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Google announces Fiber Phone, a $10/month Google Voice-like home telephone service with unlimited local and nationwide calling, coming to Fiber cities — Introducing Fiber Phone — Whether it's calling mom or ordering take-out, we rely on our phones to help reach the people and things that matter.
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| Instagram Blog: |
Instagram increases video length limit for users from 15 seconds up to 60 seconds — Coming Soon: Longer Video on Instagram … We want to bring you fun, flexible and creative ways to create and watch video on Instagram. As part of our continued commitment, you'll soon have the flexibility …
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Sources: Spotify raises $1B in convertible debt, led by TPG and Dragoneer — Spotify Raises $1 Billion in Debt Financing — TPG and Dragoneer Investment Group lead the Spotify debt deal — Music-streaming site Spotify AB has raised $1 billion in convertible debt from investors …
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| Greg Duffy: |
Dropcam founder Greg Duffy defends his former team after slight by Tony Fadell, assails Fadell's management style and accomplishments — The Dropcam Team — You may have seen Reed Albergotti's recent article. In it, Tony Fadell says “a lot of the employees were not as good as we hoped …
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| Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
Acer launches 14-inch Chromebook with an all-aluminum chassis and 12 hours of battery life for $299.99 — Acer's new, premium Chromebook offers up to 14 hours of battery life — Acer's first all-aluminum Chrome OS notebook features a 14-inch IPS display.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Waze rolling out excessive-speed alerts in 16 countries excluding US, UK, Canada, and Australia, will be available globally “soon” — Waze rolls out speed alerts to tell you when you're driving too fast — Google-owned GPS driving app Waze is making it easier to avoid speeding tickets … | Todd Kloots / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter now lets users add descriptive text to images in its mobile apps to improve accessibility — Accessible images for everyone — Photos have been at the center of some of the biggest moments on Twitter. As a core part of the Twitter experience, it's important that images shared … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat's “Chat 2.0” update adds auto-advancing stories, stickers, video/audio notes and calls, and more — Snapchat seamlessly combines video, audio, GIFs, stickers in “Chat 2.0” — Say what you want, how you want. That's how Snapchat's reps say CEO Evan Spiegel describes Chat 2.0 …
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| Agdubs / The npm Blog: |
npm no longer allowing developers to automatically unpublish packages over 24 hours old — changes to npm's unpublish policy — One of Node.js' core strengths is the community's trust in npm's registry. As it's grown, the registry has filled with packages that are more and more interconnected.
| Dan Rys / Billboard: |
Tidal claims 3M paying global subs, with 1.35M on the hi-fidelity $20/month tier, and Kanye West's last album surpassed 250M streams within 10 days of debut — Tidal Claims Three Million Global Subscribers, Finally Releases Kanye's ‘Pablo’ Stream Numbers — The one-year anniversary … | Wall Street Journal: |
Depository Trust & Clearing Corp to begin testing Digital Asset Holdings' blockchain technology in the $2.6 trillion “repo” short-term lending market — Bitcoin Technology's Next Big Test: Trillion-Dollar Repo Market — Blockchain, the virtual currency's digital ledger application, to be tested on repo transactions
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| Cody Toombs / Android Police: |
APK teardown reveals Google plans to end support for its physical Wallet card June 30 — Google Is Preparing To Drop Support For The Physical Wallet Card On June 30th — The first signs of the Google Wallet Card were discovered during an APK Teardown, so it only seems fitting that its death should also be foretold the same way.Sponsor Posts
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