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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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| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
WSJ: Apple struggled to find purpose for Apple Watch after many planned health features were cut — The Wall Street Journal revealed tonight that many of the planned health features that Apple intended to include in its first-generation wearable were cut from the final product.
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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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| 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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| Bloomberg Business: |
Snapchat in advanced discussions with fund managers on new funding round with valuation of between $16B and $19B, source says — Snapchat Said to Seek Up to $19 Billion Value in Funding Round — Don't Miss Out — by Elizabeth WollmanLeslie PickerSarah Frier
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| Brad Smith / Microsoft on the Issues: |
Microsoft announces its cloud services are compliant with ISO 27018, a new international standard for privacy — Microsoft adopts first international cloud privacy standard — Today marks a major milestone, as Microsoft is the first major cloud provider to adopt the world's first international standard for cloud privacy.
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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.
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| Derrick Harris / Gigaom: |
EMC's Pivotal open sources big data tech, joins newly formed Hadoop-focused Open Data Platform with Hortonworks, IBM, GE, Verizon, Infosys, others — Pivotal open sources its Hadoop and Greenplum tech, and then some — Pivotal CEO Paul Maritz at Structure Data 2014. Credit: Pivotal CEO Paul Maritz / Jakub Mosur
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| Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online: |
Case study: Twitter sends less than 2% of tweet impressions back to a linked website — The Unbearable Lightness of Tweeting — At the heart of the media's chattiest technology is a hollow sharing economy. A personal investigation into just how little traffic Twitter's maelstrom actually contributes to websites.
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| 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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| Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Sony opens pre-orders for SmartEyeglass Developer Edition in the UK and Germany; $840 device ships in March — Sony Announces Pre-Orders Of SmartEyeglass Developer Edition, Starting Today In The UK And Germany For $840 — Sony slipped the official SmartEyeglass app into the Play Store yesterday …
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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Xiaomi Edged Out Samsung As China's Top Smartphone Vendor In 2014, Says IDC — Xiaomi has taken the top spot in China's smartphone market away from Samsung, says a new report by research firm IDC. — Thanks to strong year-over-year growth in Q4 2014 smartphone shipments …
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| 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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