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| 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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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Google acquires music streaming service Songza for undisclosed amount, will keep product intact for now — Google Buys Songza — Google has acquired music streaming service Songza after weeks of speculation around a potential buyout. — Songza uses information about the user and context …
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See also Mediagazer| Ben Sisario / New York Times: |
Source: Google paid more than $39M for Songza — Google Buys Songza, a Playlist Service for Any Occasion — In a sign of growing consolidation in the digital music business, Google announced on Tuesday that it had bought Songza, a three-year-old app that competes with Pandora and others …
| 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, Medium, Gigaom, Re/code, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, CoinDesk, On Bitcoin, NEWSBTC and TIME
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
BlaBlaCar Raises A Massive $100 Million Round To Create A Global Long Distance Ride-Sharing Network — In what is the largest VC round in a French startup of all time, BlaBlaCar just raised a $100 million round led by Index Ventures, with existing investors Accel Partners, ISAI and Lead Edge Capital also participating in the round.
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| Husain Sumra / MacRumors: |
Apple Launches $49 Mac Pro Security Lock Adapter in Online Store — Apple today launched a new $49 Mac Pro Security Lock Adapter in its online store, offering users of the new Mac Pro a way to easily secure their machines using existing Kensington locks. Previously, users had to resort …
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| 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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| Cindy Cohn / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Flawed Oversight Board Report Endorses General Warrants — The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) issued a legally flawed and factually incomplete report late Tuesday that endorses Section 702 surveillance. Hiding behind the “complexity” of the technology …
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| Julian Hattem / The Hill: |
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon sues former employee for taking Google cloud job, in new test of non-compete deals — Amazon is suing a former Amazon Web Services strategic partnerships manager, Zoltan Szabadi, alleging that his new job at Google Cloud Platform violates the terms of a non-compete agreement that he signed when he originally joined Amazon.
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Tinder CEO's Internal Memo Says Harassment Complaint Is Inaccurate — TechCrunch has obtained an internal memo sent from Tinder CEO Sean Rad to employees in the wake of a new lawsuit waged against the company. The lawsuit focuses on the relationship between Whitney Wolfe … | Ian Austen / New York Times: |
Canadian antispam law goes into effect, resulting in a flurry of ‘please opt in’ emails — Canadian Antispam Law Whips Up a Storm of Last-Minute Messages — OTTAWA — The email has all the markings of malicious spam: an overwrought subject line screaming “Urgent Action Required … | Nicholas Stango / Gizmodo: |
Inside the Secret Building That's Bringing Cell Service To NYC's Subway — As Hurricane Sandy revealed almost two years ago, New York's 100-year-old subway is not a modern and robust system. In fact, compared to other cities, it's downright dirty, unpredictable and technologically behind.
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| Mark Hearn / 9to5Google: |
Google's Smarty Pins map game tests your knowledge about location-based events — Google released another web-based game today called Smarty Pins that will most likely distract you from other things that you should be doing. Powered by Google Maps, this quiz game tests your knowledge … | Harry McCracken / Technologizer: |
Former Time editor-at-large Harry McCracken joins Fast Company as technology editor — Hey, I'm Joining Fast Company! — Just over a month ago, I resigned from my job at TIME and rebooted this website. I wrote at the time that I didn't expect to do Technologizer full-time indefinitely …
| Kaylene Hong / The Next Web: |
Facebook's new type of ad in India lets users place a ‘missed call’ for more information — Facebook faces several challenges in emerging markets. The company has to find ways for people to access its platform by maneuvering around limitations which include a widespread use of feature phones …
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| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
ISPs, communication firms file legal complaint over UK GCHQ spying — Summary: Seven internet service and communications providers worldwide have filed a legal complaint against the UK's GCHQ spy agency in the wake of the NSA scandal. — Charlie Osborne — Seven internet service …
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| 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 … | Steven Millward / Tech in Asia: |
Xiaomi sells 26.1 million smartphones in first half of 2014, still on target for 60 million this year — Xiaomi founder Lei Jun said this morning that the Chinese phone-maker has sold 26.1 million smartphones in the first half of 2014. He pointed out that it's a leap of 271 percent …
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PC World, The Next Web, 9to5Google, CNET, TechCrunch, Reuters and Bloomberg
| Amy Schatz / Re/code: |
FTC says T-Mobile made hundreds of millions on crammed text message charges; T-Mobile says accusations are “unfounded and without merit” — FTC Alleges T-Mobile Made Millions From Allegedly Bogus Text Message Charges — T-Mobile made hundreds of millions of dollars …
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T-Mobile Newsroom, DSLreports, Inside Mobile Apps, Inquirer, PR Newswire, TechSpot, PhoneNews.com, Techdirt, Ubergizmo, Tech Times, Business Insider, The Hill, consumer.ftc.gov, SlashGear, BGR, VentureBeat, Android Central, Mashable, 9to5Google, Bloomberg, GeekWire, App Advice, The Verge, Electronista and TechnoBuffalo
Tweets: @stevekovach and @johnlegere
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Samsung Gear Live and LG G Watch review: expensive accessories with promise, but not yet must-haves — Android Wear hardware review: Sometimes promising, often frustrating — Why wear one smartwatch when there's room for two? — We've reviewed most of the major entrants into the smartwatch arena …
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Softpedia News and Wall Street Journal
| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
VAIO computers return after Sony sells the brand — The new VAIO Corporation is here — The iconic VAIO PC brand has been resurrected today, following Sony's sale of the struggling business to investment fund Japan Industrial Partners. At the time, Sony said it planned to concentrate …
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Gearburn, CNET, Engadget, Electronista, TechRadar.com, Pocket-lint, The Tech Report, Neowin, PC World and Liliputing
| Nellie Bowles / Re/code: |
Hinge, a Transparent Dating App, Raises $4.5 Million — Hinge, a transparent, totally not anonymous dating app (you use your full name, and it pulls photos from Facebook), just received $4.5 million in venture funding from Founders Fund, Lowercase Capital and others.
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