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Apple's MacBook Air lineup updated with new Haswell processors, now starts at $899 — In line with our recent reporting, Apple has updated its Macbook Air lineup. The refresh features Intel's Haswell processor and is now $100 less than the previous model.
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| Natt Garun / The Next Web: |
Acer announces Liquid Leap, its first wearable smart band — Acer today announced its latest product line which includes the Liquid Leap, a smart band that can track fitness activities and pair with smartphones. The company was quiet on details about the Leap other than that it is 17 mm wide …
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LAPTOP Magazine and Engadget
| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Acer bundles ‘build-your-own-cloud’ with new tablets, phones, wearables — Summary: Acer CEO called its new product lineup a “critical moment” in its turnaround effort, after years of decline. Cloud, smartphones, tablets and laptops. And a wearable for good measure. — Zack Whittaker
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| Strategy Analytics: |
Samsung & Apple Slip as Global Smartphone Shipments Reach 285 Million Units in Q1 2014 — According to the latest research from our Wireless Smartphone Strategies (WSS) research service, global smartphone shipments grew +33% annually to reach 285 million units in the first quarter of 2014.
| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
With Microsoft Deal Done, Nokia Names Rajeev Suri CEO, $6.9 Billion in Buybacks, Dividends and Debt Cuts — Nokia late Monday said it was naming former networking unit head Rajeev Suri as its new chief executive. — With the sale of its flagship device business to Microsoft …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Firefox 29 Launches With Major Redesign, Firefox Account Integration — Mozilla is launching its most important release of Firefox in a very long time today. After almost two years of working on its Australis redesign, the company is now finally ready to bring it to its stable release channel.| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Square Now Lets Merchants Collect Payments Offline And In Advance For Order Pickup — Square has long talked about adding more features to its point of sale system to make it more attractive for large and small merchants to use, and for their customers as well.
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| Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom: |
Sources say Amazon eyeing ARM architecture to design its own server chips — Amazon joins other web giants trying to design its own chips — As demand for its cloud computing services continues to grow, sources say Amazon is trying to design its own server chips.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Sprint announces Spotify partnership and HTC One Harman Kardon edition — Sprint today announced a special edition of the HTC One smartphone that includes special audio technologies tuned for better music playback. The HTC One M8 Harman Kardon edition uses two technologies to restore … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Android Silver Program Reportedly Designed To Give Google More Control Over Its Mobile Destiny — Google does indeed have a so-called “Silver” program in the works, as reported originally in early April by Android Police, says The Information. But the intent isn't just to improve customer … | Office Blogs: |
Office for iPad now includes printing — Last month, we launched Office for iPad® with the robust capabilities and familiar look and feel of Microsoft Office, plus a fantastic touch experience built for iPad. Millions of people downloaded Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for iPad and thousands sent us feature requests.
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| Robert McMillan / Wired: |
Most websites patched Heartbleed, but tens of thousands of connected devices remain vulnerable — It's Crazy What Can Be Hacked Thanks to Heartbleed — Western Digital makes a tiny box where you can store all your photos and other digital stuff. It's called My Cloud, and you've probably seen the TV ads hawking the thing.
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| David E. Sanger / New York Times: |
White House details interagency decision-making process on zero-day vulnerability disclosures — White House Details Thinking on Cybersecurity Flaws — WASHINGTON — In a rare insight into the government's thinking on the use of cyberweapons, the White House on Monday published a series …
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Tidemark rolls out ‘Playbooks’ dashboards, raises $32 million — Summary: The new funding will be used to expand sales and marketing for Tidemark, an enterprise performance management company. Tidemark also partnered with New Relic. — Tidemark on Tuesday said it is rolling out a new interface …
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| David Carr / New York Times: |
Cable providers cling to bundled TV channels as viewing habits evolve — New Challenges Chip Away at Cable's Pillar of Profit — For decades, cable television has been an almost magical source of profits, in large part because of the bundle, the packaging of channels that compels subscribers … | Fortune: |
Disney tried to buy Buzzfeed but talks broke down over price; Buzzfeed sought more than $1B — Disney tried to buy BuzzFeed — The merger conversations happened several months ago, but fell apart over price. — FORTUNE - The Walt Disney Co. was in talks to acquire online content …
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Samsung posts $8.2B profit; second straight quarterly drop — South Korean electronics giant posts an operating profit of $8.2 billion for the first quarter, a 3.3 percent decline from the year-ago period. — Samsung's Galaxy S4. — Samsung — Samsung reported its second consecutive quarter … | Ina Fried / Re/code: |
FreedomPop to Sell First Apple Devices, Offering iPhone 5 With Its Free and Low-Cost Plans — Upstart mobile carrier FreedomPop is announcing this week its first support for the iPhone, offering a variety of free and low-cost plans in conjunction with Apple phones that work on Sprint's network.
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| James Niccolai / PC World: |
Google shows its first homegrown server board based on IBM's upcoming Power8 processor — Google shows homegrown server with IBM Power chip — IBM's efforts to expand the use of its Power chips in hyperscale data centers just got a big shot in the arm from Google.
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Gordon MacKean, Geek.com, CNET News and Wall Street Journal
| Bloomberg: |
Vevo Owners Said Close to Hiring Goldman to Explore Sale — Vevo LLC's four owners are close to hiring Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to explore sale options for the music video-hosting service, according to three people familiar with the matter. — The sale of a majority stake is being considered among … | Gerry Conway / Comicbook.com: |
Comic book writer: Amazon sabotaged Comixology's near-perfect venue for discovering new comics — The ComiXology Outrage — Known forever to fandom as “the man who killed Gwen Stacy,” Conway is also the co-creator of The Punisher, Firestorm, Power Girl, Man-Thing, Werewolf-by-Night … | Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Sprint's bleeding continues: Loss narrows as more customers defect — Sprint said it brought LTE to 41 more cities, and its Sprint Spark enhanced network to another six cities, as it manages its painful network upgrade process. — Lynn La/CNET — Sprint's painful transition continues.
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eWeek, Sprint, BGR, CNET News, iMore, Reuters, Electronista, Sprint Newsroom, Engadget, Bloomberg and Android and Me
| Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter's Earnings: What to Watch — When Twitter reports quarterly results Tuesday, the focus will be squarely on what sent the company's stock tumbling three months ago: user growth and engagement. — Twitter's first disclosure as a public company in February didn't go so well.
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Samsung's Galaxy K Zoom smartphone packs a 20 megapixel camera and 10x zoom lens — Samsung made the leap into high-end camera smartphones when it launched the Galaxy S4 Zoom last year, and now it is adding to that range after it announced the Galaxy K Zoom, a smartphone that sports …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Yahoo to Stream a Daily Concert From Live Nation — Ad-Supported Web Channel Is Part of Plan to Compete With YouTube — Live Nation Entertainment Inc. and Yahoo Inc. are unveiling plans to let couch potatoes watch live concerts every day, without a ticket.| Tim Peterson / AdAge: |
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