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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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| 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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How Pebble built Pebble Time amidst looming 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
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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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| 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.
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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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| 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.| 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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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 …
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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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| 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 … | 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” … | Natt Garun / The Next Web: |
Plex for Roku gets updated with flat design for smoother, faster access to your library — The Plex for Roku app today received a visual overhaul with a new flat design and carousel layout that sees more content fit on the user's home screen, adding faster access to their library.
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| 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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| 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.| 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, BetaNews, The Verge, The Next Web, iMore, SlashGear and Neowin
| 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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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Twilio Acquires Two-Factor Authentication Service Authy — Twilio today announced that it has acquired Authy, a Y Combinator-backed startup that offers two-factor authentication services to end users, developers and enterprises. The two companies declined to disclose the financial details of the transaction.| 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.| Google: |
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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| 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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