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Microsoft to launch Xbox original TV shows in June, has six series lined up, with more than a dozen projects in development — Microsoft Goes Hollywood in Amazon-Like Programming Push — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is going Hollywood with a cast including comedians Sarah Silverman and Seth Green …
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See also Mediagazer| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Acquires Android Lockscreen App Cover, Moves Deeper Into Mobile Services — A very interesting acquisition announcement from Twitter today: it's buying Cover, an Android lockscreen app that lets you customise what apps you see and when. For now, Cover will remain live in the Play store.
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#1 new paid app in Play Store “Virus Shield” has no functionality, later removed by Google — The #1 New Paid App In The Play Store Costs $4, Has Over 10,000 Downloads, A 4.7-Star Rating... And It's A Total Scam [Updated] — Computer security is important, even if the computer in question fits in your hand.
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Seagate releases 6TB hard drive, its fastest yet — Seagate has released its first 6TB hard drive, saying that it was able to reach that capacity without using helium like rival Western Digital. — Seagate has released its first 6TB, enterprise-class hard disk drive …
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Yahoo, like Netflix and Amazon, looks to produce full half-hour TV comedies — Yahoo Makes New Push Into Video Production — Internet Company Hunts for Original Web-Series Programming — Yahoo Inc. is raising its ambitions in online video, with plans to acquire the kind of original programming …
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See also Mediagazer| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
The Six Juiciest Documents From the Apple-Samsung Trial This Week — Internal Apple document provided by Samsung — You'd think a corporate patent infringement battle would be boring — and you'd usually be right, even during the high-profile Round Two of Samsung versus Apple.| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
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One big reason we lack Internet competition: Starting an ISP is really hard — Creating an ISP? You'll need millions of dollars, patience, and lots of lawyers. — There are probably many reasons that US households have so few choices for Internet service, but not least among them is the fact …
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How Techmeme Became The Must-Read News Site For Everyone In The Multibillion-Dollar Tech Industry — Over the past 10 years, the technology industry has evolved from photo-sharing websites like Flickr to photo-sharing apps like Instagram. — And, we suppose, there's been a few other changes along the way.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft's open sourcing of .Net: The back story — Summary: Microsoft's decision to open source more of its .Net platform didn't happen overnight, or even in the past few weeks. It was a move years in the making. — Microsoft's move to open source key chunks of its .Net platform …
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Qualcomm's Snapdragon 808/810: 20nm High-End 64-bit SoCs with LTE Category 6/7 Support in 2015 — Today Qualcomm is rounding out its 64-bit family with the Snapdragon 808 and 810. Like the previous 64-bit announcements (Snapdragon 410, 610 and 615), the 808 and 810 leverage ARM's own CPU IP …
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Qualcomm, Engadget, Gigaom, VentureBeat, Reuters, MobileSyrup.com, dailywireless.org, Technology Personalized, Gizmodo, CNET, AndroidGuys, MobileBurn.com, Re/code, Geek.com, Android Authority, Xperia Blog and SlashGear. Thanks:@srikardr
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
AOL Appoints William Pence From WebMD As New CTO; Curtis Brown Steps Down — AOL's ongoing push to turn its business around and focus on more ad-tech fuelled media plays continues apace: today the company (which owns TechCrunch) appointed a new CTO, William Pence, who it's hired away from WebMD, where he was also CTO as well as EVP.| David Kravets / Ars Technica: |
Supreme Court passes on NSA bulk phone surveillance case — Case will head to appeals court first, but will likely end up with the Supremes. — The Supreme Court declined Monday to resolve the constitutionality of the National Security Agency's bulk telephone metadata surveillance program …
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Square Also Just Got Hundreds of Millions in Credit — So What's Up With Debt Financing? — Late-stage Internet startups are developing a taste for a different flavor of money: Debt financing. Just like Dropbox, Square has secured a revolving credit facility worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Organizers of demonstration at Kevin Rose's home demand $3B from Google for an anarchist utopia — Anarchists Picket Digg Founder's House And Demand $3 Billion For Anti-Capitalist Housing — Anarchists staged a protest outside the San Francisco house of Digg founder and Google Ventures partner Kevin Rose today.
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