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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
iPad roadmap: dual-app viewing mode that may debut at WWDC, with multi-user login support and 12-inch “iPad Pro” models to follow — Future of iPad: Dual-app viewing mode, then J98/J99 ‘iPad Pros,’ multi-user support — Facing slowing growth for the first time since the iPad's 2010 debut …
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Thanks:@mikebeas| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Google developing Internet of Things OS called Brillo, designed to run on devices with perhaps as little as 32MB RAM — Google Developing ‘Brillo’ Software for Internet of Things — Google wants its software to power any electronic device that connects to the Internet, whether or not it has a digital screen.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple readies Transit subway, train + bus guides for iOS 9 Maps, deploys robots for indoor mapping — Having originally planned to add a new transit directions feature to Maps last year, only to pull the feature before WWDC 2014, Apple now hopes to launch its Transit service with iOS 9, according to sources.
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| CBC News: |
US, Canada, UK, Australia, and New Zealand planned to hijack Google and Samsung app stores to implant spyware on smartphones — Spy agencies target mobile phones, app stores to implant spyware — Users of millions of smartphones put at risk by certain mobile browser gaps, Snowden file shows
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| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Ev Williams' Obvious Ventures closes $123,456,789 fund — Obvious Ventures, the venture capital firm cofounded by Twitter's Evan Williams, announced the close of its very first fund today. — Guess how much it raised? $123,456,789. No joke. — The close of this fund follows … | Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Medium refines strategy, emphasizing network value over Total Time Read, considers tying contributor bonuses to metrics like follows and recommendations — What's Going On At Medium? — The publisher/publishing platform is rejiggering itself as a social network for readers and writers … | Geoff White / Channel 4 News: |
Dating site Adult FriendFinder hacked, personal information of 3.9M users leaked, including sexual preferences, emails, usernames, IP addresses — Adult dating site hack exposes millions of users — Hackers have struck one of the world's largest internet dating websites …
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg Business: |
Twitter lacks size and ad tracking technology necessary to reverse sales slowdown, which was in part due to a lack of demand for its results-focused pricing — Twitter Hand-Holding for Clients No Defense for Growth Slowdown — Twitter Inc.'s ad team will do just about anything to win …
Tweets: @tsgiles, @sarahfrier and @satariano
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Messenger for iOS and Android will display biographical info of non-friends sending messages, like job title and location, in US, UK, France, and India — Facebook Messenger Eyes Non-Friend Conversations With Chat ID — Is that a message from some rando, a spammer, or the nice guy you met yesterday?
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| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
Apple's new MacBook, with its shallow keyboard and Force Touch trackpad, makes major usability compromises for thinness — Mistake One — MacBook “One”, 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro, and Hops for scale. — I've had mixed luck with impulse buys. — As a kid, I impulse-bought Marble Madness for my Sega Genesis.| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Dropbox isn't growing its enterprise business fast enough to be worth $10B — The clock is ticking for Dropbox, valued at $10 billion more than a year ago — Dropbox's rise has been impressive: Since its launch in 2007, it has added 300 million new users across 200 countries.| Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed: |
Google Adding Fingerprint Authentication To Next Version of Android — Scheduled to be announced next week, Android M will will include one-touch log-in for supported apps. — Google's new mobile operating system, Android M, will include native fingerprint authentication, BuzzFeed News has learned.| Madeline Stone / Business Insider: |
Brit Morin, the Martha Stewart of Silicon Valley, just raised $23 million for her DIY site — Brit Media, best known for its lifestyle site Brit + Co., has raised $23 million, according to a form filed Thursday with the SEC. — A spokesperson for founder and CEO Brit Morin confirmed the round with Business Insider.
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| Josh Beckerman / Wall Street Journal: |
HP misses Q2 revenue targets with $25.5B, down 7% YoY, but hits earnings targets — H-P's Earnings Top Views Despite Revenue Drop — Tech company names financial chiefs for its separate businesses after the split — Hewlett-Packard Co. reported a 7% drop in revenue for the April quarter … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft overhauls Outlook.com with new interface, “Clutter” email filtering, add-ins, improved Skype integration, more; rolls out to test group today — Microsoft is overhauling Outlook.com with a new look and features — Microsoft is migrating its Outlook.com email service …
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Office Blogs, PCWorld, VentureBeat, WinBeta, SuperSite for Windows, GeekWire, BetaNews, CNET, Ubergizmo, Digital Trends and The Next Web
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Google, Samsung, and 16 others receive FIDO certification for products and services designed to replace passwords — Google, Samsung, and 16 others receive post-password certification — This morning, the plot to kill the password got a little stronger. 18 different companies received …
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| Chris Sacca / LOWERCASE capital: |
Major Twitter shareholder Chris Sacca bemoans his outsider status, turns critic, says he's still bullish — I Bleed Aqua. — Disclaimers: 1) I own a lot of Twitter stock personally and in my funds. 2) I definitely do not speak on behalf of Twitter. 3) I do not have any inside information about Twitter.
Tweets: @caseynewton, @jfccohen, @alexia, @abargmann, @marketsqueeze and @semil
| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
US proposes tighter export controls limiting sales of zero-day flaw information outside US without special license — U.S. aims to limit exports of undisclosed software flaws — The U.S. Commerce Department proposed new export controls Wednesday that would treat unknown software flaws …
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Federal Register, PandoDaily, ZDNet, ExportLawBlog, CIO.com, Threatpost and The Register
Tweets: @cbekrar, @virusbtn, @randcorporation and @csoghoian
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sling TV Expands To Android TV, Strikes Deal With Google To Offer Discounted Nexus Players — Sling TV, Dish Network's Internet TV service designed for cord cutters, is now available on the Android TV platform, the company is announcing this morning, including Google's Nexus Player.| Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News: |
Techmeme adds an author leaderboard, introduces a linking-based metric to rank by “Leadership” — Today we've expanded our Leaderboard page to offer four lists instead of one. In addition to ranking publications, we now rank authors. On top of that, we've introduced a second ranking method …
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| Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal: |
Google launches YouTube shopping ads that let advertisers overlay purchase information for products featured in video ads — Google Wants YouTube Viewers to Shop While They Watch — YouTube is the monster of online video, but has yet to generate big profits for Google .
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Inside AdWords, Re/code, Re/code, ABC News, Adweek, Marketing Land, Search Engine Land, The Next Web and VentureBeat. Tweets: @amir
| Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal: |
Google gives retailers reports on store visits that follow clicks on mobile ads to encourage ad spending; select retailers including Target get purchase data — Google Says New Store Data Help Mobile Ads — Google says its technology shows better link between mobile ads, retail purchases
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