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How Pebble built Pebble Time amidst increasing competition from Android Wear and Apple Watch — A Pebble in Apple's Shoe — In the battle for your wrist, a small company thinks it can hold off the tech giants by going back to its Kickstarter roots— with a watch called Time| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Pebble Time smartwatch with color display launches exclusively on Kickstarter for $159 — Pebble launches new smartwatch exclusively on Kickstarter — After revealing that it would be launching new hardware and software this year and teasing an announcement with a countdown timer … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Pebble Hits Its $500K Kickstarter Target For Pebble Time In Just 17 Minutes — Pebble knew that a return to Kickstarter was the right path for its new hardware, and the speed with which it reached its goal has proven that to be true: Already, the campaign has passed $500,000 on the crowdfunding platform.| Joey-Elijah Sneddon / OMG!: |
Google says Chromebook Pixel 2 is coming soon, pulls video of announcement made at an event — Google Say Chromebook Pixel 2 Will Go On Sale Soon — Google has confirmed that a second generation Chromebook Pixel will go on sale ‘soon’. — Speaking at the Team Work 2015 event this week …
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Visa announces credit card tech that could speed up Apple Pay's arrival in Europe — Visa Europe has announced that it's introducing a secure way to pay with your smartphone while keeping your credit card details concealed. Bringing the method to Europe could speed up the arrival of Apple Pay …
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Apple Acquires Popular Instrument and Effect Plug-In Maker Camel Audio — Apple appears to have acquired popular music plug-in and effect maker Camel Audio, based on information found on corporate registry site Companies House [PDF]. Camel Audio's address has been updated to 100 New Bridge Street … | Kevin Kingsbury / Wall Street Journal: |
At $765B+, Apple's market cap is double any other publicly traded US company — Apple Is Now More Than Double the Size of Exxon—And Everyone Else — Just how ginormous is Apple Inc. now? — As the iPhone-maker's shares continue to set fresh record highs, its market cap is now above $765 billion.
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Facebook counts 2M businesses as advertisers, launches Ads Manager app on iOS — Introducing Ads Manager App — As business owners and marketers spend less time on desktop computers and more on mobile devices, advertisers have a growing need to manage Facebook campaigns on the go.
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Google updates adult content policy for Blogger, states public sharing of sexually explicit images and video will not be allowed after March 23 — Adult content policy on Blogger — Starting March 23, 2015, you won't be able to publicly share images and video that are sexually explicit or show graphic nudity on Blogger.
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Marketing firm Adnear experiments with drones in LA to determine location of mobile devices — Drones overhead in L.A.'s Valley are tracking mobile devices' locations — Obsessed with mobile growth? Join us February 23-24 when we reveal the best technologies and strategies to help your company grow on mobile.
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Majority of health sites send troves of data about your medical searches to third-party companies — Looking Up Symptoms Online? These Companies Are Tracking You — It's 2015—when we feel sick, fear disease, or have questions about our health, we turn first to the internet.| Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom: |
Artemis is building 4G network using its pCell technology on Dish spectrum to cover most of SF — Artemis is building a 4G network in SF to prove its pCell tech works — Source: Shutterstock / Max Krasnov — Credit: Shutterstock / Max Krasnov — Source: Shutterstock / Max Krasnov
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Behind three-day-old service Magic, which aims to fulfill any request sent via SMS “like magic” — We've just reached the logical extreme of the ‘Uber for X’ economy — Mike Chen is talking quickly even though he's tired. Unimaginably tired.
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Debate between Yahoo chief ISO and NSA director over backdoors illustrates growing disconnect between Washington and Silicon Valley — Yahoo Executive Confronts NSA Director Over ‘Backdoors’ — In one of the most public confrontations of a top U.S. intelligence official by Silicon Valley in recent years … | Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post: |
FTC fines marketers of two apps that claim to detect melanoma — A screenshot of advertising for MelApp. (Courtesy of the FTC.) — The Federal Trade Commission on Monday announced two enforcement actions against the makers of two smartphone apps — “Mole Detective” and “MelApp” … | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases second OS X 10.10.3 pre-release w/ latest Photos app version, new Emoji, more — Earlier this month, Apple released the first OS X 10.10.3 pre-release update to testers with a beta version of the iPhoto replacement app called Photos. Today an updated build is rolling out to testers through the Mac App Store.
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