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| Biz Carson / Business Insider: |
Reddit's popular ‘ask me anything’ feature is down after a key employee is gone — Reddit's popular Ask Me Anything (iAMA) feature is offline following a key employee's departure. — Subreddit moderators are revolting and setting their sections to private today after Reddit's director of talent …
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| Ashley Feinberg / Gawker: |
Reddit moderators shut down popular subreddits after apparent removal of Victoria Taylor, AMA coordinator and Reddit's director of communications — Reddit In Chaos After Allegedly Firing AMA Coordinator Victoria Taylor — If you tried to visit r/IAmA (one of Reddit's biggest subs) … | Alex Sherman / Bloomberg Business: |
Yelp Sale Process Said to Stall as Founder Decides to Wait — Yelp Inc., which hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to find a buyer, has temporarily decided not to pursue a sale, people with knowledge of the matter said. — The consumer-review website has had several interested suitors … | Jacob Pramuk / CNBC: |
Yelp stock closes down about 10% amid reports it has stopped pursuing a sale of company — Yelp skids 10% amid sale halt reports — Yelp shares slipped on Thursday afternoon amid reports the company's sale process had stalled. — Following a trading halt around 12:50 p.m. ET …
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| Megumi Fujikawa / Wall Street Journal: |
Casio is developing a durable men's smart watch priced around $400, expected by early 2016 — Casio Bets on a Watch That Is Smart — Japanese watchmaker hopes to outmaneuver Apple Watch's technological wizardry — Japanese watchmaker Casio Computer saw the potential of the wrist …
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| Terry Myerson / Windows Blog: |
Microsoft details Windows 10 rollout plan: Windows Insiders will be first, rest will be in phases — Windows 10: Preparing to Upgrade One Billion Devices — With around four weeks to go before Windows 10 becomes available, I thought it would be helpful to provide some context on how we will roll-out Windows 10 to the world.
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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Apple's iOS 8.4 kneecaps Home Sharing, music streaming now limited to Apple TV — While Apple introduced an array of new music features with its latest iOS 8.4 update featuring Apple Music, it also quietly nerfed content serving functionality by apparently limiting Home Sharing …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Prince sends takedown requests to Spotify, Rdio, and Deezer — Prince Won't Stream 4 U (Unless You're On Tidal, Or Maybe Google Music) — Call it the Taylor effect: it looks like another high-profile musician is sharpening his arrows to take aim at how streaming music services pay artists.
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| Iljitsch van Beijnum / Ars Technica: |
Large blocks of IPv4 addresses are no longer available in North America; organizations can either join the wait list or request smaller blocks — It's official: North America out of new IPv4 addresses — But the move to IPv6 picks up speed. — Remember how, a decade ago …
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The Next Web, Digital Trends, The Tech Report and V3.co.uk
| John Callaham / Windows Central: |
Microsoft confirms its new Edge browser won't support Silverlight — Microsoft has already announced that its new Microsoft Edge web browser in Windows 10 will not be using many of the features that were a part of its old Internet Explorer browsers. That includes support for ActiveX-based plug-ins.
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Windows Blog, ZDNet, WinBeta and The Register
| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
You can now use any Android app on your Mac w/ BlueStacks App Player — BlueStacks, a free desktop Android emulator that lets users play any mobile game or app on the big screen with a mouse and keyboard, has mostly been limited to PC users until today. But Mac users are about to get access …
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MobileSyrup.com, iMore, MacNN, Electronista, Engadget and SlashGear
| Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: |
Scribd found that paying publishers based on how much readers read is too expensive in genres like romance — What Scribd's growing pains mean for the future of digital content subscription models — Netflix earned more than $5 billion in 2014. No wonder companies want to be …
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