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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Microsoft Is Selling Office 365 Within iPad Apps, and Apple Is Getting Its 30 Percent Cut — While one of the big holdups for Office for iPad was getting the software just right, another was Apple's policy that apps that sell things — including subscriptions — use Apple's in-app purchase mechanism …
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| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Microsoft releases Office for iPad, subscription required for editing docs — Rumors have been circulating for years that Microsoft was working on a version of Office for the iPad, with speculation getting so intense at one point that the company went out of its way to categorically deny it.
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| Lance Ulanoff / Mashable: |
Microsoft Office for iPad review: rich apps, strong cloud ties, but no way to print documents — Microsoft Office for iPad Isn't Perfect, But It's What We Needed All Along — It took Microsoft a while — by some measures too long — but it's finally here: Office for iPad … | Satya Nadella / TechNet Blogs: |
A cloud for everyone, on every device — The following post is from Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft. — In my initial remarks as CEO, I spoke about how Microsoft is embracing the new “mobile-first cloud-first” world. I've gotten great feedback around this declaration from customers …
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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Satya Nadella on Why Office for iPad Took So Long — In announcing Office for iPad, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talked about all of the reasons why Microsoft was bringing the software to Apple's tablet. What he didn't talk about onstage was why Microsoft didn't do it sooner, especially since it had been working on versions for years.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft's Office for iPad: It's all about the business users — Summary: Who is the primary target for Microsoft's new Office for iPad suite? It's unfashionable to say this, but it's not consumers. It's business users. — I've seen quite a few stories in the run-up to the March 27 announcement …
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Office for iPhone and Android phones is now completely free, Android tablet version coming ‘in the future’ — In addition to releasing Office for iPad, Microsoft today also updated Office Mobile for iPhone and Office Mobile for Android with a major change: both are now completely free for home use.| Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
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| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon planning free ad-supported TV and music streaming service, no Prime subscription required — Amazon Plans Free Streaming Media Service — Website Said to Drop Strategy of Only Offering Video to Users of Its Prime Service — Amazon.com Inc. plans a free, advertising-supported streaming television … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Amazon Says It Has No Plans to Offer a Free TV and Music-Video Streaming Service — Here we go again: Amazon.com denied a Wall Street Journal report Thursday that the Internet retailing giant is working up a free, ad-supported TV and music-video service. — “We're often experimenting … | Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
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| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Facebook's Connectivity Lab is building drones, satellites and lasers to deliver Internet access — While Google is experimenting with helium balloons for Internet access, Facebook is working on drones, satellites and lasers. The company today unveiled the Connectivity Lab, which has evolved as part of its Internet.org initiative.
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Dropbox Acqui-Hiring Social Reading App Readmill For $8 Million — With fresh capital in its coffers, Dropbox appears to be on somewhat of an acquisition spree, albeit a quiet one. Following the cloud storage company's recent purchase of workplace chat solution Zulip … | Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Twitter Said Close to Releasing New Ad Product for Apps — Twitter Inc. (TWTR) is planning to release a mobile-advertising product in the next few weeks that application makers can use to encourage downloads of their programs, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
Tweets: @puiwingtam
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Samsung's first Smart Bulb is Bluetooth-only and lasts 10 years — Though it got beat to the punch by arch-competitor LG, Samsung has just released its debut smart LED bulb, literally called the “Smart Bulb.” It looks nothing like the multi-tiered model we saw at the FCC …
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| Garett Sloane / Adweek: |
Foursquare's New Ads Tap Twitter And Require $100K Commitment — Foursquare has a new ad product that invites users to tweet marketing messages when they check into businesses. The product is called Tap to Tweet and will be available in early April, Adweek learned via a memo obtained from an industry source.| Mark DeCambre / Quartz: |
Spotify is planning an IPO for this fall — Spotify could take itself public some time in the fall of 2014. — The popular music-streaming company has participated in informal chats with some of the investment banks likely to fight for a role in a potential IPO, sources familiar with the process said.| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter launch WebScaleSQL, a custom version of MySQL for massive databases — Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter today announced WebScaleSQL, a collaborative project bringing the engineers from these companies together to solve challenges working with massive databases.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Apps with millions of Google Play downloads covertly mine cryptocurrency — Researchers said they have uncovered two apps that were downloaded from the official Google Play market more than one million times that use Android devices to mine the Litecoin and Dogecoin cryptocurrencies without explicitly informing end users.| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Twitter pressuring companies highlighting tweets for TV not to work with Facebook, angering networks — Twitter Plays Hardball With Facebook Over TV — And TV Networks Gripe — TV networks love to work posts from Twitter, Facebook and other social networks into their programming.| Electronista: |
WD ships My Passport Pro, dual-drive bus-powered Thunderbolt RAID — Drive features integrated Thunderbolt cable — Drive manufacturer WD today introduced My Passport Pro, the first portable, Thunderbolt-powered dual-drive solution. My Passport Pro is available in dual-drive 2TB … | Tim Hornyak / PC World: |
‘Malleability’ attacks not to blame for Mt. Gox's missing bitcoins, study says — Fewer than 400 bitcoins could have been stolen from the Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange using so-called transaction malleability attacks, according to A Swiss study, far less than the hundreds of thousands of bitcoins the company reported.
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