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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) …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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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| Shane Dingman / Globe and Mail: |
BlackBerry Classic review: old-fashioned phone that won't please traditionalists or 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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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
BlackBerry officially launches Classic, with full QWERTY keyboard and physical navigation keys — BlackBerry officially launches the Classic, a smartphone for yesterday — A full QWERTY keyboard and physical navigation keys round out the Classic's throwback design
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| January Machold / Purch: |
Purch, owner of Tom's Guide and Laptop Magazine, acquires AnandTech months after founder Anand Shimpi leaves for Apple — Purch Acquires AnandTech, Dominates Tech Expert and Enthusiast Market — Leading content and commerce company adds respected mobile, computing, and IT reviews site to its brand portfolio
| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar opens Creator Preview for YouTube rival Vessel to lure stars; $2.99/month service includes ads, offers up to $50 CPM for creators — Former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar Pulls Back the Curtain on Vessel, His YouTube Rival — Six years ago Jason Kilar made a big splash in Web video when he launched Hulu.
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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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| Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal: |
21st Century Fox to Acquire Ad Tech Firm TrueX for $200 Million — 21st Century Fox Inc. has agreed to acquire the online advertising technology company TrueX Media, people familiar with the matter said. — 21st Century Fox is paying a sum approaching $200 million for TrueX, said a person familiar with the deal.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft's Xim app now shares photos to Apple TV, Chomecast, and Xbox One — Microsoft's Xim photo sharing app debuted in October from the company's research labs, and today it's getting a big update. Available across Windows Phone, iOS, and Android, the latest version of Xim lets …
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| Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom: |
Netflix's streaming app now available on Dish's Hopper DVR in first big pay-TV partnership — Netflix now on Dish's Hopper in first big pay-TV partnership — Subscribers to Dish's satellite TV service can now access Netflix right on their set-top box, the companies announced on Wednesday.
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| 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 … | David Meyer / Gigaom: |
Sony previews smart glasses module that attaches to existing glasses, targets sports and work use cases — 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.| Reuters: |
Uber faces tough rivals, regulatory glare in China — (Reuters) - Deep-pocketed Chinese rivals and tough regulators stand in the way of U.S. car-hailing service Uber's plans to conquer one of the world's biggest transportation markets, even after it signed a tieup with domestic internet giant Baidu Inc.
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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, The Next Web, Business Insider, PE Hub Blog and Tech.eu
| 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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