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Source: Snapchat is in advanced discussions on a new funding round valuing the company between $16B and $19B — Snapchat Said to Seek Up to $19 Billion Value in Funding Round — Don't Miss Out — by Elizabeth WollmanLeslie PickerSarah Frier — (Bloomberg) — Snapchat Inc. is seeking …
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Apple Orders More Than 5 Million Watches for Initial Run — Apple has asked its suppliers in Asia to make a combined five to six million units of its three Apple Watch models during the first quarter ahead of the product's release in April, according to people familiar with the matter.
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| Kirk Koenigsbauer / Office Blogs: |
Office mobile and web apps now support more third-party cloud storage services, including iCloud and Box — New cloud storage integration for Office — Today's post was written by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office team. — We want Office to be the preferred …
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| Amy Zima / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter launches TweetDeck Teams, allowing groups to share accounts without sharing passwords; update rolls out today on web, Chrome, and Windows — Introducing TweetDeck Teams — Introducing TweetDeck Teams, a simple way to share access to your Twitter accounts without sharing passwords.
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| Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter: |
BlackBerry claims Ryan Seacrest's Typo 2 keyboard infringes patents and trade dress in another lawsuit — BlackBerry Dials Up Second Lawsuit Against Ryan Seacrest's Typo (Exclusive) — The smartphone maker says the Typo 2 product infringes its patents and trade dress.| Rik Henderson / Pocket-lint: |
VLC 3.0 will come with Chromecast support across multiple devices — A changelog posted by VLC has confirmed that support for the Google Chromecast is soon to be added to the popular media player. That means users will be able to stream just about any media file through VLC on the connected TV dongle.| Owen Williams / The Next Web: |
HTTP/2, the first update to HTTP in 16 years, has been finalized — Today, the next major version of HTTP took a big step toward becoming a reality; it's been officially finalized and now moves towards being fully standardized. — According to a blog by Mark Nottingham … | Li Xiaoxiao / MarketWatch: |
Apple Pay expansion in China hindered by revenue share issues with Union Pay, Alipay and banks, government regulations — Apple Pay's invasion of China stalls — BEIJING (Caixin Online) — China's central bank, UnionPay bank-card service and e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. BABA …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sparrow Flies Away, As Google Finally Pulls iOS And Mac Email Apps From Apple's Stores — As Google sharpens the focus on its new Inbox email app, the company has quietly made another move on the email front: it appears to have pulled the Sparrow iOS and Mac apps from their respective Apple App Stores.
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| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Upcoming Modern Family episode was shot entirely on iPhones, iPads and MacBook Pros — Modern Family's new episode never leaves the screen of a MacBook Pro — ‘Connection Lost’ feels like a half-hour Apple commercial — but it actually works — MacBooks and iPhones pop up in movies … | Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
Apple wins a patent for iPhone headset similar to Samsung Gear VR — Apple wins patent for a head-mounted iPhone virtual reality display — In a concept similar to Samsung's Gear VR, Apple has been awarded a patent for a device that would allow an iPhone to serve as the display for a portable virtual reality headset.
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TransferWise Launches Money-Transfer Service in the U.S. … Americans can now send money overseas through a high-profile startup trying to fill the gap left by banks pulling back from the cash-transfer business. — TransferWise, a London-based startup founded in 2011 … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft to allow developers to turn retail Xbox Ones into dev kits by summer and open the platform to more universal apps in November; SDK preview in May — Microsoft is ready to unleash Xbox One apps — Microsoft is planning to open up its Xbox One apps platform in a big way this summer.
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| Heather Somerville / SiliconBeat: |
Trial of Ellen Pao's gender discrimination case against Kleiner Perkins starts this week — Ellen Pao vs. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers sex discrimination case goes to trial — One of the highest-profile gender discrimination cases to hit Silicon Valley landed in a courtroom Tuesday morning … | Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
Dropbox for iOS Gets Action Extension to Save Files from Share Sheets — Dropbox updated its official iOS client earlier today, adding the ability to save files to your account from any app using the iOS 8 share sheet. — Version 3.7 of Dropbox, available now on the App Store …
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