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Microsoft evaluates possible bid for Salesforce though companies are not in talks; trading of Salesforce briefly halted — Microsoft Is Said to Evaluate Possible Bid for Salesforce.com — Microsoft Corp. is evaluating a bid for Salesforce.com Inc., after the cloud software provider …
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| Madeline McMahon / Bloomberg Business: |
Apple's Ahrendts Emerges as Top-Paid U.S. Woman With $83 Million — Angela Ahrendts, Apple Inc.'s senior vice president of retail and online stores, was the highest-paid female executive in the U.S. last year. — The former chief executive officer of London-based fashion retailer Burberry Group Plc … | Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal: |
Google rolls out new ad formats for small screens as mobile searches overtake desktop in US, Japan, and eight other countries — Google Rolls Out New Ads as Mobile Searches Top PCs in 10 Countries — Google Tuesday expanded its suite of ads for mobile devices that offer users information …
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| Nitasha Tiku / The Verge: |
Source: Twitter CFO Anthony Noto to head marketing department as search for CMO continues — Twitter gives control of its hapless marketing department to its chief financial officer — As an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, Anthony Noto orchestrated Twitter's initial public offering.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: Apple to announce new Beats at WWDC on June 8 with consumer non-beta launch late June — Beats revamp still debuting at WWDC, global release late-June, iOS 9 details revealed — According to a report today from Billboard, Apple does not have the deals in place to launch … | Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Google to let developers A/B test app profile pages on Play Store, try different price points, will likely announce at Google I/O 2015 — Google Sweetens Android for App Developers — App stores have hardly been hotbeds of innovation in recent years. But Google is taking some new steps …
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Apple launches official “Made for Apple Watch” program for third-party bands, doesn't allow for use of the hidden diagnostic port or charging — Apple launches official ‘Made for Apple Watch’ third-party bands program — In line with our report from a couple of weeks ago …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Millions of Snapcodes, Snapchat's QR codes for users, being scanned each week, can now be downloaded in vector format to share on sites and posters — How Snapchat Made QR Codes Cool Again — QR codes have been a laughing-stock for years now. The gangly square bar codes were slapped … | Reuters: |
U.S. jury orders Motorola Mobility to pay $10 million in Fujifilm patent suit — (Reuters) - Motorola Mobility said a U.S. jury ordered the company to pay $10.2 million in damages for using Fujifilm Corp's patented technology in its phones without permission.
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| Brian X. Chen / New York Times: |
Source: new Apple TV remote to include touch pad for scrolling, two physical buttons, and will be slightly thicker — Apple TV Remote Expected to Add Touch Pad in Redesign — Apple has long ridiculed remote controls for being too complex. Now after eight years of a minimalist design …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Elance-oDesk Rebrands As Upwork, Debuts Slack-Like Chat Platform — A new chapter starts today for Elance-oDesk, a platform where 4 million businesses connect with 10 million knowledge worker freelancers to fill contract jobs. More than a year after the two competitors merged to form …
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| Paul Thurrott / Thurrott.com: |
Microsoft launches Surface 3, lets you trade in Surface RT or Surface 2 for up to $150 toward Surface 3 — Surface 3 Debuts with a Surface RT/2 Trade-In Program — Microsoft's new Surface 3 tablet is available for purchase starting today in the United States and nine other markets.| Edward C. Baig / USA Today: |
Amazon, JetBlue partner to let Prime subscribers stream Instant Video with no inflight WiFi charges — Amazon Prime Video takes to the skies via JetBlue — NEW YORK—Amazon is teaming up with JetBlue to stream its Prime Video service in the air. — For passengers on most JetBlue flights … | Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Dropbox for iOS will soon allow users to create and edit Microsoft Office documents directly within the app — Dropbox for iOS will soon let users make Microsoft Office documents directly within the app — A number of the recent improvements made to Dropbox have focused around greater integration with Microsoft Office.
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GOG's DRM-free Steam competitor is finally open to everyone — GOG is best known for its library of classic games — it was originally called Good Old Games — but last year the company announced a new venture that would put it in direct competition with PC gaming behemoth Steam.
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