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KGI: Apple to release MacBook Pros with Touch ID and an OLED touch bar replacing function keys above keyboard in Q4, plus a 13-inch MacBook model — According to a new note from reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo at KGI Securities and corroborated by our sources, Apple plans to introduce …
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| Todd Sherman / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter won't count photos, videos, @names in replies toward 140 characters “in the coming months”, will allow self-retweets, touts improved onboarding metrics — Over the past decade, the Tweet has evolved from a simple 140-character text message to a rich canvas …
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Facebook responds to GOP Sen. Thune on Trending Topics, says investigation found no systematic bias, cannot rule out unintentional bias, plans improvements — Last week we met with Chairman of the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee John Thune to describe our investigation in response …
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Starting in September, Netflix will be exclusive US pay TV home for new releases from Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and Pixar — Summertime = Movies. Well, on Netflix, anytime = movies...but we do see about a 20% increase in movie watching by our members in the US around Memorial Day weekend.
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| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
New $99 Pebble 2 and $169 Pebble Time 2 smartwatches add heart rate tracking; the $69 Pebble Core is a clip-on Spotify-streaming device for runners — After two successful crowdfunding campaigns, Pebble is back for a third try. — Pebble returned to Kickstarter today to rack up preorders …
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Former employees describe what went wrong with Disney's video game initiative: strong aversion to risk and little understanding of the game industry — The world's largest entertainment company doesn't make its own video games anymore. — Disney — the folks behind “Star Wars,” Mickey Mouse … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's Continuous Live Video removes 90 min. limit on streams, but does not allow for replay or rewind, lets broadcasters target viewers by location and age — Live mobile video is evolving beyond selfie-stream rants and citizen journalism. Facebook will now allow non-stop …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Apple, Microsoft and Google hold 23% of all U.S. corporate cash outside the finance sector — Apple, Microsoft and Google are the top three cash-rich U.S. companies across all sectors of business, not including banks and other financial institutions — holding a combined $391 billion in cash … | Karl Freund / Forbes: |
AMD, ARM, Qualcomm, IBM, Huawei, Mellanox, Xilinx agree to develop an interconnect to allow their CPUs, accelerators, and networks to coherently share data — On Monday, seven technology companies announced that they had reached an agreement to develop and implement an interconnect …
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| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Amazon stops honoring partial refunds on items that drop in price after purchase, except TVs, amid entry of startups like Earny that track item prices — Except for TVs. — The company that prides itself on customer centricity may have just alienated some customers.
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Wickr Foundation invests in Whistler, an app dedicated to helping activists and citizen reporters — Earlier today at the Oslo Freedom Forum, the Wickr Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to private communication and uncensored information, announced its first investment … | Evan Blass / VentureBeat: |
Samsung's rugged Galaxy S7 Active, available in June from AT&T, to have microSD slot, 4GB of RAM, and 4000mAh battery, 15% larger than last year's model — EXCLUSIVE: — Samsung and AT&T are poised to release their ruggedized version of the flagship Galaxy S7 smartphone, the Galaxy S7 Active.Sponsor Posts
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