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AOL to take over Microsoft ad sales for display, mobile, and video in US and 8 other markets; Bing to replace Google on AOL for search and search advertising — AOL Takes Over Majority of Microsoft's Ad Business, Swaps Google Search For Bing — Microsoft Corp. is stepping back from the advertising business in a big way.
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Microsoft exec says Bing is a multibillion dollar business that pays for itself — Search Beats Display: Microsoft Says Bing Is Sustainable & Standalone Multibillion Dollar Business — A rare reveal as Microsoft exit the display ads business highlights what a powerhouse Bing search apparently is.| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Uber Acquires Part Of Bing's Mapping Assets, Will Absorb Around 100 Microsoft Employees — Uber will acquire assets from Microsoft Bing, including roughly 100 employees focused on the product's image collection activities. In short, Uber is absorbing data-collection engineers from Microsoft to bolster its own mapping work.
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Federal Railroad Administration partners with Google to include railroad crossings in Maps, asks other map makers to do the same — Agency Taps Mapping Technology to Curb Rail Crossing Accidents — After a sharp increase in the number of rail crossing accidents last year …
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| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Supreme Court declines to hear Oracle v. Google case over software copyright — The Supreme Court has declined to hear Oracle v. Google, sending the long-running case back to a lower court where Google will have to argue that it made fair use of Oracle's copyrighted APIs.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann launches Byte in private beta for iPhone, allowing users to make and share collages of text, sound, photos, memes, emojis, and more — Byte is a wild new creative tool from the founder of Vine — Dom Hofmann grew up in an earlier era of software development … | Se Young Lee / Reuters: |
Samsung says it sold 1M Z1 Tizen phones, will launch several more in 2015 according to source — Samsung Electronics plans more Tizen smartphones this year: source — Leading smartphone maker Samsung Electronics Co Ltd plans to launch more handsets running on its own Tizen operating system later …
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| Martin Beck / Marketing Land: |
Facebook adds signals to News Feed video rankings, will now take into account actions like activating audio and watching videos full screen — Facebook Expands Beyond Like, Comment & Share In Ranking Video In News Feed — News Feed video rankings will start taking into account actions …
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Google skews search results in anticompetitive behavior, says new study by Yelp and leading academic Tim Wu — Google's search practices come under scrutiny from leading academic Wu — Tim Wu, author of The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires, argues in a paper …
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When a Company Goes Up for Sale, in Many Cases, So Does Your Personal Data — The privacy policy for Hulu, a video-streaming service with about nine million subscribers, opens with a declaration that the company “respects your privacy.” — That respect could lapse, however, if the company is ever sold or goes bankrupt.| Matt Brian / Engadget: |
UK's Barclaycard launches new wristband, key fob, and sticker for its bPay contactless payment service, confirms it won't support Apple Pay at launch — Barclaycard steps up its contactless game with three new NFC devices — If you didn't know, Britain now prefers cashless payments to notes and coins.
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| S.Somasegar / MSDN Blogs: |
Microsoft will release Visual Studio 2015, Team Foundation Server 2015 and .NET 4.6 on July 20 — Save the Date: Visual Studio 2015 RTM on July 20th — Visual Studio 2015 is a big release. We are opening up Visual Studio to developers targeting new platforms - from cross-platform mobile …
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