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Samsung plans to launch Tizen smartphones in Q2 and an Android Wear smartwatch later this year — Samsung executive says Galaxy S5 to outsell S4, sees second quarter rollout for Tizen phone — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's new Galaxy S5 smartphone should outsell its predecessor … | iFixit: |
Google Project Tango smartphone prototype teardown — Project Tango Teardown — It's 2014 and the future is now. Google's engineers have been hard at work bringing the virtual to reality with projects like Google Glass, and their newest 3D mapping tech, Project Tango.
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Inside Alibaba, China's e-commerce giant with 2X Amazon's revenues, and plans for a $15B IPO — Alibaba Flexes Muscles Before IPO — Chinese E-Commerce Giant Speeds Toward $15 Billion Deal — Jack Ma still has the spartan apartment in the Chinese city of Hangzhou where the former English teacher started Alibaba.com in 1999.| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung and Carriers Back Anti-Theft Measures for Smartphones — With several states and municipalities considering various mandatory “kill-switch” laws for mobile devices, the wireless industry announced a voluntary commitment to include new anti-theft technology on phones starting next year.
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Mt. Gox gives up plan to rebuild under bankruptcy protection, files for liquidation — Mt. Gox Files for Liquidation — Defunct Bitcoin Exchange Gives Up On Plan to Rebuild — Defunct bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has given up its plan to rebuild under bankruptcy protection and has asked …
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Study: 37% of the roughly 781M games owned on Steam have not been loaded even once — Introducing Steam Gauge: Ars reveals Steam's most popular games — Right now, I can tell you that about 37 percent of the roughly 781 million games registered to various Steam accounts haven't even been loaded a single time.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
8 GB iPhone 5c now available in the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Sweden, Poland, Italy, Ireland and several others — After a brief period of downtime, the Apple Store website around the world has now gone back up. Aside from a bit of Mother's Day promotional advertising, there is no change to most regions.
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MacRumors, Gigaom, MacDailyNews, Electronista, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, SlashGear, Softpedia News, Phones Review, App Advice and iMore. Thanks:@mikebeas
| Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable: |
The Rise and Fall of AIM, the Breakthrough AOL Never Wanted — When we think about the spectacular collapse of once untouchable Internet properties, companies like MySpace and Pets.com come to mind. The rise and fall of AOL Instant Messenger rivals them all.
Tweets: @hunterwalk, @gootecks, @chelseabot and @jasonrosenthal
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Play Still Tops iOS App Store Downloads, And Now Narrowing Revenue Gap, Too — Android's position as the most dominant smartphone platform worldwide is also having an impact on mobile app download growth, and now, increasing revenue. Google's app marketplace, Google Play …
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App Annie Blog, Ubergizmo, Re/code, Cult of Mac, Tech in Asia, dailywireless.org, Android Community, iDownloadBlog.com, Gamasutra, Business Insider and Marketing Land. Tweets: @benbajarin
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Netgear adds BitTorrent Sync to its network-attached storage drives — Now this is smart: BitTorrent Inc. has teamed up with Netgear to take its P2P-powered Dropbox competitor BitTorrent Sync to the next level. Owners of a ReadyNAS device can now install apps for Sync directly on that device … | Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Samsung launches website highlighting ‘meaningful’ design — In the midst of a major “copycat” lawsuit, Samsung has launched a site that highlights original design from the company. Emblazoned with the tagline “make it meaningful,” it's described as “a platform to present influential design stories … | John Biggs / TechCrunch: |
Weev Talks About Life In Prison And His Plans To Open A Hedge Fund, TRO LLC — Weev, aka Andrew Auernheimer, is free. The 29-year-old hacker, released from the Allenwood Federal Correctional Center in Pennsylvania last weekend, has spent the past few days celebrating a federal appeals court decision …
Tweets: @tsimonite, @essobi and @charnyr
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Telefonica, Blackstone Launch Axonix, A Mobile Ad Exchange Built On Defunct MobClix Tech — Telefonica, the Spanish carrier with operations in 24 countries and 323 million customers, is making its latest bid to expand its business beyond basic mobile and telephone services, by moving into ad tech.
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New CEO Nadella pushes data culture at Microsoft — (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp needs a “data culture” to thrive in the new computing environment, according to chief executive Satya Nadella, in his third public appearance in three weeks putting his imprint on the software company.| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
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Thanks:@_trendspotter| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Yahoo's Q1 Earnings as Meh as Expected, But China's Alibaba Doing Great! — Yahoo pretty much came in on target in the first quarter with what Wall Street had been expecting, earning 38 cents a share on $1.087 billion in revenue. Minus traffic acquisition costs, that meant a pretty weak one percent increase in revenue.| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
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Google targeting Project Ara modular phone for January 2015 — The company wants a base “gray phone” model of its Project Ara modular smartphone available by early next year. — Google's Project Ara project coordinator David Fishman and team leader Paul Eremenko — Seth Rosenblatt/CNET
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NY state senator: NY Post report on prostitutes using Airbnb points to gambling, drug activity next — New York Lawmaker Warns That AirBNB Could Be Used For Gambling And Drugs Next — New York State Senator Liz Krueger issued a statement saying a New York Post report published Monday …
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