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Amazon acquiring Twitch for $970M in cash — Amazon.com to Acquire Twitch — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Twitch Interactive, Inc., the leading live video platform for gamers. In July, more than 55 million unique visitors viewed …
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See also Mediagazer| Ryan Mac / Forbes: |
Amazon Pounces On Twitch After Google Balks Due To Antitrust Concerns — One technology giant's loss is another's gain. — In May, Variety first reported that Google was in talks to acquire video game streaming company Twitch for more than $1 billion. Three months later …
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| Joshua Brustein / Businessweek: |
Why Amazon wants Twitch: advertising, owning video content people like and engage with — Why Amazon Is Paying $1 Billion to Help People Watch Video Games — For months Twitch, the video game streaming service, was supposedly putting the finishing touches on a deal with Google.| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
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Facebook will reduce “click-baiting” headlines and links shared in photo captions in News Feed — News Feed FYI: Click-baiting — Today we're announcing some improvements to News Feed to help people find the posts and links from publishers that are most interesting and relevant …
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See also Mediagazer| Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept: |
NSA providing records of 850B calls, locations, emails, and internet chats to 23 US agencies with a Google-like ICREACH search engine — The Surveillance Engine: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google — The National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly …
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The Rise and Fall and Rise of Virtual Reality — In the wake of Facebook's purchase of Oculus VR, can this revolutionary technology triumph anew?| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft cuts Surface 2 price by $100, hinting at successor or discontinuation — Surface 2 prices slashed, hinting at discontinuation or replacement — Microsoft has cut $100 off the price of its Surface 2 Windows RT tablets. This puts the cheapest 32GB unit at $349, the 64GB unit at $449 …
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Calif. governor signs smartphone ‘kill switch’ bill into law — Law requires security software to come enabled by default, but other than that, not much will change for most smartphone users. — State Sen. Mark Leno and San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon introduced the California “kill switch” bill in February.
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| Li-Wei Lee / Google Drive Blog: |
Google releases new Slides app for iOS, updates Sheets and Docs with offline and direct Office file editing — Your iPhone & iPad are ready to get to work with new apps for Docs, Sheets, & Slides — You suddenly remember you need to add “buy milk” to your grocery list, but don't have a pen or paper in sight.
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| Abhijeet M. / SamMobile: |
EXCLUSIVE: Samsung working on circular Gear smartwatch, SIM-enabled Gear coming with Galaxy Note 4 — We've known for some time that Samsung is working on various new wearables, including a Gear smartwatch with cellular connectivity and the Gear VR, a virtual reality headset.| Dennis Keohane / BetaBoston: |
HubSpot files for $100 million IPO — Today, HubSpot, the Cambridge-based inbound marketing company, filed the much-awaited plans for its initial public offering. — The company aims to raise $100 million through the offering to expand its business, according to the filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Huawei CEO: Tizen has “no chance”, and we're putting new Windows Phone releases “on hold” — Huawei Is Shaking Up the Smartphone Market — Richard Yu, head of Chinese firm's consumer business group, talks about competing against Samsung and Apple.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
VMware Partners With Docker, Pivotal And Google To Bring Container Support To Its Platform — VMware today announced that it is partnering with Docker, Google and Pivotal to bring support for Docker containers to its platform. In addition, the company said that it will work …
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