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David Besbris no longer running Google+, replaced by longtime VP of Product Bradley Horowitz — Bradley Horowitz Is Now Running Google+ — More changes afoot at Google+. TechCrunch has learned, and now confirmed with Google, that David Besbris has left his role as the head of the company's social and identity product.
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Google+ divided into Photos and Streams, with new boss — Google's social network gets a new leader in Brad Horowitz, and likely will see the Hangouts communication service stand alone, too. — BARCELONA — Google is taking another pass at energizing its Google+ social networking service … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sundar Pichai: Google Will Give Details Of Its U.S. Mobile Network ‘In The Coming Months’ — While Google continues to build out “cell towers in the sky” in the form of balloons and solar-powered airplanes, it's also gearing up to launch an experimental mobile network in the U.S. Today … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
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Tim Cook says Apple Watch will be available outside U.S. in April — Speaking at the Berlin flagship Apple Store last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook told employees that the Apple Watch will not be exclusive to the United States in April, according to employees in attendance.
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On its 20th anniversary, Marissa Mayer talks about turning around Yahoo — On Yahoo's 20th Anniversary, its CEO presents a progress report on how she's turning around—and maybe transforming—an Internet icon — It is sunset in Sunnyvale, but Marissa Mayer's day is far from over.| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
PayPal to Pay $280 Million for Paydiant, the Startup Behind Walmart's Apple Pay Competitor — PayPal isn't giving up on payments in brick-and-mortar stores. — The eBay payment unit plans to acquire Paydiant, a payments startup that licenses a technology platform used by big retail chains … | Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
6" Alcatel Hero 2+ comes with CyanogenMod, octacore Mediatek CPU, available for $299 unlocked in US this spring — Alcatel's Hero 2+ will come to the US with Cyanogen OS — Today at Mobile World Congress, Cyanogen and Alcatel announced the Hero 2+, a 6-inch smartphone that will come with Cyanogen OS preinstalled.| Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom: |
T-Mobile will launch LTE in the Wi-Fi airwaves in 2016 — T-Mobile came up short compared to Verizon and AT&T in the last 4G spectrum auction, but it looks like it's found another source of airwaves, and these won't cost it anything. At Mobile World Congress on Monday … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sources: social news reader Prismatic on the block, with Microsoft the front runner in buying it; Apple and Yahoo have also expressed serious interest — Microsoft Wants To Buy Social News Reader Prismatic — Microsoft has been busy snatching up startups to fill out its mobile apps portfolio … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Xiaomi Introduces A GoPro-Style Action Camera That Costs Just $64 — Xiaomi is back with another reminder that it doesn't just make phones. (Despite dethroning Samsung as China's top smartphone company in 2014.) Xiaomi's latest device is a GoPro-like camera which, as we've come to expect … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft's Lumia 640 and Lumia 640 XL are budget phones with free Office 365 — Microsoft is looking to Office to tempt consumers to buy a Windows phone. At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today, the software maker is unveiling two new low-cost Lumia smartphones complete with a free version … | Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
HP to acquire Aruba Networks in a deal valued at $3B to bolster wireless networking capability — HP confirms Aruba Networks purchase, eyes bulked up networking unit — Summary:The deal, valued at $3 billion and $2.7 billion net of debt and cash, gives HP more heft to tackle campus networks and wireless technology.| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Qualcomm announces Spandragon Sense ID fingerprint sensor, uses ultrasound to scan 3D images — Qualcomm's new fingerprint sensor should be better than Touch ID — Ever since the iPhone 5S came out in 2013, Apple has had one feature no one could match: Touch ID.
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MWC 2015: Cyanogen announces Qualcomm partnership and company rebranding — Summary:Cyanogen made a couple of announcements at MWC today. One is a partnership to reach more people with Cyanogen OS and the other focuses on the company's look.| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
India's Ola Buys Smaller Rival TaxiForSure For $200M To Put Pressure On Uber — Ola, the SoftBank-backed competitor to Uber, has dished out $200 million to buy smaller rival TaxiForSure in what looks like being the first of a number of consolidation moves in India's taxi-hailing space.| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Cybersecurity company Veracode files for IPO, plans to go public in May — Exclusive: Veracode files for IPO — Cybersecurity company Veracode is planning to go public in May, Fortune has learned. — The Burlington, Mass.-based company already has filed confidential IPO documents with the SEC …
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Livestream's Broadcaster mini is a $295 HDMI dongle capable of streaming 1080p video — Livestream Revamps Its Hardware Lineup With Smaller, Cheaper Broadcaster Mini — Livestream is planning to make it even easier and more affordable to (you guessed it) livestream video with the launch of a new product called the Broadcaster Mini.
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Sony announces Xperia Z4 tablet with a 10-inch 2K display launching globally in June — Sony's VAIO replacement is the ultrathin Xperia Z4 Tablet — Announced at Mobile World Congress a year ago, the 10-inch Xperia Z2 Tablet remains one of the thinnest and lightest tablets around …
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
The state of Linux gaming in the SteamOS era — After 14 months in beta, where does Valve's new platform push stand? — For decades after Linux's early '90s debut, even the hardest of hardcore boosters for the open source operating system had to admit that it couldn't really compete in one important area of software: gaming.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Samsung bundles Microsoft apps on its new Galaxy S6 — Samsung is bundling at least three Microsoft apps on its new Android-powered Galaxy S6 device. While the move seems unusual, it comes just weeks after Microsoft and Samsung ended a bitter Android royalties dispute.
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