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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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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google Fiber begins rolling out free internet to select public housing in Kansas City and will expand the initiative to all Fiber cities — Google begins rolling out free internet to public housing in Fiber cities — After making preliminary moves to do this last year …
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| 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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| 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 … | 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 …
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| 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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| 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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| 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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Instagram extends max video ad length from 30 to 60 seconds to attract TV dollars; max user-posted video length remains at 15 seconds — Instagram Extends Video Ads To 60 Seconds To Score TV Dollars — Instagram today announced that it began running its first 60-second video ads, starting with T-Mobile and Warner Brothers.| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
HTC Cards $101M Loss In Q4 2015, Its Third Successive Quarter In The Red — HTC's (financial) struggle is real. The Taiwanese tech firm endured another rough quarter of business after it posted a NT$3.4 billion ($101 million) net loss for Q4 2015. Total revenue came in at NT$25.7 billion …
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| 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 … | Pete Rizzo / CoinDesk: |
Blockstream raises $55M Series A to develop interoperable blockchain tech — Blockstream Raises $55 Million to Build Out Bitcoin's Blockchain — Blockstream has raised $55m in Series A funding to continue its work expanding the bitcoin code base for commercial use.
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