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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
IHS: 38mm Apple Watch Sport component and manufacturing costs are $83.70, about 24% of retail price — Apple Watch Sport Component Costs Estimated at $83.70, Which Won't Sit Well With Tim Cook — IHS iSuppli often tears down devices to estimate component costs, and today …
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Teardown of Apple's S1 Watch chip reveals custom CPU, 512MB RAM, 8GB flash storage, components from ADI and IDT — Early Looks Inside Apple Watch's S1 Chip Confirm 512 MB RAM, Unexpected Suppliers — Since the Apple Watch's initial unveiling last September, Apple has touted the S1 chip …
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ABI Research, 9to5Mac, Ars Technica, Business Insider, SlashGear, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @marcoarment
| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Warby Parker raises $100M round led by T. Rowe Price, sources say at a valuation of $1.2B — Eyeglass Retailer Warby Parker Valued at $1.2 Billion — Online eyeglass retailer Warby Parker has raised a fresh round of capital that values it over $1 billion and bolsters its expansion of brick-and-mortar stores.
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| Bloomberg Business: |
Leaked Lyft presentation to investors reveals estimated $130M revenue in 2014; company spends $530 marketing per driver and 22 passengers in SF — Leaked Lyft Document Reveals a Costly Battle With Uber — The startup also describes its rival as having an “anti-social culture”| Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide: |
Apple poaches top producers from BBC Radio 1 for new Spotify rival — Whatever Apple is creating to rival Spotify just got a lot more intriguing. — Little more than two months after poaching Zane Lowe from BBC Radio 1, MBW understands that Apple has pinched four producers from the station …
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| Steve Teixeira / Building Apps for Windows: |
Microsoft releases preview of Windows 10 IoT Core for Raspberry Pi and Arduino devices — Microsoft brings Windows 10 to Makers — We are continually inspired by the enthusiasm and passion for technology represented by the Maker community. Today we are excited to share what's next …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Image sensors in iPhone 6 and Galaxy S6 generate as much as $20 per unit for Sony — How Sony Makes Money Off Apple's iPhone — Image sensors for Apple, Samsung fuel Japanese consumer-electronics giant's turnaround strategy — TOKYO—Sony Corp. lost the smartphone war but rings up a sale … | Reem Nasr / CNBC: |
LinkedIn plunges 27% after hours on lower outlook after reporting Q1 revenue of $638M — LinkedIn shares down 17 percent after weak outlook — Shares of LinkedIn plunged after the company released lowered guidance for the year. The company reported earnings per share of 57 cents …
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft showcases face detection API with a web site that guesses your age based on a photo, which quickly goes viral — Microsoft's face-recognition app How Old gets everyone's age wrong, turns into a meme — My Twitter timeline just blew up with selfies with boxes hovering above faces guessing …
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| Ben Thompson / stratechery: |
A long-winded case for replacing Dick Costolo — Twitter Needs New Leadership — Yesterday Twitter released very disappointing quarterly results, with misses on both user and revenue growth. From the Wall Street Journal: … The symbolism of the leak was appropriate …
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mathewingram.com/work, Slate, 9to5Mac, BuzzFeed, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, WebProNews, iLounge, iMore, Digital Trends, Boing Boing and Guardian
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Apple and IBM team with Japan Post to serve elderly, aim to give 5M iPads to senior citizens by 2020 — Japan Post Teams With Apple, IBM to Better Serve Elderly — Post-office staffers check in on older clients, offer consultation services, report back to family members
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Secret's 16-month life: from the next big thing, to a $6M cash-out by the founders, to yesterday's news — A Founder of Secret, the Anonymous Social App, Shuts It Down as Use Declines — Last summer, employees at the start-up Secret gathered in their new offices in downtown San Francisco …
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Tweets: @fmanjoo, @erickschonfeld, @counternotions, @digiphile and @ellenhuet
| Michael J. Casey / Wall Street Journal: |
Bitcoin wallet service Circle raises $50M led by Goldman Sachs and IDG Capital Partners, sources say at a valuation of $200M — Goldman a Lead Investor in Funding Round for Bitcoin Startup Circle — Goldman Sachs part of $50 million round that values Circle Internet at around $200 million| Orr Hirschauge / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Microsoft to pay about $30M for assets of touch screen technology company N-trig — Microsoft to Pay Around $30 Million for N-trig — Company's components used in Microsoft's Surface Pro 3 tablet — Microsoft Corp. has signed an agreement to buy the assets … | Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
Personal Finance Startup MX Pulls In $30 Million Series A Funding From USAA and Digital Garage — MX, the personal finance startup formerly known as Money Desktop, has just inked a $30 million Series A funding deal led by a subsidiary of USAA. Tokyo-based VC firm Digital Garage also participated in the round.Thanks:@sarahbuhr
| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Mobile news app Circa seeking a buyer after failing to secure a new round of venture funding — Exclusive: News app Circa is seeking a buyer — Mobile news app Circa is seeking a buyer after failing to secure a new round of venture capital funding, Fortune has learned.| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Amazon pays $20M-$50M for ClusterK, the startup that can run apps on AWS at 10% of the regular price — EXCLUSIVE: — Amazon, the world's biggest provider of cloud infrastructure for running applications, has acquired ClusterK, with an eye toward integrating the startup's technology …
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| Johana Bhuiyan / BuzzFeed: |
Flywheel now lets you pay for cabs in its system via app even if you hail on the street — Flywheel Now Lets You Pay For Taxis On A Mobile App — The taxi-hailing app hopes the new feature will give it a leg up on Uber and Lyft. — Flywheel press kit
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