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Amazon discussed buying some RadioShack stores to showcase its hardware and serve as pickup/drop-off centers — Amazon in Talks to Buy Some of RadioShack's Stores — Don't Miss Out — (Bloomberg) — Amazon.com Inc., aiming to bolster its brick-and-mortar operations …
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| Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg Business: |
Inside RadioShack's Slow-Motion Collapse … Nathan Hill learned a lot about entertaining himself during his time as a RadioShack employee. For 15 months during 2013 and 2014, he worked at two locations in two separate strip malls in suburban Phoenix. It was dull, but Hill …
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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
ARM says next-generation A72 chip can triple the performance of today's chips, or match performance while using 75% less power — ARM Says Next-Gen A72 Chip Paves Way for Thinner, More Power-Efficient Phones — ARM, the British company whose chip designs are at the core of nearly …
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| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
With an Eye on Wall Street, Twitter Starts Selling Twitter Ads Outside of Twitter — Twitter is rolling out plans for a new revenue stream: Twitter ads that don't appear on Twitter. — Starting today, the company will start running its core “Promoted Tweet” ad unit on other people's apps and sites.
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New Adware Found In Google Play Apps With Millions Of Downloads — A new report from security firm Avast out this morning reveals the discovery of a new form of malware on the Google Play store, which begins to display advertisements disguised as warning messages to end users when they unlock their Android smartphone.
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Eero aims to eliminate WiFi dead-spots in homes using a mesh network created by a set of boxes — Eero Is A Smart Wireless Routing System That Wants To Do For WiFi What Nest Did For Thermostats — Have you tried to purchase or install a wireless router lately? I have, and it is hell.
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Sources: Report of Google's plan for Uber rival overblown; app is only internal tool for carpooling — Uber Chases Google in Self-Driving Cars With Carnegie Mellon Deal — Uber on Monday said it formed a partnership with Carnegie Mellon University to develop driverless car and mapping technology …
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| David E. Sanger / New York Times: |
NSA analysts will be required to delete incidental information on Americans within one year, on foreigners within five — President Tweaks the Rules on Data Collection — WASHINGTON — A year after President Obama ordered modest changes in how the nation's intelligence agencies collect …
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| Rachel King / ZDNet: |
VMware bolstering mobile device management tools with Immidio buy — Summary:Founded in 2008, Amsterdam-based Immidio touts its BYOD approach as one that considers and values end user and IT needs equally. — VMware has acquired Immidio, a private software company specializing in enterprise mobile device management options.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Fundable Acquires Mentorship Service Clarity.fm As Part Of Its New Launch Platform, Startups.co — Equity crowdfunding platform Fundable is announcing that it has acquired Clarity.fm, the Dan Martell-founded startup that connects entrepreneurs with mentors like Mark Cuban, Brad Feld and Eric Ries over the phone.
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| Toby Wolpe / ZDNet: |
DataStax snaps up Aurelius and its Titan team to build new graph database — Summary:The prize in DataStax's acquisition of open-source firm Aurelius is not the Titan database but rather engineering expertise, which will be used in developing a new graph database.
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| Se Young Lee / Reuters: |
Samsung Electronics names new mobile marketing chief ahead of the expected launch of next flagship Galaxy S handset — Samsung Electronics names new mobile marketing head before key launch — (Reuters) - South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Tuesday it has appointed … | Danny D. / SamMobile: |
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| Lauren Goode / Re/code: |
Review of three new Fitbits: accuracy of heart-rate sensors in Charge HR and Surge disappoints — Three New Fitbits: See How They Run — Depending on what you read, the market for step-and-sleep-tracking wristbands is either set to explode, or is hanging in a wobbly balance while everyone waits …
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| Mat Honan / BuzzFeed: |
US Department of Transportation looks to vehicle-to-vehicle communication, automation, and other technologies to solve future gridlock — Transportation Department Releases Tech-Focused 30-Year Report — It's all crumbling bridges, flight delays, and gridlocked traffic unless we get deeper ports …
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Alibaba and Lending Club partner to provide American companies with loans to buy parts and supplies from the Chinese marketplace — Alibaba and Lending Club to Form Financing Partnership — The companies behind two of the hottest stock market debuts of 2014, Lending Club and the Alibaba Group …
| Carlos Bohórquez Marín / The Yammer Blog: |
Microsoft's updated Yammer comes with Android Wear support and Handoff for iOS and Yosemite — Take Your Team To The Next Level With Yammer On Mobile Devices — In recent years, we've all experienced the unprecedented migration of life and work to mobile devices.
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