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Sources: Production of 4.7" iPhone 6 screen to begin in May, 5.5" starting months later — New iPhone 6 screens to enter production as early as May: sources — (Reuters) - Apple Inc suppliers will begin mass producing displays as early as May for the next iPhone, expected to be launched this autumn …
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| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Yahoo in talks to acquire online video service News Distribution Network for close to $300M — Yahoo in Talks to Buy Online-Video Service NDN — Sources — Deal Would Help Yahoo Compete With Google's YouTube — Yahoo Inc. is in preliminary talks to acquire online-video service News …
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Microsoft's Bing expands Snapshot feature to surface doctors, dentists, lawyers, and real estate listings — Microsoft today updated its Bing search engine to show more information via the Snapshot feature, which pulls together connections between people, places, and the “things you care about” …
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Facebook CEO Zuckerberg's Base Salary Falls to $1 — Mark Zuckerberg has decided he's a $1-a-year man. — Zuckerberg, who is Facebook Inc. (FB)'s chief executive officer and also the 22nd richest person in the world as ranked by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, was paid $1 in salary for 2013 … | Colin Campbell / Polygon: |
How ‘Game Jam,’ an indie game dev reality show, collapsed on its first day of filming — Game_Jam, a TV-style reality show focused on the efforts of indie game developers, has collapsed in the most publicly acrimoniously way imaginable, participants say. — Touted by its makers as a contest … | Lisa Fleisher / Wall Street Journal: |
Balderton Raises $305m for European Series A Tech Investments — Venture-capital firm Balderton Capital has opened a $305 million start-up fund, hoping to spread out lots of small investments and have a bigger chance of hitting it big. The company, one of the top venture funds in Europe …
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| Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Airbnb to collect hotel taxes for San Francisco rentals — Airbnb, the fast-growing website that lets people rent out their homes or rooms to travelers, took a giant step toward legalizing itself in San Francisco with an announcement Monday evening that it will begin paying the city's 14 percent hotel tax by this summer.
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
OKCupid shows Firefox users a full-page interstitial suggesting alternate browsers in protest of Mozilla's CEO — OKCupid asks users to boycott Firefox because of CEO's gay rights stance — Anyone accessing the popular dating site OKCupid with Firefox today is in for a surprise.
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| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Surprise, surprise: my online metadata actually reveals where I've been — Here are some of the places that Ars tracked Cyrus Farivar to in February 2014. — In January 2014, documents provided by Edward Snowden showed that a Canadian spy agency used a unique identifier to follow thousands … | Nitesh Dhanjani: |
Tesla's website allows weak passwords and brute-force attacks, easing remote unlocking and location tracking for attackers — Cursory Evaluation of the Tesla Model S: We Can't Protect Our Cars Like We Protect Our Workstations — The innovation behind Tesla's electric vehicles has set us …
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| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Google+ now shows the total number of profile, post and photo views on pages — In an effort to shrug off its “ghost town” reputation, Google today updated Google+ with total content views for profiles and pages. — On any page, you'll notice the new figure underneath the user's profile photo … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft chops Azure prices to match Amazon's latest reductions — Summary: Microsoft is cutting prices for a number of its Azure services to match (and in some cases, beat) Amazon's latest pricing. — The cloud price wars are continuing to wage on. — A week after Amazon axed prices across …
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| Julie / iPhone Hacks: |
Pebble asks users not to install v2.1 update, citing critical issue that breaks app — Pebble is asking its users not to install the version 2.1 update for the iPhone that was released March 31st, citing a critical issue that prevents the app from working. — The company does … | Michael Calia / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenText Seeks $268 Million in Patent Claims From Box — Firm Seeks to Block Online Storage Company From Selling Infringing Products — OpenText Corp. on Monday said it is seeking $268 million in damages from online storage company Box Inc. over 200 claims of alleged patent infringement.
Tweets: @benkiker
| Ken Dilanian / Los Angeles Times: |
NSA chief's legacy is shaped by big data, for better and worse — Gen. Keith Alexander, who just retired as NSA director, achieved ‘absolutely invaluable’ results with digital spying but failed to anticipate how the public would feel about privacy. — “We need to recognize that those who are working …
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| Chris Kanaracus / PC World: |
Oracle overtakes IBM as second-largest software vendor, Gartner says — Oracle has overtaken rival IBM as the world's second-largest software vendor by pulling in US$29.6 billion in software revenue during 2013, according to analyst firm Gartner. — “Global trends around big data and analytics …
| Greg Sterling / Marketing Land: |
FTC: Brand-Incentivized Pins On Pinterest Potentially “Deceptive,” Require Disclosure — Eric Goldman alerted us this weekend (via Twitter) to an FTC ruling that may have a significant impact on the way that brands interact with users on Pinterest. The FTC determined (see embedded letter below) …
Tweets: @ericgoldman, @appsfire and @dannysullivan
| Satya Nadella / Microsoft Corporation: |
Microsoft CEO promotes Scott Guthrie to EVP of Cloud and Enterprise, names Stephen Elop EVP of Devices, consolidates Xbox teams under Phil Spencer — Satya Nadella email to employees on tuning our organization — Today marks the start of another big week for Microsoft as we gear up for the Build conference in San Francisco.
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| Phil Spencer / Xbox Wire: |
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| Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
Apple's A7 processor is indeed “desktop class”, but apps aren't fully utilizing its power — Apple's Cyclone Microarchitecture Detailed — The most challenging part of last year's iPhone 5s review was piecing together details about Apple's A7 without any internal Apple assistance.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft to highlight its ‘One Windows’ progress at Build 2014 — Summary: What's on tap for Microsoft's Build conference this week? Here's what we know and what we think we know. — While Microsoft execs have made subsstantial progress in the past couple of years toward breaking … | Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
Intel takes 18% stake in Cloudera with $740M investment, valuing company at $4.1B — Intel Takes Massive $740 Million Stake in Cloudera — Studio DMM Photography, Designs & Art/Shutterstock — Last week's investment by chipmaker Intel in the big-data software company Cloudera has turned …
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