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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 teases Liquid Leap, a wearable smart band launching alongside the 5-inch Liquid Jade smartphone this summer — 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.| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
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| Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
Apple blasts Samsung over originality, bravery in closing trial arguments — Apple wrapped up its side of a wide-ranging case against Samsung in court today, accusing it one last time of copying five features that it says ended up in millions of phones sold to US consumers. — “Let's remember how we got here.”
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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.| 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.
| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
RadiumOne's New CEO's Memo on Chahal Firing: “We Cannot Know for Certain What Gurbaksh Will Do” — Here's a memo that new RadiumOne CEO Bill Lonergan sent out late last night to the employees of the advertising tech company in the wake of the firing of Gurbaksh Chahal, its founder and CEO.
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| Ben Woods / The Next Web: |
MIT students raise $500,000 to give every undergraduate on campus $100 worth of Bitcoin — Two MIT students have successfully raised more than half a million dollars in order to give all 4,528 undergraduate students on campus $100 worth of the cryptocurrency to use as they see fit.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Google plans Android “Silver” program to replace Nexus, pushes OEMs to make devices that closely adhere to Google specifications — Android Silver Program Reportedly Designed To Give Google More Control Over Its Mobile Destiny — Google does indeed have a so-called “Silver” … | 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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| William Alden / New York Times: |
Doximity, an Online Network for Doctors, Raises $54 Million — Facebook and LinkedIn have found success by gathering broad swaths of users. But several prominent investors are betting that a narrower focus can help a social network prosper. — Doximity, a professional network for doctors …
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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 … | 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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| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Amazon's new Wearable Technology hub showcases the latest smartwatches, activity trackers, and more — Amazon is dedicating part of its store to the ever-growing number of wearable devices on the market. The online hub, simply called Wearable Technology, covers smartwatches …
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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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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Beats In Q1 With $250M In Revenue And Picks Up 14M New Monthly Active Users — This afternoon Twitter released its first quarter financial performance, reporting revenue of $250 million in the period, and earnings per share of $0.00 on a non-GAAP basis.
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| 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 … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
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| 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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| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
API and Analytics Co. Apigee Closes $60 Million Round As Public Offering Looms — Looking ahead to a potential public offering in the next year the application program interface and analytics services company Apigee has raised an additional $60 million in late stage financing.
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| 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 … | 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 … | Michael J. Casey / Wall Street Journal: |
Mt. Gox Creditors, Investors Agree to Try to Revive Bitcoin Exchange — Deal Would Give Creditors a 16.5% Stake in the Future Company — Lawyers for creditors involved in two proposed class-action lawsuits against Mt. Gox have reached an agreement to support a group of U.S. investors' bid …
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