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Net Neutrality day is here: a guide to today's vote — Credit: Gigaom illustration adapted from Shutterstock — Credit: Gigaom illustration adapted from Shutterstock — What is the right way to run the internet? After months of pitched debate over so-called net neutrality …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
FCC overrules state laws to help cities build out municipal broadband — Before it tackles net neutrality, the FCC is setting a major precedent for municipal broadband: it's just voted to preempt state laws that were preventing two cities from building out their own locally run broadband networks.
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| Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code: |
Google to Bring Paid Search Results to Google Play Apps — Google is bringing one familiar feature of Web search to its Google Play store: Paid search results. — The company said it will begin testing what it calls “sponsored” search results within its app store in the coming weeks.
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| Miguel Helft / Forbes: |
Interview with Sundar Pichai on Android, Play ads, Google+, Apple, China, and more — Exclusive: Sundar Pichai's Plan To Keep Google Almighty — If it works, do it again. And again. — That's Sundar Pichai's approach as he steps up efforts to monetize the hundreds of millions people around …
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| Jim Dalrymple / The Loop: |
Apple announces media event on March 9 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco; more Apple Watch details expected — ∞ Apple announces media event for March 9 — Apple announces media event for March 9 — Apple on Thursday sent out invites for a special event to be held on March 9, 2015.
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| Jessica Conditt / Engadget: |
Google is working on a Chrome reading mode, try it out — Google wants to give your peepers a break. Google Chromium Evangelist Francois Beaufort laid out early versions of Reader Mode for Chrome desktop and mobile in a post today on Google Plus (of course).
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| Megan Geuss / Ars Technica: |
Source: Google to announce new payments API, Android Pay, at I/O in May — Google will launch Android Pay at I/O in May — Source tells Ars that the company will revitalize its payments platform with a new API. — A source close to the matter told Ars on Wednesday that Google …
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz reveals more on company's plans in Reddit AMA — Here's what we know about Magic Leap so far — When Google came out in full support of Magic Leap in the form of a $542 million investment last year, people wondered what it was exactly and why Mountain View gave it that much money.
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| Mike Allen / Politico: |
Former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney joins Amazon as senior vice president for Worldwide Corporate Affairs — Jay Carney to Amazon — Mike Allen's Politico Playbook will report: “Former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney joins Amazon on Monday as senior vice president for Worldwide Corporate Affairs.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Apple's iOS grabbed a record 88.7% of smartphone profits in Q4 2014, Android fell to a new low of 11.3% — Google may be winning the mobile OS market share race, but Apple continues to dominate in smartphone profits. In fact, iOS grew its profit share to a new record high of 88.7 percent …
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
LG's ‘luxury’ Watch Urbane LTE doesn't use Android Wear — LG has already pre-announced the Watch Urbane, its “luxury” smartwatch that it's showing off in Barcelona next week, and now even more details have been revealed ahead of Mobile World Congress. It turns out the Watch Urbane has a second … | David Kravets / Ars Technica: |
Revenge porn boss wants Google to remove his “identity related” info — Craig Brittain wants links to stories of FTC dinging his site wiped from search. — What do you do if you're a revenge porn site operator and the Federal Trade Commission has barred you from publishing nude images of people without their consent?
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google Calendar for Android gets 7-day week view, pinch-to-zoom, Drive integration for events, and more — Google today updated Google Calendar for Android with a slew of new features and improvements. You can download the new version now directly from Google Play.| MSDN Blogs: |
Sens.ly brings a human face to telemedicine with Kinect-powered nurse avatar named Molly, who can respond to patients' speech and body movements — This nurse makes house calls, thanks to Kinect for Windows — Telemedicine has become one of the hot trends in healthcare … | Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider: |
WSJ: YouTube remains unprofitable, breaking even with revenue of $4B in 2014 — YouTube still doesn't make Google any money — YouTube still isn't a profitable business for Google, sources tell The Wall Street Journal's Rolfe Winkler. — Thanks to a premium ads push last year called …
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Google Merges European Operations To Square Up To Regulators And Rivals — United we stand, divided we fall. So goes the old saying that search and mobile giant Google is now taking to heart in Europe, as it faces off with regulators and rivals in the region.| Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: |
Notation Capital, a new, “pre-seed” stage firm founded by former Betaworks colleagues Nicholas Chirls and Alex Lines, closes debut fund with $8M — New York Pre-Seed Fund Notation Capital Raises $8 Million Fund … A duo that helped develop numerous New York startups … | Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
W3C finalizes Pointer Events web API spec, but Apple and Google's lack of support is a deal-breaker — Pointer Events finalized, but Apple's lack of support still a deal breaker — Spec has support from Microsoft, Mozilla, jQuery, and sometimes Google. But not Cupertino.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Facebook paid 321 security researchers $1.3M in 2014; adds Oculus and Moves to bug bounty program — Facebook today announced it paid out $1.3 million to 321 security researchers around the world in 2014 as part of its bug bounty program. The company has now given over $3 million …
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| Moxie Marlinspike / Moxie Marlinspike's Blog: |
GPG, with its old technology, bad design, and small userbase, is dead; it's time for a more usable encryption system — Blog >>- GPG And Me — I receive a fair amount of email from strangers. My email address is public, which doesn't seem to be a popular choice these days …
| Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom: |
Google Play increases free music storage limit from 20,000 to 50,000 songs — You can now store 50,000 songs online with Google Play Music — Google just made its Play Music service a bit more appealing, even if you don't use a Google Android phone. You can now upload 50,000 songs …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Following Google deal, Softcard is shutting down its Android and Windows Phone apps — Two days ago, Google announced a deal with Softcard to pre-install Google Wallet on U.S. carrier devices. News surfaced today that the Softcard wallet app, available for both Android and Windows Phone, will soon be shut down.
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