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Twitter acquires SnappyTV, the service for clipping, editing, and sharing video clips from live broadcasts — SnappyTV is joining the flock — One of the best ways to follow events as they unfold is through real-time videos on Twitter. As we continue to invest in video …
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| Michael Gold / Reuters: |
Apple's smartwatch to launch as early as October with 2.5" screen, wireless charging, pulse sensor, sources say — Taiwan's Quanta to start mass production of Apple's smartwatch in July: source — (Reuters) - Taiwan's Quanta Computer Inc will start mass production of Apple Inc's first smartwatch in July …
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| Joshua Ho / AnandTech: |
iOS 8 exposes almost every manual camera control possible, allows third-party apps access to all — Manual Camera Controls in iOS 8 — For the longest time, iOS had almost no camera controls at all. There would be a toggle for HDR, a toggle to switch to the front-facing camera, and a toggle to switch to video recording mode.
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BGR, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gigaom, MacNN, Geeky Gadgets, MacDailyNews, TechnoBuffalo, Pocketnow and Ubergizmo
| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Why Did Amazon Make a Phone? A Conversation With Jeff Bezos — Shortly after he introduced the new Fire phone on Wednesday, I spoke with Jeffrey P. Bezos, Amazon's founder and chief executive, about the device and Amazon's goals in the smartphone business. — Here is an edited transcript of our discussion.| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Supreme Court rules software patents that cover ‘abstract ideas’ are invalid — Software patents aren't dead, but they just took a blow. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court has ruled that a series of banking patents didn't cover a concrete software process but an abstract idea …
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| Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
The Nokia team Microsoft didn't buy has made an Android launcher — But is it better than what's out there? — Nokia's involvement with Google's Android can only be described as one big “what if.” Ahead of Microsoft's deal to buy it, Nokia was testing Android phones … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Unlike AT&T, T-Mobile isn't charging companies to circumvent data caps — T-Mobile US last night announced a “Music Freedom” program that will exempt certain music streaming services from counting against the monthly data limits that the so-called “uncarrier” imposes on its customers.| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn Launches Its First Standalone Job Search App, Privacy Guaranteed — LinkedIn says that today 40% of its 300 million users access the site on mobile devices, so its bid to tap into the wave of users accessing the site via smartphones and tablets continues apace …
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Official LinkedIn Blog, iMore, Gigaom, PC World, 9to5Mac, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, App Advice, The Next Web, Geeky Gadgets, CNET, ZDNet and WebProNews
| Christie Smythe / Bloomberg: |
NY AG: iPhone's activation lock reduces phone thefts; Android and Windows Phone to also have kill switches — Android, Windows Phone Will Have Kill Switches, N.Y. Says — Google Inc. (GOOGL) and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) will incorporate a “kill switch” into the next versions …
| Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: |
Early-Stage VC Greycroft Closes $200M Growth Fund — Greycroft Partners, a New York firm that saw its early investments in Maker Studios, Buddy Media, Huffington Post and Braintree Payments Solutions turn into large payouts, has now closed on its first growth fund at $200 million.| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
Sources say Box hopes to complete IPO by July-August; contrary to rumors, has ruled out sale — Box Revives IPO Plans as Cloud Shares Recover — Timing is everything. And cloud storage company Box could not have picked a worse time to go public. — The March 24 public disclosure …
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| Simon Khalaf / Flurry: |
Fitness app usage up 62% in past six months from 49% in 2013, 87% faster than total app market growth — Health and Fitness Apps Finally Take Off, Fueled by Fitness Fanatics — Over the past six years, we have seen mobile and its apps disrupt and transform many industries.| Jonathan Vanian / Gigaom: |
Puppet Labs lands $40M in funding to boost its IT automation work — DevOps-centric Puppet Labs closed a series E $40 million investment round, bringing its total funding to $86 million. The IT automation company plans on using the cash to expand globally and invest in research and development.
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| Leslie Kaufman / New York Times: |
Mozilla to Develop Comments Platform for New York Times and Washington Post — The New York Times and The Washington Post announced on Thursday that they had teamed up with Mozilla to develop a new platform that will allow them to better manage their readers' online comments and contributions.
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Washington Post, Gigaom, The Verge, Poynter and OStatic blogs
| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Intel's new messaging app Pocket Avatars uses the camera to find cartoon avatars matching your mood — Intel releases Pocket Avatars, a chat app that maps your facial expressions onto silly characters — When you think of Intel, you normally think of PC chips, but the company …
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| Joon Ian Wong / CoinDesk: |
US Marshals Service leaks list of participants in the auction of 30,000 Silk Road bitcoins — CONFIRMED: List of Possible Silk Road Bitcoin Bidders Leaked by US Marshals — UPDATE (22:25 BST): Updated with comment from Lynzey Donahue, a U.S. Marshals spokeswoman.
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Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Federal Computer Week, BBC, ITProPortal, Gigaom, PandoDaily, Deep Dot Web, Reuters and Valleywag. Thanks:@jeremybonney
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
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