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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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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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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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 … | 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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| John Biggs / TechCrunch: |
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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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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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
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 … | Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Google Rated Top Employer for Pay and Benefits by Glassdoor — Google and three other Silicon Valley companies recently settled a lawsuit alleging that they agreed not to recruit each other's employees. Maybe Google didn't need to worry about poaching. — The search giant ranked …
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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: |
Google's Settlement with European Union Faces Increased Pressure — Politicians from France, Germany Ramp Up Rhetoric against Settlement with Web Giant — Google Inc. 's proposed settlement with European Union antitrust cops is under increasing threat of being revised or scrapped …
| 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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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
The LG G3 will be the first smartphone with laser autofocus — It will also take selfies when you clench a fist in front of it — Almost everything is known about it, and LG is openly discussing its accessories, but now we've confirmed one final exciting spec for the LG G3: its camera will feature a laser autofocus system.
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| 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.Sponsor Posts
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