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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple is working on adding cell-network connectivity, faster processor to its next-generation Watch — Apple's Watch Outpaced the iPhone in First Year — Despite sizable sales, Apple's latest product has challenges to overcome — Apple Inc. sold twice as many Watches as iPhones in each device's debut year.| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Microsoft releases Word Flow keyboard for iPhone with one-handed mode, custom backgrounds — Microsoft is bringing its predictive Windows Phone keyboard, called Word Flow, to the iPhone. The third-party keyboard is now available for free in the US App Store.
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Chrome OS source code hints that the Google Play Store and “over a million” Android apps could be coming to Chrome OS — It looks like the Play Store is headed to Chrome OS with “millions” of apps — Google Play integration clues pop up in the source code and on users' devices.| John Herrman / New York Times: |
Vox Media launches gadget blog Circuit Breaker as a section of The Verge, but with Facebook as its primary distribution platform — Vox Media Tries Something Old on Something New — Vox Media, the ambitious online news start-up that runs Vox, a politics site; SB Nation, a network of sports sites …
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Sources: Apple has a Berlin office seeking engineers and partners for a car project; talks with BMW and Daimler ended, Magna believed to be current favorite — Exclusive: BMW, Daimler Reject Cooperation with Apple over “iCar” — German carmakers Daimler and BMW have ended talks with Apple … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Sirin Labs says it raised $72M to launch Solarin, a $10K+ Android-based, privacy-focused “Rolls-Royce of smartphones”, alongside retail store in London this May — Sirin Labs nabs $72M to build the Rolls-Royce of smartphones: ‘Solarin’ goes on sale in May
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| Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
BeautifulPeople.com Leaks Very Private Data of 1.1 Million ‘Elite’ Daters — And It's All For Sale — Sexual preference. Relationship status. Income. Address. These are just some details applicants for the controversial dating site BeautifulPeople.com are asked to supply …
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The Next Web, Office of Inadequate Security and Gizmodo
Tweets: @iblametom, @martijn_grooten, @iblametom and @jasonlk
| CNET: |
New Roku Streaming Stick review: fast, cheap at $50, “private listening” via Bluetooth is a great value, but WiFi-only and has no Ethernet ports or 4K support — Small is beautiful (and fast) — If you think there must be some benefit to the larger size of a device like the Roku 2, let me disabuse you of that notion.
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TechRadar.com, Engadget, editorial.rottentomatoes.com, Product Reviews and Gizmodo. Tweets: @cnet
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
High-end smartphones priced at about $400 are on the rise, disrupting $700 flagships — The rise of the $400 smartphone—you want how much for a flagship? — Newcomers to the smartphone market are arriving with disruptive pricing. — For a long time, the cost of a fast …
Tweets: @mims and @arstechnica
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
DARPA seeks encrypted comms app with blockchain infrastructure, message repudiation, self-deleting messages, more in Small Business Technology Transfer request — DARPA Is Looking For The Perfect Encryption App, and It's Willing to Pay — While the FBI keeps crying wolf about the dangerous dark future … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Private equity owned eBay Enterprise merges with Innotrac, rebrands as Radial — Ebay Enterprise merges with Innotrac to become Radial — Ebay sold off its enterprise unit to a consortium of companies led by private equity firm Permira last year. That consortium included Sterling Partners, Longview Asset Management and Innotrac.
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ITProPortal, Business Wire, PYMNTS.com, ZDNet, VentureBeat, internetretailer.com, VatorNews and Reuters
| Jessi Hempel / Wired: |
Pinterest execs and engineers discuss overhauling its underlying software, its new iOS app, plans to capture international audiences, more — Pinterest Reinvents Itself to Prove It's Really Worth Billions — It's a week before Pinterest will announce its biggest engineering and design overhaul ever … Thanks:@malliegator
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