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| Walt Mossberg / The Verge: |
The quality and reliability of Apple's apps on iOS and OS X have gradually degraded over the past few years — Mossberg: Apple's apps need work — People think of Apple as a maker of excellent premium hardware. In fact, many reviewers regard Apple devices as the best you can buy.
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg Business: |
Apple Pay is now available in 2M retail locations, coming soon to Crate & Barrel, Chick-fil-A, Zappos, and Au Bon Pain — Apple Pay Locations Reach 2 Million, With Chick-Fil-A to Come — The mobile-payment service doubled in-apps purchase volume — Greater competition looms while consumers still skeptical
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple to update iPhone trade-in program to give credit for units with damaged displays, will offer screen protector installation — Apple launching new broken iPhone upgrade, screen protector installation programs — Apple is gearing up to launch a pair of new retail initiatives centered around …
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Android Wear adds new gestures, speaker support, and ability to send messages using your voice — Android Wear: Designed for your wrist — You're walking to meet a friend with coffee in hand. Or maybe it's really cold outside, so you're rocking a pair of mittens. Or maybe you're in the middle of making dinner.| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Premium Spotify subscribers can now play music directly on Amazon Echo — Amazon's Echo can now play music directly from Spotify — Playing Spotify music on the Amazon Echo is now as easy as saying three words: “Alexa, Play Spotify.” The e-retailer-slash-device-maker launched voice control … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
YouTube Red to launch its first original programming, three films and a series, on Feb. 10 — YouTube Set to Premiere First Original Movies, PewDiePie Series — YouTube next week is set to launch its first exclusive programming — a test of how many customers will fork over $10 per month …
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| New York Times: |
Sharp says it's leaning toward a takeover offer from Foxconn over offer from the Japanese government-backed fund INCJ — Sharp leaning toward takeover offer from Foxconn over offer from government-backed fund — NAGOYA, Japan — Sharp, the struggling Japanese technology company best known … | Lucas Ballard / Google Online Security Blog: |
Chrome's Safe Browsing feature now warns users about sites with deceptive embedded content, like fake download buttons — No More Deceptive Download Buttons — In November, we announced that Safe Browsing would protect you from social engineering attacks - deceptive tactics that try … | Taylor Loren / Latergramme Blog: |
Instagram Rolls Out Multiple Account Switching for Some iOS Users — Now You Can Add Multiple Accounts on Instagram - If You're Lucky — If you're using Instagram on iOS, you might have access to one of the most-requested features for Instagram - and not even know it.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Driving analytics company Zendrive raises $13.5M led by Sherpa Capital — Zendrive raises $13.5M to make roads safer by tracking your driving behaviors — Zendrive today announced that it has raised $13.5 million in funding for its technology to make transportation safer.
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| Robert Hackett / Fortune: |
Software supply chain manager Sonatype raises $30M led by Goldman Sachs — Goldman Sachs Leads $30 Million Investment in Software Supply Chain Fixer — Imagine an auto assembly line in which each factory worker is allowed to make random supplier and part decisions.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Mozilla to end Firefox OS smartphone support after version 2.6, no staff involvement beyond May — Mozilla has brought further clarity to the future of Firefox OS on smartphones today, with the news that development will cease after the release of version 2.6 of the operating system.
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