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Microsoft acquires SwiftKey, promises to continue developing its Android and iOS apps — Microsoft acquires SwiftKey in support of re-inventing productivity ambition — I'm pleased to announce that Microsoft has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SwiftKey, whose highly rated …
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Thanks:@tim| Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider: |
Google's search chief Amit Singhal retires, to be replaced by AI manager John Giannandrea — Google's search chief is retiring — Google's search chief, Amit Singhal, is retiring, he announced Wednesday morning. — He has been at Google for 15 years and will be leaving the company …
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| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon plans to open “300 to 400” brick-and-mortar bookstores, according to CEO of mall operator General Growth Properties — Amazon Plans Hundreds of Brick-and-Mortar Bookstores, Mall CEO Says — The Seattle company plans as many as 400 bookstores, according to the chief executive of General Growth Properties
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See also Mediagazer| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Comcast says gigabit cable Internet service launching in Atlanta, Nashville early this year, with Chicago, Detroit, and Miami in following months — Comcast 2Gbps fiber available to 18M homes; gigabit cable coming soon — Atlanta and Nashville get gigabit cable first; Chicago, Detroit, and Miami next.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Adblock Fast, a plugin for Samsung's browser, removed from Google Play days after launching because it “interferes” with third-party apps — Adblock Fast disappears from Google Play days after launch — Over the weekend, Samsung added support for content-blocking plugins …
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| Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
Fitbit launches Alta, a fashionable bracelet-like activity tracker, for $130, shipping in March — Fitbit puts fashion first with Alta, its newest activity tracker — Fitbit's unveiling of the new, not-exactly-attractive Blaze fitness watch last month was met with mixed reactions and a sinking stock price.
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| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Pebble adds custom messages, Pebble Health watch face and API, new low power mode, more — One of the benefits of owning a Pebble smartwatch is that the company is continually adding new features to the e-ink smartwatch, thus improving it over time. Today, the company has announced a slew …
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
eBay tells security firm it has no plans to fix bug that lets attackers bypass restrictions on auction pages and run custom JavaScript — eBay has no plans to fix “severe” bug that allows malware distribution — Clever “JSF**K” technique allows hackers to bypass eBay block of JavaScript.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Amazon is adding Alexa to the original Fire TV and Fire TV Stick — Amazon brought Alexa to the TV with its second-generation Fire TV set-top box, and now, a few months later, the company is also doing the same for owners of its original box. Starting today and continuing “over the next few weeks …
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| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Dropbox execs say it has plenty of money in the bank, hired 500 people in 2015, 75 so far in 2016, adds 10M users per month and 25K business users quarterly — Dropbox May Not Be LeBron James, but It Is Still in the Game — There are no obvious signs of distress at the lavish San Francisco headquarters …
Tweets: @fmanjoo, @puiwingtam, @jyarow and @digiphile
| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Anonymous messaging app After School raises $16.4M led by Accomplice one year after it was banned from the App Store — Anonymous App After School Raises $16.4 Million One Year After App Store Ban — What a difference a year can make. One year ago, anonymous messaging app After School … | Yimou Lee / Reuters: |
Lenovo Q3: revenue falls 8% to $12.9B, net profits rise to $300M, beating estimates — Lenovo's disappointing quarterly revenue knocks shares down 11 percent — China's Lenovo Group Ltd (0992.HK) reported a forecast-beating third-quarter net profit on Wednesday, but a disappointing drop … | William Alden / BuzzFeed: |
Yahoo writes down Tumblr's value by $230M after paying $1.1B for the blogging service in 2013 — Tumblr Has Lost Almost A Quarter Of Its Value Under Yahoo's Ownership — The scene at Tumblr's Year In Review 2014 at Brooklyn Night Bazaar. — Rob Kim / Getty Images| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
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