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Chromebooks can now run some Android apps for the first time, including Evernote and Vine — We knew that Google planned to add support for running Android apps on Chromebooks since the company announced it back at Google I/O in June, but today we've had confirmation that the first Android apps … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Leaked Windows 9 screens reveal virtual desktops, windowed “modern” apps, search button on taskbar, and more — Leaked Windows 9 screenshots reveal the future of the desktop — Leaked Windows 9 screenshots have surfaced previously, but this time we're getting a closer look … | Roger Cheng / CNET: |
HTC's smartwatch is alive and kicking, and due in early 2015 — CNET has learned that HTC still plans to enter the burgeoning wearables business despite speculation its watch was scratched. — LAS VEGAS — HTC still wants in on the wearables game, even after Apple made its big move.| Max Eulenstein / Facebook: |
Facebook will now show better News Feed ads using data users report on why they hid ads — News Feed FYI: Listening to People's Feedback to Show Better Ads — Every day, there are millions of ads that are eligible to be shown in News Feed from more than 1.5 million active advertisers on Facebook … | Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
HP acquires cloud startup Eucalyptus, for under $100M according to sources; CEO Marten Mickos will lead HP's cloud unit — HP Tests the M&A Waters With Acquisition of Cloud Startup Eucalyptus — Hewlett-Packard took another step back into the mergers and acquisitions market …
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iPhone 6 vs. iPhone 6 Plus: notable differences include the display, camera, battery life — Big vs. bigger: Which iPhone 6 deserves a place in your pocket? … For the second consecutive year, Apple has delivered not one but two new iPhones. Unlike the iPhone 5c, however … | Dan DeSilva / 9to5Mac: |
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| David Lieberman / Deadline: |
Verizon CEO Says Its Internet TV Service Will Be Up By Mid-2015 And Will Include “Custom Channels” — CEO Lowell McAdam offered a few more details this morning about Verizon's plan to offer a TV-like service over the Internet, a market that Sony and Dish Network also hope to lead.
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Uber's Revenue Is 12 Times The Size of Lyft's, New Study Says — The bitter battle between Uber and Lyft isn't exactly a close fight. — According to new research that draws on credit and debit card transactions by 3.8 million Americans, Uber's revenue was about 12 times that of its rival between May 2013 and May 2014.| Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal: |
Google acquires polling service Polar for Google+, will shut down service at end of the year — Google's Deal for Polar Shows it Has Not Given Up On Google+ — Google's social network Google+ has failed to catch Facebook, but the Web giant has not given up on the business entirely.
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| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
Analyst who predicted sapphire displays for new iPhones reports displays missed the phones “by weeks” due to manufacturing issues — Analyst who cried sapphire takes another swing, despite whiffing on iPhone 6 predictions — A financial analyst focused almost exclusively …
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How the SuperVision algorithm, developed in 2012, marked the turning point in image recognition when machines surpassed humans — The Revolutionary Technique That Quietly Changed Machine Vision Forever — Machines are now almost as good as humans at object recognition … | Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
Brad Garlinghouse Out as CEO of Hightail — Brad Garlinghouse, the former Yahoo executive tapped two years ago to transform the company formerly known as YouSendit into the file-sharing company Hightail, has left the company. — Garlinghouse confirmed the move to Re/code.| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
eBay is preparing to launch an advertising network for its mobile apps — EBay Prepping New Mobile Ad Network — EBay is set to launch an advertising network for its mobile app, opening up a new avenue for marketers to reach the app's roughly 4.6 million daily visitors.| Josh Kosman / New York Post: |
EMC explores selling stake in VMware — EMC Corp., a $60 billion tech giant specializing in cloud-based applications, has decided to explore selling its stake in VMware, a 16-year-old software services company, The Post has learned. — The decision to consider putting the Palo Alto … | Kia Kokalitcheva / VentureBeat: |
Not to be outdone by rival Stripe, Braintree announces Apple Pay support — Yesterday was a huge — huge! — day for Apple, as it unveiled new and bigger phones, its first smartwatch, and a new wireless, NFC-based payments system: Apple Pay. — Apple announced a long list of financial …
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| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Dropbox received hundreds of data requests from law enforcement, only told 91 users about them — Above: Dropbox cofounder and CEO Drew Houston. — Dropbox announced its first six-month transparency report today, revealing 268 law enforcement requests “for user information” …
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| Loek Essers / PC World: |
Libraries may digitize books without permission, EU top court rules — European libraries may digitize books and make them available at electronic reading points without first gaining consent of the copyright holder, the highest European Union court ruled Thursday.
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| Toby Wolpe / ZDNet: |
Jenkins is now sole focus for CloudBees as it drops PaaS and teams up with Pivotal — Summary: There'll be a 100 percent bump in the engineering resources CloudBees puts into the Jenkins tool now the firm has turned away from platform as a service. There will also be more partnerships like the one it's just signed with Pivotal.
| Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech: |
Western Digital unveils world's first 10TB hard drive: Helium-filled, shingled recording — In what can only be described as the hard drive equivalent of Game of Thrones, Western Digital's HGST has announced the world's first 10-terabyte hard drive: the helium-filled Ultrastar He10.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Microsoft previews Azure's Live Streaming and Content Protection, makes Media Indexer generally available — Microsoft today released the public previews of Live Streaming and Content Protection offerings as part of its Azure Media Services suite. At the same time, the company announced …
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TechCrunch, Microsoft Azure Blog, CITEworld, Microsoft Azure Blog, The Fire Hose, The Register, VentureBeat, WinBeta and Microsoft Corporation. Tweets: @scottgu
| Marco Chiappetta / HotHardware.com News: |
Preliminary benchmark tests of Intel's Core M Broadwell platform show impressive performance — First Actual Intel Broadwell Core M Benchmarks From IDF 2014 — We're currently at the Intel Developers Forum checking out all of the technology being showcase by Intel and its partners.
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| Jonathan Vanian / Gigaom: |
Veracode gets $40M to help companies find security holes in their applications — Veracode's service hooks into the development tools used by coders so that its cloud-based system can scan their application for vulnerabilities or bugs in the code. — Veracode, a startup that specializes …
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Viber introduces videos calls to its mobile chat apps for Android and iOS — Viber, the mobile messaging app bought by Japan's e-commerce giant Rakuten for $900 million, is spreading its wings beyond voice calling on mobile after it introduced video calling to its Android and iOS apps.Sponsor Posts
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