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Apple eyes March 15 event for iPhone 5se, iPad Air 3 & Apple Watch updates — Apple is currently aiming to unveil the new 4-inch the iPhone 5se, the iPad Air 3, and new Apple Watch band options at an event on Tuesday, March 15th, according to sources. We previously reported that Apple …
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Gmail now has more than 1B active users, up from 900M in May 2015 — Gmail now has more than 1 billion active users — Gmail, Google's email service, now has more than 1 billion active users, Google chief executive Sundar Pichai said during today's Alphabet (GOOG) earnings call.
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| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
YouTube stars Fine Brothers kill plans to trademark the word “react” and license their videos' “format” after backlash — Fine Bros back down, rescind trademark claim on the word “react” — This is as much of React World as you're likely to see after the “react video” … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
T-Mobile has fastest US 4G network, closely followed by Verizon, with AT&T and Sprint lagging behind, says crowdsourced mobile data company OpenSignal — T-Mobile is fastest U.S. 4G network, according to crowdsourced mobile data company OpenSignal — A new report from OpenSignal shines … | Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
WhatsApp passes 1B monthly active users, says 42B messages and 1.6B photos are shared daily, and users send 250M videos every day — WhatsApp passes 1 billion monthly active users — WhatsApp has joined a growing club of services that can now count having more than 1 billion monthly active users …
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| Mark Scott / New York Times: |
Sources: US and Europe reach safe harbor data deal, privacy rights advocates may file legal challenges — U.S. and Europe in ‘Safe Harbor’ Data Deal, but Legal Fight May Await — European officials on Tuesday agreed to a deal with the United States that would let Google …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
AR Startup Magic Leap Raises $793.5M Series C At $4.5B Valuation Led By Alibaba — Magic Leap has been successful in keeping a lot of its technology under wraps — the augmented and virtual reality technology company has yet to release a product — but its fundraising has been an open secret.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
IDC: Tablet shipments decline 10.1% in 2015, leaders Apple and Samsung both lose market share — The tablet market is still in decline. — Q4 2015 is the fifth straight quarter in a row to see a decrease year over year: 65.9 million units shipped, down 13.7 percent from the 76.4 million units …
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| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
Review of popular email client Airmail that launched on iPhone with iCloud Sync, filters, snooze, third-party app integrations, and more for $4.99 — Airmail for iPhone Review: Power User Email — If you want to drive an average tech nerd crazy, try to talk about email clients.
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| Dee Lockett / Vulture: |
Recording Industry Association of America starts counting on-demand streaming audio and video toward certifying albums as gold or platinum sellers — The RIAA Finally Bows to Streaming, Making 17 Artists' Albums Go Gold and Platinum — This is huge. — Call it the Anti effect, or just call it getting hip to the times.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Evernote Will Shut Down Market, Its E-Commerce Effort, On Wednesday — Some more news from Evernote — the note-taking app and startup of the same name — that speaks to the company's current rough patch: today it announced that as of Wednesday at 6pm Pacific, it will shutter Market …
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| Jeremy Kirk / PCWorld: |
FireEye acquires automated response platform provider Invotas — FireEye acquires Invotas for faster incident response — Invotas' platform consolidates information from many security products — FireEye said Monday it has acquired Invotas, a company that develops a platform …
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