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Leaked Sony emails show Snapchat acquired QR scanning company Scan for $50M and AddLive for $30M, negotiated with Vevo for music partnership — Snapchat Plans Music Feature, Acquired QR Scan.me For $50M And Vergence Eyeglass Cam For $15M, — Leaked emails from the Sony Pictures hack …
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BlackBerry Classic review: old-fashioned phone that will neither please traditionalists nor new users — Review: BlackBerry Classic is a trip back in time — The BlackBerry Classic is a curmudgeonly phone. — That's not entirely pejorative: a curmudgeon can be a beloved figure with a kind of …
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| David Meyer / Gigaom: |
Sony's smart glass uses regular glasses, aims for sports and work — Sony Single-Lens Display Module — Sony Single-Lens Display Module — Sony has announced its own take on the smart glass concept. To be formally unveiled at CES next month, the Single-Lens Display Module can be attached … | Hugh Langley / TechRadar.com: |
Netflix: offline viewing is ‘never going to happen’ — Well damn … For some time now, services like BBC iPlayer and 4oD have offered the ability to download shows for offline viewing, yet Netflix hasn't — And despite the pleas of the masses (or maybe it's just us) … | Ben Thompson / stratechery: |
Wearables, Bitcoin, or messaging may underpin the next consumer computing epoch, after the PC, internet, and mobile — The State of Consumer Technology at the End of 2014 — While the modern computing era in many respects began with the IBM System/360 mainframe and further expanded with the minicomputer … | Andrew Binstock / Dr. Dobb's: |
Dr. Dobb's to stop producing content at year end due to decline in ad revenue despite 10M+ page views this year — Farewell, Dr. Dobb's — This year, our website will deliver almost 10.3 million page views, which is an unprecedented number for Dr. Dobb's. It's up from 9 million last year and 8 million three years ago.
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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Chinese Search Engine Baidu Confirms Strategic Investment In Uber, May Add Ride Requests — It's official: Chinese Internet giant Baidu has confirmed that it is Uber's latest investor, as TechCrunch reported last week. — The companies did not disclose the amount of the investment.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Launch Center Pro makers debut Group Text+ and Email+ for iOS — Contrast, the makers of the popular iOS automation app Launch Center Pro, released two new apps today that hope to “speed up tedious tasks on iOS.” Group Text+ and Email+ each include features that make texting (iMessage and SMS) … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Starts Auto-Enhancing Photos Because Algorithms Are Better At Filters Than You — We're not ace photographers, but we all take photos. Most could use a little help with light and shadow. So rather than making you manually filter them, Facebook tells me it will now auto-enhance …
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| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
Twitter And Foursquare Are Partnering To Improve Location In Tweets — Twitter wants to start surfacing information for users that's relevant and interesting, not just timely. And the company believes adding a location layer to its platform could be part of the solution.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google Takes Play Music's Songza-Powered Playlists Abroad, First Stop UK — With catalogues of unlimited music on streaming services so extensive these days that we never quite know what to listen to first, playlists have become one of the key ways that music fans use services like Soundcloud.
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| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google to close Freebase June 2015, will migrate data and APIs to Wikidata — Google To Close Freebase, Which Helped Feed Its Knowledge Graph — Google is shutting down Freebase, its open source repository of facts that, in part, helps power the Google Knowledge Graph.
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| Tim Higgins / Bloomberg: |
Apple Stops Online Sales in Russia Over Ruble Fluctuations — Apple Inc. (AAPL) has halted online sales in Russia due to “extreme” ruble fluctuations, the company said. — “Our online store in Russia is currently unavailable while we review pricing,” Alan Hely, a spokesman for the Cupertino …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Brandwatch buys top influencer analytics firm PeerIndex — Brandwatch, the maker of technology for acquiring social intelligence, has purchased PeerIndex, an analytics firm that finds and measures social influencers. — Above: Giles Palmer, CEO of Brandwatch.
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TechCrunch, PE Hub Blog, Business Insider, The Next Web and Tech.eu
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google Drive gets Gmail attachment support, Google voice search on Android, uploading from other apps on iOS — Google today rolled out new Google Drive features in Gmail, as well as updated Android and iOS apps. Gmail attachment support is live now, while the Android update is rolling out on Google Play …
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Google Drive, Gmail - Google+, AppleInsider, Android Authority, iMore, BGR, TechnoBuffalo, Android Police, Ubergizmo, Tech2, Android and Me, Engadget, PhoneDog.com, TUAW, Droid Life, Ubergizmo, Google Operating System, Android Central, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, iDownloadBlog.com, Phandroid and 9to5Google
| Vikas SN / MediaNama: |
OnePlus sales halted in India after Micromax complaint over Cyanogen exclusivity — OnePlus India sales stopped by Delhi HC after Micromax complains — Chinese smartphone manufacturer OnePlus has been stopped from shipping or selling its smartphones in India, just a fortnight after its launch in the country, reports Mint.
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UnleashThePhones, The Next Web, 9to5Google, Android Central, Android Authority, Android Police, Tech in Asia, Tech2, The Indian Express, Tech2, TechloMedia, Pocketnow, TechCrunch, SlashGear, TechnoBuffalo, The Tech Portal, BGR India, Neowin, Ubergizmo, Geeky Gadgets, The Techolic and AndroidHeadlines.com. Thanks:@tsuvik
| Mathew Ingram / Gigaom: |
After Google News shutdown, external traffic to Spanish media sites plummets, according to Chartbeat — External traffic to Spanish news sites plummets after Google move — Credit: Flickr / Pavel P — As expected, Google removed all Spanish publishers from its Google News index on Tuesday … Sponsor Posts
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