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Apple Confirms Acquisition of 3-D Sensor Startup PrimeSense — Apple has completed its acquisition of PrimeSense, the Israel-based company focused on 3-D sensor technology, for a price sources said was around $360 million. — Apple spokeswoman Kristin Huguet confirmed the PrimeSense deal …
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Clinging to Outlook, Only 25 Percent of Yahoo Employees Willing to Eat Mail “Dogfood” (Best Memo Ever!) — As most know, I love a good internal memo from inside Yahoo and here's a doozy related to a rather controversial topic of late: How badly the new version of Yahoo Mail has been received by consumers.
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Uber Strikes Deal To Lower The Cost Of Car Ownership For Drivers — On-demand transportation service Uber is trying to get new drivers on the road, while also improving the experience for those who are already on its platform. To do that, it's partnered with a couple of auto manufacturers …
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Amazon's Next Kindle Paperwhite To Feature 300ppi Screen, Better Typography, Arrive Early Next Year — Amazon is now preparing a new Kindle Paperwhite for release in early Q2 of next year, TechCrunch has learned. The marquee feature of the new device is a high-resolution 300 ppi screen …
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Samsung unveils the 5.25-inch Galaxy Grand 2, featuring a quad-core 1.2GHz processor and 1.5GB RAM — Samsung has just taken the wraps off its Galaxy Grand 2, yet another large-screen smartphone typically known as a phablet. — The Galaxy Grand 2′s screen size has been upped a notch … | Rebecca Grant / VentureBeat: |
Waze debuts new feature where celebrities give you driving directions — Now you can have a celebrity give you driving directions. — Waze is partnering with Universal Pictures to roll out a celebrity voice navigation feature. The first celebrity to guide you from point A to point B is comedian and actor Kevin Hart.
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The Battle For The Connected Home Is Heating Up — Editor's note: Matt Turck is a managing director of FirstMark Capital. Follow him on Twitter at @mattturck. — Almost 15 years ago, a friend of mine at McKinsey spent a few nights writing a document called “The Battle for the Home”.| Iljitsch van Beijnum / Ars Technica: |
Review: The productivity suite formerly known as iWork — Roughly five years ago, Apple released iWork '09. But at the time, a different Apple lived in a different world: (non-Web) iPhone apps had been introduced only six months earlier and all Macs except the woefully underpowered first-gen MacBook Air still had optical drives.
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Marc Benioff Is the Ron Burgundy of Tech — Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff is an egomaniacal buffoon who laughs at the plight of underpaid Walmart workers and flies the prime minister of Haiti up to San Francisco so he can thank Benioff in person, in front of 15,000 people, for being such an amazing human being.
Tweets: @mikebutcher, @mattrosoff, @dsilverman, @springrod, @nitashatiku, @om, @jholston, @aliciatweet and @samfbiddle
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Study of Bitcoin transactions suggests link between Silk Road operator and Satoshi Nakamoto — Study Suggests Link Between Dread Pirate Roberts and Satoshi Nakamoto — Two Israeli computer scientists say they may have uncovered a puzzling financial link between Ross William Ulbricht …
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| Alexandra Wolfe / Wall Street Journal: |
Yuri Milner on Twitter, Facebook, Russia and Science — As a young dropout from a Ph.D. program in physics, Yuri Milner had no special ambitions to start a technology company in his native Russia. He worked in finance for a few years before coming across a 1999 report by Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker … | Nathaniel Popper / DealBook: |
In Bitcoin's Orbit: Rival Virtual Currencies Vie for Acceptance — For many people, bitcoin seems like something from the day after tomorrow. — For Lawrence Blankenship, it's already a thing of the past. — A software engineer from Springfield, Mo., Mr. Blankenship is putting his money on PeerCoin … Sponsor Posts
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The 90-day recognition cliff: Why praise programs fade, and what keeps them alive — Recognition programs often start with enthusiasm. Employees participate, managers share shoutouts, and teams have a new way to celebrate achievements.
The 90-day recognition cliff: Why praise programs fade, and what keeps them alive — Recognition programs often start with enthusiasm. Employees participate, managers share shoutouts, and teams have a new way to celebrate achievements.
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