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Sources say Amazon readying an Android-based Web TV box competing with Apple TV and Roku, for March rollout — Amazon Gets Its TV Box Ready, Again — Amazon is gearing up to take on Apple and Roku, again. — Industry sources say Amazon is getting ready to launch a Web TV box …
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| Mike Isaac / Re/code: |
Facebook's WhatsApp Deal Could Jumpstart Internet.org Plans — What's cooler than $19 billion? How about changing the world? … Mark Zuckerberg took a step closer to realizing a dream to bring the Internet to everyone on the planet with Facebook's $19 billion acquisition of mobile messaging service WhatsApp on Wednesday.| Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom: |
Amazon increases price of Prime in U.K. and Germany as it rolls in Lovefilm streaming video — Amazon is rolling together its Prime and Lovefilm Instant services in the U.K. and Germany. Starting February 26, U.K. and German Prime members will be able to stream movies and TV shows as part … | Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Google Acquires Spider.io To Help Spot And Stop Online Ad Fraud — London-based Spider.io has been acquired by Google, the company's DoubleClick advertising blog announced today (via Re/Code). Spider.io is a startup that specialized in weeding out fraudulent clicks around online ads.| Brad Stone / Businessweek: |
Invasion of the Taxi Snatchers: Uber Leads an Industry's Disruption — Ray Markovich started driving a taxi in Chicago three years ago after shuttering his struggling wireless phone store. Driving a cab wasn't particularly gratifying or lucrative—he had to pay $400 a week just to lease his 2011 white Ford Escape.
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| Matt Brian / Engadget: |
New Google WiFi app could automatically log you into Starbucks and other private hotspots — Google is working on a new WiFi app that could take a lot of the drudgery out of accessing wireless hotspots. According to our sources, the search giant has built Android and iOS versions of an app … | Don Clark / Digits: |
Samsung to collaborate with UCSF in validating the effectiveness of medical sensors — Samsung Forges Medical Tie-Up in San Francisco — Samsung Electronics already has a smartwatch, and is positioned to play a broader role in the wearable device movement.
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Verizon completes $130B buyout of Vodafone's stake in Verizon Wireless — Verizon Sale Cuts Vodafone Value by Half to $100 Billion — Vodafone Group Plc (VOD) completes the biggest sale of the past decade today, leaving the wireless carrier about half the size it was …
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| Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom: |
Sprint launches Wi-Fi calling, turning the Galaxy Mega, S4 Mini into IP phones — In the next few weeks, Sprint customers with a Samsung Galaxy Mega or a Galaxy S4 Mini will get an over-the-air software update that will turn their devices into IP phones - at least when they're connected to Wi-Fi networks.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Secret Adds Subscribe/Unsubscribe Options, Post Flagging, Unlinking And More — Hot anonymous social network Secret has just pushed an update for its app that addresses a number of issues and improves performance. The new version allows users to subscribe or unsubscribe to any Secret post by swiping left …
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Korea's dominant text messaging service Kakao preparing for IPO at $2B valuation — Kakao Close to Signing Morgan Stanley, Samsung Securities as IPO Advisers — Offering Possibly Poised to Value Text-Messaging Company at More Than $2 Billion — Kakao Corp. is close to signing Morgan Stanley … | Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
Apple's iPhone led 2013 US consumer smartphone sales with 45% share - NPD — With more than 120 million smartphones sold in the U.S. in 2013, Apple's iPhone accounted for nearly half of those, taking a 45 percent share in its home market last year, new data released by the NPD Group on Thursday reveals.| TechCrunch: |
TestFlight Owner Burstly Acquired By Apple — Burstly, the makers of an in-app ad management platform called SkyRocket and the parent company of popular mobile app testing platform TestFlight, has been acquired, we're hearing. Though we're working to get more information on this now …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Nokia's Here Maps app is coming to all Windows 8.1 devices — If Bing Maps hasn't been getting the job done on your Microsoft Surface, you'll be glad to hear there's another option on the way: Nokia's Here Maps. The company says it will “soon” launch its mapping software for all Windows 8.1 devices.
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4G data: The USA is second-slowest while Australia is fastest — OpenSignal has released a report today looking at the state of LTE coverage and speeds around the world, revealing that, contrary to what you might expect, not all LTE networks perform comparably.| Timothy J. Seppala / Engadget: |
Microsoft is hand-picking users to test Xbox One's next software update — Ahead of Xbox One's second spring update Microsoft is inviting a handful of gamers to test the patch's mutiplayer features. As Major Nelson tells it, the invite process starts today and if picked, you'll be first in line to try future updates as well.
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| Ryan Tate / Wired: |
Warner makes deal with Shazam to access its data to identify music hits — Warner Music Mines Shazam for Underground Hits — Warner Music Group is getting smart about looking for breakout artists. — Today, the old-school record label revealed it has entered a rather clever partnership with Shazam …
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New York Times, PC Magazine, hypebot, 9to5Google, Billboard, Geeky Gadgets, Rolling Stone, USA Today and The Next Web
| Pankaj Mishra / TechCrunch: |
With $8M In Fresh Funding, Ezetap Is More Than Just A Square For Emerging Markets — There are almost 900 million active cell-phone users in India now, and from newer startups to some of the biggest companies in the world, everybody is chasing the next mobile disruption that could potentially result …
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Tech in Asia and MediaNama
| Sean Buckley / Engadget: |
Tegra Note 7 tablet to get an LTE refresh, early adopters pick up KitKat update — Itching for a Tegra-powered gaming device, but insist on a slate with LTE support? You're in luck: NVIDIA is building a tablet just for you. Today the company announced the Tegra Note 7 LTE … | Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times: |
Google creates ‘near-real-time’ deforestation tracking tool — Google and several partners have launched Global Forest Watch, a website that makes it possible for users to track global deforestation. — Google is bringing awareness to global deforestation with a new website that lets users …
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Gizmodo, Google LatLong, Google Maps Mania, SiliconANGLE and Boing Boing
| Carl Franzen / The Verge: |
Steve Jobs will appear on a US postage stamp in 2015 — Many of his creations reduced the need to send physical mail, but late Apple founder Steve Jobs will still get a fitting tribute from the US Postal Service: his likeness will appear on a postage stamp beginning in 2015, according to a document obtained by The Washington Post.
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Federal Eye, Engadget, Slate, Cult of Mac, Laughing Squid, TechSpot, CNET, WebProNews, Digital Trends, UnleashThePhones, PC Magazine, AppleTell, Fortune, The Register, Gizmodo, MacNN, The Mac Observer, Business Insider, The Technology Chronicles, iDownloadBlog.com …, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore, MacRumors, IntoMobile, AppleInsider, App Advice and 9to5Mac
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
“Twitch Plays Pokémon” is so big, it's overloading Twitch's servers — Twitch Plays Pokémon fights a Haunter. Kind of. — We're a little over a week into the phenomenon that is Twitch Plays Pokémon (TPP), and the “social experiment” is still going strong—so strong …
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