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Google's Project Tango developing 7-inch tablet that can capture 3D images of objects — Google Developing Tablet With Advanced Vision Capabilities — Tech Company Plans To Produce About 4,000 Prototype Tablets Beginning Next Month — Google Inc. is developing a new …
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Google Close To Snapping Up Satellite Startup Skybox Imaging For $1B+, Say Sources — In April, Google made a play for the skies when it swept in and acquired Titan Aerospace amid reports that the drone maker was being pursued by Facebook. But Google's interest in hardware companies …
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Smart, Versatile Surface Pro 3 Can Do It All — Maybe Even Lift the Windows 8 Curse — a) Cassandra. Saddled with the gift of perfect prophecy, and the curse of never being believed. — b) Sisyphus. Condemned to rolling a huge boulder up a hill, and then watching it roll back down again, over and over forever.
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How IBM is struggling as a late entrant to the cloud era and is unlikely to deliver high margins — The Trouble With IBM — In the summer of 2012, five American technology companies bid on a project for a demanding new client: the CIA. The spy agency was collecting so much information, its computers couldn't keep up.| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
DoorDash Raises $17.3 Million From Sequoia To Expand Its On-Demand Delivery Service — DoorDash is one of many on-demand food-delivery startups to crop up over the past few years, but the company has big ambitions to move beyond food. Thanks to new investor Sequoia Capital, it has a sizable war chest to go after the competition.
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Canalys: Fitbit accounts for nearly 50% of 2.7M wearable bands shipped worldwide Q1 2014 — Fitbit rules 50 percent of the world's wearable market — The recent recall of the Fitbit Force over skin irritations appears to have no bearing on the wearable's sales momentum. — Fitbit Force.
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Twitter Agrees to Block ‘Blasphemous’ Tweets in Pakistan — At least five times this month, a Pakistani bureaucrat who works from a colonial-era barracks in Karachi, just down the street from the former home of his country's secularist founder, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, asked Twitter to shield … | Wall Street Journal: |
Samsung plans summer launch for standalone smartwatch that can work as a phone, take photos — Samsung Plans to Introduce a Stand-Alone Smartwatch — Electronics Maker's Watch Will Make Calls Without Being Tethered to a Smartphone; Expected in Summer Months
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Microsoft wins right to disclose FBI's demand for info about Office 365 customer — In a significant victory for transparency and free speech, a federal judge in Seattle granted Microsoft permission to unseal documents related to an FBI investigation into one of its cloud customers.
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| Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom: |
Google is working with Ruckus Wireless to build a Wi-Fi network in the cloud — Google is working with Wi-Fi equipment maker Ruckus Wireless to build a large-scale Wi-Fi network in the cloud off of which any business could hang its wireless routers, according to a source familiar with the project who asked not to be named.
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| Luther Turmelle / The New Haven Register: |
15 Connecticut cab companies sue to block Uber, Lyft — A coalition of 15 Connecticut cab and livery companies filed suit in federal court Wednesday to block ride-sharing companies Uber and Lyft from doing business in the state. — The cab and livery companies, represented …
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California's AG publishes privacy guidelines, urges websites to disclose “do not track” compliance — California Urges Websites to Disclose Online Tracking — Every major Internet browser has a feature that lets you tell a website that you don't want it to collect personal information about you when you visit.
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Alibaba Mulls AppNexus Stake as U.S. Strategy Takes Shape — In the latest sign of Alibaba Group's aspirations to be a major player beyond its home base of China, the soon-to-be-public Web giant is considering making an investment in U.S.-based advertising technology firm AppNexus, according to people briefed on the recent discussions.
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