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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Source: internal Apple message narrows Apple Watch launch date to “spring” 2015; customers will be able to try on different models in stores — Apple Retail SVP Angela Ahrendts: Apple Watch launching in “Spring,” after Chinese New Year — The Apple Watch's launch is scheduled …
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| Liam Spradlin / Android Police: |
Gmail 5.0 With Exchange Support And Material Design Has Landed — The day is finally upon us - the Gmail 5.0 APK has landed, and we have it for your (production-signed) downloading pleasure. — As we've expected since we first saw the app more than a week ago, the new Gmail is very... “material.”
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| Bertel King, Jr / Android Police: |
Nexus 9 And Nexus Player Now Available For Purchase From Google Play, Nexus 9 From Best Buy — You could have pre-ordered a Nexus 9 or a Nexus Player two weeks ago, and I have no doubt that many of you did. But for everyone taking the wait-and-see approach, the two devices are both now available for purchase from the Play Store.
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| Kevin Roose / New York Magazine: |
Why podcasts are back: shows are better and cheaper, playing smartphone audio in a car is easy — What's Behind the Great Podcast Renaissance? — The mid-aughts audio scene is making a big comeback. — Shares — In 2001, Steve Jobs announced the original iPod …
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| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Dabbling in the future of payment: A week of Apple Pay and Google Wallet — On Monday last week, Apple finally launched Apple Pay, the company's mobile-payment system that only works with the iPhone 6, 6 Plus and the latest iPads. (Though you can't use iPads for in-store payments.)
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Rovi Acquires Fan TV To Bolster Its Cloud-Based Video Discovery Products — Rovi is announcing the acquisition of video discovery startup Fan TV today. The deal will add to Rovi's portfolio of cloud-based guide offerings for service providers, while also giving it some consumer-facing apps.| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Starwood Hotels begins rollout of iPhone/Apple Watch virtual room keys, Hilton to follow (Video) — Starwood Hotels has officially launched its SPG Keyless service, allowing guests to use their iPhone (and, in the Spring, Apple Watch) to unlock their hotel doors, bypassing the front desk.
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Business Wire, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, Gigaom, MacRumors and Hilton Worldwide Global …
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft stops selling consumer versions of Windows 7 to computer makers — Microsoft today stopped providing Windows 7 Home Basic, Windows 7 Home Premium, and Windows 7 Ultimate licenses to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), including its PC partners and systems builders.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
| Kristen Schweizer / Bloomberg: |
Publicis Buys Sapient for $3.7 Billion in Digital Ad Push — Publicis Groupe SA (PUB), agreed to pay $3.7 billion for Sapient (SAPE) Corp., pushing the third-largest advertising company deeper into digital offerings and the U.S. as it moves past the distraction of a failed merger with Omnicom Group Inc.
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Marketing Land, TechCrunch, AdExchanger, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, BBC and Business Insider. Tweets: @danprimack
| Micah Lee / The Intercept: |
How Micah Lee securely connected Edward Snowden with Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald — Ed Snowden Taught Me To Smuggle Secrets Past Incredible Danger. Now I Teach You. — Late on the evening of January 11, 2013, someone sent me an interesting email.| Stuart Elliott / New York Times: |
CNET's print magazine to debut on Monday, part of an effort to become a multiplatform brand — Technology Website CNET to Jump From Screen to Page — A LEADING technology website, CNET, is expanding into a platform that its users praise as portable, accessible and affordable.
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| Jon Southurst / CoinDesk: |
Circle launches mobile bitcoin wallet apps for iOS and Android, can send and request payments — Circle Launches Mobile Apps for iOS and Android — Bitcoin-based consumer finance company Circle has released native apps for both iOS and Android platforms, aiming to bring as many features …
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| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
As the biggest winners get bigger, VCs accelerate their valuations of companies like Slack — Fundraising Acceleration Is The New VC Investment Thesis — There was a quite a jolt on Friday from the news that Slack, a company whose eponymous enterprise communications platform … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Samsung acquires SSD caching company Proximal Data — Above: Samsung's Unpacked announcement for the Galaxy Note 4 — Samsung today announced it has acquired caching company Proximal Data. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. — Based in San Diego, California …
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