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| Nathan Olivarez-Giles / Wall Street Journal: |
Pebble Time smartwatch: color display, 20% thinner body, microphone, new “Timeline” interface, to retail for $199 with pre-sale on Kickstarter now — Pebble Unveils Color-Screen Time Smartwatch as Apple Threat Looms … Smartwatch pioneer Pebble is facing the toughest threat of its short life: the Apple Watch.
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Slate, The Technology Chronicles, Business Insider, Los Angeles Times, MobileSyrup.com, BetaKit, USA Today, TechCrunch, Guardian, Gizmodo, ReadWrite and Gotta Be Mobile
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| Lisa Eadicicco / Business Insider: |
Pebble Time sells out at lowest $159 tier on Kickstarter, passes $3M in pre-sales in under two hours
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| Steven Levy / Backchannel: |
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The Verge, Wired, The Register, BGR, ABC News, PandoDaily, The Kickstarter Blog, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Next Web, PhoneDog.com, Inquirer, New York Times, 9to5Mac and SiliconBeat. Tweets: @stevenlevy
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple to overhaul Genius Bar, changing appointments and using phones as pagers — Apple will soon make a significant change to retail store Genius Bar appointments to improve the customer experience, according to several sources briefed on the upcoming shift.| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Reddit now prohibits posting nude photos or videos of sex acts without prior consent from the people depicted in them — In Privacy Update, Reddit Tightens Restrictions on Nude Photos — For nearly a decade, Reddit, the huge online message board, has been known for its freewheeling stance on letting its users govern themselves.
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| 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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| IDC: |
Android and iOS take 96% of smartphone OS market in Q4 and calendar year 2014 — Android and iOS Squeeze the Competition, Swelling to 96.3% of the Smartphone Operating System Market for Both 4Q14 and CY14, According to IDC — Android and iOS inched closer to total domination …
| Mic Wright / The Next Web: |
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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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Google Tests Live Chat With Businesses From Search Results — Google is testing out a service that incorporates live chat with businesses right into search results, via a new link that shows whether a business is currently available, and immediately launches a chat via Google Hangouts (on either desktop or mobile) if they are.
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| Brandon Walkin / Facebook Code: |
Facebook releases Origami Live, a new app for testing app prototypes designed with Origami on iPhone or iPad — Introducing Origami Live — Just over a year ago, we released Origami — a free tool for designing interactive user interfaces. We've used it here at Facebook to design …
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| 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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| Rachel King / ZDNet: |
HP posts mixed Q1 results as revenue slipped 5% year-over-year to $26.8B; strong US dollar cited as culprit — HP posts mixed Q1 results as revenue slips with weak Q2 outlook — Summary:Wall Street was looking for earnings of 91 cents per share with $27.34 billion in revenue.
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Computerworld, Business Insider, Tech Trader Daily, Re/code, VentureBeat and bizjournals
| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Twitter's global head of developer and platform relations, Jeff Sandquist, is departing after less than 18 months — Twitter's Global Developer Lead Jeff Sandquist Departing — Twitter's global head of developer and platform relations, Jeff Sandquist, is leaving the company at the end of the week … | Owen Williams / The Next Web: |
Sense sleep tracker now available for purchase, shipping to backers today — After a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign in 2014 that raised $2.4 million, Hello is today announcing that the Sense sleep tracker is shipping for Kickstarter backers and pre-orders of the devices.
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Wired, Crowdfund Insider, New York Times, The Verge and Gigaom
| Brian Merchant / Motherboard: |
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.| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
Former Kleiner Perkins partner Trae Vassallo to testify she was harassed by same partner as Ellen Pao — Venture Capitalist Trae Vassallo to Testify She Was Harassed by Same Partner as Ellen Pao — One of the first witnesses in the gender discrimination case brought by former partner Ellen Pao …
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| Carmel DeAmicis / Gigaom: |
Snapchat's “Our Stories” are generating tens of millions of views — Screenshots of Twitter users whose snaps saw tens of millions of views in a Snapchat “Our Story” — Screenshots of Twitter users whose snaps saw tens of millions of views in a Snapchat “Our Story”| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Firefox 36 arrives with full HTTP/2 support and a new design for Android tablets — Mozilla today launched Firefox 36 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Major additions to the browser include full HTTP/2 support and a new tablet user interface on Android.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft launches new OneDrive API with change tracking, resumable uploads, and customizable thumbnail images — Microsoft today launched a new OneDrive API on GitHub. The company is encouraging developers to use it when integrating OneDrive into their apps to store and manage user data.
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OneDrive Blog, ZDNet, Gigaom, BetaNews, The Verge, The Next Web, iMore and SlashGear
| BBC: |
Internet of things starter kit unveiled by ARM and IBM — A “starter kit” designed to spur on the invention of internet-connected gadgets has been announced as part of a tie-up between two leading tech firms. — Chip designer ARM and cloud services giant IBM say it can take just five minutes …
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ZDNet, Inquirer, Gigaom, CloudWedge and PC World
| Mark Hachman / PC World: |
AMD claims Carrizo chip offers substantial performance, battery life boosts — In January, AMD said that its upcoming Carrizo chip for notebooks and low-power desktops would cut power significantly over the prior generation, Kaveri. On Monday, AMD explained how.
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Forbes, Inquirer, AnandTech, ExtremeTech, PC Magazine, Tom's Hardware Guide, PC Perspective and The Register
| 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” … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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 … Sponsor Posts
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