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Snapchat Closes $60 Million Round Led by IVP, Now at 200 Million Daily Snaps — Snapchat, the ephemeral messaging service that has grown extremely popular over the past year, has closed its $60 million dollar Series B round of venture funding, the company announced on Monday morning.
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| Malathi Nayak / Reuters: |
Microsoft to bring Xbox and PC games to Apple, Android phones: report — (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp will offer its console and computer games for Apple Inc's iPhone and other smartphone platforms this fiscal year, through a tie-up with Japanese smartphone game maker Klab Inc, the Nikkei said on Monday.
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| Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook, With a Focus on Mobile, Works on Project for News Via Users — Facebook Inc. is aiming to become a newspaper for mobile devices. — The social network has been quietly working on a service, internally called Reader, that displays content from Facebook users and publishers …
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple Seeds iOS 7 Beta 2 to Developers with iPad and iPad Mini Support — Two weeks after Apple released the first beta version of iOS 7 following its unveiling at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple has just released a second beta for testing.
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| Kim Yoo-chul / The Korea Times: |
Samsung to close desktop business — Samsung Electronics has decided to ditch its unprofitable desktop PC business and devote itself to tablet computers and all-in-one laptops, company officials said Monday. — “Demand for conventional desktop PCs is going down,” said a Samsung Electronics official.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1, 8.0 and 7.0 Coming To The U.S. July 7 For $399, $299 And $199 — Samsung's new Galaxy Tab 3 line has been official for a little while now, but U.S. availability and pricing was up in the air until today. The relatively cheap tablets are going to be $199 … | Scott Buscemi / 9to5Mac: |
Siri takes initiative to learn how to pronounce names in iOS 7 — When Siri first launched, many users found lots of names were pronounced incorrectly and couldn't do much beyond adding phonetic spellings manually for each contact. With iOS 7, it appears that Siri can now take initiative for learning proper pronunciations.
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple's Prototype iPhone 5S Based on New A7 Chip — Last week, we shared a pair of photos of Apple's upcoming iPhone 5S, revealing a few details such as a larger-capacity battery and a new dual-LED flash system for the rear camera. At the time, we had some questions about the main chip from the device … | Nick Bilton / NYT Bits: |
Disruptions: Medicine That Monitors You — SAN FRANCISCO — They look like normal pills, oblong and a little smaller than a daily vitamin. But if your physician writes a prescription for these pills in the not-too-distant future, you might hear a new twist on an old cliché …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Device Shipments Up 6% To 2.4B In 2013, Driven By Android Smartphones, Tablets Amid More PC Decline — Gartner today has released its latest figures charting its overall predictions for how IT devices — from PCs to mobile handsets — are going to perform this year and in 2014.
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Gartner, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, CNET, Mobile Marketing Watch, GigaOM, Fortune, Inquirer, iMore, GeekWire, CITEworld, Fortune, Android Authority, WebProNews, TechSpot, PC Magazine, Computerworld, TelecompetitorTelecompetitor, TechnoBuffalo, iDownloadBlog.com, www.idigitaltimes.co.uk, SlashGear, 9to5Google and 9to5Mac. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Fab.com's Ascent to $1 Billion Valuation Brings Missteps — Fab.com Inc., valued at more than $1 billion dollars after just two years in existence, is suffering growing pains from its rapid expansion as it applies a culture of meticulous control to a global business.| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Duck Duck Go's Post-PRISM Growth Actually Proves No One Cares About “Private” Search — Look out, Google! Duck Duck Go is on the rise, posting a 50% traffic increase in just eight days. Is this proof people want a “private” search engine, in the wake of allegations the PRISM program allows …
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| Harrison Weber / The Next Web: |
AOL Reader hands-on: An unexciting but solid Google Reader replacement to rival Feedly — We knew AOL was planning its own replacement to the soon-expiring Google Reader, and now we're able to share a complete look at the upcoming service. — Pitching with the slogan “all your favorite websites … | Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
HP announces Slate 21 AIO, a $400 21.5-inch Android tablet with Tegra 4 — What do you do if your home turf of PC sales is being eroded by tablets? If your answer is “sell tablets as desktops,” then you're on Meg Whitman's wavelength. At an event in Beijing, HP announced a 21.5-inch …
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Just in time for Google Reader's demise, beloved RSS reader NetNewsWire launches open beta — In just a couple of weeks, Google will shut the door on Reader forever. But now a local reader alternative is coming back with a vengeance and, eventually, with syncing between Mac, iPhone and iPad.
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Black Pixel, Macworld, The Digital Reader, iMore, Engadget, App Advice, MacStories, The Loop and SlashGear
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Bing For Schools Will Strip Out All Ads, Beef Up Privacy Protections And Adult Content Filtering — Bing is taking a step to hep make its products more appealing for school-age children, with Bing For Schools, an opt-in program targeting K-12 institutions launching later this year.| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Microsoft Pumps $700 Million Into Iowa Data Center — The mysterious company behind the $700 million “Project Mountain” data center in Des Moines, Iowa, finally has a name. And it's not Apple or Amazon. — It's Microsoft. — Late on Friday, the Iowa Economic Development Authority … | Wall Street Journal: |
Disney, Sony Experiment in Korea With Early Video on Demand — Big Studios' Korea Experiment Rents Movies on Demand While Still in Theaters — Two Hollywood studios have quietly begun testing a controversial business model in South Korea after years of failed efforts in the U.S. …
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| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Huawei launches the MediaPad 7 Vogue, a budget 7″ Android tablet that can also make phone calls — It was leaked back in March by @evleaks, but Huawei has today confirmed the MediaPad 7 Vogue, a 7-inch Android tablet hoping to claw back some of the market share won by the Nexus 7 and iPad Mini.
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