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| Jessi Hempel / Wired: |
Inside Nadella's plan to reinvent Microsoft, starting with HoloLens, a flatter org chart, and a willingness to forge new partnerships — Satya Nadella's Got a Plan to Make You Care About Microsoft. The First Step? Holograms … REDMOND MISSED MOBILE — The old Microsoft never gained turf in smartphone operating systems.
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Tweets: @stroughtonsmith, @piercedavid, @fmanjoo, @panzer, @fmanjoo and @charlesarthur
| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Sources: Google is preparing to sell wireless plans running on Sprint and T-Mobile networks — Google's Next Telecom Move: Becoming a Wireless Carrier — Google is preparing to sell mobile phone plans directly to customers and manage their calls and mobile data over a cellular network …
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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
BlackBerry CEO Wants Legislators To Make Developing BlackBerry Apps Mandatory — At this point, BlackBerry and Windows Phone fans are probably used to having a much smaller selection of apps than their counterparts on iOS and Android smartphones. After all, diehard devotees of BlackBerry and Windows Phone …
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| Nick Bilton / New York Times: |
In-flight Wi-Fi is getting slower, less reliable, and more expensive as demand increases — The Sorry State of In-Flight Wi-Fi — 35,000 FEET, SOMEWHERE OVER THE MIDWEST — I've finally found something on commercial flights that's worse than airplane food: the Wi-Fi.| Paul Rosania / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter rolls out “While you were away” feature to iOS users, coming soon to Android and web — While you were away... Today we're introducing something new to your home timeline: a recap of some of the top Tweets you might have missed from accounts you follow.
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Tweets: @gaberivera, @jayrosen_nyu, @caseynewton and @fraying
See also Mediagazer| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Gift Card Marketplaces Raise Grabs $56 Million From NEA And Others — A company offering a marketplace where consumers can buy and sell their unused gift cards, Raise.com, announced this morning it has taken in a sizable $56 million round of Series B funding, led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA).
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Button Raises $12 Million to Make the App World as Interconnected as the Web — Could 2015 be the year of “deep linking?” — One startup trying to ride that wave is Button, a New York City-based company which is today announcing a $12 million Series A investment less than a year after its launch.| Brian Beach / Backblaze Blog: |
Backblaze: 4 TB HGST and Seagate hard drives are most reliable, 3 TB Seagate and WD drives fail often — What is the Best Hard Drive? — It was one year ago that I first blogged about the failure rates of specific models of hard drives, so now is a good time for an update.
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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Kim Dotcom Launches Skype Competitor MegaChat — Kim Dotcom, the infamous entrepreneur behind Megaupload, has released his latest product. Currently in beta, MegaChat is a browser-based encrypted video calling and file-sharing platform that is being positioned as a Skype competitor.
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Tweets: @kimdotcom and @megaprivacy
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Tumblr's Creatrs Network connects Tumblr's top artists with brands to help make ads — Tumblr wants its best artists to create ads people actually like — Tumblr's beautiful, GIF-filled feed is what keeps bringing visitors back, and it wants to make sure the feed stays that way even as brands begin to fill it with ads.| David Shamah / ZDNet: |
Amazon looking to buy datacenter tech startup Annapurna Labs for $350m — Summary:Amazon is reportedly in talks to buy a stealth-mode Israeli startup that could give its datacenters a boost. — After almost a year of searching, Amazon has found its Israel ‘soulmate,’ which is developing …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces Office 2016, coming in the second half of 2015 — At its Windows 10 event yesterday, Microsoft unveiled the touch-optimized version of Office. Today, the company offered more details about that version, and then snuck in another announcement: the next desktop version …
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| Horace Dediu / Asymco: |
Apple paid iOS app developers $10B in 2014, more than Hollywood's US box office revenues — Bigger than Hollywood — Apple paid $10 billion to developers in calendar 2014. Additional statistics for the App store are: — $500 million spent on iOS apps in first week of January 2015| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
The case for Marissa Mayer, as key metrics suggest the turnaround at Yahoo is on track — Marissa Mayer's Plan for Yahoo Takes Hold. The Question Now Is Time. — When Marissa Mayer was offered the chief executive job at Yahoo in the summer of 2012, she had a script for returning …
Tweets: @vindugoel, @fmanjoo, @pmarca, @wucker, @ruthcoxeter, @anildash and @fmanjoo
| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Uber study of US drivers: average earnings are $19/hour, more than for taxi drivers; 40K joined in December; 70% drivers active after six months — Uber Study Shows Its Drivers Make More Per Hour And Work Fewer Hours Than Taxi Drivers — The people who drive for Uber generally …
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| Deborah Gage / Wall Street Journal: |
Persado Raises $21 Million to Replace Human Copywriters With Computers — Persado Inc. has raised another $21 million for software that aims to replace copywriters with computers, in another demonstration of the power of machines to solve problems that used to be the sole domain of humans.
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| Jason Koebler / Motherboard: |
Illinois law says schools can ask for students' Facebook passwords if they violate policy — Illinois Says Rule-Breaking Students Must Give Teachers Their Facebook Passwords — School districts in Illinois are telling parents that a new law may require school officials to demand …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Windows 10 on a Surface Pro 3 — Windows 10 finally unites tablets and laptops — We've just spent a few minutes with a build of Windows 10 on a few different computers, including a Microsoft Surface Pro 3. It's snappy and fast in a way that some doubters don't believe Windows can be … | Terry Myerson / Blogging Windows: |
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
eBay to Cut 2,400 Jobs and Explore Sale or IPO of Enterprise Unit — EBay said today that it would cut about seven percent of its workforce globally in the first quarter as it looks to reduce costs ahead of its planned spinoff of PayPal. The company also said it would explore a sale or IPO …
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