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Tim Cook: Apple will give developers access to Apple TV universal search with upcoming API — Tim Cook Talks Apple TV — In an interview with BuzzFeed News, Apple CEO Tim Cook talks about universal search, a key feature of the next-generation Apple TV. — Getty| Steven Levy / Backchannel: |
How Steve Jobs used Carly Fiorina's HP iPod deal to preinstall iTunes on millions of PCs and prevent HP from creating its own iPod competitor — How Steve Jobs Fleeced Carly Fiorina — The former HP CEO boasted of her friendship with Apple's leader—but he took her to the cleaners with the iPod| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Behind Evernote's decline: lack of focus hampered growth, products failed to convert free users — The inside story of how $1 billion Evernote went from Silicon Valley darling to deep trouble — In 2012, the note-taking app Evernote became one of the first “Unicorn” startups … | Xiomara Blanco / CNET: |
Amazon Fire review: flimsy build, slow performance, but good for $50 price if you're a Prime member — Amazon Fire review — The operating system of the Fire tablet is tailor-made for Amazon Prime users. The latest version sports an updated look with a few new features.| Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon to target non-technical users with AWS data analytics service which features a faster method for moving data to AWS — Amazon Web Services to Add Analytics — Cloud-computing division enters field designed to make better use of collected data — Amazon.com Inc. 's cloud-computing division …
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Facebook partners with French satellite operator Eutelsat to beam internet to Africa from space, starting in second half of 2016 — Facebook reaches deal to beam internet to Africa from space — Social network's internet.org initiative reaches deal with French company Eutelsat that will see much of sub-Saharan Africa given internet
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How some Zappos employees, now without a formal process for budgeting and raises, are struggling to adapt to Holacracy's lack of structure — A radical experiment at Zappos to end the office workplace as we know it — PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGG SEGAL — TONY HSIEH, the CEO of Zappos … | Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Tweets during shows, Snapchat's Live Stories, and other social tools are ushering in new communal viewing moments, and may transform TV business — Social Media Takes Television Back in Time — The actor Joshua Malina is one of those guys you know from TV. You may not recognize his name, but his boyish face would ring a bell.| Cory Weinberg / bizjournals: |
Sources: Twitter backs out from 100K square foot expansion into 1455 Market St., site of Square and Uber HQs, potentially due to hiring slowdown — EXCLUSIVE: Twitter ditches S.F. expansion plan as growth lags — Twitter Inc. abandoned plans at the 11th hour for a big expansion into Uber … | Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
Huawei Watch review: beautiful design, good battery life, but constrained by Android Wear's limitations — Huawei's first Android Wear watch is a beautiful yet basic timepiece — Review: It looks great on the outside, but it's still Google's OS on the inside.
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IBM scientists create tiny carbon nanotube transistors that could potentially replace silicon transistors in future computer processors — IBM Scientists Find New Way to Shrink Transistors — In the semiconductor business, it is called the “red brick wall” — the limit of the industry's ability …
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The FAA Has Missed Its Congressionally Mandated Deadline to Regulate Drones — The Federal Aviation Administration has officially missed its Congressionally mandated deadline to figure out how to fully integrate drones into the national airspace. — When Congress passed the FAA Modernization Act …
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