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Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre could be unveiled as Apple executives at WWDC, deal to be announced later this week — Apple May Unveil Iovine, Dr. Dre Exec Appointments at June Conference — Apple could unveil Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre as its latest recruits at its Worldwide Developers' Conference in June … | Adam Satariano / Bloomberg: |
Apple interested in Beats for paid streaming conversion rate, plans to improve its headphones — Apple's Deep Ties With Iovine Key Driver of Beats Deal — When news spread last week that Apple Inc. (AAPL) was near an acquisition of Beats Electronics LLC for $3.2 billion …
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NSA routinely receives or intercepts US-made routers and servers to implant backdoors before international shipping — how the NSA tampers with US-made internet routers — The NSA has been covertly implanting interception tools in US servers heading overseas - even though the US government …
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Twitter's new mute feature lets you hide users from your home timeline — Another way to edit your Twitter experience: with mute — Today we're beginning to introduce a new account feature called mute to people who use our iPhone and Android apps and twitter.com.
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Thanks:@orbuch| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Square Finally Gives Up on Square Wallet and Bets on New Order-Ahead App — The grand Square Wallet experiment is over. As of today, Square has pulled the app from the Apple and Google app stores. At the same time, it is introducing Square Order, an app that lets shoppers place pick-up orders from …
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Microsoft's ‘Mohoro’ Windows-as-a-service released as a public preview — Summary: Microsoft is entering the desktop-as-a-service space with its new Azure Remote App service, which is available as a free public preview. — Microsoft is releasing its desktop-as-a-service, codenamd 'Mohoro," in public preview form as of today, May 12.| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
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Apple working on a JavaScript accelerator for WebKit which doesn't require the use of asm.js — Apple has its own JavaScript accelerator in the works — Apple's FTLJIT project aims to give JavaScript a boost, and it doesn't require the use of asm.js for its speed improvements
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Facebook Said to Take Steps to Open a China Sales Office — Facebook Inc. (FB) is taking steps to open a sales office in China to work with local advertisers, according to people with knowledge of the matter, in a move that would put the social network's employees in the country for the first time … | Wall Street Journal: |
AT&T could seal deal to take over DirecTV within two weeks, for around $50B — AT&T Could Strike Deal For DirecTV In As Soon As Two Weeks — AT&T Would Likely Pay A Combination of Cash, Stock — AT&T Inc. is moving quickly to seal a takeover deal with DirecTV … | Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Office For iPad Apps Have Racked Up 27M Downloads In 46 Days — In just over a month, Office for iPad has picked up another 15 million downloads of its applications. Microsoft reported 12 million downloads in early April, and 27 million today. — That's a massive figure.
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YouTube shuts down public RSS feeds of user subscriptions — If you're a news junky, you probably use an RSS reader like Feed.ly to keep up with stuff on the Web. One of the nicest ways to consume YouTube subscriptions was to use an RSS feed of new videos, allowing them to show up just like news articles do.| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
One plaintiff in Silicon Valley no-hire agreement lawsuit asks judge to reject the deal his own lawyers negotiated — Plaintiff Maligns Deal in Silicon Valley Suit — SAN FRANCISCO — Apple has more than $150 billion in the bank, eclipsing the combined cash reserves of Israel and Britain.
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| Jeff Sommer / New York Times: |
Tim Wu, who developed the concept of net neutrality, says it should be protected by regulation — Defending the Open Internet — The future of the Internet — which means the future of communications, culture, free speech and innovation — is up for grabs.
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Apple tries to lift online sales by cutting refund times in half — (Reuters) - Apple Inc has cut in half the time it takes to give refunds to online store customers who want to return their iPhones and other gadgets, a small but crucial step to try to get more people to buy direct from its website.
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| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Sources: Xbox Live to remove Gold requirement for Netflix, Hulu — Coming soon, according to internal Microsoft sources: two fewer white dots on this promotional card. — We can report that multiple sources within Microsoft have been briefed on plans to make a long-awaited change …
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Code.org says 20K teachers have introduced coding lessons to K-12 students since December — Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Lately, Coding — MILL VALLEY, Calif. — Seven-year-old Jordan Lisle, a second grader, joined his family at a packed after-hours school event last month aimed … Sponsor Posts
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