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Motorola Debuts its First Ad for Upcoming Moto X Smartphone — A Made-In-America Claim But No Images of the Phone — Motorola has set a patriotic tone for its Moto X smartphone campaign, the company's first since being acquired by Google last summer. — “What we are doing which is very different …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Google: |
Motorola shows off first ad for Moto X Phone, teases a phone “designed by you” — Motorola's latest flagship device, the Moto X Phone, is set to be released sometime this fall, but despite not having released any images of it, the company is getting ready to run its first ad for the phone.
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| Adam Satariano / Bloomberg: |
Apple Said to Near Time Warner Cable Deal for TV Programs — Apple Inc. (AAPL) is nearing a deal with Time Warner Cable Inc. (TWC) to give subscribers of the cable television service access to channels via Apple TV, people with knowledge of the negotiations said.| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Yahoo Buys Qwiki for About $50 Million — As AllThingsD reported two weeks ago that it was likely to do, Yahoo said it has bought Qwiki, the New York startup that makes an Apple iPhone app that allows users to turn photos, music and videos into short movies automatically.
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| Nicole Laporte / Fast Company: |
Meet Former XBox Boss Don Mattrick, Who Just Left Microsoft To Turn Around Zynga — News that Don Mattrick is leaving Microsoft as president of the company's Interactive Entertainment unit to run Zynga was a shock when it broke on Monday—to Microsoft, in particular.
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CNET, A VC, Digits, Business Insider, VG247, Forbes, Polygon, WebProNews, GeekWire, The Verge, gameinformer.com and Softpedia News. Tweets: @wyp100
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
The Bing challenge: with iOS 7 and Windows 8.1, search could be Microsoft's new platform — Redmond opens up to developers to take on Google — Earlier this year, the head of Microsoft's search team, Qi Lu, unveiled a new approach for Bing: the concept of a broad search platform that could feed …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Pebble Smartwatch Is Coming To Best Buy July 7 For $149.95 — Pebble is selling its smartwatch via Best buy stores soon, with the device going on sale at the major U.S.-based electronics retailer on July 7 for $149.95. The e-ink display for the Pebble and Bluetooth connection it sports allow … | Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Exclusive: Homebrew closes debut fund — Quick fundraise for former Google and Twitter execs. — FORTUNE — Homebrew, a new venture capital firm founded by former Google and Twitter project managers, has quietly closed its debut fund with $35 million. — The San Francisco-based firm …
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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Pixate Raises $3.8M Series A From Accel Partners To Bring CSS Styling To Android And Mac App Development — Pixate has closed a $3.8 million Series A round from venture capital firm Accel Partners. The Palo Alto-based plans to expand its engineering and support teams in order to build Android …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
.NYC: New York will be ‘first city in the country’ with its own top-level domain — If you run a New York City-based business or happen to live in one of the five boroughs, you'll soon be able to secure your own domain ending in .nyc. The news was just announced via Mayor Bloomberg's …
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The Next Web, GigaOM, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, Engadget, Betabeat, BBC, Mashable and Valleywag. Tweets: @nycmayorsoffice
| Ben Gilbert / Engadget: |
Spotify Discover functionality now available on iOS app, ‘coming soon’ to other platforms — Spotify's Discover area isn't quite as ubiquitous as we'd hoped by this point, primarily serving computer-based Spotify users. But today that trend begins to change, with Spotify's iOS app getting an update …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple launches 2013 Back to School promo: $100 App Store card with Macs, $50 card with iPhone/iPad — As we reported would occur, Apple has just launched its annual Back to School promotion for students. The program launched in January for students in Australia, and today … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple expands ‘iWatch’ trademark filing world tour to Mexico, Taiwan, Turkey, Colombia — In addition to filing a trademark for the name “iWatch” in Russia and Japan, Apple has requested a trademark for “iWatch” with Mexico's Institute of Industrial Property.| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Opera's redesigned, Chromium-based browser for Windows and Mac exits beta with new Speed Dial tool — Opera launched a new version of its Internet browser for Windows PC and Mac users today, with a cleaner design, a new ‘Speed Dial’ tool for finding favorite sites and faster webpage loading.| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
HTC One S no longer receiving updates only 15 months after release — Though the HTC One S is still a young phone at just over a year old, its update cycle has come to an end. HTC tells us that the One S will no longer be receiving updates, keeping it on Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean at the latest.
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Engadget, the::unwired, 9to5Google, Ars Technica, Pocketnow, Gotta Be Mobile, Android Police and Droid Life
| Megan Rose Dickey / Business Insider: |
Ousted Groupon CEO Andrew Mason Released A New Album Today — Here Are The Secret Meanings Behind Each Song — Ousted Groupon CEO Andrew Mason just released his first full-length album, “Hardly Workin'.” — The seven-track album is available on for purchase on iTunes and is streaming on Spotify.
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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Game Company Ubisoft Hacked, User Accounts Compromised — San Francisco-based gaming outfit Ubisoft announced on Tuesday that it had been hacked by an unknown party or parties, and that an undisclosed number of user accounts had been compromised. — “We recently discovered that one of our Web sites …
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Ubisoft, UbiBlog, PC Magazine, Digits, Help Net Security, The Next Web, WebProNews, IntoMobile, Electronista, VentureBeat, Gamasutra, Kotaku, Giant Bomb, SlashGear, Joystiq and Polygon
| Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM: |
Apple is planning a solar panel farm for its data center in Reno — Apple, working with Nevada utility NV Energy, is planning to build another solar panel farm next to a data center, and this time it's for its new data center in Reno, Nevada. Apple has already been building two solar panel farms next … | Spiegel Online: |
How the NSA Targets Germany and Europe — Top secret documents detail the mass scope of efforts by the United States to spy on Germany and Europe. Each month, the NSA monitors a half a billion communications and EU buildings are bugged. The scandal poses a threat to trans-Atlantic relations.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Lockerz's Pivot Continues As It Sells AddToAny, A Link Sharing Tool, Back To Its Founder — Lockerz, the social commerce and photo sharing network that has been busy working on a new fashion site called Ador, has taken one more step to streamline its operations: it is offloading social sharing …
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| Greg Finn / Marketing Land: |
Study: Fake Twitter Follower Market Is Still Thriving Thanks To New Spam Tactics — Welcome to this quarter's report on Fake Social followers. BarracudaLabs dove headfirst into the world of paying for perceived social popularity. Verdict: The fake follower economy is still flourishing and is still the scurge of social media.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Brings Its Bing Ads To Windows 8.1 Smart Search — One of the highlights of Windows 8.1 is the new “smart search” feature, which pulls together results from Bing's search engine, Wikipedia, documents on your desktop and from apps that allow Windows 8.1 to index content inside of them.Sponsor Posts
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