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Sources: Uber is in talks with over 400 merchants for a new same-day delivery program, plans to source inventory from local stores — Uber Is Quietly Testing A Massive Merchant Delivery Program — Uber is planning to launch a merchant delivery program that would allow online shoppers …
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What to expect from Build 2015: big changes for Windows, universal apps, HoloLens, iOS and Android, IoT, a focus on developers, more — What to expect from Microsoft's most important event of the year — For Microsoft, 2015 is a year of adjustment. While the software giant focuses … | Paul Thurrott / Thurrott.com: |
Microsoft may enable Android apps to run on Windows 10 devices; announcement could come as soon as this week — Windows + Android? — Microsoft will most likely announce this week that it will enable customers to run Android apps on their Windows 10 phones, tablets and PCs.| Adam Pasick / Quartz: |
Software issue on American Airlines' iPads, used to distribute flight plans and other information to flight crews, forces airline to ground select flights — An iPad glitch grounded several dozen American Airlines planes — American Airlines flights experienced significant delays …
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| Serenity Caldwell / iMore: |
Tattoos, particularly with dark solid colors, may interfere with Apple Watch heart rate sensor — Apple Watch, heart rate sensors, and wrist tattoos: What you need to know! — Will an arm sleeve tattoo prevent you from wearing the Apple Watch? If it's a solid color, perhaps.
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| Youkyung Lee / Associated Press: |
Samsung's profit sinks 39% hit by bigger iPhones — SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics Co. said its first-quarter net income plunged 39 percent as consumers switched to bigger iPhones, squeezing its profit from the mobile business to less than half from a year earlier.
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Facebook warns EU that fragmented regulation may lead to fewer features rolling out in Europe — Facebook Warns European Privacy Regulators to Back Off — Facebook has a message for privacy regulators across Europe: You're endangering the EU. — Richard Allan, the Menlo Park …
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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.| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Piracy App Popcorn Time Ordered Blocked by U.K. Court — Popcorn Time — the piracy app that's as easy to use as Netflix — has been dealt a blow, although it's surely not fatal. — On Tuesday, a United Kingdom chancery court approved an order requiring major U.K. Internet service providers … | 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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Apple Watch apps whose primary function is to tell time will be rejected, say updated App Store Review Guidelines — Apple says it will reject Apple Watch apps that just tell the time, more first-party faces may be coming soon — Apple has today added a new guideline to the App Store Review Guidelines … | 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 … | Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Lucasfilm alums join Jaunt as it launches VR movie studio in LA — VR company Jaunt is starting a virtual reality movie studio — As virtual reality steadily moves closer to mainstream reality, one of the biggest outstanding questions is content: how popular can VR devices get if there's nothing … | Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Cablevision to sell subscriptions to Hulu Plus in first pay TV distribution deal for Hulu, but offers few details on cost, timing, method — Hulu Comes to Cable TV, Which Is Fine With Cable TV — Cablevision announced today that it will sell subscriptions to Hulu, the streaming TV service.| Kellex / Droid Life: |
LG G4 coming to AT&T and Verizon “soon”, Sprint and US Cellular in June, and T-Mobile in May via sweepstakes — LG G4 is Coming to AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, and US Cellular — According to LG, the new G4 will be available at all of the big US carriers, including AT&T …
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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 … | Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
MCX, the consortium behind Apple Pay competitor CurrentC, appoints former BoA Merchant Services chief Brian Mooney CEO — The would-be Apple Pay competitor created by a bunch of big retailers just switched CEOs — Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX), the big business-backed company behind … Sponsor Posts
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