Sport Watch's Ion-X glass is more likely to scratch but reflects less ambient light than the sapphire crystal displays of more expensive models — Apple Watch Sport has better display than pricier models — Apple is pushing into new territory with the Apple Watch … | Jane Martinson / Guardian: |
Google and eight European publishers plan Digital News Initiative to develop news business models, with $163M Google innovation fund — Google admits mistakes with news outlets as it announces new partnership — The Digital News Initiative is likely to be seen as an attempt for Google …
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Fashion and lifestyle site Refinery29 raises $50M at $290M valuation, led by WPP Ventures and Scripps Networks Interactive — Refinery29 Joins the Big Media Startup Club, with a $50 Million Funding Round — It's no longer surprising when investors write big checks to a media startup.
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SendGrid: Employee Account Hacked, Used to Steal Customer Credentials — Sendgrid, an email service used by tens of thousands of companies — including Silicon Valley giants as well as Bitcoin exchange Coinbase — said attackers compromised a Sendgrid employee's account … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Improves Ads By Acquiring TellApart, Selling Them Through Google's DoubleClick — To boost its commerce ads and sell more of them, Twitter announced some big moves as part of today's earnings. It's acquired commerce ads tech firm TellApart, which was formerly a big Facebook ad partner.
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| Rob Triggs / Android Authority: |
Cyanogen ends OnePlus partnership, aims to work with bigger Chinese vendors — Speaking in Beijing at the Global Mobile Internet Conference, Cyanogen's Kirt McMaster and Steve Kondik have been discussing the past and future of the fledgling company. After a fairly rocky relationship …
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