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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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USA Today, Engadget, The Verge, Macworld, MacRumors, iMore, BGR, AppleInsider, iLounge, Neowin, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gotta Be Mobile, SlashGear, PhoneDog.com, TodaysiPhone.com, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com, Seeking Alpha and Fone Arena
Tweets: @viticci and @joannastern
Thanks:@mikebeas| 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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The Intercept, Ars Technica, The Citizen Lab, Slate, Techdirt, Gizmodo, PCWorld, PandoDaily, Digital Trends, Neowin, theWHIR.com, Engadget, International Business Times, Phandroid, TechSpot, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Verge, ZDNet, 9to5Google, Android Central, PhoneDog.com, HotHardware.com News, PhoneArena, MobileSyrup.com and SecurityWeek. Tweets: @csoghoian
| 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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BGR, Macworld, MacRumors, Business Insider, TIME, Search Engine Land, The Verge, TechCrunch, iMore, Computerworld, PC Magazine, Ubergizmo, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone in Canada Blog, Forbes, The Register, Gotta Be Mobile, iLounge, TodaysiPhone.com, Neowin, Phones Review, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, The Mac Observer, The Geek Byte and SiliconANGLE. Tweets: @9to5mac
| 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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9to5Google, ZDNet, Fortune, The Next Web, PCWorld, Ars Technica, The Verge, Engadget, Pocket-lint, Technology Personalized, The Geek Byte, SlashGear, MobileSyrup.com, Ubergizmo and Droid Life. Tweets: @amir
| 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.| Pew Internet: |
Pew Report: 69% of US adults are not confident social networks will keep their data private and secure — Americans' Attitudes About Privacy, Security and Surveillance — The cascade of reports following the June 2013 government surveillance revelations by NSA contractor Edward Snowden …
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PandoDaily, bizjournals, Los Angeles Times, SiliconBeat, Washington Post, Guardian, Mercury News, Nextgov, BuzzFeed, New York Times and Mashable
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| Ruth Reader / VentureBeat: |
Shopify pops 65% on the NYSE, starts trading above $28 per share — E-commerce platform Shopify began trading above $28 a share, up from the $17 per share price the company originally set last night. — The company put up 7.7 million shares of stock for sale this morning (NYSE: SHOP) …
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ABC News, Reuters, PE Hub Blog, StreetInsider.com and Reuters
| 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, ExportLawBlog, ZDNet, Threatpost and The Register
Tweets: @cbekrar, @virusbtn, @csoghoian and @randcorporation
| 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.| 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, VentureBeat, GeekWire, Digital Trends, CNET, BetaNews, The Next Web, WinBeta, Ubergizmo and SuperSite for Windows
| 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?| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
Amazon's Prime Now service will start delivering from local stores in Manhattan — Amazon announced today that its Prime Now service will now start delivering goods from local stores in Manhattan, with plans to expand soon to other communities later this year.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
YouTube live streams now support HTML5 playback and 60fps video — YouTube today announced it is enabling HTML5 playback for live streams. At the same time, live streams can now be viewed at 60 frames per second (fps). — A few puzzle pieces had to come together to make this possible.| Alexander Martin / Wall Street Journal: |
Nikesh Arora to replace Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son as Yahoo Japan Chairman — Arora to Replace Softbank CEO Son as Yahoo Japan Chairman — SoftBank Corp. chief executive Masayoshi Son will step down as chairman of Yahoo Japan Corp.'s board of directors to be replaced by Nikesh Arora …
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| Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
Uber poached 50 experts in vehicle autonomy from Carnegie Mellon's National Robotics Engineering Center, a third of the lab's staff — Uber gutted Carnegie Mellon's top robotics lab to build self-driving cars — This January, as much of the world was getting over its post-holiday hangovers … | 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: @satariano, @tsgiles and @sarahfrier
| Jack Nicas / Wall Street Journal: |
Delta cuts off over a dozen travel sites including Hipmunk and TripAdvisor from its flight and fare data, as travel sites fear more airlines may follow suit — Travel Websites Allege Delta Air Lines Is Shutting Them Out — Carrier says it reserves right to decide where and how flight, fare data is displayed| 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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The Daily Dot and Poynter. Tweets: @chillmage, @fmanjoo, @jyarow, @jbrodkin, @caseynewton, @jordankahn, @miriamgottfried, @joannastern, @jtemple, @hunterwalk, @tayhatmaker, @llsethj, @hunterwalk, @apollozac, @mikeisaac, @benpopper, @mikeisaac, @davemcclure, @ashleymayer, @martinsfp, @panzer, @mathewi, @kimzetter, @mgsiegler, @kevinmarks and @jeffjohnroberts. See also Mediagazer
| 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.| Samuel Gibbs / Guardian: |
Troll uses Twitter adverts to urge transgender people to kill themselves — Promoted tweet from fake account purporting to be that of Australian feminist campaigner inserts transphobic content into Twitter users' timelines — Twitter users have expressed outrage at a troll's use …
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ITProPortal, Gawker, BuzzFeed, Wired.co.uk, Telegraph, Raw Story, The Mary Sue, Softpedia News, International Business Times, Fortune, Business Insider, Gizmodo, The Verge and Engadget. Tweets: @caitlin_roper
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Lenovo Shipped Record 18.7M Smartphones in Q4 2014, But Profit Dropped 37% — Lenovo just completed its first full quarter of business as the owner of Motorola and, with its $2.91 billion acquisition from Google under its wing, the Chinese company shipped a record 18.7 million smartphones in its most recent Q4 2014 quarter.
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Lenovo Newsroom, PCWorld, Bloomberg Business, TechSpot, Reuters, Engadget, 9to5Google, TechEye, SlashGear, ZDNet and Wall Street Journal
| Robin Sidel / Wall Street Journal: |
FICO: theft of debit card data from bank ATMs is up 174% YoY, up 317% at nonbank machines — Theft of Debit-Card Data From ATMs Soars — Thieves are stealing information to make counterfeit plastic — Criminals are stealing card data from U.S. automated teller machines at the highest rate …
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H-P to Sell 51% of Chinese Data-Networking Unit to Tsinghua Holdings — Buyer is expected to pay $2.3 billion for majority control of H3C Technologies — Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to unveil sweeping changes to its business in China, including the sale of a majority stake …
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