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China's Baidu Set To Partner With Uber And Reportedly Invest Up To $600M — Uber may have just raised a fresh $1.2 billion this month, but the company looks set to welcome a new investor, Chinese internet giant Baidu, which is reportedly set to invest as much as $600 million into the U.S. firm.
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Tim Cook earns Person of the Year designation from Financial Times for ethical stands as well as financial performance — Person of the Year: Tim Cook of Apple — The technology group's chief executive has faced criticism but he turned things round in 2014
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T-Mobile is first to offer LTE Nexus 9 in the US, $600 or $0 down, coming soon to Google Play — T-Mobile announced today that it's now selling Google's latest HTC-made Nexus 9 tablet for $0 down or $600. As noted by T-Mobile, this will be the first place you can officially get the LTE version of the Nexus 9 through a US carrier.
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Apple online retail stores in US and UK now accepting PayPal — Apple's Online Store Starts Accepting PayPal — Apple.com shoppers in the U.S. and the U.K. have a new way to pay for the latest iPhone or iPad: PayPal. Previously available as a payment option only in Apple's app and content stores …
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| Julia Love / Mercury News: |
Protesters storm Apple campus urging better working conditions for service workers — CUPERTINO — As rain pummeled the Bay Area, a group of protesters stormed Apple's campus Thursday, calling for the tech giant to help the service workers who keep its campus humming make a better living.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Xbox One sells 1.2M units in U.S. in November, topping PS4 and Wii U in early holiday battle — Microsoft's Xbox One posted overall record unit sales in November, with 1.2 million units sold in the U.S. — reaping the benefits of a $50 price cut to top the PlayStation 4 and Wii U …
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Google Announces The Top Apps, Movies, Music Of 2014 — Google has just released its ‘best stuff of the year’ on Google Play for 2014, and in terms of most downloaded content, it's not all that different from Apple's list. — Frozen, The Walking Dead, and Fancy by Iggy Azalea all placed … | Chris Mills / Gizmodo: |
YouTube is experimenting with a built-in GIF maker tool for videos — YouTube Now Lets You Make GIFs From Videos — Making short GIFs of YouTube videos is a pretty well-established practice now — so much so that there's dozens of websites dedicated to this finest of art forms.
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
New Relic's IPO Spikes 31% In Initial Trading — In early trading, New Relic's shares are up 31% in its first day as a public company. Another technology company, Hortonworks, will begin trading this morning as well. — The two companies are trading on different exchanges …
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| Matthew Miller / ZDNet: |
Sony SmartWatch 3 review: best Android Wear smartwatch for active users with GPS and offline music playback — Sony SmartWatch 3 review: Goodbye MOTOACTV, hello future of Android Wear — Summary:The Sony SmartWatch 3 earned a permanent spot on Matthew's wrist due to the ability to serve …
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Oculus acquires skeletal hand tracking firm Nimble VR and 3D mapping company 13th Lab, hires motion capture expert Chris Bregler — Nimble VR, 13th Lab, and Chris Bregler join Oculus — Computer vision is at the heart of delivering comfortable and incredible virtual reality.
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| Tom Huddleston Jr / Fortune: |
Google to close its Russian engineering office before country's new rules on data storage take effect Jan. 2015 — Google gives a big ‘nyet’ to Russian engineering operations — Google may be the latest tech company to pull up stakes in Russia. — The online search giant is reportedly planning … | Jack Clark / Bloomberg: |
Hadoop services vendor Hortonworks raises $100M in IPO, opens at $24, 50% above IPO price — Hortonworks Raises $100 Million, Pricing IPO Above Range — Hortonworks Inc., a startup that sells services and support for the Hadoop free data-analysis technology, raised $100 million …
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| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Adobe acquires stock photo giant Fotolia for $800 million in cash — Buried within its fourth quarter earnings report, creative technologies company Adobe today revealed it plans to acquire Fotolia, a stock photo site which hosts 34 million images and videos.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Qualcomm, Intel, and others speak out against Title II net neutrality — Much of the fight over how to handle net neutrality has been between the two industries that have the most obvious stake in it: cable companies and web services. Today, though, 60 tech companies, including Intel …
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