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Facebook acquires 56 acres immediately south of current Menlo Park HQ at an estimated $400M — Exclusive: Facebook buys 56 acres in Menlo Park, considers future of the campus — Facebook Inc. has already changed how people connect online. Now it's thinking about transforming the Silicon Valley tech campus.| Dan Frommer / Quartz: |
Microsoft now has over 100 active apps on iOS and Android, excluding Skype and Yammer apps, as it expands its presence on multiple platforms — Don't look now, but Microsoft has more than 100 iOS and Android apps — As Microsoft works on revamping its underperforming Windows Phone platform … | Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
The first Tizen smartphone isn't an “Android killer”—it's a bad Android clone — Review: Samsung's Android alternative arrives, but it's no match for the real thing. — This is the Samsung Z1—the world's first Tizen phone. After one of the bumpiest pre-launch situations in recent memory … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google Uses Hangouts As A Virtual Genius Bar To Sell Google Devices — In 2013, Google expanded its Hangouts video conferencing service into a commerce platform called Helpouts, where people buy and sell services like cooking or technical advice via live video.| Ben Fox Rubin / CNET: |
Corning attempts to combine the toughness of Gorilla Glass with scratch-resistance close to sapphire in new material called Project Phire — Corning fires up new super scratch-resistant glass — The glassmaker unveils Project Fire, a new Gorilla Glass-like material that's both extremely tough and scratch-resistant.| Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal: |
Why Twitter's Stock Popped 16% Despite Paltry User Growth — Twitter finally got its wish. — Investors didn't react to its quarterly earnings report based on just one number: the growth rate of monthly active users. — At last, investors seem to be recognizing Twitter's achievements on the business side.| Nellie Bowles / Re/code: |
Startups and Self-Loathing at the 8th Annual Crunchies Awards — There was a moment last night — when comedian T.J. Miller (who had called an Uber co-founder's girlfriend “bitch” multiple times) was smashing a TechCrunch piñata as a hundred people walked out of his performance …
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UK government releases “equipment interference” guidelines for spy and law enforcement agencies — UK government asks: How's our hacking? — We know that the NSA likes taking unsolicited action inside the computers of others. We know the FBI is also very much into hacking.| Jonnelle Marte / Washington Post: |
TurboTax resumes processing state returns after fraud reports prompt halt — TurboTax temporarily stopped processing state tax returns after noticing an increase in suspicious filings, the tax preparation software company said Friday. — The company resumed e-filing of state returns …
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US court orders Symantec to pay $17M for violating two patents owned by Intellectual Ventures related to its email and Internet protection products — U.S. court orders Symantec to pay $17 mln for patent infringement — (Reuters) - Symantec Corp, maker of the popular Norton antivirus software …
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Matchstick streaming stick delays shipping to get Netflix and faster chips — Matchstick's Kickstarter backers will have to wait a bit longer to get the Firefox OS-based streaming stick: Matchstick is delaying shipments until August, the company announced Friday.
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Chat App Line's Latest Experiment Is A YouTube-Like Video Service — Messaging app company Line continues to build out its business beyond its core chat service after it launched a YouTube-like video service in Thailand. The company, which claims 181 million active users worldwide …
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