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Twitter web gets new timeline filtering options, new profile design features pinned and best tweets — Coming soon: a whole new you, in your Twitter profile — Moment by moment, your Twitter profile shows the world who you are. Starting today, it will be even easier (and, we think …
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| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal: |
Galaxy S5 Review: More a refinement than a significant upgrade, waterproofing the only new good feature — Samsung Galaxy S5 Review: Watertight Yet Still Not Quite Right — A Water-Resistant Phone That Doesn't Make a Splash — Personal Tech Columnist Geoffrey Fowler took … | Mathew Ingram / Gigaom: |
Collaborative-writing platform Wattpad gets $46M in financing for global expansion — Wattpad, a collaborative-writing community that helps new authors connect with a community of fans and fellow writers, has closed a new round of financing worth $46 million that co-founder and CEO Allen Lau …
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Adobe debuts Lightroom Mobile for iPad with powerful, on-the-go photo editing — After briefly leaking earlier this year, Adobe is finally ready to show off its Lightroom Mobile for iPad software for photographers and photo editors. The iPad application borrows many of the essential features … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft's $7.2BN Deal To Buy Nokia's Devices Business Gets The Nod In China — Chinese regulators have approved Nokia's planned sale of its devices business to Microsoft, taking the $7.2 billion deal one step closer to closing. — Nokia said today it has received regulatory approval … | Chris Dixon / chris dixon's blog: |
Mobile app dominance vs. web will hurt long-term innovation, likely make web a niche product — The decline of the mobile web — People are spending more time on mobile vs desktop: — And more of their mobile time using apps, not the web: — This is a worrisome trend for the web.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Everything to know about iOS 8 and OS X 10.10 (Roundup + New Details) — While Apple only officially announced its 2014 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) last week, we have been reporting all of the known information about what Apple plans to unveil at the event over the course of the past few months.| Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
The technology behind Android TV: how Google wants to reinvent apps for the living room — Google is working on yet another platform for the living room, and it doesn't just want to compete on looks alone: The company has come up with a novel way to develop TV apps and make use of their data.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp, E-Plus Launch A €10 SIM In Germany With Free WhatsApp Usage Included — Back in February, Jan Koum, CEO of Facebook-owned WhatsApp, hinted that the company would soon be unveiling a new way of working with carriers, first in Germany, with special tariffs to access the app.| Claire Cain Miller / New York Times: |
Google launches Glass at Work program for businesses, courts enterprise developers — At Google, Bid to Put Its Glasses To Work — SAN FRANCISCO — At the 500 Club bar in the heart of the Mission district here, patrons are banned from wearing Google Glass.| Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: |
S.F. cracks down on Airbnb rentals — Jeffrey Katz felt nauseous. — The special-ed teacher makes ends meet by hosting Airbnb guests in the living room of his San Francisco apartment. But last week, Katz found an eviction notice on his front door. — “You are illegally using the premises … | Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
After Raising $250 Million, Lyft Cuts Prices By Up To 20% In All Markets — Last week, Lyft announced that it had raised a massive $250 million round of funding as part of its effort to compete against other on-demand ride services. Now the company is going on the offensive against its competitors … | Jan Strupczewski / Reuters: |
EU court rules against requirement to keep data of telecom users — (Reuters) - The European Union's highest court ruled on Tuesday that an EU directive requiring telecoms companies to store the communications data of EU citizens for up to two years was invalid.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Amazon A9′s VP of Search heads to Apple to fix up Maps search — Benoit Dupin, Vice President of Amazon A9′s Search Technology group, has left the high-profile search technology firm to take up a job with Apple. Dupin's profile from Amazon A9′s executive management website disappeared … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Commenting Platform Disqus Introduces Sponsored Comments — Disqus, which says it powers the comment sections on almost 3 million websites, is announcing a new type of ad unit today — Sponsored Comments. — Since Disqus already runs ads through its Promoted Discovery program … | Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Google I/O 2014 registration dates pushed back by a week — now open April 15-18 — Google was scheduled to open the ‘lottery’ for tickets to its upcoming Google I/O event in the early hours of today - April 8 — but it has pushed the dates back to make things “even easier” for those wanting to attend.
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| Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
Heartbleed: Serious OpenSSL zero day vulnerability revealed — Summary: A new OpenSSL vulnerability has shown up and some companies are annoyed that the bug was revealed before patches could be delivered for it. — New security holes are always showing up.
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| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Uber launching an on-demand courier service in Manhattan on Tuesday — Uber is launching an on-demand courier service tomorrow (exclusive) — Tomorrow, Uber will launch an on-demand courier service in Manhattan, allowing users to request item pickup and delivery via a smartphone app.
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Intel's new reporting structure sheds light on Internet of things, mobile — Summary: It should be easier to see progress in Intel's Internet of things and mobile businesses as the chip giant changes its financial reporting structure. — Intel is changing its financial reporting structure …
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| Casey Johnston / Ars Technica: |
Jerk.com scammed money to remove Facebook-scraped profiles, says FTC — A typical Jerk.com profile, where visitors can vote on whether a particular person is or is not a jerk as well as fill in supplementary, personally identifying information. — As of Monday, the FTC has charged … | Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Raspberry Pi gets more Arduino-y with new open source modular hardware — The Raspberry Pi Compute Module, ready for your custom hardware soon. — Raspberry Pi Foundation — Soon, there could be Pi in just about any device that needs embedded computing power.
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| Max Chafkin / Fast Company: |
The story of Better Place, Shai Agassi's failed electric car startup that raised nearly $1B — A Broken Place: The Spectacular Failure Of The Startup That Was Going To Change The World — “So this is the car.” I'm standing outside a shopping mall somewhere in Tel Aviv, Israel, as Guy Pross shows me his ride.| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Google takes legal action against Turkey's YouTube ban — Remember how a Turkish court ordered an end to the country's YouTube ban? Well, that decision has already been reversed — and Google has launched an all-out legal assault in response. The search firm has filed a complaint …
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