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Samsung Galaxy S6 and Edge version, HTC One M9, Sony Xperia Z4 Tablet expected to debut at MWC — 10 things to expect at Mobile World Congress — Every year, tens of thousands of reporters, analysts, and suited-up businesspeople descend upon Barcelona for the Mobile World Congress trade show.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Airbnb is in the process of raising close to $1B at a $20B valuation — Airbnb Is Raising A Monster Round At A $20B Valuation — Airbnb — the platform that lets travellers book private spare rooms and entire homes as an alternative to traditional hotels — is doing some booking of its own.| Tracey Lien / Los Angeles Times: |
Uber discloses one of its databases was breached in May 2014; personal info, including drivers' license numbers, of up to 50K drivers at risk — Uber security breach may have affected up to 50,000 drivers — Thousands of Uber driver names and driver's license numbers may be in the hands …
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| Nikita Richardson / Fast Company: |
BuzzFeed launches Tinder-like Cute or Not to rate pet photos, plans to launch more experimental apps, saying it will be “year of apps” for company — BuzzFeed's Silly New Animals App Is Very Smart Business — BuzzFeed just launched a Tinder for pets. Here's why that's a shrewd move.
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| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
IBM to invest $4B in cloud services, mobile, and data analytics businesses; CEO says those businesses will reach $40B in annual revenue by 2018 — IBM Says Cloud, Mobile and Data Businesses Will Reach $40 Billion by 2018 — Computing and IT services giant IBM will spend $4 billion on its cloud services … | Nathan Donato-Weinstein / bizjournals: |
Google submits master plans for Mountain View campus featuring moveable, canopied structures — Exclusive: Google campus plan would explode the concept of buildings, workspace (renderings) — When Google Inc.'s engineers need a certain kind of workspace, they come to David Radcliffe with a question.
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| Nathan Donato-Weinstein / bizjournals: |
LinkedIn plans for new office, plus retail promenade in Mountain View development plans — LinkedIn Corp., long hemmed in by its larger corporate neighbor Google Inc., believes it has finally found the way to settle down and expand in Mountain View. — On Friday, the company submitted plans … Thanks:@angelaswartz
| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Dropbox partners with Vodafone to offer its file-storage service to more than 400M wireless customers — Dropbox Taps Vodafone for International Growth — Dropbox is partnering with Vodafone to offer its file-storage service to more than 400 million wireless customers.
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| David Bredan / aBlogtoWatch: |
Swatch announces Touch Zero One smartwatch targeted at beach volleyball players and fans — Swatch Introduces A Smartwatch: Touch Zero One (For Volleyball) — Today, as news both expected and unexpected, Swatch has introduced what will be its first widely available smartwatch: the Swatch Touch Zero One.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
White House releases draft of consumer privacy bill that requires firms to provide “concise” explanations of how data will be used, option to remove information — White House releases draft of consumer privacy bill — The Obama administration is releasing a draft of legislation … | Nate Swanner / SlashGear: |
Chromecast support (finally) comes to Vimeo on iOS — Consuming video on your mobile device is awesome, but sometimes you want more. Some videos just need to be seen on the bigger screen. If you happen to be on the couch, the TV might appear to be mocking you with it's big display, which is just meant for video.
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| James Kendrick / ZDNet: |
Amazon Echo beta SDK coming for developers, content providers — Summary:The cloud and retail giant is preparing to expand its voice-activated assistant's capabilities with the launch of a beta software development kit to help outsiders to build apps. — A select few developers … Sponsor Posts
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