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| Brad Stone / Businessweek: |
Amazon's Lab126 has been working on a 3D smartphone since 2009 — Inside the Secretive R&D Lab Behind the Amazon Phone — Disclosure: Brad Stone is author of The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon. The book is published by Little, Brown & Co., a division of the Hachette Book Group …
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| Yinka Adegoke / Billboard: |
YouTube Confirms Subscription Service Imminent, Warns of Takedowns — YouTube has confirmed it is close to launching its music subscription service, even as it in the process of pulling down some of the biggest indie label acts in a dispute over payments. — Acts like Adele … | Stuart Dredge / Guardian: |
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| Klint Finley / Wired: |
Department of Energy network ESnet is capable of cross-country data transfers at 91 Gbps — The Shadow Internet That's 100 Times Faster Than Google Fiber — When Google chief financial officer Patrick Pichette said the tech giant might bring 10 gigabits per second internet connections to American homes … | Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Apple Is Happy to Sell You the Hachette Books Amazon Won't Stock — Amazon doesn't want to sell books from Hachette Book Group. — More for us, says Apple, which is taking advantage of the fight between the world's biggest bookstore and one of the world's biggest publishers.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's Slingshot Challenges Snapchat With ‘Reply To Unlock’ — Facebook wants to break the “1% Rule” of Internet culture that says a tiny fraction of users create the content for everyone else. So after a momentary leak last week, today Facebook officially launches Slingshot for iOS …
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| Ely L. / Yelp Official Blog: |
Hold the Phone! Now You Can Message Business Owners Directly Through Yelp — With more than 57 million local reviews contributed across 27 countries, there's already a boatload of info people can gather through Yelp on any local business they're thinking about trying.
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| Aldrin Calimlim / App Advice: |
Sunrise Calendar Update Adds Integration With Evernote, Songkick, TripIt And More — The popular iOS calendar app Sunrise Calendar has just received an update that ushers in a series of integrations with a number of popular productivity and lifestyle apps. — For its inaugural batch …
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
One Kings Lane, after raising $112M in January, is laying off between 75-100 people, or up to 20% of its staff — One Kings Lane Will Cut up to 20 Percent of Its Staff — Just six months after landing a big round of investment that valued One Kings Lane at $900 million … | Sakari Suoninen / Reuters: |
Nokia ‘paid millions to software blackmailers six years ago’ — (Reuters) - Finnish telecoms equipment company Nokia paid several million euros to criminals who threatened to reveal the source code for part of an operating system used in its smartphones some six years ago, Finnish TV station MTV said on Tuesday.
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| Wilson Rothman / Wall Street Journal: |
Garmin launches Viago, a fully functioning $1.99 GPS app for iOS and Android, with maps, safety and traffic add-ons via in-app purchase — Garmin's Viago GPS App Has Powerful Features—Especially if You Pay Extra … Garmin, the once-mighty GPS powerhouse, just launched Víago …
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Adobe delivers strong Q2 with 2.3 million Creative Cloud subscriptions — Summary: The creative software maker managed to beat estimates with growth fueled by accelerated cloud-subscription adoption. — Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen — Adobe reported its fiscal second quarter earnings Tuesday after the bell.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
eBay Launches “eBay Valet,” An iPhone App That Does The Selling For You — eBay today is expanding its lesser-known eBay Sell For Me service to mobile with the launch of a new app called eBay Valet, which promises to let eBay do the selling for you. That is, it takes every step of the selling process …
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| Bloomberg: |
Oracle close to buying hospitality-industry software provider Micros Systems for more than $5B — Oracle Said to Near Deal to Buy Micros Systems — Oracle Corp. (ORCL) is nearing a deal to buy hospitality-industry software provider Micros Systems Inc. (MCRS) for more than $5 billion, people familiar with the matter said.| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
Democrats unveil legislation forcing the FCC to ban Internet fast lanes — Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. gesturing during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) — Democratic lawmakers will unveil a piece …
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Google Faces Fresh Antitrust Complaint in Europe — Portuguese App Store Files European Commission Complaint Over Android — BRUSSELS— Google Inc. is facing fresh accusations of anticompetitive behavior in Europe over its Android operating system for mobile phones, even as the Web giant struggles …
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| Jackie Reses / Yahoo: |
Yahoo the latest to disclose diversity: 62% men globally, and 50% white in US, more diverse than Google — Workforce Diversity at Yahoo — Here at Yahoo we are committed to attracting, developing and retaining a diverse workforce. We're in the business of building products for hundreds …
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| Graham Cluley / Graham Cluley Security News: |
Chinese Android smartphone comes with malware pre-installed — A German security firm is reporting that an Android smartphone manufactured in China is shipping with malware pre-installed on it. — The Star N9500 smartphone, which can be easily found available for sale via outlets like Amazon … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft cuts Surface Pro 2 prices by up to $200 ahead of June 20 Surface 3 availability — Microsoft trims Surface Pro 2 prices ahead of Surface Pro 3 availability — Summary: Microsoft is trimming between $100 and $200 off the price of its second-generation, Intel-based Surface Pro 2 tablets … Sponsor Posts
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