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Google Agreed to Pay Some of Samsung's Costs, Assume Some Liability in Latest Apple Case — A Google lawyer testified on Tuesday that the software maker, pursuant to its contractual obligations, agreed to take over defense of some of the claims in Apple's current patent lawsuit … | Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Meet the One, OnePlus' $299 Nexus killer — Rarely do we see a tech startup spending five months actively hyping up an unborn product; and when we do, most of them end up being vaporware. Luckily, that's not the case with OnePlus. Today, the Shenzhen-based company has finally unveiled …
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Pure Storage Raises $225 Million at a $3 Billion Valuation — Pure Storage, the company shaking up the enterprise storage market with a data storage array based solely on flash memory has raised $225 million late stage round of venture capital funding at pre-money valuation of more than $3 billion.| Zach Epstein / BGR: |
Amazon's phone requires tilt gestures to navigate apps and menus, can capture notes with OCR — EXCLUSIVE — BGR reveals everything you could possibly want to know about Amazon's smartphone! — An exclusive in-depth look at the unique software that will power Amazon's upcoming smartphones| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Apple Opens OS X Beta Testing To All Users With New Seed Program — Before today, you needed a developer account to help test Apple's upcoming software releases before they hit the general user population. You didn't need to actually develop anything, but it would still cost you $99 per year to partake … | Re/code: |
The Supreme Court Loves the Cloud. It's Not Sure About Aereo. — All of those arguments about Aereo's case and its impact on the future of cloud computing? — It turns out the Supreme Court was listening. — As attorneys for the Web TV service and the TV networks who are suing it argued …
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| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
As WhatsApp Hits 500 Million Users, CEO Jan Koum Preaches Focus — While waiting to hear whether European regulators will clear its $19 billion acquisition by Facebook, the mobile messaging app maker WhatsApp hit a big milestone yesterday: It has 500 million active monthly users.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
OpenSSL code beyond repair, claims creator of “LibreSSL” fork — OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt has created a fork of OpenSSL, the widely used open source cryptographic software library that contained the notorious Heartbleed security vulnerability. — OpenSSL has suffered from a lack … | Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
David Einhorn warns of “second tech bubble in 15 years”, shorts undisclosed tech stocks — David Einhorn Just Cried Bubble And Let Slip The Shorts Of War — David Einhorn, a hedge fund manager worth north of a billion dollars, isn't bullish on technology stocks.
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| Walt Mossberg / Re/code: |
Apple is like a movie studio: blockbuster franchise products followed by sequels — Why Apple Is Like a Movie Studio — Steve Jobs has been dead for about two and a half years now, and it's hard not to notice that the regular parade of game-changing Apple products for which he was famous seems to have disappeared with him.
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Dish plans late-summer debut for internet TV package at $20-$30/month aimed at 18-34 age group — Dish Said to Target Summer Debut for Internet-TV Service — Dish Network Corp. (DISH) is targeting a summer debut for its Internet-TV service in the U.S., according to people familiar with the matter.
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| David Bellona / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter makes new web profiles available to all users — Your new web profile is here — Today, the new web profile experience is rolling out to all users around the world. — Get the new profile now. If you need some creative inspiration for your new header image, select one of the custom headers from our library.
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft ready to test new Office ‘Mix’ interactive presentation application — Summary: Microsoft is signing up testers for a soon-to-be-released preview of ‘Office Mix,’ which is a new, interactive presentation application. — Microsoft is starting to test its new “Office Mix” …
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eWeek, TechRadar.com, HEXUS.net Latest Content, HotHardware.com News, Softpedia News, Ubergizmo and WinBeta. Tweets: @h0x0d
| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
YouTube channel comes to Roku models launched after July 2011 for US, UK, Canada, Ireland — Roku FINALLY Releases A YouTube Channel For Most Of Its Streaming Boxes — After what has been seriously way too long, Roku has just launched an official YouTube channel for most of its lil' streaming boxes.
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| Kyle Russell / Business Insider: |
Artemis partners with Dish Network to trial its pCell wireless tech in SF later this year — Dish Network Is Partnering With This Startup To Make Cellphone Internet 1,000 Times Faster Than 4G — In today's world, there's one area of technology that can almost never be fast enough … Thanks:@kylebrussell
| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
WSJ Poised to Hire Quartz's Mims as Tech Columnist, After Manjoo Departure to Times — The Wall Street Journal is close to hiring Quartz tech and science editor Christopher Mims as its newest tech columnist, said several sources. If completed, Mims will replace its last new tech columnist Farhad Manjoo …
Tweets: @ryanlawler
| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Weebly raises $35M from Tencent and Sequoia Capital at a valuation of $455M — Weebly Valued at $455 Million Amid Website-Building Boom — Weebly has been valued at $455 million in a new round of funding from investors eager to cash in on a recent boom in website-creation services.
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VentureBeat, Pulse 2.0, TechCrunch, Re/code and silicontap.com
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Delivery Hero Gobbles Another $85M To Fuel A Price War With Just-Eat — On the heels of online food delivery company Just-Eat's successful IPO in London earlier this month, its big, still-private rival Delivery Hero has raised another mammoth round of funding: a Series F of $85 million … | Andy Boxall / Digital Trends: |
EXCLUSIVE: LEAKED LG G3 SCREENS SHOW FRESH UI, CONFIRM ‘CONCIERGE’ SERVICE, AND MORE — A new, modern UI for LG's upcoming G3 has been revealed in three new screenshots, obtained by Digital Trends from a trusted industry source. The screens show flatter and brighter icons …
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GSMArena.com, 9to5Google, Unwired View, Gizchina.com, Pocketnow, Ubergizmo, IntoMobile, Phandroid, PhoneArena, Android Beat, Android Beat, Engadget and BGR. Thanks:@andyboxall
| Jason Snell / Macworld: |
Apple releases Heartbleed fix for AirPort Base Stations — Apple on Tuesday patched a bug in its most recent AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule models related to the Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability discovered earlier this month. — The update, AirPort Base Station Firmware Update 7.7.3 … | Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
PSA: Sprint Is Planning To Make All Its Devices From February 11, 2015 Onward Domestically Unlockable — The US mobile market is weird in that almost all the phones floating around here are locked to one carrier or another. You can usually request an unlock code from the carrier …
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9to5Google, Gizmodo, Engadget, PandoDaily, iMore, Pocketables, Liliputing and MobileBurn.com
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google To Offer Targeted Mobile App Install Ads In Search And YouTube; Expands App Deep Linking To AdWords — Google is announcing today its plans to offer targeted app install ads on mobile search and YouTube, following moves made by other tech industry companies, including Facebook and more recently Yahoo and Twitter.Sponsor Posts
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