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Apple plans relaunched Beats streaming music service for WWDC, skipping March event; Apple TV still coming — Apple won't take the wraps off of its upcoming Beats-based music streaming service at its March 9 “Spring Forward” event, according to music industry sources briefed on the launch timeline.
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| Ginny Marvin / Search Engine Land: |
Google launches Compare for Auto Insurance, which compares car insurance rates from participating insurers like MetLife, in California — Official: Google Compare For Auto Insurance Launches — As expected, car insurance results on Google are getting a shake up as the company enters the lead generation game.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft launches free preview of Office 2016 for Mac with Retina support, OneDrive and SharePoint integration, and more — Microsoft launches Office 2016 preview for Mac with full Retina support, OneDrive and SharePoint integration — Microsoft today launched a preview of Office 2016 for Mac.
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| Bloomberg Business: |
Sources: Production of Apple's 12.9-inch iPad delayed until September — Apple to Delay Larger iPad Production — (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc., which has seen stagnating iPad sales, will delay the start of manufacturing for a larger-screened version of the tablet, people with knowledge of the matter said.
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| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
WSJ footnote suggests 12-inch MacBook Air could be announced by Apple as early as Monday — Tucked away at the bottom of the WSJ's report on the often-postponed iPad Pro was a single sentence that, if correct, suggests that Apple could announce the 12-inch MacBook Air as early as Monday.
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| Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
As VR companies battle motion sickness issues, Valve president Gabe Newell says its laser-assisted tracking system prevents nausea — Solution to Nausea Puts Virtual Reality Closer to Market — SAN FRANCISCO — Few technologies have generated more attention than virtual reality … | Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
| Martin Beck / Marketing Land: |
Twitter Ads gets “partner audiences”, allowing advertisers to target users showing purchase intent off Twitter using data from Acxiom and Datalogix — Twitter Gives Advertisers Access To More Than 1,000 Big Data Target Audiences — With “partner audiences” provided by Acxiom and Datalogix …
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
How Huawei Watch, with its minimalist design and quality build, became a surprise hit at MWC — How a Chinese smartwatch became the surprise hit of Mobile World Congress — Huawei hopes to shake up the wearable world with its new Watch — Did you hear the one about the Chinese telecom giant … | Facebook: |
Facebook warns page owners their like count may dip as it removes likes from inactive accounts — Making Page Likes More Meaningful — Businesses use Page audience data to understand what their followers care about. To make audience data even more meaningful for businesses …
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| Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
Acer launches new CXI Chromebox with fourth-gen Intel Core i3, up to 8GB RAM, 4k monitor support, $350 for 4GB RAM, $400 for 8GB — Acer Outs A Pricey Chromebox With 8GB Of RAM, 4k Monitor Support — There are not many options for computers running the Chrome OS in desktop form.
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| Lucia Moses / Digiday: |
Business Insider to launch a standalone consumer tech site in Q3 — Business Insider plans spinoff consumer tech site — Flush with new funding, Business Insider is planning to launch a new site devoted to consumer technology that will attempt to expand its audience beyond business readers, Digiday has learned.| Rohit Khare / Google Cloud Platform Blog: |
Google releases beta version of Cloud Pub/Sub, a messaging API for connecting applications and services in real-time — Using Google Cloud Pub/Sub to Connect Applications and Data Streams — Many applications need to talk to other varied, and often, distributed systems reliably and in real-time.
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