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| Manish Singh / NDTV Gadgets360.com: |
Microsoft Says 74 Android OEMs Now Pre-Installing Its Apps; Acer Joins List — Microsoft's Windows Phone may have lost the battle to Android in capturing substantial market share, but it doesn't mean that there won't be footprints of the company's services and apps on your Android device.
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The Official Microsoft Blog, Microsoft, Engadget, Digital Trends, BetaNews, PCWorld, ZDNet, Tech Times, Android Police, International Business Times, Tech Insider, WinBeta, VentureBeat, Ubergizmo, Neowin, Petri, Fone Arena and SlashGear. Tweets: @merket. Thanks:@refsrc
| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
Quartz launches iPhone app with curated news delivered through messaging interface and push notifications — Quartz's new app wants to text you the news — For a brief moment during development, the first app from Quartz — the four-year-old business news publication owned by The Atlantic …
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See also Mediagazer| Michael Crider / Android Police: |
LG Announces A Fancy Touch-Enabled Cover For The G5 Before The Phone Itself — LG is really excited about the G5. So excited, in fact, that they just can't wait until Mobile World Congress later this month. To tide themselves over for the next few weeks, the PR folks have officially announced …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Chrome 49 for Android will notify users of nearby smart beacons, Google announces IoT research pilot — A part of Google's Internet of Things approach involves placing low-energy Bluetooth beacons in the world that can communicate with smartphones. Starting with version 49, currently in beta …
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Chromium Blog, TechCrunch, Android Authority, The Verge, Ubergizmo, The Next Web, Neowin, Engadget and NFC World+
| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Twitter's problem isn't that it stopped growing; it's that people expect it to keep growing — Twitter, to Save Itself, Must Scale Back World-Swallowing Ambitions — Twitter is the world's most important social network. — That might sound like the ravings of an addict …
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Tweets: @twitterir, @jyarow, @carnage4life, @jguynn, @jguynn, @jbruin, @twitterir, @jbruin, @sarahcuda, @joshconstine, @hunterwalk and @caseynewton
See also Mediagazer| Inside Airbnb: |
New report claims Airbnb manipulated statistics when it released NYC dataset in December — How Airbnb's Data hid the Facts in New York City — On December 1 2015, Airbnb made data available about its business in New York City, with much fanfare. This report shows that the Airbnb data release misled the media and the public.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Time Inc Acquires Viant, Owner Of Myspace And A Vast Ad Tech Network — It looks like Myspace is becoming a big-media property once again. Today during its quarterly earnings report, Time Inc announced that it has acquired Viant, a profitable company that has built a large ad tech business …
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| Evan Blass / VentureBeat: |
Alcatel OneTouch Idol 4S packaging will double as VR goggles — EXCLUSIVE: — For the fifth largest cellphone brand in North America — up from 13th as recently as 2014 — Alcatel OneTouch isn't nearly the household name that competitors Huawei and ZTE have become.| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
ViaSat announces Boeing partnership and ViaSat-3 satellites, capable of 1 Tbps, equal to the combined network capacity of all existing commercial satellites — New 1-Terabit internet satellites will deliver high-speed internet to remote areas — US-based satellite company ViaSat is teaming …
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DSLreports, Investor Relations, TechWorm, SlashGear, Gizmodo, Gizmodo UK, Tech Times, Re/code and Engadget
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Delivery startups like DoorDash and Postmates struggle with driver churn, high operating costs in quest to capture untapped market — Delivery Start-Ups Face Road Bumps in Quest to Capture Untapped Market — DoorDash, one of a multitude of start-ups with a mobile app that lets people order …
Tweets: @shiraovide, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac and @mikeisaac
| Eric Zeman / ProgrammableWeb: |
Google announces People API to streamline how apps gather contact data, will eventually replace existing Google+ API and Google Contacts API — Google People API Lets Devs Poke Through Users' Contacts — Google today announced the People API, a single API it hopes will eventually be able …
| Kasper Viita / Bloomberg Business: |
App Annie report: cheap smartphones to propel app spending to $101B in 5 years, as userbase of smartphones and tablets slated to hit 6.2B by 2020, up from 2.6B — Cheap Smartphones to Propel App Spending Past $100 Billion — Mobile app store spending set to more than double by 2020
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram Reveals Video View Counts To Score Creators And Ad Dollars — Video is booming on Instagram with watch time up 40% in 6 months, so now it's trying to lure the best video makers and marketers from competitors like Vine and YouTube. Over the next few weeks, Instagram will begin showing … Sponsor Posts
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