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Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg apologizes for poorly communicating controversial News Feed study: “We never meant to upset you” — Sandberg: Facebook Study Was ‘Poorly Communicated’ — Facebook 's psychological experiment on nearly 700,000 unwitting users was communicated “poorly …
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Tweets: @dangillmor, @jason, @violetblue, @astepanovich, @carnage4life, @harrymccracken, @nycjim and @arrington
| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
| James Ball / Guardian: |
EU's right to be forgotten: Guardian articles have been hidden by Google — Publishers must fight back against this indirect challenge to press freedom, which allows articles to be ‘disappeared’. Editorial decisions belong with them, not Google — When you Google someone from within the EU …
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BBC News, Marketing Land, PC Magazine, Gizmodo, Techdirt, Business Insider, Forbes, BGR, Search Engine Land and Salon
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See also Mediagazer| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook acquires video ad tech startup LiveRail for $400-500M, plans to keep it running — Facebook Acquires LiveRail For $400M To $500M To Serve Video Ads Everywhere, Improve Its Own — Facebook has just bought video ad tech startup LiveRail, which connects marketers to publishers …
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Facebook, LiveRail, Mercury News, VatorNews, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, PC Magazine, Marketing Land, AllFacebook, CNET, TechnoBuffalo, Gigaom, Re/code, VentureBeat, Inside Facebook, Beet.TV, AdExchanger, bizjournals and Mashable
Tweets: @mikeisaac, @joshconstine and @joshconstine
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Developer preview test for Android L's Project Volta shows promise, 2 hours or 35% more battery life on Nexus 5 — Examining Project Volta: We put Android L through our battery test — For each Android release, Google likes to have a “Project” that picks an area of weakness and focuses on tuning the whole OS to fix it.
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Geek.com, TechSpot, ExtremeTech, Gigaom, Android Beat, TechnoBuffalo, Redmond Pie, BGR, Geeky Gadgets, SlashGear, Business Insider and Android Police
| Soma Somasegar / MSDN Blogs: |
Microsoft acquires SyntaxTree, creator of UnityVS plugin for Visual Studio — Game developers build the apps that hundreds of millions of users play every day across a wide variety of devices, from Xbox and Windows to iOS, Android and the Web. Games are the most popular application type …
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Ars Technica, PC World, eWeek, The Next Web, TechCrunch, ZDNet, WinBeta, Neowin and GeekWire. Tweets: @lordned
| Kif Leswing / Gigaom: |
Google announces the first 100 Project Ara beta testers — It appears Google's ambitious modular phone experiment is moving into the next phase. At Google's I/O developer conference, the Advanced Technology and Projects team was able to boot a Project Ara device in public for the first time …
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Dan Makoski, 9to5Google, AndroidGuys, The Next Web, Techaeris, Android Central and TechnoBuffalo
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft seeks Office for Android testers as it readies tablet version — Touch-friendly Office Android apps coming before Windows version — Microsoft may have released a basic Office app for Android phones almost a year ago, but the company is now building a suite designed specifically for Android tablets.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo Does A “Summer Cleaning,” Shuts Down Its Xobni Acquisition, Plus Other Under-Performing Products — Yahoo's spring cleanings have extended into the summer months, the company announced today, detailing a series of product changes and closures, many of which are nearly obsolete, obscure, or just unpopular.
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| Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom: |
Qualcomm buys Wilocity to put gigabit wireless connections in smartphones — Qualcomm confirmed on Wednesday that it is buying gigabit wireless specialist Wilocity in a move that puts the mobile chipmaker firmly behind the new WiGig standard. At some point next year, we will start seeing …
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Re/code, Tech Trader Daily, PC World, FierceWirelessTech News and SemiAccurate
| David Katzmaier / CNET: |
Samsung to end plasma TV production this year — Following in the footsteps of Panasonic, Samsung says it will end production of plasma display panels by the end of this year. — The Samsung PNF8500 is the last great plasma TV. — Sarah Tew/CNET — Samsung SDI has announced …
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| Joon Ian Wong / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase Announces High-Security ‘Vault’ Bitcoin Accounts — Called ‘Vault’, the new account was designed in response to demand for a more secure type of wallet from Coinbase's growing customer base of institutions and wealthy individuals, according to company CEO Brian Armstrong, who explained:
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| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon resists FTC request to tighten in-app purchase policy for children — Amazon Resisting FTC on Policy Change for In-App Purchases — Amazon-FTC Dispute Is Over Limiting Children's Purchases — Amazon.com Inc. is bucking a request from the Federal Trade Commission that it tighten …
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Ars Technica, Engadget, The Register, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Electronista, USA Today, The Verge, Pocketnow, GeekWire and TIME
| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Investor Tim Draper wins auction for 29,655 bitcoins seized from Silk Road, partners with Vaurum to leverage the pool as a liquidity source in emerging markets — Famed investor Tim Draper wins auction of Silk Road's 29,655 bitcoins — Draper to partner with Vaurum, which offers “secure storage solutions” to banks.
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New York Times, Gigaom, The Register, PC Magazine, Medium, CoinDesk, Re/code, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, Wired, PandoDaily, Gizmodo, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Fortune, NEWSBTC and On Bitcoin. Tweets: @adamdraper
| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Nvidia preparing a Shield Tablet successor to its Android game console — The Shield Tablet looks set to be a hybrid 2-in-1 device that will show off the power of the Tegra K1 chip — Best known for designing graphics chips and mobile processors, Nvidia set out on a bold new course …
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Ars Technica, LAPTOP Magazine, CNET, Phandroid, 9to5Google, Pocketnow, Electronista, AndroidGuys, Engadget and Pocket-lint
| Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code: |
Samsung shuts down its Video and Media Hub, transfers users' accounts to M-Go — M-Go to Take Over Samsung's Movie Business — Samsung Electronics has discovered that making great screens and delivering great on-screen entertainment require different skills.
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ZDNet, Variety, FierceOnlineVideo News, Gigaom and Ubergizmo
| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Microsoft, Google form Ethernet consortium for datacenter networks — Summary: Microsoft, Google and other firms have come together to form the 25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium with the aim of improving cloud datacenter networks. — Charlie Osborne — Five tech giants, including Google and Microsoft …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft and Canon cross license mobile, imaging patents — Summary: Microsoft and Canon are cross licensing their respective mobile and digital imaging patent portfolios. — Microsoft and Canon announced a cross-licensing patent agreement on July 2 which involves an undisclosed number … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
An Upper Limit For Apps? New Data Suggests Consumers Only Use Around Two Dozen Apps Per Month — There are now well over a million mobile applications in both Google Play and the iTunes App Store alike, and growth of those app marketplaces shows no sign of slowing down.
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Internet2Go, Business Insider, asymco.com, TUAW, iPhone in Canada Blog, PadGadget, ZDNet, MacDailyNews and 9to5Mac
| Juliette Garside / Guardian: |
Study: 19% of top 100K most visited websites are blocked by Britain's adult content filters — Internet filters blocking one in five most-popular websites — Jezebel and Guido Fawkes sites among those blocked by at least one mobile or fixed line service provider in UK, campaigners say
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TorrentFreak, BetaNews, PandoDaily, The Independent, Forbes, Wired.co.uk, Telegraph and Inquirer
| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
First 10K units of Oculus Rift DK2 should be arriving week of July 14 — With 45,000 Pre-Orders, The New Oculus Rift Will Start Arriving Around July 14th — Back in March, the second generation of Oculus' work-in-progress virtual reality headset went up for pre-order for $350.| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers raises $1.2B: $450M for flagship early-stage fund, $750M for digital growth fund — Exclusive: Kleiner Perkins raises $1.2 billion — Kleiner Perkins has no trouble raising a pair of new venture capital funds. Venerable venture capital firm Kleiner …
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| Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom: |
Microsoft joins the AllSeen Alliance as it ramps up connected device efforts — The AllSeen Alliance, the organization pushing for the AllJoyn open standard for connected devices, has netted Microsoft as a member. Microsoft joins members such as Haier, Sears, LG, Panasonic …
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Reuters, ZDNet, PC World, eWeek, Computerworld, Inquirer, DailyFinance.com, ReadWrite and Windows Phone Central
| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Chumby's smart alarm clock relaunches with 1,000 apps — Remember Chumby? You probably haven't heard much about the snuggly tiny computer/smart alarm clock since its makers' company disbanded, but now it's back from its semi-retired state. Its current owner, Blue Octy LLC … | Martin Beck / Marketing Land: |
Facebook Touts 1 Billion App Links Served, Adds Support For Mobile App Ads — Facebook's App Link program, an open-source, cross-platform standard for linking on mobile devices, has been widely adopted since the program was introduced on April 30 at the F8 Developers conference.
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Russia Moves To Ban Online Services That Don't Store Personal Data In Russia — The Russian government has moved one step closer towards a “China-like” approach towards Internet services. — Last night, the Russian State Duma (parliament) passed the first bill requiring that the personal data …
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