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Samsung Galaxy Tab S: 8.4-inch for $399, 10.5-inch for $499, available in July, still following Apple's lead — Samsung's razor-thin Galaxy Tab S takes another run at the iPad — The 8.4-inch and 10.5-inch Galaxy Tab S tablets arrive next month — For a long time, Samsung's been trying to take down the iPad.
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| Samuel Gibbs / Guardian: |
Samsung bets big on fingerprint scanning in its war with Apples iPad — New Galaxy Tab S is thinner, lighter and first to use a high-resolution OLED screen, but is it enough to beat the iPad Air? — Samsung has beaten Apple to a fingerprint-reading tablet with the launch …
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| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
Samsung Galaxy Tab S First Look: It's Like a Huge Galaxy S5 — There may be 10 different Samsung tablets on sale right now—yes, 10, and that's just in the U.S.—but I couldn't really tell you what's special about any. The company is hoping to change that with the all-new Galaxy Tab S …
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| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
Sources: Ali Rowghani lacked product instincts, had little success with messaging and curation — What Happened Inside Twitter That Led To The COO Leaving The Company — Twitter COO Ali Rowghani is out of the company in something of a surprise. — Although Kara Swisher …
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| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Twitter Media Head Chloe Sladden Is Leaving — Chloe Sladden, the high-profile executive in charge of Twitter's media unit, is leaving the company. Sources familiar with the company say she informed her team of her plans today; later, she announced her departure publicly via a series of tweets.
| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
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| Parmy Olson / Forbes: |
Exclusive: Google Wants To Collect Your Health Data With ‘Google Fit’ — Google is planning to launch a new health service called Google Fit to collect and aggregate data from popular fitness trackers and health-related apps, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the company's plans.
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| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
New study suggests patent trolls really are killing startups — New study estimates $22 billion in VC funding was lost due to troll lawsuits. — Patent reform advocates have long argued that “patent trolls”—companies that do nothing but sue over patents—are harmful to innovation, not just a plague on big companies.| Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom: |
US will auction bitcoins seized from Silk Road, bidders must deposit $200,000 — The United States government announced Thursday that it will sell the nearly 30,000 bitcoins it seized last year from Silk Road, a notorious online marketplace for drugs and hitmen, in a 12-hour auction on June 27.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Messenger Adds Tap-And-Hold Video Sharing, Another Snapchat Feature — Why tell with text when you can show with video? Facebook Messenger is diving deeper into visual communication with a new option to instantly record and send short videos, similar to Snapchat.
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| Mark Kleinman / Sky News: |
Google in talks with Virgin Galactic for stake in Sir Richard Branson's $2B space tourism venture — Google In Talks To Take Virgin Galactic Stake — Virgin Galactic flights are due to begin this year — Google is in talks with Virgin Galactic about a deal that will hand it crucial access … | Chris P. / PhoneArena: |
Metal Samsung Galaxy F gets snapped next to the Galaxy S5, boasts LG G3-like slim bezels — Somebody, somewhere, appears to have somehow gotten his hands on the yet-unreleased Samsung Galaxy F (previously referred to as Galaxy S5 Prime), and, so far, he's had a fun time teasing us.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
PayPal Launches PassPort To Lure More International Sales From Merchants — PayPal and its owner eBay have been through a few tough rounds in the ring these last few months, facing calls from Carl Ichan to split the company (finished for now), a Twitter encounter with a departing …
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| Nick Statt / CNET News: |
Yves Behar-designed smart cup Vessyl measures caffeine, sugar, and calories in beverages, ships in early 2015 for $200 — Vessyl smart cup can tell Coke from Pepsi — This powerful, sensor-fitted cup identifies what you're drinking and tells you how it affects your health and hydration needs.
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Apple simplifies app browsing and discovery with new ‘Browse by Category’ collection — Apple on Thursday announced a new App Store feature called “Browse by Category” that allows users to navigate to different curated app collections without the need for drop-down menus.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Freshdesk Snags $31M in Series D Funding To Continue Building Customer Support Services — Freshdesk, the customer support as a service company with 23,000 customers, raised $31 million in Series D funding today in a round led by Tiger Global Management, with Accel Partners and Google Capital also contributing.
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Infosys names SAP's Vishal Sikka as CEO; chairman Narayana Murthy to step down — Vishal Sikka will take over from current Chief Executive S.D. Shibulal, one of the engineers who founded Infosys, on August 1. — Infosys Ltd named former SAP AG top executive Vishal Sikka as Chief Executive Officer … | Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Streaming Anime Distributor Crunchyroll Acquires Video Discovery Startup Redux — Video distributor Crunchyroll wants to bring anime and other Asian content to a wide range of connected TVs and other platforms. Which explains why it's announcing today that it's acquired video discovery startup Redux …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's Prime Music service debuts: Ad-free streaming, 90K albums, 1M songs, but few hits — Amazon Turns On Prime Music Streaming, Sans Current Hits — There have been a lot of murmurs that Amazon would turn on a new music streaming service this week, and it looks like that's just what it quietly did a little while ago.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
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