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Apple Worldwide Developers Conference Kicks Off June 2 at Moscone West in San Francisco — Developers Can Apply for WWDC Tickets Starting Today — Apple® today announced that it will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 2 through June 6 at San Francisco's Moscone West.
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US govt secretly created “Cuban Twitter” to stir unrest, sought funding from Jack Dorsey — US secretly created “Cuban Twitter” to stir unrest — You are here — Home » United States government » US secretly created ‘Cuban Twitter’ to stir unrest
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Tweets: @paullewis, @katrinanation, @oireachtas_rx, @wjrue, @nxthompson and @themurdochtimes
See also Mediagazer| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 7 bug allows anyone to disable Find My iPhone and bypass Activation Lock without a password — Starting with iOS 7, deleting an iCloud account or restoring a device requires Find My iPhone to be disabled. Find My iPhone, in turn, requires the user to enter the password for the Apple ID attached to the iCloud account.
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| Jenna Wortham / New York Times: |
Imgur, the Image-Sharing Site, Raises $40 Million From Andreessen Horowitz — If you spend any measurable amount of time on the Internet, you've likely visited — or at least looked at — an image hosted on Imgur (pronounced “image-er"). — The photo-sharing service is extremely popular … | David Meyer / Gigaom: |
European Parliament passes strong net neutrality law, along with major roaming reforms — European fans of the open internet can breathe a sigh of relief: the European parliament has passed a major package of telecoms law reform, complete with amendments that properly define and protect net neutrality.
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How Amazon Fire TV Stacks Up To Apple TV, Chromecast And Roku — Amazon has just announced its streaming TV media device, the Fire TV, and that means it now faces off against other tech giants and incumbents in yet another category. So how does the Amazon TK compare to the likes of the Apple TV … | Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
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Intel outs 64-bit KitKat Android, ‘Braswell’ chip for Chromebooks — Intel is touting a future system-on-a-chip for low-cost PCs and tablets and a 64-bit version of Android 4.4. — Toshiba's Chromebook uses a low-cost Intel Celeron processor. Intel's upcoming Braswell chip could find its way into future Chromebooks.
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| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Inside Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab; see what Zuck saw just weeks before Oculus buy — If You Like Immersion, You'll Love This Reality — The news that Facebook paid $2 billion for a virtual reality start-up, Oculus VR, might strike you as a bit zany.
Tweets: @charlesgoulduk, @fmanjoo, @nytimesbusiness, @davidsackman and @mrlerner
| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Twitter details its “Manhattan” real-time distributed database that helps it scale — This Is What You Build to Juggle 6,000 Tweets a Second — When you open the Twitter app on your smartphone and all those tweets, links, icons, photos, and videos materialize in front of you, they're not coming from one place.
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| Eric Lam / Bloomberg: |
Google stock split creates nonvoting class, lets founders retain control when new stock issued — New Google Shares Hit Market as Founders Cement Grip With Split — More than 330 million new shares of Google Inc. (GOOG) land in the U.S. equity market today, completing a two-year process through …
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Tesco Buys Into Ad Tech As Big Data Division Dunnhumby Nabs Sociomantic For Over $100M — UK-based Tesco, the world's second-largest retailer after Walmart, has made a killing in its sector by jumping early into the use of big data, collected via loyalty cards as well as through stores and online …
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| Chip Cummins / Wall Street Journal: |
Just Eat Joins Parade of London Tech IPOs, with £1.5-Billion Market Cap — The tech IPO parade continues in London. — Online restaurant-delivery company Just Eat PLC said Thursday it priced its initial public offering at 260 pence a share, giving it a market capitalization of £1.47 billion ($2.44 billion.)| Joab Jackson / PC World: |
Microsoft open sources Windows Library for JavaScript — Potentially helping developers more quickly build cross-platform applications, Microsoft is releasing as open source its WinJS JavaScript library for building Windows-styled controls. — Now that the library is open source …
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| Klint Finley / Wired: |
Open-source laptop Novena launches crowdfunding campaign, allows hacking its hardware — The Almost Completely Open Source Laptop Goes on Sale — The Novena open source laptop. Photo: Crowd Supply — Andrew “bunnie” Huang and Sean “xobs” Cross want to sell you a laptop you can completely trust.
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Turkey lifts Twitter ban after court ruling — (Reuters) - Turkey's telecoms authority lifted a two-week-old ban on Twitter on Thursday after the constitutional court ruled the block breached freedom of expression, an official in Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's office said.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Clari, A Mobile-First Predictive Sales Tool, Comes Out Of Stealth With $6M From Sequoia — CRM behemoths like Salesforce and Oracle have made some significant inroads into mobile and specifically apps for mobile salespeople, but a new startup believes that its streamlined, mobile-first solution can do it better.
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| Bobby Yip / Reuters: |
Alibaba's Jack Ma invests $532M for controlling stake in financial software firm Hundsun Tech — Alibaba's Jack Ma invests $532 million in financial software firm — (Reuters) - Jack Ma, the founder of China's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, the world's biggest e-commerce firm …
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Vkontakte CEO in U-Turn After Announcing Departure — Pavel Durov Said on His Vkontakte Page That Resignation Was an 'April Fool's Joke' — MOSCOW—The unpredictable founder of Vkontakte, Russia's largest social-networking website, who earlier this week announced he was quitting his job … | Chip Cummins / Wall Street Journal: |
Flickr's Spiering Departs for Berlin Start-up EyeEm — U.S. online photo-hosting site Flickr lost its product head, Mark Spiering, to Berlin's nascent start-up scene. — EyeEm Mobile GmbH, which operates a Berlin-based, free photo-sharing app, said Thursday that Mr. Spiering, 36 years old …
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| Tim Stevens / CNET: |
Microsoft's Chaitanya Sareen gets candid on the evolution of Windows 8 — Chaitanya Sareen, who has managed every version of Windows since 7, shares his thoughts with us about the always-evolving state of the desktop operating system. — Chaitanya Sareen — Josh Miller/CNET
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
| Charles Luzar / Crowdfund Insider: |
Crowdfunding site Indiegogo allows campaign nearing $1M for a dubious calorie-counting device — Indiegogo's Reputation May Hinge On Outcome Of GoBe Campaign … The above excerpt is from Dr. David Ahn's writeup today in iMedialApps, and it does a great job in outlining some of the concerns surrounding … | Rich Trenholm / CNET: |
TomTom Runner Cardio sport watch has its finger on your pulse — The TomTom Runner Cardio gives rival fitness trackers and smartwatches a run for their money with built-in GPS and heart rate monitoring. — The TomTom Runner Cardio sports watch with GPS and heart rate monitor. — TomTom
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
The story of Cortana, Microsoft's Siri killer — Technically, Cortana isn't supposed to exist for at least another 500 years, but that's not stopping Microsoft from bringing her to life this week. While Apple has Siri and Google has Google Now — both digital assistants that run on smartphones … | Joe Belfiore / Windows Phone Blog: |
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