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Google testing complete redesign, new features for web Gmail similar to leaked test on Android — Google is testing new web-based Gmail features — Google's products are constantly tested behind the scenes for potential new features, and since Gmail is just about as high as you can get on that list …
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| Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
Apple buying Beats could radically transform the digital music business — There are still many unknowns about Apple's reported acquisition of headphone maker Beats Audio, but one thing is already certain: The deal, if it goes through as reported, is going to be a game changer for digital music.| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
The history of Beats Electronics: from inception to Apple — Image Credit: Flickr / Twang Photography — Before Apple makes its Beats acquisition truly official, join us for a trip down context lane. — Sure, every tech pundit with Internet access has weighed in on why the $3.2 billion deal … Thanks:@harrisonweber
| Min-Jeong Lee / Wall Street Journal: |
Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-hee hospitalized after heart attack, now in stable condition — Chairman of Samsung Lee Kun-hee Hospitalized After Heart Attack — Lee Kun-hee Had Trouble Breathing and Was Sent to an Emergency Room, Is Now in Stable Condition
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Samsung Plans to Launch Tizen Smartphone in Russia, India — Company Aiming to Compete More Directly With Google and Apple — Samsung Electronics Co. is preparing to launch a new smartphone in Russia and India based on its homegrown operating system Tizen, people familiar with the matter say … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla Is Moving Ahead With Sponsored Tiles On Firefox's New-Tab Page — Despite what you may have read, Mozilla isn't canning its plans to sell sponsored tiles on its new-tab page. — A few days ago, Mozilla's Vice President of Firefox Jonathan Nightingale wrote a brief blog post defending …
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| Kyle VanHemert / Wired: |
Threes: how iterative design and a slow, steady grind produced a masterpiece mobile game — Design Is Why 2048 Sucks, and Threes Is a Masterpiece — It's hard to overstate just how good Threes really is. Touch Arcade's review deemed it a “perfect mobile game.”
Tweets: @teddydief, @ashervo, @ashervo and @a_greenberg
| Jon Erlichman / Bloomberg: |
Time Warner joins Yahoo and others in talks to buy Fullscreen, a popular YouTube MCN — Time Warner Said to Hold Talks to Buy Fullscreen Network — Time Warner Inc. (TWX) has held talks to acquire Fullscreen Inc., one of the popular YouTube video networks, a person with knowledge of the matter said.
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| Kyle Russell / Business Insider: |
Google Glass' first public sales display is a booth at a prestigious Florida golf tournament — Google Secretly Tried Selling Glass To Wealthy Golfers — Three weeks after putting Google Glass on sale for one day only, the search giant is trying out another tactic for getting …
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PC Magazine, Marketing Land, Glass Almanac, Google Glass and SlashGear
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Thanks:@kylebrussell| Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed: |
Interview with Adam Stiles, the developer who created the first tabbed web browser in 1998 — Meet The Man Who Invented The Browser Tab — Adam Stiles recalls “the first tab” and how he came to create the atomic unit of internet navigation. — In the summer of 1997 … | Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Snapchat's 20-year agreement to be monitored by the FTC probably won't improve users' privacy — Another Tech Company Finds the F.T.C. Looking Over Its Shoulder — Snapchat just joined the F.T.C. club. — The company that makes the popular messaging app agreed on Thursday to a settlement … | Henn Idan / GeekTime: |
Report: Qualcomm in talks to purchase Israeli Wilocity for $300 million — Israeli start-up Wilocity, which develops chipsets for wireless communications, is in talks with American giant Qualcomm for a potential sale, according to a report published on Marker.
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| David Barboza / New York Times: |
Red-Hot Web in China Richly Rewards Foreign Investors — SHENZHEN, China -It is one of the best investments of the digital age. — In June 2001, a South African media company called Naspers paid $34 million to acquire a big stake in a struggling Chinese start-up.| Gwynn Guilford / Quartz: |
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