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Facebook launches standalone Groups app for iOS and Android — Introducing the Facebook Groups App — People use Facebook Groups every day to stay in touch with family, collaborate on projects, plan trips and offer support to friends. — Today, we're introducing a new Facebook Groups app …
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TechCrunch, The Next Web, Facebook Media, Wall Street Journal, ABC News, VatorNews, AllFacebook, 9to5Mac, Tech Times, CNN, SlashGear, Boz - Facebook, VentureBeat, iDownloadBlog.com, TheStreet.com, Re/code, The Daily Dot, Laughing Squid, MobileSyrup.com, Marketing Land, Pocketnow, Ubergizmo, iPhone in Canada Blog, Electronista, Pocket-lint, Mark Zuckerberg, MacRumors, Droid Life, Fortune and WebProNews. Tweets: @joshm
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
| Yi Zhuang / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter search finally indexes all public tweets since 2006 — Building a complete Tweet index — Today, we are pleased to announce that Twitter now indexes every public Tweet since 2006. — Since that first simple Tweet over eight years ago, hundreds of billions of Tweets …
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Wired, The Register, PC Magazine, Computerworld, The Daily Dot, The Verge, Mashable, ReadWrite, The Next Web, SlashGear, TIME, Marketing Land, Ubergizmo, TechnoBuffalo, VentureBeat and Engadget
Tweets: @mitlibraries, @tcarmody and @kevinweil
| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick says exec's remarks on targeting the press “a departure from our values” — Uber CEO Condemns “Terrible” Comments — “We should lead by inspiring our riders, our drivers, and the public at large,” Travis Kalanick said in an 11-tweet tweetstorm this afternoon.
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Ten good questions Travis Kalanick failed to address in his tweetstorm apology — Uber CEO Posts 13-Tweet Apology Without Answering a Single Question — Uber CEO Travis Kalanick just responded to privacy and ethics concerns about Emil Michael, after the top executive publicly suggested paying $1 million … | Nancy Scola / Washington Post: |
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple Seeds iOS 8.2 With WatchKit SDK for Apple Watch Apps to Developers — Apple today announced that its set of WatchKit development tools are now available for developers, allowing them to begin creating apps and software for the company's upcoming Apple Watch.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple WatchKit third-party apps require a connected iPhone to function, ‘fully native’ apps coming later in 2015 — Apple has just released a flood of information about how apps on Apple Watch work, through the WatchKit framework. There are three types of integrations currently possible …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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| David Meyer / Gigaom: |
Nokia N1 will be made and sold by Foxconn, will include Google Play in markets where Play is available — Non-Microsoft Nokia launches Android N1 tablet with Foxconn — Here's a shocker — Nokia, not to be confused with its former handset business that is now owned by Microsoft, has unveiled an Android tablet.
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| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple will soon let third-party products use its Lightning port, opening up new possibilities for accessories — Last week at Apple's yearly briefing for accessory makers in its Made-for-iPhone/iPad (MFi) licensing program, the company unveiled new Lightning connectors and specs …
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The Verge, MacDailyNews, Pocketnow, Gotta Be Mobile, TechnoBuffalo, Macworld and MobileSyrup.com. Thanks:@justinkahnmusic
| Cliff Edwards / Netflix: |
Netflix to launch in Australia and New Zealand in March 2015 — World's Leading Internet Television Network to Offer Original Series, Movies, Documentaries, Stand-Up Comedy Specials and TV Shows for Low Monthly Price — Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX), the leading Internet movie and TV subscription service …
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TechCrunch, The Register, The Next Web, Gizmodo, Lifehacker Australia, Ubergizmo, TechSpot and Engadget. Tweets: @netflix
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Gruber says next year's iPhone may include a two-lens, DSLR quality back camera — Apple May Introduce ‘Biggest Camera Jump Ever’ in Next-Generation iPhone — Apple may introduce its “biggest camera jump ever” in the next-generation iPhone, according to Daring Fireball's John Gruber (via The Tech Block).| The Verge: |
USA Freedom Act for NSA reform is voted down in the Senate — The US Senate has just voted down the USA Freedom Act by a vote of 58-42, leaving it just two votes shy of the 60 it needed. The bill would have ended the controversial phone record metadata collection by the NSA …
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Far from killing it, native apps have made the open web even stronger — Native Apps Are Part of the Web — Christopher Mims, writing in the WSJ, “The Web Is Dying; Apps Are Killing It”: … I can't believe someone is still writing this in 2014. Users love apps, developers love apps …
| Lucian Constantin / PC World: |
EFF and Mozilla back new certificate authority “Let's Encrypt” offering free SSL certificates — EFF, Mozilla back new certificate authority that will offer free SSL certificates — A new organization supported by Mozilla, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and others is working … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google's mobile search results get ‘mobile-friendly’ label to show you which sites work best on your phone — Google today announced the debut of a new “mobile-friendly” label on its mobile search results page. The company says the change will be rolling out globally over the next few weeks, so don't fret if you don't see it yet.| Bloomberg: |
Apple told to pay $23.6M for infringing pager technology patents from the 1990s — Apple Told to Pay $23.6 Million Over Pager Technology — Apple Inc. (AAPL) was told to pay a Texas company $23.6 million after a jury found its iPhone and other devices used pager technology from the 1990s without permission.
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SiliconBeat, BGR, Re/code, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, iClarified, TechnoBuffalo, Ars Technica, App Advice, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Mac Observer, Electronista, iDownloadBlog.com, iLounge and Patently Apple. Tweets: @sudecker1
| Cho Mu-hyun / ZDNet: |
Samsung to launch flexible display, cut number of smartphone models by 25-30% in 2015 — Samsung to launch flexible display, cut smartphone models in 2015 — Summary: Samsung Electronics will launch a flexible display for handsets and release 25 to 30 percent less handset models next year … | Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
WhatsApp rolls out end-to-end encryption using TextSecure code — The most recent update to WhatsApp's Android app includes a surprising feature: strong end-to-end encryption, enabled by default. It's the strongest security any major texting app has offered, even compared with similar tools …
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Open Whisper Systems Blog, Wired, Gizmodo, Android Police, ABC News, New York Times, PC Magazine, Help Net Security, The Daily Dot, iPhone in Canada Blog, Fortune, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, TechOne3, VentureBeat, PandoDaily, Digital Trends, TIME, Mashable, PC World, ZDNet, TechCrunch, The Next Web and Ars Technica
Tweets: @rj_gallagher and @csoghoian
| Mark Wilson / BetaNews: |
Microsoft unveils Office 365 Video for secure enterprise video sharing and streaming — Microsoft is giving Office 365 users an early glimpse of what it hopes will become the future of enterprise video sharing. Office 365 Video harnesses the power of SharePoint and Azure Media Services …
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Office Blogs, WinBeta, SuperSite for Windows and GeekWire
| James Trew / Engadget: |
Create your own smart home with littleBits' house-friendly kit — Ever since littleBits' snap-together circuits got the ability to speak to the internet, they were crying out to be used for home-automation. Today, littleBits itself is making that a dead cert, by launching a “Smart Home Kit.”
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VentureBeat, MacRumors, Digital Trends, Lifehacker, 9to5Mac, Connectedly, CNET, Gizmodo and The Next Web
| Ruth Reader / VentureBeat: |
PayPal unveils Pebble app for notifications, watch-only payments at stores accepting PayPal — PayPal challenges Apple Pay with an app for the Pebble smartwatch — PayPal's mobile payments app is now available for the Pebble smartwatch, the company announced in a blog post today.
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PayPal Forward, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, BetaNews and MacRumors
| Kevin Montgomery / Valleywag: |
Yik Yak sued by former classmate of co-founders who claims he was pushed out of the company — Parents Forced Frat Boys to Screw a Partner Out of a Popular Startup — Yik Yak may not be a household name like Snapchat, but it's almost as popular. The anonymous college bulletin board app … Sponsor Posts
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