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Google will take on Amazon's Twitch by launching YouTube Gaming, an app and website for live-streamed and on-demand gaming video, this summer in US and UK — Google is launching a ‘YouTube built for gamers’ to take on Twitch — Google is now officially taking on Twitch.
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Facebook now takes into account how long you've viewed specific stories in News Feed in determining which posts to surface — News Feed FYI: Taking Into Account Time Spent on Stories — The goal of News Feed is to show you the content that matters to you.
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Sources: Beats Electronics planned to introduce a WiFi speaker by the holidays in 2014, but effectively killed it post acquisition — Apple Music's Missing Link: How Beats Electronics Fumbled Its Sonos Killer (Exclusive) — Pop stars, live music, superlatives: The launch …
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Office of Personnel Management hacker breach is far worse than first believed, was exposed during sales demo by security company — Why The OPM Breach Is Such a Security and Privacy Debacle — If it's not already a maxim, it should be: Every big hack discovered will eventually prove to be more serious than first believed.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Here are marketing images for Nokia's Moonraker smartwatch project, which was later canceled by Microsoft — Microsoft Moonraker was Nokia's smartwatch before it was killed — While Apple was working on its Watch, Nokia had its own ideas about smartwatches.| Antonio Villas-Boas / Business Insider: |
Google's new Android Phone Picker website recommends a phone based on the criteria that matter most to you, such as taking photos, gaming, web browsing — Google has a beautiful new website designed to help you choose the perfect Android phone — One of the best things about Android phones is that you have options.| Fortune: |
Crowdsourced hardware maker Quirky ditches device manufacturing, is close to raising a new round of funding — Exclusive: Quirky ditches device manufacturing, preps for new investment — Quirky is just days away from raising a new round of venture capital funding, Fortune has learned … | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Wikimedia switching all of its sites to HTTPS by default — Wikipedia Is Finally Encrypting the World's Knowledge — Wikipedia, one of the most popular websites in the world, will now be encrypted by default, a change that will better protect its hundreds of millions of visitors from surveillance and censorship.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Oculus App Store apps to be pre-approved, given comfort ratings to address nausea, share an undisclosed percentage of revenue with Oculus — Oculus App Store Will Require Pre-Approvals, Comfort Ratings, Tax — Oculus doesn't want to make you puke or scare you to death.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Expands Its “Experiments” Beta Testing Program To iOS — In 2013, Twitter launched a beta testing program for Android that allows users to try out new builds of the Twitter application as well as test experimental features ahead of a public release.
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App Advice, Load the Game, AppleInsider, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com and The Next Web
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Thanks:@atechmemefan| Ryan Mac / Forbes: |
Sources: Square plans IPO for this year — Square Expected To Go Public This Year — Square, a San Francisco-based payments company, is expected to go public this year, sources familiar with the company told FORBES. It's unclear whether the company has already filed …
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Business Insider, VentureBeat, Bloomberg Business, Business Insider, Re/code and Seeking Alpha
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Thanks:@bupbin| Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
Android One has failed to gain traction because of lack of OEM marketing support and missteps in Google sales strategy — Beset With Failures, Google Tries to Breathe New Life Into Android One — Last September, Google inaugurated Android One, a cheap smartphone line for emerging markets …
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