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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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Tweets: @flyosity, @lukew, @grigs, @dannysullivan and @stevesi
| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Top Goldman Tech Banker Anthony Noto Heads to Coatue — Anthony Noto, the high-profile Goldman Sachs banker best known for taking Twitter public last November, is leaving the investment bank to join hedge fund Coatue Management as senior managing director, according to a memo sent today.
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| 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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| 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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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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| 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 …
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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 … | 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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| 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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| 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.| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Former Digg CEO Matt Williams raises $3.5M from Bezos, A16Z, others for Pro.com, which estimates prices for home projects — Ex-Digg CEO raises $3.5M from Jeff Bezos, Andreessen Horowitz and others for Pro.com, giving you price estimates for home projects — There's a new online home … | Hollie Slade / Forbes: |
Boxed, a shopping app for bulk items, raises $6.5M in Greycroft-led Series A — ‘Costco Of Mobile Apps’ Boxed Raises $6.5M To Take On Amazon Prime — Wholesale aficionados might not have to schlep to the suburbs to spend hours bargain hunting in Costco much longer.
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| 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 …
Tweets: @russellbrandom and @underoak
| 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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| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
Google Search for iOS 4.0 adds new voice search options, more relevant results, and more — Google has updated its iOS search app to version 4.0, which introduces a variety of new and useful changes. The app now recognizes new voice search cues and conversational input similar to the way Siri works.
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The Next Web, MacRumors and Gizmodo
| 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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| Ron / WinBeta: |
Outlook.com rolls out advanced rules, undo, in-line reply, and more in new update — Microsoft is rolling out an update to Outlook.com over the next few weeks, adding a few new features making the service just a tad bit better to use. These new features build on Microsoft's commitment … | 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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The Official Motorola Blog, The Next Web, Android Central, The Register, VentureBeat, Engadget, CNET News, AnandTech, Engadget, Geek Beat, CNET News, Re/code, Softpedia News, Pocketnow, Inquirer, HotHardware.com News, 9to5Google, BetaNews, GadgeTell, ZDNet, AndroidOS.in, dailywireless.org, BGR, Liliputing, AndroidGuys, BetaNews, Guardian, Android Police, Gizmodo, Gearburn, Phandroid, Android Beat, Geek.com, Ars Technica, The Next Web, TechSpot, Wall Street Journal and TechCrunch. Tweets: @vladsavov
| Michael Carney / PandoDaily: |
With $50M in bootstrapped 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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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Yelp Bites Back At OpenTable, TripAdvisor And Google With Free Yelp Reservations Service — TripAdvisor last week consumed LaFourchette to make a big move into online reservations against OpenTable, and Google gobbled up Appetas to battle with Yelp and raise its game with restaurants looking for more marketing presence online.
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Marketing Land, Yelp Official Blog, The Next Web and Eater National
| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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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