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Android's Hugo Barra Departs Google for China's Xiaomi — One of Google's top Android executives is leaving the company. — Hugo Barra, whose official title is vice president of product management for Android, has been one of the more public faces of the mobile operating system …
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| Hugo Barra / Google+: |
A new Android chapter — After nearly 5½ years at Google and almost 3 years as a member of the Android team — the most amazing group of people I've ever worked with in my life — I have decided to start a new career chapter. In a few weeks, I'll be joining the Xiaomi team in China …
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| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Google Exec Departs Amidst Rumors Of Tangled Love Quadrangle — We've confirmed a report today that Android VP Hugo Barra is leaving Google for “Apple of China” Xiaomi. — The report was timed to coincide with another story about the dissolution of Google co-founder Sergey Brin's marriage to 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki.| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
Why Twitter's new Conversations view is a big deal and why it matters for its IPO — No one in Silicon Valley has any doubt that San Francisco-based Twitter is on a road to a public offering. Given its current valuation — estimated at around or over $10 billion — and the amount of money it has raised …
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Amazon's Push to the Cloud Adds to Server-Market Woes — To understand the challenges facing makers of server systems, look to health-care staffing firm Schumacher Group. — The Lafayette, La., company, has been shifting a growing proportion of its computing chores to computers operated …
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| Leo Kelion / BBC: |
Skype confirms 3D video calls are under development — Skype said that limitations with current 3D technologies had stopped it launching the feature — Skype has confirmed it has developed 3D video calls. — The news was revealed by a senior executive in an exclusive interview with the BBC to mark Skype's tenth anniversary.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo Sharpens Its Flickr iOS App With Enhanced Filters, More Camera Tools; Makes Pro Tools Free — Yahoo has just released a significant new update for its Flickr photo app for iOS, a further sign of how it wants to be not just where you go to store and view pictures, but where you create them as well.
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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Twitter Acquires Social TV Tracker Trendrr — Twitter has acquired Trendrr, a social tracking TV service that until today competed with Twitter's own in-house analytics products. — After Wednesday's acquisition, the three dominant, stand-alone players in the social TV chatter space are gone.
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| David Beren / TmoNews: |
T-Mobile Scheduling Employee Blackout Dates For September 20th-22nd? — I do love a good rumor and this one should make all you iPhone fans happy as I'm hearing whispers T-Mobile is planning blackout dates between September 20th and 22nd. Like all good rumors, we should take this with the standard … | App Annie Blog: |
App Annie Index: Apps - Messenger Apps Go To Battle For The World's Messages — The Competition for The Top Messenger App is Heating Up — The App Annie Apps Index brings you the top-performing publishers and apps outside of games across both the iOS App Store and Google Play.
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin and 23andMe Co-Founder Anne Wojcicki Have Split — Brin and Wojcicki on Gavin Newsom's interview show in 2012. — Google co-founder Sergey Brin and 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki, one of Silicon Valley's most high-profile couples, are living apart.
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Tweets: @jguynn, @mims, @karaswisher, @clairecm, @panzer, @nickbilton, @jwherrman and @jessicakroy
| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Instapaper gets complete redesign after Betaworks purchase, new mobile apps soon — Instapaper is in the midsts of an overhaul. After being purchased by Betaworks this past April, the first major changes to the read-it-later service since creator Marco Arment gave up control of the app are here.| Adam Clark Estes / Gizmodo: |
Quantum Cryptography Could Make Your Phone Uncrackable Someday — As the world of cybersecurity becomes increasingly volatile, more advanced solutions to problems like encryption couldn't come soon enough. This is why everybody's excited about a team of British physicists' testing a method …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
EU telecoms chief drops plan to slash wholesale roaming prices — (Reuters) - EU telecoms chief Neelie Kroes has scrapped a draft proposal to cut wholesale roaming fees by as much as 90 percent, a European Commission document seen by Reuters showed, following criticism from major telecom companies.
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| Ben Woods / The Next Web: |
Three finally unveils 4G rollout plans: The stage is now set for UK's 4G future — Mobile operator Three has finally unveiled its rollout schedule and pricing details for its impending 4G launch, setting the stage for the real 4G battle in the UK to begin. — The operator announced …
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| David Kravets / Wired: |
White House Copyright Czar Jumps to Industry Anti-Piracy Group — Victoria Espinel, the nation's copyright czar until two weeks ago, has been named president of an anti-piracy trade group that lobbies governments on behalf of the software industry. — Espinel resigned earlier this month … | Andrea Peterson / The Switch: |
Here's how one hacker is waging war on the Syrian government — As President Obama weighed U.S. air strikes in Syria this week, a lone American hacker was waging his own attack on the Syrian government. He works a white-collar job in the United States by day, while at night he's … | Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Unity Game Engine To Get Official 2D Game Support And A Built-In Ad Solution — Unity, the increasingly popular “build once, run anywhere” 3D game engine, is going 2D. — At the company's UNITE conference in Vancouver this morning, CEO David Helgason announced three things …
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