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Apple and IBM partner to develop iOS enterprise apps and cloud services, tailor AppleCare for enterprise; IBM will sell iPhones and iPads to business clients — Apple and IBM Forge Global Partnership to Transform Enterprise Mobility — Apple® and IBM (NYSE: IBM) …
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
In IBM and Apple's wake, what will team Android do? — Summary: The biggest challenge for team Android is that Google and Samsung, two partners with enterprise ambitions, will have to herd cats to reach corporations to counter Apple and IBM. — Google, Samsung and team Android may have to form … | Asymco: |
A historical look at how Apple's independence and IBM's business model agility led to a strategic partnership — IBM and Apple: Catharsis — IBM did not invent personal computing but their “PC” became synonymous with the category. Having entered the market in 1981, the IBM PC quickly became the top selling brand.| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
Apple and IBM Team Up to Push iOS in the Enterprise — Apple and IBM today announced a broad partnership to help companies deploy wireless devices and business-specific applications to run on them. — The combination brings together two historical competitors — who decades ago struggled … | Google: |
Google+ removes all name restrictions, apologizes for “unnecessarily difficult experiences” — When we launched Google+ over three years ago, we had a lot of restrictions on what name you could use on your profile. This helped create a community made up of real people …
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Time Warner rejected $80B takeover bid by Murdoch's 21st Century Fox last month, no longer in discussions — Rupert Murdoch Said to Have Made Offer for Time Warner — Twenty-First Century Fox, the media empire run by Rupert Murdoch, made an $80 billion takeover bid in recent weeks … | Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Samsung In Talks To Scoop Up SmartThings For Around $200 Million — Google has Nest, Apple has HomeKit and Samsung has...SmartThings, we're hearing. The deal was completed for around $200 million dollars, though it might have been less according to one source. — (Update: The deal is not done yet, says another.)| Benjamin Wallace / New York Magazine: |
Kara Swisher Is Silicon Valley's Most Feared and Well-Liked Journalist. How Does That Work? — The combination of access and toughness has made her a preeminent arbiter of status. — The technology journalist Kara Swisher likes to call herself Sherlock Homo, but on a spring evening in Austin … | Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
FiftyThree's Pencil iPad stylus arrives in the UK — Are you a Briton who's been itching to try out Pencil, FiftyThree's Bluetooth-connected iPad stylus? Until now, the only way to get hold of the device would be to order it from the US and bracing yourself for the inevitable barrage of paperwork and annoyance from customs.
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Microsoft to Surpass Yahoo in Global Digital Ad Market Share This Year — Google, Facebook continue on as the market's leaders — Yahoo's push to maintain its position as a top global ad seller will take another hit in 2014, according to new projections from eMarketer.
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| Aimee Riordan / The Official Microsoft Blog: |
Microsoft announces 175-megawatt wind farm deal, broadens renewable energy commitment — Microsoft will purchase 175 megawatts of wind energy from the Pilot Hill Wind Project in Illinois, about 60 miles south of Chicago, as part of a 20-year agreement announced Tuesday.
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| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Oculus Spots People Selling Rift Pre-Orders, Cancels Their Shipments — The second version of the Oculus Rift VR headset is expected to start arriving this week, but actually getting your hands on one is going to be tough. Over 45,000 units had been pre-ordered as of the first of this month … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
InkCase Plus Adds A Second, Standalone E-ink Screen To Your Android Phone — With more of our attention being gobbled up by smartphone screens it's no wonder phone displays have gotten bigger. But there's a natural limit on how big a phone's screen can get before you're basically holding a tablet.| Sapna Maheshwari / BuzzFeed: |
Bloomberg $20K+/year terminals have a classifieds section called POSH — There's A Secret Craigslist Just For Rich People — The classifieds section of the Bloomberg terminal, which costs more than $20,000 a year, is called POSH. Aptly named. — The Bloomberg terminal … | Google: |
Google appoints former Ford CEO Alan Mulally to its board of directors — Google Appoints Alan Mulally to its Board of Directors — MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - JULY 15, 2014 — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced it has appointed Alan Mulally to its Board of Directors.
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| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Sling's ‘M1’ streaming box brings built-in WiFi at a lower price — It's been nearly two years since Sling unveiled new placeshifting boxes, so it's high time the company brought its products into the year 2014. The firm just announced two refreshes, including the entry-level M1 …
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| Ben Woods / The Next Web: |
BlackBerry Assistant officially introduced as part of BlackBerry 10.3, Siri et al likely not worried — Canadian handset maker BlackBerry has officially introduced its virtual assistant for the BlackBerry 10.3 OS, and it's called simply ‘BlackBerry Assistant’.
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| Pete Rizzo / CoinDesk: |
Google Search Integrates Bitcoin Price Calculator — Internet search giant Google has updated its search engine to automatically display bitcoin prices when users enter certain queries. — The news comes roughly one month after Google Finance partnered with Coinbase to launch …
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| Reto Meier / Android Developers Blog: |
Google offers Udacity course in Android development; all course materials are free — Learn to Think Like an Android Developer — By Reto Meier, Head of Scalable Developer Advocacy — Today I'm proud to announce the latest resource for learning to develop Android apps: Developing Android Apps: Android Fundamentals.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Yelp raises limit on API requests from 100 to 25K calls/day for unapproved developers — Yelp Liberates Its API To Box Out Foursquare And Google — Yelp wants as many inroads and reminders for its service around the web as possible, so today it upped the limit on its API for pulling nearby places …
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