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Online reseller Newegg leaks Windows 10 OEM pricing and on-sale date: Home package is $109.99, Pro package is $149.99, and release date is August 31 — Online reseller leaks OEM prices and on-sale dates for Windows 10 — Summary:A major software reseller in the U,S …
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Behind Android M: Google focuses on the core user experience with Now on Tap and many small refinements — Android M: small refinements with a huge impact — Last year, Google introduced an elegant, sophisticated operating system with an all-new design that was compatible with everything from phones to watches to cars to TVs.
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Uber Unveils Design Concept For Its New, 420,000 Square-Foot Headquarters In SF — Images detailing the design of Uber's giant new San Francisco corporate headquarters have emerged, showing what the new, two-building corporate campus should look like when it opens up in a few years.| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Snapchat has raised $537M in sale of common stock, at a valuation of $16B according to a source — Snapchat Raises Another $500 Million From Investors — Investment from Alibaba, others values popular messaging service at $16 billion — The demand to own private shares in Snapchat Inc …
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Level 3 now blocking traffic to servers believed to be controlled by criminals, encouraging other carriers to adopt its more aggressive stance — Level 3 Tries to Waylay Hackers — Internet carrier takes to blocking traffic to servers believed controlled by criminal gangs| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Glose Brings Its Social Ebook Reader To Android, Adds Free Excerpts — Glose is a brand new take on ebook reading for phones and tablets. Yet, until today, one thing was crucially missing — Android support. Today, the company is launching its app on Android phones and tablets.| William Alden / BuzzFeed: |
Leaked presentation details plans for the $100M hardware startup fund that Formation 8 is raising — Inside Formation 8's Secret Strategy To Invest In Hardware — The venture capital firm Formation 8 wants to raise $100 million to invest in hardware makers.
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Kindle gets a new font and layout engine with better text justification, kerning, drop caps, image positioning, and more — The Kindle Finally Gets Typography That Doesn't Suck — Amazon's Kindle e-reader is a lovely single-purpose gadget, with an industrial design ethos that …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Android Pay's debut means Google Wallet will live on as a P2P payments app — If you're not reaching, engaging, and monetizing customers on mobile, you're likely losing them to someone else. Register now for the 8th annual MobileBeat, July 13-14, where the best and brightest will be exploring …
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| Brad Stone / Bloomberg Business: |
Google partially automates launches of Project Loon balloons, expands range by reducing reliance on ground stations by relaying signals between balloons — Google Details New Project Loon Tech to Keep Its Internet Balloons Afloat — Google's Mike Cassidy describes two advancements …
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Google Sells 17 Million Chromecast Devices, Clocks 1.5 Billion Casts — Google has finally announced actual sales figures for its Chromecast streaming stick: Consumers have bought 17 million Chromecasts ever since the device got first introduced two years ago, announced Google's senior VP …
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Google releases Polymer 1.0, a core library used to build and style Web components — Google's Polymer 1.0 brings reuse and better branding to Web development — Signaling Polymer's production readiness, Google announced release 1.0 at its annual I/O developer conference.Sponsor Posts
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