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Sources: iPhone 7 will do away with the standard 3.5mm headphone jack; premium Bluetooth Beats earbuds with charging carrying case could debut this fall — Apple developing revamped, cord-free Beats with charging case ahead of iPhone 7 — With its resources from the 2014 acquisition …
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Tech companies appear open to helping US government combat Islamic State after summit — Silicon Valley appears open to helping US spy agencies after terrorism summit — Obama administration acknowledges ‘complicated first amendment issues’ after top counter-terrorism officials traveled …
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| Alex Sherman / Bloomberg Business: |
Sources: Yahoo reassesses whether to spinoff its main Internet business, considers outright sale — Yahoo to Reconsider Sale of Web Business Instead of Spinoff — A decision to sell would contradict Yahoo's intent to spin — Verizon has publicly stated interest in acquiring Yahoo| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Sources: Yahoo's programmatic ad program generates mostly fraudulent traffic, ad management system is broken — Inside Yahoo's troubled advertising business — Between a sinking stock, an embattled CEO and restless investors demanding that the company be dismantled, these are not great days for Internet pioneer Yahoo.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Peach is a new social networking app from Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann that gives you quick access to things to share with “Magic Words” — Peach.cool is Friday's hottest social network — It's been a while since the last fameball social network took the Twittersphere by storm …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft's cellular data app for Windows 10 suggests it may be developing its own SIM card — Microsoft is building its own SIM card for Windows — Microsoft is planning to make LTE access a little easier soon, thanks to its own SIM card. The software giant is currently testing …
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| Klint Finley / Wired: |
T-Mobile Confirms It Slows Connections to Video Sites — Though T-Mobile still wants to play games with words, the company has admitted it's slowing down streams as part of its unlimited video service. — T-Mobile customers who activate the company's controversial Binge On video service … | Wall Street Journal: |
Samsung sees mild recovery for Q4 with operating profit of $5.1B, up 15% YoY, says aim in 2016 is to “minimize the damage from tough business conditions” — Samsung Sees Mild Recovery for Fourth Quarter, but Warns of Tough 2016 — In its search for new avenues of growth … | Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
In Y Combinator reorg, Paul Buchheit, Gmail creator and FriendFeed founder, is now managing partner of core YC program, Altman remains president — YC Switches Up Its Management, As Altman Shifts Focus — Famed accelerator Y Combinator has grown a lot under the direction of Sam Altman …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
IBM Sells Salary.com Compensation Business To The Original Founding Team — This week at CES, IBM unveiled some new Watson partnerships that underscore its push into big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence. But at the same time, the company has quietly divested itself of an older asset.
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Dell offers $200 off the Oculus Rift when purchased with an Oculus Ready PC; bundles start at $1600 — Alienware And Dell Announce Oculus Ready PC Bundles For $1,600 — At CES 2016, Alienware and Dell announced Oculus Ready PC bundles that will start at $1,600.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC says 34M people, about 10% of the US, still lack access to fixed broadband at FCC's benchmark speed of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up — US fails its annual broadband deployment test at FCC — The Federal Communications Commission's annual review of broadband deployment says that advanced Internet service … Sponsor Posts
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