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| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
Google has established a “right to be forgotten” form following EU ruling — Begrudgingly, Google Offers a Form for People Who Want to Be Forgotten — Europe's highest court on May 13 decided that its citizens could ask search engines to delete search results about themselves.
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| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
How Google's New “Right To Be Forgotten” Form Works: An Explainer — Google has taken a big step forward with complying with the European Union's new “Right To Be Forgotten” that was established after a court ruling earlier this month. The company has established a new form allowing …
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| Mercury News: |
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife to donate $120 million to needy Bay Area schools — The world's most innovative community shouldn't also be a home for struggling public schools. Today Priscilla and I are announcing a $120 million commitment to support efforts to improve education for underserved communities in the Bay Area.
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| Ben Gilbert / Engadget: |
Samsung is working with Oculus on a media-focused VR headset — Last week we told you about Samsung's unannounced virtual reality headset: a peripheral that enables VR interaction for flagship phones from the world's largest phone manufacturer. This week we've got far more details.
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| Parmy Olson / Forbes: |
Microsoft to offer a sensor-rich smartwatch that measures heart rate, syncs with iPhones, Android and Windows Phones — Exclusive: A Microsoft Smartwatch Is Coming — Microsoft is the latest technology giant preparing to jump into the wearables market, with plans to offer a sensor-rich smartwatch …
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| Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom: |
Apple's upcoming smart home program is about ‘Made for iPhone’ certification, not deep product integration — Here's how Apple's smart home program will work — Apple's move into the smart home isn't actually the grand experience I had hoped for.
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PandoDaily, TechCrunch, Ubergizmo, EE Times, Softpedia News, Neowin, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone in Canada Blog, Connectedly, 9to5Mac and AppleInsider. Tweets: @gigaom. Thanks:@jank0
| Reggie Ugwu / BuzzFeed: |
Amazon Prime to offer music streaming service with songs six months old or older, coming June/July; Sony, Warner on board — Exclusive: Amazon Prime To Offer Music Streaming Service — With 6-Month-Old Songs — The internet giant has reached deals with major labels for a service to launch this June or July.
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| Michael Vakulenko / Medium: |
Beats is a platform, connecting artists with fans; Apple's users will enable network effects on it — To understand Beats you need to understand Lady Gaga — Look beyond headphones, play lists, music streaming, wearables and label deals — The news are finally out—Apple is buying Beats for 3 Billion Dollars.
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TechCrunch. Tweets: @cdixon, @richoakley, @mvakulenko, @tomgara, @mryall and @borthwick. See also Mediagazer
| ESPN: |
Steve Ballmer to buy LA Clippers for $2B; agreement signed by Sterling, pending NBA approval — Former Microsoft CEO bids $2B — Former Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has submitted a bid of $2 billion to buy the Los Angeles Clippers, sources have confirmed to ESPN.
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Tweets: @byandreachang, @dannysullivan, @magicjohnson, @ac360, @atpetedodd, @byandreachang, @antderosa, @glennf, @s_oldham, @sportsnation, @levie, @espnnba and @latimes
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Hipmunk Raises $20M Round For Its Agony- And Ecstasy-Based Travel Search — Flight and hotel search startup Hipmunk is announcing that it has raised $20 million in Series C funding. — The round was led by Oak Investment Partners. Hipmunk co-founder and CEO Adam Goldstein told …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter's Emerging Market Strategy Includes Its Own Version Of A “Facebook Zero” Like Service Called “Twitter Access” — Mobile carriers around the world are touting their involvement in a program called “Twitter Zero,” but that's not its real name. — In 2010, Facebook revealed …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
New Heartbleed attack hits Android devices and routers over Wi-Fi — Seven weeks after the bug put the web on high alert, Heartbleed is still causing problems. A new report from Portuguese security researcher Luis Grangeia describes how the same bug could be used over Wi-Fi to enable …
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ITProPortal and Electronista
| David Ulevitch / OpenDNS Blog: |
OpenDNS will be ad-free for all users starting June 6 — No more ads — TL;DR: We've always tried to put user experience first, even when that gets in the way of making more money. Browsers have changed, we've become a security company, and we've shifted our business to rely …
| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Sunrise is the first great calendar app for Android and web — The search results for “calendar” in the Google Play Store leave a lot to be desired. — You'll find Agenda and Cal, two decent free apps, and Business Calendar, a pricey app with lots of features but no sense of style.| Grant Gross / PC World: |
Bill would prohibit FCC from reclassifying broadband as utility — A U.S. lawmaker has introduced legislation that would prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from reclassifying broadband as a common-carrier utility, a move many net neutrality advocates have called for.
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Congressman Bob Latta …, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Electronista, The Hill, Channel Partners News …, CED and MediaPost
Tweets: @nacin, @bfeld and @kevinbrueck
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Salesforce CRM apps coming to Windows and Windows Phone — Summary: Salesforce and Microsoft have agreed to tighten ties between Salesforce's CRM apps and platform and Microsoft's Windows and Office. — Salesforce.com is building new Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.1 CRM apps …
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TechCrunch, Engadget, Electronista, Gigaom Research, Softpedia News, InfoWorld, Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, Computerworld, TechEye, ReadWrite, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, The Technology Chronicles, PC World, Neowin, WMPoweruser, CNET News, TechCrunch, Gigaom and Data Center Knowledge
Tweets: @levie, @emilyparkhurst and @satyanadella
| Renu Rayasam / HERE Three Sixty: |
Nokia buys SRI International spin-off Desti to add AI-based personalization to its HERE maps — Creating location services that understand you with Desti — Today, we took a step forward in our ability to personalize search by welcoming Desti's team to HERE.Sponsor Posts
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