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YotaPhone cancels US launch of YotaPhone 2 despite successful Indiegogo campaign, citing complications with its manufacturing partners — YotaPhone 2 won't be coming to the US — Yota Devices revealed today that it is canceling its plans to launch the YotaPhone 2 in the US, citing complications with its manufacturing partners.| Yusuf Mehdi / Windows Blog: |
Windows 10 passes 14M installs 24 hours after launch — Windows 10 - The First 24 Hours — It has been an incredible 24 hours for Windows and our fans. We're humbled and grateful to see the response to Windows 10. We have seen unprecedented demand for Windows 10 …
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Uber closes round of almost $1B, valuing the company at over $50B and bringing total funding to more than $5B; Microsoft participated in the round — Uber Valued at More Than $50 Billion — Ride-sharing app, which just closed a funding round, reaches mark faster than Facebook
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LinkedIn asks its top 500 “Influencers” for blanket permission to syndicate posts, with no money changing hands — LinkedIn Starts Building a Syndicated Content Network — LinkedIn has gotten a lot of mileage out of the free content that famous people like Richard Branson write for the social network.
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Early Apple Designer Susan Kare Joins Pinterest's Creative Team — Susan Kare, an early Apple designer behind some of the company's early typefaces and icons, has joined Pinterest. — She'll be part of Pinterest's creative team as a product design lead, according to the company.| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Nvidia recalls all Shield Tablets due to battery fire hazard — Nvidia promised spectacular, unprecedented gaming performance from its 8-inch Shield Tablet last year, but its pursuit of extreme performance seems to have gone a tiny bit too far. The company is now recalling …
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo Will Acquire Fashion Startup Polyvore — Yahoo just announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire style-focused community startup Polyvore. — In a blog post about the deal, Yahoo's senior vice president of publisher products Simon Khalaf highlighted “Polyvore's expertise …
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Snapchat Revenue Could Hit $50 Million This Year — But It Still Needs a CFO — Snapchat is finally making some real money, with a lot more coming in 2016. It's also looking for someone to manage all that cash. — Snapchat is targeting around $50 million in revenue this year …
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Game add-ons and other digital goods account for 77% of all Electronic Arts Q1 revenue — Electronic Arts Raises Guidance on Strong Quarter — Revenue, profit forecasts boosted amid gains in digital sales — Electronic Arts rode a wave of momentum through its fiscal first quarter … | Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
Anti-Virus Firm BitDefender Admits Breach, Hacker Claims Stolen Passwords Are Unencrypted — BitDefender, a much-respected anti-virus firm, has leaked a portion of its customers' usernames and passwords after facing an extortion attempt by a hacker, going by the name DetoxRansome.
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Appeals court upholds Microsoft's $14.5M jury verdict against Motorola in patent royalty case — Microsoft Beats Google as Patent Royalty Case May Aid Consumers — Microsoft Corp. won an appeals court ruling that may lower the rates many electronics makers pay to license technology considered standard in smartphones and computers.
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Japan's Sharp to stop making TVs for the North American market after worse-than-expected quarterly loss of $274m — Japan's Sharp to quit North America TV market — Sharp is to pull out of the North American television market and will consider spinning off its display business as a slowdown … Sponsor Posts
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