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Facebook launches Instant Articles on iPhone, with interactive features like videos and maps, names NYT, BuzzFeed, Guardian, and six other partners — Introducing Instant Articles — As more people get their news on mobile devices, we want to make the experience faster and richer on Facebook.
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See also Mediagazer| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's Instant Articles build on insights from its Paper app, load 10x faster than mobile web articles — Facebook Starts Hosting Publishers' “Instant Articles” — After months of rumors, Facebook today unveiled “Instant Articles”, a program that natively hosts publishers' content … | Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Facebook's Instant Articles, which can provide 100% ad revenue and analytics data, add up to a good deal to publishers, at least for now — Facebook Starts Publishing the New York Times, BuzzFeed and More With Its ‘Instant Articles’ Program — Hey Web publishers! Facebook is coming in peace.
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| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Facebook Instant Articles: A Slippery Slope For Google To Do The Same, Hurting The Web? — Today, Facebook announced Instant Articles, a way for publishers to post stories directly on Facebook. We've known this would be coming, and there's been some debate over whether it's good or bad.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Tim Armstrong says AOL to remain in content business, denies spin-off of Huffington Post, says TechCrunch won't be sold and will retain editorial independence — CEO Tim Armstrong Says AOL Is Staying In The Content Business (And He's Not Selling TechCrunch) — It was an interesting day at AOL.
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Business Insider, Telegraph, PandoDaily, Fast Company, Poynter, AdExchanger, TIME and Digiday
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See also Mediagazer| Crispin Cowan / Microsoft Edge Dev Blog: |
Microsoft Edge will not support VML, VB Script, Toolbars, BHOs, or ActiveX to improve security — Microsoft Edge: Building a safer browser — With Microsoft Edge, we want to fundamentally improve security over existing browsers and enable users to confidently experience the web from Windows.
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Slashdot, Redmond, Windows Central, Securelist, BetaNews, Pocketnow, WinBeta, Digital Trends, CNET, Mashable, HEXUS.net Latest Content, SecurityWeek, Neowin and Tom's Hardware Guide. Tweets: @artem_i_baranov
| Bruce Horovitz / USA Today: |
Domino's to begin taking pizza orders via Twitter beginning May 20 in the US; frequent customers can order using only the pizza emoji — Domino's to roll out tweet-a-pizza — Ordering a pizza is about to get as simple as a tweet. — Beginning May 20, Domino's, the pizza delivery behemoth …
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Telegraph, Fone Arena, Ubergizmo, Business Insider, The Verge, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Mashable, Engadget and Daring Fireball
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| Walt Mossberg / Re/code: |
Apple Watch review: best functions are fitness, texting, paying, and airport check-ins, a good product with a chance to be great — A Month With the Apple Watch: Does It Pass the Test of Time? — While there have been many reviews of the Apple Watch since it officially emerged in April …
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Macworld, AppleInsider, Mobile Forward and Daring Fireball
Tweets: @davemorin, @melvco and @waltmossberg
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google debuts its first Apple Watch app with update to Google News & Weather for iOS — Google Debuts Its First Apple Watch App With “Google News & Weather” — The Apple Watch already had a healthy ecosystem of third-party applications when the smartwatch debuted in April … | David Kravets / Ars Technica: |
Warrantless airport seizure of laptop “cannot be justified,” judge rules — Feds said a laptop is simply a “container” that can be searched without warrant. — The US government's prosecution of a South Korean businessman accused of illegally selling technology used in aircraft and missiles … | Asif S. / SamMobile: |
Samsung's Gear SDK reveals design, UI, and specifications for Gear A, codenamed Orbis, with rotating bezel to help navigate software — Samsung's Gear SDK reveals Orbis design, UI, and specifications — Earlier today, Samsung released next-generation Gear smartwatch SDK to developers.| Wall Street Journal: |
Lee Jae-yong, likely Samsung's next chairman, may shift strategy to reinvigorate the company's weakening smartphone business, focus less on scale, more on M&A — After Galaxy Smartphone Debacle, Samsung Questions Game Plan — Heir apparent is likely to rethink his father's big-scale strategy; the iPhone 6 challenge
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
As Acquisition Rumors Swirl, Free Mobile Service FreedomPop Goes Live In The UK — FreedomPop, the mobile carrier that gives away mobile, data and text services and upsells users on other services, is today announcing its first international launch outside of the U.S. The company is opening …
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Telegraph, FreedomPop Blog, Android Authority, BGR, Digital Trends, BBC, Business Insider, Inquirer, Engadget, The Next Web and Re/code
| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
FiftyThree releases Think Kit for Paper, a new toolset for enterprise and education, can now be exported to Keynote, PowerPoint, more — FiftyThree Adds Think Kit, A New Toolset For Enterprise Users, To Its Paper App — FiftyThree, a startup focused on unlocking creativity on the iPad …
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Co.Design, GeekWire, PSFK, FiftyThree News, The Next Web, App Advice, iClarified, VentureBeat and 9to5Mac
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Android One, Google's program to bring quality low-cost smartphones to developing markets, debuts in Europe with a decent $260 device available in Turkey — Android One launches in Europe with a decent and affordable smartphone — Today Google announced that it has officially expanded Android One to Turkey.| David Gilbert / International Business Times: |
Right to be Forgotten - Google rejects 70% of 250,000 removal requests — On 13 May 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union made a historic judgement in favour of Spanish man Mario Costeja González who had claimed that an auction notice about his repossessed house in Catalonia dating …
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PCWorld, Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, 9to5Google, Inquirer and TechCrunch. Thanks:@daithaigilbert
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
BitTorrent's encrypted P2P chat app Bleep launches publicly for Android, iOS, Windows, and Mac with new whisper option that deletes messages after 25 seconds — BitTorrent's encrypted P2P chat app Bleep launches publicly for Android, iOS, Windows, and Mac — BitTorrent today launched its encrypted P2P chat app Bleep.
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The Official BitTorrent Blog, 9to5Mac, Computerworld, Inquirer, The Tech Report, The Register, Windows Central, Business Insider, Technology Personalized, Gizmodo, The Geek Byte, Engadget, Macworld, The Next Web, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, Tom's Hardware Guide, Fast Company, The Verge and iMore. Thanks:@epro
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