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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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| 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 …
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| 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 … | 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 … | 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.
Tweets: @nitashatiku, @selviano, @mathewi, @mikeisaac and @jyarow
| 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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| 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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| 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 … | Michael Mimoso / Threatpost: |
New Rombertik spyware self-destructs, wipes hard drive, overwrites master boot record if it detects it's being analyzed or audited — Rombertik Malware Can Overwrite MBR if Audited — A new strain of spyware that logs keystrokes and steals data has a destructive side to it …
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Microsoft brings the middle finger emoji, unsupported on iOS, OS/X, or Android, to Windows 10 along with skin tone modifiers — Windows 10 Emoji Changelog — Skin tone modifiers, the middle finger, and a sassier information desk person are amongst the emoji updates in Windows 10.
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Quartz, CNET, BGR, Ars Technica, Forbes, PCWorld, Laughing Squid, Consumerist, The Verge, Beyond Search, TAXI Daily News, Daily Mail, blog.chron.com, The Loop, WebProNews, The Huffington Post, The Daily Dot, Business Insider, GeekWire, PC Magazine, Mashable, MacRumors, DailyTech, Windows Central, POPSUGAR, WinBeta, Tech Times, TIME, Neowin, Digital Trends, Gizmodo and Gizmodo UK
Tweets: @johnpaczkowski, @markrussinovich, @caseynewton and @joannastern
| 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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Engadget, AppleInsider, ZDNet, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, iMore, The Next Web, Re/code and VentureBeat
| 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 … | Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Sprint posts wider Q4 loss of $224M, but adds 1.2M customers, retains third place ranking ahead of T-Mobile in number of customers — Sprint Posts Wider Loss, Cedes Ground in Battle for Smartphone Customers — Sprint continued to lose core postpaid phone customers and money …
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Sprint, DSLreports, ZDNet, CNET, GeekWire, iMore, Reuters, Bloomberg Business and NASDAQ.com
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Delivery Hero Eats Up Turkey's Yemeksepeti For A Record $589M — Delivery Hero, the billion-dollar takeout food service based out of Berlin, is making another big acquisition as it continues to scale up its business worldwide. It's buying Turkey's Yemeksepeti for $589 million … Sponsor Posts
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