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Amazon Developing Smartphone With 3-D Screen — New Gadgets, Including Audio-Only Device, Is Bid to Expand Beyond Kindle Fire. — Amazon's hardware ambitions are broadening. The Seattle e-commerce giant has recently been developing a wide-ranging lineup of gadgets—including two smartphones …
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| Ian Sherr / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft Developed Prototypes for a TV Set-Top Box — As videogame fans await the unveiling of Microsoft Corp.'s next Xbox, questions about another piece hardware loom for the software giant. — The company has been quietly developing designs for a separate, simpler set-top device …
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| John G. Doe / YouTube Blog: |
New ways to support great content on YouTube — We've been building a YouTube partner program since 2007 that enables content creators to earn revenue for their creativity. We've watched them build amazing channels that have made YouTube into a news, education and entertainment destination …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Reports: Facebook Is Buying Social Mapping/Traffic App Waze For Up To $1B To Court Mobile Users — Facebook appears to be close to making another billion-dollar acquisition to once again ramp up its mobile efforts: according to two reports in the Israeli press at Calcalist and sister publication Ynet …
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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
| Ashlee Vance / Businessweek: |
Netflix, Reed Hastings Survive Missteps to Join Silicon Valley's Elite — On a normal weeknight, Netflix (NFLX) accounts for almost a third of all Internet traffic entering North American homes. That's more than YouTube, Hulu, Amazon.com (AMZN), HBO Go, iTunes, and BitTorrent combined.
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Microsoft Mulling Nook Media LLC Purchase For $1 Billion — Microsoft is offering to pay $1 billion to buy the digital assets of Nook Media LLC, the digital book and college book joint venture with Barnes & Noble and other investors, according to internal documents we've obtained.| Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: |
| Matt Rosoff / CITEworld: |
Box buys Crocodoc to display files more beautifully in any browser — Box has acquired Crocodoc, a five-year-old company that provides technology to display and annotate documents at high fidelity in a browser. It is Box's first acquisition since 2009. — Crocodoc is geared toward developers today … | Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Yahoo acquires GoPollGo polling service, shuts down all widgets, polls and properties — Today GoPollGo announced that it has been acquired by Yahoo Mobile. The online polling company hadn't reached its third birthday. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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| Eva Dou / Digits: |
PC Makers Hopeful on Windows 8 Changes — With the PC industry in severe contraction, industry executives seem terribly relieved to have found some optimism to cling to. — PC makers in Asia say there is hope yet for Windows 8, the new operating system that even Microsoft Corp. has admitted hasn't been a huge hit.
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| Andrew Adams / KSL-TV: |
‘Deleted’ Snapchat photos saved in phone data, can be examined as evidence — OREM — Not so fast, Snapchat. Those 10-seconds-or-less pictures appear to have a much longer life, deep inside of smartphones. — Orem-based firm Decipher Forensics said it has derived a method to extract …
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Ars Technica, Guardian, Business Insider, Android Community and Salon
| Clare Jim / Reuters: |
Apple supplier Pegatron boosts China workforce by 40 percent in second quarter — (Reuters) - Pegatron Corp, an assembler of Apple Inc's iPhone and iPad, said it would increase its number of workers in China by up to 40 percent in the second half of the year, fuelling market speculation of a new cheaper iPhone.
| Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Acquires Palo Alto-Based Scalable Computing Startup Ubalo — It's only been a few weeks since the folks behind music-charting app We Are Hunted confirmed that it was acquired by Twitter, and it seems that Twitter isn't done snapping up startups just yet.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Previews New Features For Home, Which Is Near 1M Downloads And Increases Users' Time Spent On Facebook By 25% — “Home is the first product we've released that's really about ‘mobile-best’ and the transition beyond ‘mobile first’” said Facebook's VP Cory Ondrejka.
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| Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM: |
AT&T-owned AIO Wireless launches pre-paid and BYOD service, but no LTE — You likely haven't heard of AIO Wireless yet, but AT&T hopes you will soon. Launching Thursday in three cities, AIO Wireless is a pre-paid and BYOD, or bring your own device, service provider and is a subsidiary … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Ouya raises $15M from Kleiner Perkins and Mayfield and delays launch — Ouya is just a kid on the block alongside the game consoles from Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony. But it's graduating to a higher level today as the maker of the $99 Android game console is announcing that it has raised $15 million …
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| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Flipboard amps up user-generated magazines with Android release and new Web-based editing tool — Flipboard has brought its magazine curation service to Android devices. The popular service has released an update that will now brings in features iOS device owners have been experiencing for the past couple of months.| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Neftlix for iOS now auto-plays next TV episode, offers after-movie recommendations, and more — Netflix on Thursday updated its native iOS app with two post-play features and some enhanced second screen options. You can download the latest app now directly from Apple's App Store.
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Netflix US & Canada Blog, MacRumors, iMore, Engadget, 9to5Mac, TUAW, SlashGear, Mashable and Cult of Mac
| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
W3C proceeds with Web video encryption despite opposition — The Web standards group is going ahead with its Encrypted Media Extensions technology despite some opposition, arguing it's a step in the right direction. — W3C CEO Jeff Jaffe — The World Wide Web Consortium has decided … | Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
BlueStacks rivals OUYA with GamePop Android console and a $6.99 per month “Netflix for games” service — As Kickstarter poster boy OUYA is gearing up to start selling its Android-based video game console in retail stores at the end of next month, backed by a fresh $15 million in VC funding …
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The Verge, TechCrunch, TechHive, Ars Technica, PC Magazine, PRWeb, Android and Me, Wired, GamePolitics blogs and AllThingsD. Thanks:@johnnotjon
| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Use These Secret NSA Google Search Tips to Become Your Own Spy Agency — There's so much data available on the internet, that even government cyberspies need a little help now and then to sift through it all. So to assist them, the National Security Agency produced a book to help its spies uncover intelligence hiding on the web.
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Mashable and Business Insider
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
TestFlight Opens Android Beta To All Users, After Crossing 50K Downloads For Apps In Closed Testing — App beta testing service TestFlight launched its closed Android beta back in February this year, and now the company is making those tools available to any and all.| Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
Apple Still Negotiating With Sony and Warner Over iRadio Royalties — Apple is still in negotiations with Sony and Warner over its iRadio streaming music service, reports the Financial Times. Apple had offered roughly 6 cents per 100 tracks streamed, but later reportedly raised …
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