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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Apple Pay now supports 90% of US credit cards in terms of purchase volume — Dozens More Companies Sign Up for Apple Pay — The list of companies working with Apple Pay continues to grow. — On Tuesday, Apple announced that in recent weeks the company had signed up dozens more banks …
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Forbes, Wall Street Journal, MacRumors, Digital Trends, CNET, Macworld, iMore, ReadWrite, SlashGear, The Verge, SiliconBeat, TechCrunch, Gigaom, TUAW, Wired, The Mac Observer, ITProPortal, O'Grady's PowerPage, Cult of Mac, Gotta Be Mobile, App Advice, iLounge, MacNN, Patently Apple, 9to5Mac, Ubergizmo, iPhone, MacDailyNews and AppleInsider. Tweets: @nytimesbusiness
| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Samsung in talks with mobile payments startup LoopPay to launch Apple Pay rival in 2015 — Samsung in Talks to Launch Apple Pay Competitor — Samsung has discussed a deal with a payments startup that would help the smartphone maker unveil a wireless mobile payments system in 2015 to rival Apple, according to multiple sources.
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Engadget, MacNN, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Gizmodo, ZDNet, iMore, AppleInsider, 9to5Google, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com, Ubergizmo, MacDailyNews, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, Patently Apple, TechCrunch, TechnoBuffalo, Seeking Alpha, SlashGear, SamMobile and Android Central. Tweets: @delrey
| Daniel Howley / Yahoo Tech: |
Starting January 1st, T-Mobile Data Stash will let you roll over unused data for up to a year, starting with one-off 10GB allowance — T-Mobile ‘Data Stash’ Lets You Roll Over Your Unused Data — Yahoo Tech's David Pogue interviewed T-Mobile CEO John Legere on Tuesday as T-Mobile announced upgrades …
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T-Mobile Newsroom, ZDNet, MacRumors, Engadget, GeekWire, Android Police, ABC News, iMore, VentureBeat, The Next Web, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, The Verge, BGR, AnandTech and SlashGear
| Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
Jury finds Apple not guilty of harming consumers in iTunes DRM case — Apple cleared in potential $1 billion court case — An eight-person jury has decided that Apple is not on the hook for what could have been more than $1 billion in a trial centering on extra security measures …
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New York Times, TechCrunch, CNET, Ars Technica, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Engadget, TUAW and Bloomberg
| Amit Singhal / The Official Google Blog: |
Robin Williams, World Cup, Ebola, MH370, ALS, and Flappy Bird top Google's list of trending searches for 2014 — A Year in Search: the moments that defined 2014 — Every year, we reflect on the moments that made us laugh, smile from ear to ear, or stay gripped to our screens in our annual Year in Search.
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The Next Web, CNN, 9to5Mac, Search Engine Land, Engadget, The Verge, Gizmodo, BGR, PC Magazine, MacRumors, CITEworld, NEWS.com.au, App Advice, TechCrunch, TUAW, PadGadget, Laughing Squid, Inside Search, Business Insider, BroBible, 9to5Google, Polygon, VentureBeat, Search Engine Roundtable, The Daily Dot, Guardian, Mashable, CNET, Phandroid, Los Angeles Times, UPROXX, WebProNews, Neowin and Android Central
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft's ‘Arcadia’ team is building a streaming app and game service — Summary:Microsoft's Operating Systems Group is staffing up a new team that is building an app and game streaming service for the company's ‘core platforms.’ — As Microsoft officials themselves have said … | Claire Cain Miller / New York Times: |
Automation is not only replacing manufacturing jobs, it is displacing knowledge and service workers too — As Robots Grow Smarter, American Workers Struggle to Keep Up — A machine that administers sedatives recently began treating patients at a Seattle hospital.| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Dots Spins Out Of Betaworks With $10M Series A From Tencent, GreyCroft — Dots, the mobile gaming studio responsible for two dead-simple but beautiful games, is today announcing the close of a $10 million round, as well as the official spinout of Dots as its own company, separate from betaworks.
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| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Comcast Will Finally Let Roku Owners Stream HBO, Showtime — Many people who own Roku Web video boxes can use the devices to watch shows from HBO and Showtime. But not Comcast subscribers: A dispute between Roku and America's biggest pay-TV provider has kept the networks' streaming services off of Roku gadgets.| Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal: |
Google Ventures invested 36% in healthcare & life sciences startups this year, up from 9% last year; consumer internet down from 66% last year to 8% in 2014 — Google Ventures Shifts Focus to Healthcare — Google 's venture-capital arm is moving strongly into healthcare and life-sciences startups … | Los Angeles Times: |
Sony hit with lawsuit by former employees over email leaks — The first legal salvo has been leveled against Sony Pictures Entertainment since the massive computer breach that exposed the personal information of thousands of current and former employees. — Lawyers representing … | Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Clever Gets $30 Million From Lightspeed To Become The Login Layer For Education Apps — It's not often you hear about companies actually disrupting the education market. Conventional wisdom seems to be that due to the bureaucratic nature of the industry, it's nearly impossible to get wide-scale adoption at the institutional level.
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| Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat: |
Netflix updates its Android app with social sharing features, Android Wear integration — Streaming video service Netflix is showing some love for subscribers using the company's Android app with a new social-focused updated released today. — The Netflix Android app update adds a set … | Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
Evan Williams: Medium's key advertising sales metric is not page views, but time spent on page — Evan Williams: On billionaire-backed journalism, Shanley Kane, and the problem with vanity ad metrics — Many people use the newish blogging site Medium each day, but almost as many of them are confused … | Jonathan Vanian / Gigaom: |
Microsoft to open source Project Orleans, the cloud framework behind Halo, by early 2015 — Microsoft open sources cloud framework that powers Halo — Microsoft is continuing its open-source push, this time announcing that it will open source its Project Orleans cloud computing web framework.
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The Verge, GeekWire, Inquirer, ZDNet, Computerworld, TechWeekEurope UK, cloudpro.co.uk and The Register
| Mark Bergen / AdAge: |
Twitter Lets Advertisers Target By Wireless Carrier, New Devices — With Mobile Features, Social Platform Hopes to Tap Into Telecom War — Ad Spending for 100 Largest B-to-B Marketers Nears $5 Billion — Heated competition in the wireless world has been a boon to Twitter.
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| Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table: |
LA's Upfront Ventures raises $280M for its fifth fund — Upfront Ventures Raised New $280 Million Fund — Whew! — We've been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped … | Roberto Baldwin / The Next Web: |
Instagram's latest major update adds 5 new filters, revamped design and real-time commenting — Just when you thought you had enough filters, Instagram goes and adds more along with an updated design and a whole slew of other new and improved features. — Today the make-your-photos-look-better …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
‘Opera Coast’ Browser for iOS Gains Discover Feature, Turbo Data Compression [iOS Blog] — The Opera Coast webkit-based browser for iOS was today updated to version 4.0, adding Opera Software's Turbo data compression technology to make browsing websites on the iPhone and iPad much faster on congested networks.
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Engadget, The Next Web, The Digital Reader, CNET, iMore and Gigaom
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google and Verizon cross-license patents to ‘reduce the risk’ of future litigation — Google and Verizon today announced a long-term patent cross-license agreement. The duo said the deal covers “a broad range of products and technologies” but details were scarce beyond that.| CNET: |
Huawei launches Honor 6 Plus with dual 8MP cameras, 5.5" full-HD display, 3GB of RAM, proprietary Kirin 925 octa-core CPU, 3600 mAh battery — Design — Huawei isn't just chucking in a couple of cameras and calling it a day. The 7.5mm thick Honor 6 Plus shares the black glass design of the Honor 6 … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft removes waitlist for its Office presentation app Sway, adds slew of new features to the preview — Microsoft today expanded the preview for its content aggregation and presentation application Sway. The waitlist has been axed, meaning anyone with a Microsoft Account can sign up to start creating Sways.
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Office Blogs, InfoWorld, SiliconANGLE, PC World, BetaNews, The Register and Good E-Reader
| Zoltan Istvan / Motherboard: |
Flying smartphones, or personal drones with smartphone capabilities, to rise in popularity over the next ten years — The Dawn of the Flying Smartphone — Zoltan Istvan is a futurist, journalist, and author of the novel The Transhumanist Wager. He writes an occasional column for Motherboard …
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| Business Wire: |
HBO GO is now available on Amazon Fire TV, support for Fire TV Stick coming in spring — HBO GO Now Available on Amazon Fire TV — HBO GO joins a growing list of services that support Amazon Fire TV voice search — customers simply say the name of a movie or TV show to find it on Amazon …
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