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Sony is developing an e-paper smart watch, entire face and band will function as a display — Sony Said to Plan E-Paper Watch in Test of Innovation — Sony Corp. (6758) is developing a watch made out of electronic paper for release as soon as next year in a trial of the company's …
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European MP urging breakup of Google counsels law firm that represented German Magazine Publishers association, earns $15-75K annually from it — European Legislator Urging the Breakup of Google Has Ties to a Law Firm — Andreas Schwab, a German member of the European Parliament …
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US expresses ‘concern’ over EU proposal to break up Google — The United States Mission to the European Union says antitrust issues should not be “politicized.” — The United States doesn't seem to like the European Parliament's proposed breakup of Google.
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Uber Said Close to Raising Funding at Up to $40B Value — Uber Technologies Inc. is close to raising a round of financing that would value the mobile car-booking company at $35 billion to $40 billion, according to people with knowledge of the situation. — T. Rowe Price Group Inc …
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In Another Fire Sale, Amazon Cuts Phone Price to $199 Unlocked, Still With a Free Year of Prime — It's no secret that Amazon has a lot of unsold Fire Phones, but the question has been how the retailer would look to sell its inventory. — Screenshot by Re/code| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Netflix Sues a Former Exec — Now Yahoo's CIO — For Allegedly Collecting Kickbacks — Netflix says a former executive collected kickbacks from vendors he helped connect to the streaming video company. — Now Netflix is suing its former employee, who is currently Yahoo's chief information officer.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Tumblr Overtakes Instagram As Fastest-Growing Social Platform, Snapchat Is The Fastest-Growing App — With 1.35 billion active monthly users, Facebook continues to be the world's largest social network by some margin, but when it comes to picking up new users, it appears to have reached a saturation point.
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Betaworks' latest experiment-turned-product is #Homescreen, a simple app that lets users share their iPhone home screens — Homescreen Is Betaworks' Latest Experiment-Turned-Product — When someone picks up their phone to take a peek, I can't help but take a peek, too.
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| Kristin Cwalinski / CNBC: |
Twitter has talked to Bieber-backed Shots: Source — What's Twitter's target now? — The Fast Money traders discuss Twitter's potential acquisition of “Shots,” the Justin Bieber backed selfie app run by John Shahidi. — Twitter has held talks with Shots, the selfie app backed by singer Justin Bieber …
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| David Gilbert / International Business Times: |
EU pushes Google to obey right to be forgotten requests from EU residents worldwide, including .com domains — EU Regulators Want ‘Right to be Forgotten’ Ruling Extended to Google.com — Regulators in Brussels have announced they believe links removed from search engines under … | Julia Love / Mercury News: |
Union pushes for better conditions for security guards on Apple campus — As organized labor expands its efforts in Silicon Valley, a local union and civil rights activist the Rev. Jesse Jackson are pushing for better working conditions for the security guards who work at Apple's campus.
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Twitter declines to release full-archive search API to devs, wounds third-party clients again — New Twitter search API won't be available to third-party clients — This is just the next step in killing third-party apps. Twitter doesn't have the guts to just end them outright …
| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
Freelance Marketplace Elance-oDesk Raises $30 Million, Says IPO Is Next — Elance-oDesk has raised $30 million in funding, led by existing investor Benchmark along with T. Rowe Price, FirstMark, Sigma West, NEA and the Stripes Group. — Formerly long-time competitors …
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| Se Young Lee / Reuters: |
Samsung Electronics to buy back $2 billion in shares — (Reuters) - South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) on Wednesday announced a $2 billion share buyback plan, its first since 2007, following investor calls for higher returns against a backdrop of rapidly declining profits.
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StealthGenie CEO ordered to pay $500K fine for selling spyware app, surrender source code to government — Man Pleads Guilty for Selling “StealthGenie” Spyware App and Ordered to Pay $500,000 Fine — A Danish citizen today pleaded guilty in the Eastern District of Virginia and was ordered …
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Mozilla reveals Firefox will soon offer one-click buttons for all your search engines — Mozilla today unveiled some of the new search features coming to Firefox. The company says the new additions are “coming soon to a Firefox near you” but didn't give a more specific timeline.
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