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Oculus Rift to have 30 titles at its March 28 launch priced between $10 and $60; Lucky's Tale bundled with the headset — The 29 Oculus Rift games you'll be able to buy at launch — Two weeks before Oculus launches its Rift virtual reality headset, we're learning what games people …
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| Claud Xiao / Palo Alto Networks Blog: |
iOS malware, seen affecting customers in China, can infect non-jailbroken devices via App Store if the customer's PC is compromised — AceDeceiver: First iOS Trojan Exploiting Apple DRM Design Flaws to Infect Any iOS Device — We've discovered a new family of iOS malware …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Local deals site LivingSocial lays off 280, over 50% of staff, outsources customer services — More bad news for LivingSocial, the beleaguered commerce platform that competes with the likes of Groupon in offering deals on events and services local to its users.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Twitter launches on Windows 10 Mobile — Twitter today launched its app on Windows 10 Mobile. The company has effectively updated its universal Windows app to support not just desktops and tablets, but phones as well. You can download the new app now from the Windows Store.
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| Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
Vic Gundotra's AliveCor is building the Kardia Band, a heart monitor with medical grade ECG analysis for the Apple Watch, awaiting FDA approval — Vic Gundotra, Former Google+ Boss, Is Building a Heart Monitor for the Apple Watch — AliveCor, a startup that builds heart-monitoring sensors …
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| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
Xbox One will be able to run Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform apps later this summer, as the Xbox Store and the Windows Store get merged into one — Microsoft is mashing Windows and the Xbox together to win over its most critical market — When Microsoft launched Windows 10 in the summer of 2015 …
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Sources: Apple signs deal with Google, spending $400M-$600M on Google Cloud Platform, reducing its reliance on AWS — Cloud Makes For Strange Bedfellows: Apple Signs On With Google, Cuts Spending With AWS — Pages — Alphabet's Google has quietly scored a major coup in its campaign … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler poised to circulate draft order approving Charter-TWC deal as soon as this week, with clauses ensuring growth of online video — FCC Drafting Order to Approve Charter-Time Warner Cable Deal — Order, expected as soon as this week, will set conditions focusing on promoting online video competition
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Waze now tells you when to leave, thanks to its new Planned Drives feature — Turn-by-turn navigation application Waze announced this morning a handy new feature that will make it easier for those who are planning to drive to an upcoming appointment, meeting or other important trip: Waze Planned Drives.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon launches AWS Database Migration Service out of preview to all customers — Amazon has launched a new service that makes it easier for companies to move their databases to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and promises that firms can “set up their migrations in less than 10 minutes.”| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
LastPass announces its own two-factor authentication app for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone, supports any TOTP service, similar to Google's Authenticator — LastPass app takes the pain out of two-factor sign-ins — Many will tell you that it's wise to use two-factor authentication to lock down your internet accounts.
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The LastPass Blog, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, App Store, Neowin, Android Authority, Android Police and iMore
| Jennifer Slegg / The SEM Post: |
Google Increasing Mobile Friendly Ranking Boost in May — If you still haven't made your site mobile friendly yet, you might want to get busy on that. Google is increasing the mobile friendly ranking boost associated with pages that are mobile friendly.| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Menlo Ventures leads $14.5M round for Usermind, an enterprise business operations startup — Usermind is bringing on another top-tier investor as the Seattle startup continues to develop its enterprise business operations platform. — The company today announced a $14.5 million round led …
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