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Xiaomi to preinstall Office and Skype on all devices as it buys 1.5K patents from Microsoft, cross-licenses others — Software maker Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) is selling about 1,500 of its patents to Chinese device maker Xiaomi [XTC.UL], a rare departure for the U.S. company and part …
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| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
OnePlus 3 to launch globally on June 14 without an invite system — When the remarkable OnePlus One arrived two years ago, it made people reimagine the $300 smartphone. But it also made everyone reimagine how they buy a phone, with an invitation-based system as frustrating as it was arcane.| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
AMD unveils VR-ready Radeon RX 480 GPU, with 8Gbps GDDR5, 40% faster than last year's R9 380, available June 29 for $199 — Kicking off at this moment is AMD's Computex 2016 keynote. The company has multiple announcements scheduled this evening, but we're going to jump right into an area … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft opens Windows Holographic, the platform behind HoloLens, for partners to create AR/VR devices, is working with Intel, AMD, HTC, Acer, and others — Microsoft is courting virtual-reality hardware makers with its Windows Holographic platform, hoping to grow the base of mixed-reality-capable devices.
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Jeff Bezos says Alexa could be Amazon's fourth pillar after retail, Prime, and AWS, as company has 1K employees working on Echo and Alexa — Amazon has three big pillars: the retail marketplace, Amazon Prime, and Amazon Web Services. But there certainly would be room for a fourth pillar.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce buys Demandware for $2.8B, taking a big step into e-commerce — Salesforce made its name originally with cloud-based software to help salespeople manage their leads and close deals; and today the company took a big step into the business of sales itself.
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| Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab: |
36% of smartphone users in Asia-Pacific region use browsers that automatically block ads; global mobile adblocking userbase hits 419M, up 90% YoY, says PageFair — The rise of mobile adblocking may not be burning publishers in the U.S. so far, but the story is very different in Asia.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Vendini raises $20 million to build out its all-in-one ticketing platform for live events — Vendini, a holistic ticketing platform for live events, has raised $20 million from New York-based investment firm Level Equity. — Founded out of San Francisco in 2001, Vendini strives …
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| Grant Gross / PCWorld: |
HPE wants Oracle to pay $3 billion for breach of Itanium contract — A jury trial in a long-running dispute between the two companies begins this week — Hewlett-Packard Enterprise is asking a jury to award the company $3billion from Oracle after the database giant stopped supporting HPE's …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Samsung announces 512GB NVMe SSD weighing only 1 gram with read and write speeds of 1500MB/s and 900MB/s, available starting in June — Samsung today announced that mass production has begun on a new NVMe PCIe solid state drive in a ball grid array package, the first of its kind to be available in large quantities.| Jamie Rigg / Engadget: |
BBC's microcomputer Micro:bit now available to pre order for £13, starter bundle with battery pack, USB cable, and more for £15 — After a couple of unforeseen delays, the BBC finally began delivering Micro:bit computers to Year 7 students across the UK in March.
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PCWorld, The Register, Geek.com, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, About the BBC, Liliputing and Inquirer. Thanks:@ravichandrans25
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Time confirms Myspace breach limited to a portion of login data created before June 11, 2013; LeakedSource says over 360M accounts compromised — You might not have thought of - much less visited - Myspace in years. (Yes, it's still around. Time, Inc. acquired itand other properties when it bought Viant earlier this year.)| Dustin Volz / Reuters: |
US appeals court rules no warrant needed for cellphone location data, overturning a divided 2015 opinion — Police do not need a warrant to obtain a person's cellphone location data held by wireless carriers, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday, dealing a setback to privacy advocates.
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