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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 — Google made a play for the skies in April 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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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| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
Amazon escalates battle with Hachette, refuses coming book orders, lists some as unavailable — Amazon Escalates Its Battle Against Hachette — Amazon, under fire in much of the literary community for energetically discouraging customers from buying books from the publisher Hachette, has abruptly escalated the battle.
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Source: 70% chance Apple's Beats deal is happening, it's a Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine acquihire — Apple's Beats Deal Is Happening, And It's A Dre Acquihire — A well-placed source has confirmed rumors that Apple's acquisition of Beats “is happening” but was close to falling apart multiple times.
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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 … | Amir Efrati / The Information: |
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.| Dara Kerr / CNET News: |
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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Microsoft announces Windows 8.1 with Bing to help partners sell lower-cost devices, will debut at Computex — Microsoft today confirmed the rumors of a new edition of its latest operating system by unveiling Windows 8.1 with Bing. The company says the main purpose is to allow its hardware partners …
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Smart, Versatile Surface Pro 3 Can Do It All — Maybe Even Lift the Windows 8 Curse — If you had to be a tragic mythological figure, which would you choose? a) Cassandra. Saddled with the gift of perfect prophecy, and the curse of never being believed. b) Sisyphus.
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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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eBay faces investigations by 3 US states into data breach, UK data watchdog considers probe — eBay to face formal investigations over data breach — Three states in the US are looking into the hack, while an official in the UK is considering a formal probe.
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The NSA is capturing nearly every phone call in Afghanistan, WikiLeaks claims — The US National Security Agency has been recording nearly every phone call made in Afghanistan, according to WikiLeaks. The recordings are being made as part of the same program that was reported earlier … Sponsor Posts
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