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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: |
Unmasked: The world's first clear look at Amazon's smartphone — 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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| Craig Timberg / Washington Post: |
Apple, Facebook, others defy authorities, notify users of secret data demands — Major U.S. technology companies have largely ended the practice of quietly complying with investigators' demands for e-mail records and other online data, saying that users have a right to know in advance …
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CNET News, AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, RT, Ubergizmo and Cult of Mac
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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| 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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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Wild Rumor of Apple EarPods with Biometric Sensors Has Roots in Apple's Research — A seemingly wild rumor of Apple planning to launch new EarPods headphones with integrated heart rate and blood pressure sensors has been making the rounds today after the claim was posted on anonymous information sharing platform Secret (via Reddit).| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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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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GeekWire, Mercury News, TechSpot, internetretailer.com, The Technology Chronicles, SiliconBeat, Computerworld, TechCrunch and WebProNews. Tweets: @shiraovide
| 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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AppleInsider, PandoDaily, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, Pocketnow, MacRumors and iPhone in Canada Blog
| Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom: |
Google uses secret Android deals for illegal search monopoly, lawsuit claims — Google requires Samsung, HTC and other mobile device makers that use the Android operating system to reserve prime screen real estate for the search giant's own applications, according to a new class action complaint filed this week in California.| 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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| 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.| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
Wikipedia Has a New Boss: Lila Tretikov Named Executive Director of Wikimedia Foundation — One of the most important sites on the Internet has a new leader: Lila Tretikov is the new executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia and supports its volunteer corps.
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| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Uber gears up to launch ‘Uber Family’ service & eyes a new batch of cities (scoop) — A source tells us that Uber will soon launch “Uber Family,” a new service that caters to passengers with children. Only the highest rated Uber drivers will be selected for the new program in New York.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Twitter is experimenting with a mute feature in its mobile apps — One of the most-requested features for Twitter's mobile apps may be on the cusp of arriving. Users of the company's iOS and Android clients are now seeing an option to mute accounts that they follow, preventing another user's tweets …
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The Next Web, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, Ubergizmo, The Droid Guy, iPhone Hacks, TechnoBuffalo and MobileSyrup.com
| 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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Fast Company, VentureBeat, VatorNews, Business Insider, PandoDaily and Both Sides of the Table
Tweets: @j_hutch, @samfbiddle and @pkafka
| 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, Engadget, Re/code, GeekWire, VentureBeat, internetretailer.com, Consumerist and Bloomberg
| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
DOJ says eBay must end ‘no poaching’ pacts with other companies — The issue dates back to 2006, when the department filed a suit against eBay for alleged agreements with the financial software company Intuit. — The Department of Justice on Thursday reached a settlement telling eBay …
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Gigaom, The United States Department …, Wall Street Journal and PC World. Tweets: @fedcourtjunkie
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn Beats The Street In Q1 On Sales Of $473M, EPS Of $0.38, Raises Outlook — Amid a market correction that has seen many tech stocks lose value, LinkedIn, the social network for the working world, today reported Q1 earnings that beat analyst estimates. Sales came in at $473 million, with EPS of $0.38.
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ZDNet, LinkedIn, VatorNews, Re/code and Tech Trader Daily
| 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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MSDN Blogs, Forbes, WinBeta, WindowsITPro and The Next Web
| 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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NYC.gov, New York Times, VentureBeat and The Verge
| Juan Carlos Perez / Computerworld: |
Cisco retires WebEx Social, partners with Jive instead — The companies will market a suite that includes WebEx Meetings, Jabber and Jive enterprise social networking software — Cisco has put out to pasture its WebEx Social enterprise social networking (ESN) suite, opting instead to partner with Jive Software.
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