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Renowned industrial designer Marc Newson to join Apple's design team, will remain based in UK — Marc Newson to Join Apple's Design Team (Exclusive) — Designer Marc Newson is joining Apple as part of senior vice president of design Jonathan Ive's team, the company told VF Daily on Friday.
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Apple iPhone's Mobile Payments Expected to Include CVS and Walgreens — Apple's upcoming mobile payment system will get a big head start with the country's two largest pharmacy chains coming on board. — CVS and Walgreens are expected to accept purchases made with the new iPhone payment system …
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Moto 360 review: understated elegance, first “real” smartwatch, but battery lasts less than a day — Moto 360 review — Motorola's long-awaited smartwatch is finally ready for your wrist — I lost my phone this morning. — Normally that's impossible.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
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| Telis Demos / Wall Street Journal: |
Alibaba to set IPO price range at $60-$66 per share, valuing the company between $150B and $165B — Alibaba to Set IPO Price Range at $60-$66 A Share — Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is expected to price its initial public offering at $60 to $66 a share, according to a person familiar with the matter …
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Motorola's Turbo Charger adds 8 hours of battery life to your Moto X (2nd Gen) in 15 minutes — It was back in February we told you guys about Qualcomm's Quick Charge 2.0 technology, a new feature that was said to be soon arriving on Snapdragon powered devices allowing them to charge up to 75% faster than the other guys.| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
New Moto X available later this month starting at $499 unlocked, with bigger 5.2" 1080p display, aluminum frame, and leather back option — The Moto X returns: high-end specs, aluminum frame and leather back — As a half dozen of my colleagues toil away in Berlin bringing you the latest news …
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| Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Dell Previews 27-inch ‘5K’ UltraSharp Monitor: 5120x2880 — UHD is dead. Not really, but it would seem that displays bigger than UHD/4K will soon be coming to market. The ability of being able to stitch two regular sized outputs into the same panel via MST is now being exploited …
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| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
Apple employees ‘have set low expectations’ for ‘iWatch’ battery life - report — One of the biggest issues associated with color touchscreen smartwatches has been battery life, and the same problems may persist with Apple's first foray into the wrist-borne wearable devices market, according to a new report.| Liam Spradlin / Android Police: |
Google Glass Explorer Edition Now Live In The US Play Store With All Accessories — You may remember Google's launch of the Glass explorer program in the UK, which saw the device listed in the Play Store just before I/O. This seemed a little odd at the time, given that the Glass shopping experience …
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| Bloomberg: |
The Fancy seeking a buyer for around $1 billion, after struggling to raise more funding — The Fancy Said to Weigh Possible Sale for About $1 Billion — The Fancy, a customer-curated Web retailer, has been holding discussions to sell itself for about $1 billion after struggling to raise financing …
| Seth Rosenblatt / CNET: |
Google refines its 1Password-like password generator in Chrome Canary build — Google tests password generator in Chrome browser — Watch out, LastPass and 1Password. Google is experimenting with its own password maker for the Chrome browser, though it's not clear if it will become a permanent fixture.| Stewart Rogers / VentureBeat: |
Study: In social advertising, YouTube converts more customers than anyone else — When it comes to paid advertising on social platforms, YouTube is the clear winner in introducing new products and helping consumers make their purchasing decisions, according to a new study Aol Platforms released today.| Noel Randewich / Reuters: |
Intel and Fossil to create wearable tech — An employee walks past an Intel logo during the 2014 Computex exhibition at the TWTC Nangang exhibition hall in Taipei June 3, 2014. Computex, the world's second largest computer show, runs from June 3 to 7. — (Reuters) - Chipmaker Intel Corp …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Android Wear updates will bring custom faces and offline music playback to all watches — Google is planning a pair of Android Wear updates between now and the end of the year that will enable watch owners to start using custom faces, to track how far and fast they run … | Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Intel's Core M Strategy: CPU Specifications for 9mm Fanless Tablets and 2-in-1 Devices — Continuing our coverage of Intel's 14nm Technology, another series of press events held by Intel filled out some of the missing details behind the strategy of their Core M platform.| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Google settles with photographers over book scanning lawsuit — Google has announced a settlement with a coalition of photographers over use of their work in its Google Books scanning project. — The photographers first filed suit against Google in 2010.
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Microsoft and German publishers say their experiments show the proposed EU antitrust settlement with Google would be ineffective — Opposition Grows in Europe to Google Antitrust Proposal — BRUSSELS — Microsoft and the German publishing industry on Thursday stepped up pressure … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google makes site-specific search more prominent, adds Autocomplete and support for your site's own search pages — Google today updated its sitelinks search box, used for searching within websites directly from Google's search results. The company has made the search box more prominent … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
DigitalOcean Partners With CoreOS To Bring Large-Scale Cluster Deployments To Its Platform — Since its launch just a few years ago, DigitalOcean quickly made a name for itself as a hosting platform for affordable virtual servers. The company's ambition goes far beyond hosting your WordPress blog …
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