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Verizon Wireless to Allow Complete Opt Out of Mobile ‘Supercookies’ — Verizon Wireless, which has been under fire by privacy advocates since late last year, has decided to make a major revision to its mobile ad-targeting program. Users who do not want to be tracked with an identifier …
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AOL To Lay Off About 150 People, Mostly In Sales; Folding Joystiq, TUAW Into Engadget — Some more details are emerging around AOL's reorganization plans. Sources tell us that the company will lay off around 150 people, with the majority in sales. As part of it, AOL is also consolidating some websites.
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Google Now adds over 40 new cards, fed by data from 30+ third-party apps like Airbnb, eBay, and Lyft — ‘Google Now’ Will Suck In Outside App Data — Google Inc. doesn't want to lose its perch atop the search market, and it's looking to the likes of Airbnb, eBay , Lyft and a couple dozen other companies to help it do just that.
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Vine Kids, a separate app tailored for kids with child-friendly Vines, is available now on iOS — Vine Introduces Vine Kids — Vine is today introducing a new layer of the service called Vine Kids. It's meant to be a safe, kid-friendly space for a younger audience to play around with the app and watch vines.
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| Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter: |
Snapchat's first original web series debuts tomorrow in Discover, with episodes available for 24 hours — Sasha Spielberg, Emily Goldwyn to Star in Snapchat Web Series (Exclusive) — Snapchat is making a web series. — Literally Can't Even comes from writers Sasha Spielberg and Emily Goldwyn …
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Google's 3D mapping technology, Project Tango, graduates from the Advanced Technology and Projects group — Google spins out Project Tango from its Advanced Technology and Projects group — At the moment, it's not quite clear what's happening to Project Tango, Google's ambitious plan … | Ross Miller / The Verge: |
Associated Press now writes 3K stories per quarter on US earning reports after teaming with Automated Insights, plans to expand globally — AP's ‘robot journalists’ are writing their own stories now — Minutes after Apple released its record-breaking quarterly earnings this week …
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Jay-Z acquiring Aspiro AB, owner of streaming music services WiMP and Tidal, for $56M — Jay-Z takes on Beats and Spotify with acquisition of music-streaming services Tidal and WiMP for $56M — Here's an interesting piece of acquisition news for a Friday morning: International rapping superstar Jay-Z …
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Android Shipped 1 Billion Smartphones Worldwide in 2014 — According to the latest research from our WSS (Smartphones) service, global smartphone shipments grew 30 percent annually to reach a record 1.3 billion units in 2014. Android accounted for 81 percent of all smartphones last year … | Steven Levy / Backchannel: |
Facebook directly querying 600 paid users about News Feed stories to improve ranking algorithms, may expand querying to general population — Revealed: Facebook's Project to Find Out What People Really Want in Their News Feed — Every weekday beginning at around nine … | Kirk McElhearn / Kirkville: |
iTunes 12.1 adds new Yosemite Notification Center Widget and changes to info windows — iTunes 12.1 Brings Changes to Info Windows, Adds Notification Center Widget — iTunes 12.1 has been released, the first major update to the latest version of this app.| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
FCC AWS-3 spectrum auction bidding breakdown: AT&T: $18.2B, Dish Network: $13.3B, Verizon: $10.4B, T-Mobile: $1.8B — T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon Win Spectrum in FCC Auction That Raised $41.3 Billion — The Federal Communications Commission revealed the list of winning bidders …
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