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Exclusive: Nike fires majority of FuelBand team, will stop making wearable hardware — The sportswear company has decided that only software has a future in the company's technology vision. That means cutting the FuelBand, and those who helped make it.
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Nike Denies FuelBand Shutdown, but Layoffs Could Reveal New Cracks in Wearables Market — Nike confirmed a “small number” of layoffs in its digital sports division, but attempted to tamp down a CNET report late Friday that said the company was shuttering the hardware side of its FuelBand team.
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Facebook's dedicated unfollow button triples unfollows as users tire of original friend model — Facebook's friend problem — Why can't the social network adapt to how we make (and lose) friends? — When I arrived at the University of Michigan in fall 2007, everybody said “Facebook me.”| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
What Does the Recent Tech Stock Downturn Mean? The Truth Is Nobody Knows. — In his new book on high-frequency trading, “Flash Boys,” Michael Lewis opens with the very simple premise he gleaned from watching the stock market crash in October of 1987: — “If you ever needed proof … | Sharif Sakr / Engadget: |
Sony Xperia Z2 review: a big, powerful slab of a phone — It's been nearly three years since I reviewed the Xperia Neo, manufactured by what was then Sony Ericsson. The Neo represented just the second generation of Xperia phones running on Android, from a period when Sony was finding …
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Galaxy S5's finger scanner marks an early milestone in the FIDO Alliance's efforts to eliminate passwords — The plot to kill the password — The world's most powerful companies want you to log in with fingerprints and eyescans — Last Friday, Samsung's new Galaxy S5 arrived with an unexpected and underhyped feature.
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| Rod Boshart / Quad City Times: |
Microsoft brings $1.13 billion data center to Iowa — DES MOINES — Central Iowa is emerging as an economic magnet for high-tech data centers, state and local leaders declared Friday after plans were unveiled for global computer giant Microsoft to phase in a $1.13 billion regional data center over the next four to five years.
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Samsung data center fire causes outage, errors on smart TVs and phones (update: fixed) — Seeing an error message on your Samsung phone, tablet or Smart TV today? You're not alone, as the Samsung.com website appears to be down and owners worldwide have reported anything from error messages …
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Digital Public Library of America to add millions of records to its archive — Aquarium, Battery Park, New York City [Postcard], ca. 1931. This is just one of the many resources you can find online through the DPLA website or through apps using its API. — New York Aquarium Postcards collection … | Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Analyst consensus is that quarterly iPad sales might decline slightly compared to last year — How many iPads did Apple sell last quarter? — The analysts' estimates range from 15 million to nearly 22 million. Average: 19.3 million. — FORTUNE —Although the heyday of the iPad …
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| Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom: |
Aereo's CEO on the future of Netflix, TV sports and the public airwaves — In 2012, Chet Kanojia set out to take on TV's goliaths with a slingshot full of tiny antennas, but he never imagined things would go so far so fast. Aereo, the start-up he created, is going before the Supreme Court … | Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Beats Bites the Bullet, and Starts Selling Subscriptions From Apple's App — Apple has a crazily powerful digital store, used by hundreds of millions of customers. But if you want to sell something there it will cost you: In almost every case, Apple keeps 30 percent of the purchase price on whatever its users buy.
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