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Foursquare splitting into two apps: Foursquare for discovery and Swarm for checkins — Meet Swarm: Foursquare's ambitious plan to split its app in two — To take on Yelp, Foursquare is moving beyond the check-in — Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley has spent the last year trying to convince …
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| Zach Epstein / BGR: |
Amazon Smartphone Photos: Exclusive first clear photo of Kindle Phone — Following a series of exclusive reports, BGR has now obtained the first unobscured image of Amazon's debut smartphone — Amazon is still more than a month away from unveiling its first own-brand smartphone, but there isn't much mystery that remains.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
OS X 10.10 emphasis planned for WWDC, iOS 8 features pushed to iOS 8.1, new Apple TV still in the works — Apple may be planning to give the next version of the Mac OS X operating system, 10.10, a larger presence than iOS 8 at this year's Worldwide Developers Conference, according to sources with knowledge of the plans.
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Thanks:@srikardr| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Snapchat adds ephemeral text messaging and live video chats — Real talk: the new Snapchat brilliantly mixes video and texting — More than just photos, Snapchat's new text and video chat feels immediate and intimate — By any measure, Snapchat has had a busy year.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Microsoft patches IE zero-day flaw, issues special security update for Windows XP despite end of support — Microsoft today announced it is releasing an emergency patch for Internet Explorer to fix a zero-day flaw spotted in the wild. The security hole was found in IE6 through IE11 …
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| Ben Gilbert / Engadget: |
John Carmack's former employer claims he stole tech for Oculus VR when he left — The man who co-created Doom, who co-founded id Tech, and who later left id Tech for Oculus VR, is being accused by his former employer of taking intellectual property with him to Oculus VR.
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| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon expands same-day delivery service to Dallas and San Francisco, extends ordering hours — Amazon Widens Same-Day Delivery Service — Amazon.com is making it even easier to skip the mall. — The e-commerce giant is set to broaden its same-day shipping service starting Thursday …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Indoor Positioning Startup Wifarer Not Acquired By Apple, But Its Founder Now Works There — If a CEO and co-founder quits his indoor positioning startup to work for Apple, should his staff and customers be concerned? Wifarer, a startup which offers tools to help consumers navigate malls …
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
MakeSpace, The Dropbox For Physical Storage, Packs Up $8 Million Led By Upfront Ventures — NY-based MakeSpace, the Dropbox for physical objects, has today closed an $8 million Series A funding round led by Upfront Ventures, with participation from Founders Fund, OATV, and follow-ons …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Groupon Goes After Costco And Sam's Club With Groupon Basics, A Portal For Home Goods — Last year, Groupon's CEO Eric Lefkovsky said that his ambition was to make the e-commerce company's Goods business more like Costco, not Amazon. Today, the company is launching a new business called Groupon Basics …
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CNET News, GeekWire, VentureBeat, Consumerist, Pulse 2.0, Bloomberg, internetretailer.com and Re/code. Tweets: @mdudas
| Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal: |
Preliminary analysis of Google Glass teardown estimates cost of components less than $80 — Google Glass Parts Estimated to Cost Less Than $80 — Google Glass currently carries a $1,500 price tag, but the components packed tightly inside the device may cost the Internet giant a lot less … | Billy Steele / Engadget: |
New York City looks to blanket the five boroughs with free WiFi thanks to next-gen payphones — Free public WiFi has been available in spots throughout NYC, but now the mayor's office is looking to cover all of its five boroughs with connectivity. In a press release today …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Acquires High-Performance Cloud-Computing Company GreenButton — Microsoft today announced that it has acquired GreenButton, a U.S.- and New Zealand-based high-performance cloud-computing company that has long had a close relationship with Microsoft's Azure group.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
T-Mobile adds another 2.4M customers in record quarter, within shouting distance of Sprint — T-Mobile added a net total of 2.4 million customers in the first quarter — the biggest growth in its history — including record expansion of 1.3 million customers in the coveted category of branded postpaid accounts.
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T-Mobile, CNET News, Gigaom, The Verge, DSLreports, Bloomberg, Reuters, Android Authority, Wall Street Journal, iMore, Re/code, BGR, Engadget, AndroidGuys and TmoNews. Thanks:@johnhcook
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AT&T considering acquisition of DirectTV, in deal likely worth at least $40B — AT&T Has Approached DirecTV About Possible Acquisition — AT&T has approached DirecTV about a possible acquisition of the satellite TV firm, say people familiar with the situation, the latest sign of a possible shakeup in the television industry.| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Vine improves desktop website, adds navigation and discovery features — Vine Launches A Six-Second YouTube — When Vine first launched on the web, all you could do was view your stream and check out profiles for individual users. The desktop version came with TV Mode, too …
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Wired, CNET, The Next Web and The Verge
| Katherine Rosman / Wall Street Journal: |
LeapFrog launches LeapBand, a $40 wearable activity tracker for kids — Kid Wearables? LeapFrog Debuts Fitness Tracker for Training Wheels Set — The inevitable is happening: Kids and wearable devices are now going hand-in-hand, er, wrist-in-wrist. But will parents jump at the opportunity …
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Kamcord mobile gameplay recording platform launches iOS app, hits 3B videos, & picks up $7.1M Series A — Kamcord, the Y Combinator-backed startup with an SDK that lets developers offer gameplay recording functionality in mobile apps, today announced it has secured another big round of funding … | Bloomberg: |
Snapchat Hires Google Exec for Security, Debuts Chat — Snapchat Inc. is adding executives and new features, as it steps up efforts to build the company. — The Los Angeles-based mobile-application startup, which has an app that lets people send annotated photos that disappear …
| Andrew Martonik / iMore: |
T-Mobile closes deal for 700MHz spectrum, reiterates commitment to LTE rollout — T-Mobile has finally closed a deal to acquire highly-valuable 700MHz spectrum from Verizon, enabling the next wave of network upgrades for the carrier. In the wireless world not all spectrum is created equal … Sponsor Posts
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