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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 … | Dorinda Elliott / Fast Company: |
Tencent: the Chinese internet giant founded by Ma “Pony” Huateng guns for global expansion — Tencent: The Secretive, Chinese Tech Giant That Can Rival Facebook and Amazon — China's most powerful Internet company is headquartered in a bland, glassy tower in southern Shenzhen.| James Temple / Re/code: |
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.”| Christina Tynan-Wood / ITworld: |
Detroit's tech job growth nearly double the national average, fueled by car industry hires — By the numbers: Detroit offers a bright future for technology professionals — Metro Detroit's tech job growth was nearly 2x the national average in recent years| 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 … | Chris Davies / SlashGear: |
Inside Nokia's effort to build a detailed, three-dimensional “HD Map” for self-driving cars — Inside the Nokia HERE HD Maps putting Google on notice — Where exactly am I? That's the question Nokia is facing, not in its position following the Microsoft deal that will see it shed … | Mike Isaac / Re/code: |
Facebook Launching Mobile Ad Network at F8 Conference — Lots of people have wanted Facebook to build an ad network for a long time. — Here it comes. Facebook will take the wraps off its plans for a mobile ad network at its “F8″ developer conference in San Francisco at the end of the month …
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Former MSN Messenger Service developer recounts battle to reverse engineer AIM's chat protocol — Chat Wars — In the summer of 1998 I graduated from college and went to work as a programmer at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington. I was put on the group that was building MSN Messenger Service, Microsoft's instant messaging app.
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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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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
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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| 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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