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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple plans to match Microsoft Surface with split-screen iPad multitasking in iOS 8 — iOS 8 is likely to supercharge the functionality of Apple's iPad with a new split-screen multitasking feature, according to sources with knowledge of the enhancement in development.
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Gigaom, VentureBeat, GeekWire, LAPTOP Magazine, The Verge, iMore, BGR, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, Business Insider, CNET News, MacRumors, TechSpot, PadGadget, Softpedia News, iPhone in Canada Blog, Phones Review, Gotta Be Mobile, Electronista, Redmond Pie, App Advice, TIME, TechnoBuffalo, Neowin, iLounge and everythingiCafe
Tweets: @stevesi and @dannysullivan
| Ben Gilbert / Engadget: |
Microsoft lowers Xbox One price to $400 without Kinect — Is the $500 asking price of Xbox One too rich for your blood? Turns out you're not alone, and Microsoft's responding: the price of the Xbox One is dropping to $400, and the company's dropping Kinect from the box as well. Developing ......
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| Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: |
Airbnb updates mobile app, adds last-minute bookings and weekend getaways in SF And LA — Airbnb takes on hotels with last-minute booking — It's 8:00. Do you know where you'll sleep tonight? — Airbnb, the service that makes it easy for anyone to convert their extra space …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
EU top court upholds “right to be forgotten”, says Google must edit sensitive search results — European court says Google must respect ‘right to be forgotten’ — (Reuters) - Internet companies can be made to remove irrelevant or excessive personal information from search engine results …
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Tweets: @dannysullivan and @mcandrew
See also Mediagazer| Om Malik / Gigaom: |
The 1999 tech bubble was about naive optimism, but now it's about gross entitlement — Is it really a tech bubble, or is it something else? — Adam Lashinsky, in a piece for Fortune last week, wrote at length about the question that has crossed the minds of everyone north of San Jose: are we in a bubble?
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The popular online wallet Dogevault is offline, large amounts of Dogecoin appear to have been stolen — Dogevault is a popular online wallet, where people can store and send Dogecoin. It provides no advantage over a normal Dogecoin wallet however, and generally online wallets are regarded as risky … | Pete Rizzo / CoinDesk: |
BitPay Raises $30m in Record-Breaking Bitcoin Funding Round — Georgia, Atlanta-based bitcoin merchant processor BitPay has raised $30m in Series A funding in what is the largest-ever financing round to date for a bitcoin company. — The round was led by Index Ventures … | Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Motorola adds LTE to Moto G, launches $129 Moto E — Motorola adds LTE to Moto G, introduces an even cheaper Moto E — Shipping with Android 4.4 and a guaranteed upgrade to the next major version of Android — The Moto G is the best selling smartphone in Motorola history.
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| Benjamin Mako Hill / copyrighteous: |
Even if you host your own email server, Google will end up capturing about half of your emails — Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours — For almost 15 years, I have run my own email server which I use for all of my non-work correspondence.| Chris Davies / SlashGear: |
Sonos app hits big 5.0: Universal search, smarter playlists, more — Sonos has pushed out its new Sons app for iOS and Android, graduating the software from beta, and bringing universal search, musical alarms, and smoother multi-room support to all users. The new Sonos Software v5. updates … | Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Lenovo's ThinkPad 10 tablet brings a sharper screen, loads of accessories — Some companies throw gadget spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks. Others... keep the same tablets around for nearly two years. We've seen Lenovo be both those companies, frankly, but when it comes to its business line …
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BetaNews, Inquirer, HotHardware.com News, CRN, Tom's Hardware Guide, ZDNet, LAPTOP Magazine, SlashGear and The Verge
| Dale Russakoff / New Yorker: |
Zuckerberg's $100M pledge in 2010 to reform Newark schools has had little benefit to students — SCHOOLED - Cory Booker, Chris Christie, and Mark Zuckerberg had a plan to reform Newark's schools. They got an education. — Late one night in December, 2009, a black Chevy Tahoe in a caravan …
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| Deborah Gage / Wall Street Journal: |
Sticking With Wells Fargo as Sole LP, Norwest Raises $1.2 Billion Fund — Norwest Venture Partners has closed its 12th fund, Norwest Venture Partners XII LP, at $1.2 billion-the same size as its last fund, which the firm raised in late 2009. — Norwest is one of a handful of venture capital firms …
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TechCrunch, GeekTime, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, New York Times and PE Hub Blog
| Michael Carney / PandoDaily: |
With $50M in boottrapped revenue, Swagbucks raises $60M from TCV for its rewards and loyalty shopping platform — In an era where startup valuations and the piles of capital that accompany them seem powered more by pixie dust than they do business fundamentals, it's refreshing to encounter …
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TechCrunch, Re/code, VentureBeat, PE Hub Blog and socalTECH.com
| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
VESA Adds Adaptive-Sync to DisplayPort 1.2a Standard; Variable Refresh Monitors Move Forward — The last half-year or so has seen the concept of variable refresh desktop monitors advance rather quickly. After sitting on the technology backburner for a number of years …
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VESA, Computerworld, The Tech Report, Softpedia News and HotHardware.com News
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
LG's Lifeband Touch and Heart Rate earphones coming May 18th (update: US pricing) — Though the internet was trolled recently with Apple's “biometric” earpods, LG's fitness-oriented Heart Rate earphones and Lifeband Touch are no joke. In fact, they're finally set to arrive next week …
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AppleInsider, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, Gigaom, iMore, App Advice and Electronista
| Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom: |
AT&T customers can connect their GM 4G cars to shared data plans for $10 a month — If you were thinking about buying one of General Motors' new-fangled 4G cars this summer but were wondering how much that LTE connectivity would cost you, then GM and AT&T today provided an answer.| Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: |
TV Ad Dollars Slowly Shifting to Web Video — Increasing Portion of Broadcast and Cable Budgets Follow Younger Audience Online — Online video outlets are finally starting to chip away at television's hold on advertisers. — Several major advertisers, including MasterCard … | Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Leaked LG Uni8 image reveals the company's first Windows Phone 8 device — It looks like LG is preparing to launch its very first Windows Phone 8 device, after serial smartphone industry insider Evleaks revealed a render of what is purportedly called the LG Uni8.
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IntoMobile, evleaks.at and Computerworld
| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Despite Tech Stock Turbulence, Anaplan Raises $100 Million For Planning Software — Veteran software executive Frederic Laluyaux knows that his company, Anaplan, just looked to raise a lot of cash in a market that's taken big chunks out of the valuations leading public tech companies and forced others to slow down their IPOs.
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TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Re/code, Reuters, PE Hub Blog, bizjournals and Bloomberg
| Ben Woods / The Next Web: |
Square launches Feedback, a digital receipt that lets buyers and sellers talk to one another — Mobile payments company Square wants to turn the humble digital receipt into a fully-fledged customer communication channel with the launch of Square Feedback today.
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The Verge, TechCrunch, Re/code, ZDNet, CNET, Business Insider, WebProNews and Mashable
| Dylan Tweney / VentureBeat: |
Uber brings a cheaper SUV service, UberXL, to San Francisco — Above: An Uber SUV. Not to be confused with the much cheaper UberXL SUV. — For those times when the party is not just breaking up, but moving to a whole new location, the typical Uber car might feel a little cramped.
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Uber Blog, Engadget, VBProfiles, Gizmodo, bizjournals, SlashGear and Tech Chronicles
| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
Iranian Hackers Targeted Defense Workers and Political Dissidents — There's a new politically motivated hacker gang to keep track of, one that started out defacing websites but which has progressed more recently into conducting full-blown campaigns of cyber espionage abroad and political oppression at home.
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The Verge, blog.trendmicro.com, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Reuters and SC Magazine UK
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Sony reportedly puts its OLED TV efforts on hold — There were hints that Sony's OLED TV plans were in trouble when the company's collaboration with Panasonic went south last year, and it now looks like those efforts have stalled out completely. Nikkei reports that Sony has put development of OLED sets …
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Nikkei Asian Review, Ars Technica, TechSpot, Softpedia News, The Verge, CNET News, Pocket-lint and Ubergizmo
| Matt McGee / Marketing Land: |
Twitter's New Mute Feature Means Brand Visibility Is No Sure Thing — Brand visibility on Twitter became a bit murky today. — Twitter announced the rollout of a new “mute” feature. It lets Twitter users continue to follow other accounts, but without actually seeing any of the other account's activity.
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Re/code, ReadWrite, Guardian, Inquirer and WebProNews
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