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Microsoft's two new SDKs allow porting of Android and iOS apps to Windows 10 as universal apps; web apps can now be packaged for the Windows Store — Huge news: Windows 10 can run reworked Android and iOS apps — After months of rumors, Microsoft is revealing its plans to get mobile apps on Windows 10 today.
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| Terry Myerson / Blogging Windows: |
Welcoming Developers to Windows 10 — Today, I had the honor of speaking to thousands of our development partners at the Build conference about our plans to make Windows 10 the most attractive development platform ever. It is always thrilling to see so many developers excited about Microsoft - and this year, about Windows 10.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft launches a preview of Visual Studio Code, a free lightweight code editor for OS X, Linux, and Windows — Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, A Free Cross-Platform Code Editor For OS X, Linux And Windows — At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced the launch …
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Tweets: @maryjofoley, @starfire2258, @benbajarin and @dannysullivan
Thanks:@alex| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft Edge, formerly known as Project Spartan, will ship on all Windows 10 devices — Internet Explorer's successor, Project Spartan, is called Microsoft Edge — At its Build 2015 developer conference today, Microsoft announced Project Spartan will be called Microsoft Edge.
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| Ross Miller / The Verge: |
Microsoft demos Windows 10 apps running on HoloLens — Windows 10 apps in HoloLens look amazing and completely ridiculous — Microsoft is making universal apps a major focus: “We're talking about one platform, a single app, a single binary that can run across all of these devices.”
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| Owen Williams / The Next Web: |
Office 2016 will allow cross-platform integration of third party apps, like Uber ride reminders in Outlook — Microsoft shows off Office Graph API's cross-platform integrations for Office 2016 — Today at BUILD, Microsoft showed off its new cross-platform integrations that developers …
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg Business: |
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| David Byttow / Medium: |
CEO of Secret announces company is shutting down and returning money to investors — Sunset — After a lot of thought and consultation with our board, I've decided to shut down Secret. — This has been the hardest decision of my life and one that saddens me deeply.
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Tweets: @davidbyttow, @mulligan, @davidbyttow, @danprimack, @rrhoover, @eringriffith, @stevekovach, @blairmacgregor, @mattlynley and @danprimack
| Bloomberg Business: |
Sources: Salesforce is working with bankers to field takeover inquiries; shares soar 12% — Salesforce Said to Work With Bankers to Field Takeover Inquiries — Salesforce.com Inc. is working with financial advisers to help it field takeover offers after being approached by a potential acquirer …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple Watch production slowed by faulty taptic engines from one supplier; company told some suppliers last week to slow production until June — Apple Watch: Faulty Taptic Engine Slows Roll Out — Supplies crimped after testing found problems with Chinese-made component that creates gentle tapping sensation
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
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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| Eric Johnson / Re/code: |
Tencent Will Pay $126 Million for 15 Percent Stake in Glu Mobile — Glu Mobile has struck a major deal with Tencent, selling 21 million shares, or 14.6 percent of the total, to the Chinese Internet giant for $126 million. That works out to $6 per share, higher than where Glu has traded for most of the past year.
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| Reggie Ugwu / BuzzFeed: |
Instagram's @music account, its first official content vertical, will showcase popular and emerging artists — Instagram Launches Dedicated Music Channel @Music — The Facebook-owned social network's first category-specific vertical will showcase popular and emerging artists. — Jared Eberhardt / Instagram
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Google's new Password Alert Chrome extension combats phishing and risk from password reuse by warning users who enter their Google password at a non-Google site — Chrome Can Now Warn Users Who Type Gmail Passwords in Dumb Places — No matter how much Google does to harden its servers …
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Google Online Security Blog, The Verge, TechCrunch, Washington Post, Ars Technica, The Next Web, Engadget, Lifehacker, Gizmodo and Reuters. Tweets: @csoghoian
| 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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