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Mountain View city council allocates LinkedIn 1.4M of 2.2M square feet in North Bayshore, threatening Google's campus expansion plans — In stinging defeat for Google, LinkedIn scores lion's share of real estate capacity in Mountain View's North Bayshore — LinkedIn Corp. came away …
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Zynga to lay off 364 people, or 18% of its staff, within the next three quarters as part of the company's $100M cost reduction program — Zynga Narrows Focus, Will Cut 18 Percent of Staff — With Don Mattrick out and founder Mark Pincus reinstalled as CEO, what will Zynga's future look like?| Stuart Dredge / Guardian: |
First consumer version of Facebook's Oculus Rift VR headset to ship Q1 2016, pre-orders to start later in 2015 — Facebook's Oculus Rift virtual reality headset will ship in early 2016 — After months of rumours that the first commercial model of VR headset would slip beyond 2015, company confirms the news
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| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Ex-Apple retail boss Ron Johnson launches Enjoy e-commerce site, with personal delivery and in-home setup service at no cost — Former Apple Retail Boss Ron Johnson Unwraps New Web Startup ‘Enjoy’ — Ron Johnson, the former Apple retail chief who was ousted as J.C. Penney's boss two years ago …
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| Carolina Milanesi / Kantar Worldpanel: |
Kantar: phablets made up 21% of US smartphone sales in Q1, up from 6% a year ago, driven by iPhone 6 Plus sales — US phablet market soars — Phablets claimed 21% of all US smartphone sales in Q1 2015 - nearly quadrupling their 6% share from the first quarter of 2014 …
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| Tom Fairless / Wall Street Journal: |
EU unveils plan to unite fragmented online markets, crack down on possible abuses by US Internet firms — EU Announces Plans to Create a Single Digital Market — Plans include inquiries into the role of online platforms and possible abuses by U.S.-based companies| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Reddit launches a video division to create original content — The social news service Reddit has grown to a truly massive size, garnering 170 million monthly visitors and 6.7 billion pages view this January, while maintaining a fairly bare-bones service. It helps elevate obscure material …
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| Paul Thurrott / Thurrott.com: |
Sources: Microsoft to add TV recording functionality to Xbox One, probably this year — Confirmed: Media Center is Dead — You may have seen recent rumors that Microsoft has killed off Windows Media Center, the ten-foot digital media interface that it first developed for a special version of Windows over 10 years.
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google posts I/O 2015 schedule: Android M, voice access, ATAP wearables, multi-screen Chromecast games, more — Digging into the Google I/O 2015 schedule: Android M, voice access, and more — Google just released the I/O 2015 schedule, and there is a lot of info inside.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Work Management Platform Wrike Raises $15M Series B Round — Work management and collaboration platform Wrike today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series B round led by Scale Venture Partners with participation from DCM Ventures and previous investor Bain Capital Ventures.| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Banjo raises $100M from SoftBank to build out software that detects world events in real time, using photos and videos uploaded to social media sites — Banjo Raises $100 Million to Detect World Events in Real Time — Banjo started four years ago as a simple app for viewing social media posts tagged …
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Sources: BMW, Audi, Mercedes-Benz, and Baidu preparing formal bid for HERE mapping service at “considerably more than €2B” — German Car Makers Preparing Formal Bid for Nokia's Here Map Service With China's Baidu — BMW, Audi, and Mercedes-Benz eager to acquire technology needed to run self-driving cars
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Business Insider, The Verge, SlashGear and Bloomberg View
| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
AMD's 2016-2017 x86 Roadmap: Zen Is In, Skybridge Is Out — AMD's CTO Mark Papermaster just left the stage at AMD's 2015 Financial Analyst Day, and one of the first things he covered was AMD's CPU technology roadmap for the next couple of years. — The big question on everyone's mind … | David Katzmaier / CNET: |
Comcast to offer 4K Xi4 set-top box this year and Xi5 set-top box with HDR in 2016 — Comcast to offer 4K set-top box this year — The nation's largest cable provider has confirmed plans to deliver Ultra HD content to its subscribers via a new set-top box called the Xi4 later this year.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google to shut down its website optimization service PageSpeed on Aug. 3 — Google Shuts Down PageSpeed Service For Accelerating Websites — Google is shutting down PageSpeed Service, its hosted solution for optimizing websites for faster delivery, on August 3.
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Meerkat Launches Developer Platform To Differentiate From Periscope — How did it feel getting cut off by Twitter with just 2 hours notice? “It sucked” says Meerkat founder Ben Rubin. That's why it's determined to treat developers with more respect. In the nine weeks since Meerkat launched … | Wall Street Journal: |
Chinese drone maker DJI raises $75M from Accel Partners, sources say at a valuation of $8B — Chinese Drone Maker DJI Raises $75 Million From Accel Partners — Accel investment values SZ DJI Technology Co. at around $8 billion, sources say — Chinese drone maker SZ DJI Technology Co. secured …
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