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Japanese mobile game and Internet company DeNA launches Mirrativ for Android to let users livestream anything on their screen — DeNA Goes Live Streaming With Mirrativ — Japanese mobile game and Internet company DeNA Co. is joining the global live streaming race with a new app …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Hands-on with YouTube Gaming: effective for finding and viewing YouTube's existing gaming content, but it must attract big live audiences to compete with Twitch — YouTube Gaming is a great reminder of everything YouTube already does — YouTube is already a big player in live video.
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| Tony Romm / Politico: |
Steve Jobs actively disdained Washington DC, but Tim Cook's Apple has reengaged in politics, especially on issues like privacy — Apple Takes Washington — Steve Jobs famously disdained D.C. Tim Cook's quietly taking it on. — As Apple chief Tim Cook quietly slipped out of a public meeting … | Kevin Tofel / ZDNet: |
Amazon Echo now plays music, books from multiple accounts; gains BART schedules — Don't want to hear the kid's hip-hop on your Echo? Just add another Amazon account and tell Alexa to use it for music and audiobooks. — The Amazon Echo got a little more useful on Friday both for families … | Michael de Waal-Montgomery / VentureBeat: |
HTC cofounder Peter Chou joins Hong Kong visual effects studio in VR push — The cofounder and former chief executive of struggling Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC has joined Hong Kong-based visual effects studio Digital Domain Holdings, according to an exchanges filing Friday.
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ITC clears Microsoft phones of infringing on two InterDigital patents — U.S. International Trade Commission clears Microsoft of patent infringement — Microsoft Corp avoided a potentially costly setback to its mobile phone business on Friday as the U.S. International Trade Commission declined …
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Google to app developers: iOS 9 privacy feature that forces HTTPS can break ads, so add an exception to allow ads to be delivered over HTTP — Google Tells Developers How to Get Around Apple's New Security Rules So They Can Keep Selling Ads — Apple says it cares a lot about privacy.| Alice Truong / Quartz: |
Branch founder Josh Miller and Parse founder Ilya Sukhar have announced this week they are leaving Facebook — The founders of two Facebook-acquired startups are leaving the company — Within a day of each other, two founders of startups acquired by Facebook said they are departing the company.| Liam Spradlin / Android Police: |
Google rolling out new colorful grid layout for app searches on Android — Google Rolling Out A Gorgeous New ‘Apps’ Results Layout For Mobile — In an apparent effort to boost app discoverability and engagement, it looks like Google is rolling out a beautiful new layout for “apps” search results on mobile.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
FAA Starts Beta Testing App That Tells Drone Pilots Where They Are Allowed To Fly — Earlier this year, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that it would soon start beta testing an app that would help drone flyers understand where they can and — more importantly — can't fly.
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| Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review: |
Q&A with Bitcoin Foundation's chief scientist, Gavin Andresen, on the imminent technical challenges facing Bitcoin — The Looming Problem That Could Kill Bitcoin — The man who took over stewardship of Bitcoin from its mysterious inventor says the currency is in serious trouble.| Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook's Post-Roll Video Ad Test With the NFL and Verizon Quietly Ends — Late last year, Facebook inked a unique partnership with one of the more discerning and coveted media partners out there: the National Football League. — The deal featured NFL clips being promoted in people's Facebook news feeds.
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| Kate Cox / Consumerist: |
Ten ISPs Sign On With FCC Fund, Will Expand Rural Broadband To Over 7M Customers In 45 States — The FCC's map of 25 Mbps broadband deployment as of January, 2015. Yellow areas are served; blue are unserved. — While those of us who live in or near the country's medium and large cities …
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