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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 … | Clinton Jeff / UnleashThePhones: |
Microsoft is working on 5.2" and 5.7" Lumia phones with QHD displays, 20mpx cameras, 3GB of RAM and other high-end specs, to launch this fall — Exclusive: Microsoft has two high-end Lumias coming this year [Specs] — Good news, Windows Phone fans! Microsoft apparently … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
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 … | Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Twilio raising $100M Series E at a $1B valuation according to April filing — Twilio Has Joined The Unicorn Ranks With Stealthy $100 Million Raise — Twilio is the latest tech startup to join the ranks of private companies worth at least $1 billion after quietly raising a $100 million round of funding, Forbes has learned.
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| Saritha Rai / New York Times: |
With Big Names and Money Flowing In, Tech Start-Ups in India Heat Up — BANGALORE, India — Intense interest from prominent investors is helping to drive eye-popping valuations among Indian tech start-ups. — Venture capital firms, hedge funds and the likes of business executives … | Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Google acquires startup behind Timeful, a popular iOS time-management app — With Timeful Acquisition, Google Aims To Supercharge Its Apps' Time-Management Smarts — When time-management startup Timeful launched its iOS app last July, it faced a basic challenge.
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| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
T-Mobile launches Never Settle Trial for Verizon customers, will lend phones for free trials, pay up to $650 in ETF fees if they switch — T-Mobile tempts Verizon customers by lending them phones for free trials — Once again, T-Mobile is mounting direct assaults on its carrier competitors …
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| Steven Sinofsky / Re/code: |
Mobile phones and low cost solar panels revolutionizing Africa — Africa's Mobile-Sun Revolution — The transformative potential for mobile communications is upon us in every aspect of life. In the developing world where infrastructure of all types is at a premium …
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| Yevgeniy Sverdlik / Data Center Knowledge: |
Docker-competitor CoreOS spins off its App Container project into a separate foundation with Google, VMware, Red Hat, and Apcera support — CoreOS Gives Up Control of Non-Docker Linux Container Standard — Taking a major step forward in its quest to drive a Linux container standard that's …
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| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Chuck Robbins' appointment as Cisco CEO is a surprise to many inside and outside the company — Cisco's new CEO choice is a shocker — Cisco has announced that its next CEO will be Chuck Robbins, a 17-year Cisco veteran who was leading the company's global sales and partner team.
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Gamification returns to Swarm in v2.3 with unlockable stickers; mayorships and leaderboards coming in v3.0 — Swarm 2.3 Feels Like The Old Foursquare, Looks Way Better — Foursquare has today released an update for Swarm, the company's social check-in app, that brings far …
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| Lucy Vernasco / Motherboard: |
Behind the plan to replace Internet's aging TCP/IP architecture with Named Data Networking — The Mission To Save The Internet By Rewiring It From The Name Up — While most of us have been binge-streaming or strapping computers to our bodies or wrapping our heads around the ins and outs … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook And Nokia Quietly Ink Deal For Here To Power Maps On Mobile, Instagram And Messenger — One of the companies in the frame as a potential buyer of Nokia's Here mapping division has quietly inked a deal with the Finnish company to power mobile maps. Facebook is now using Here maps … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft delivers public preview of Office 2016 for Windows desktops — Summary:A new test build of Microsoft's Office 2016 suite for Windows 7, 8 and 10 users is available, ahead of this fall's final release. — Microsoft is making available to the public a test build of its Office 2016 desktop suite for Windows desktops.Sponsor Posts
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