Techmeme: Apple Watch prices for 38mm and 42mm sizes: Sport starts at $349 and $399, stainless steel Watch at $549 and $599, and Edition at $10,000 (Roberto Baldwin/The Next Web)

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Apple Watch launches in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, the UK and the US April 24, pre-orders begin April 10 — Apple Watch Available in Nine Countries on April 24 — Apple® today announced that Apple Watch™, its most personal device yet …

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Roberto Baldwin / The Next Web:

Apple Watch prices for 38mm and 42mm sizes: Sport starts at $349 and $399, stainless steel Watch at $549 and $599, and Edition at $10,000 — Apple Watch available on April 24 starting at $349 with 18 hour battery life — After introducing the Apple Watch at the iPhone event in September …

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

iOS 8.2 with Apple Watch support coming today — Apple is releasing iOS 8.2 with support for the Apple Watch today. The update is a minor one, but it's something that anyone planning on buying an Apple Watch will want to download soon: the watch requires connection with an iPhone …

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Jeremy Horwitz / 9to5Mac:

Apple Watch lasts 18 hours with 90 time checks, 90 notifications, 45 minutes of app use, and a 30-minute workout with music playback via Bluetooth — Apple releases Apple Watch battery results: 42mm model runs longer, 3h phone, 6.5h music, 7h workout — In addition to making a general claim …

More: The Next Web, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Gigaom, MacRumors, The Verge, Engadget and The Verge. Tweets: @9to5mac

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Apple Watch Bands Range in Price from $49 for the Sport Band to $449 for the Link Bracelet

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Apple Watch apps for productivity, finance, travel, navigation, shopping, dining, news, health, music, entertainment, sports, auto, smart home, and more

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Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Apple Watch hands-on: looks and feels great but complicated to use and not immediately intuitive

More: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, BBC, MacRumors, The Next Web, AnandTech, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, MacDailyNews and Pocket-lint

John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed:

The Apple Watch Isn't A Watch, It's An iPhone Sales Engine

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Jeremy Horwitz / 9to5Mac:

Apple announces all new ultra-thin 12" MacBook with Retina display, single USB-C port, and Force Touch trackpad; ships on April 10 starting at $1299 — Apple debuts all-new 12″ MacBook with ultra-thin chassis, new Retina screen, Force Touch — During its Spring Forward event …

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Tweets: @sama, @paulg, @joshuatopolsky, @nichcarlson, @dcseifert, @tim_stevens and @llsethj

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Hands On With The All-New Ultra Thin MacBook With Retina Display — Apple's newest MacBook is clearly designed to set the stage for all Apple notebooks to come - it has a dramatically thin body, which measures only 13.1 mm deep at its thickest point, and a 12-inch display with a very small surrounding bezel.

More: The Verge, Engadget, iMore, Wired, Laptop Mag, AppleInsider and CNET

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:

Apple updates MacBook Air and MacBook Pro with Thunderbolt 2, new i5/i7 CPUs; available today

More: BetaNews, BGR, Laptop Mag, Ars Technica, Inquirer, The Verge, AppleInsider and MacRumors

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

HBO's $14.99 streaming service HBO Now will launch before April 12, exclusively on Apple devices for three months — HBO on the Web Is Coming in April, Exclusively From Apple — Here's a surprise: HBO's streaming service will only be available via Apple when it launches next month.

Edgar Alvarez / Engadget:

Apple TV price drops from $99 to $69 — Apple TV gets a new price: $69 — It's been a long three years since Apple refreshed its streaming box, the Apple TV. And it looks like we're going to keep waiting. But, that's not to say the company has forgotten about the platform; in fact …

More: BGR, TechCrunch, The Verge, PC World, MacRumors, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac and AppleInsider

Kurt Wagner / Re/code:

Facebook to shut down FriendFeed on April 9, five years after acquiring the service — Facebook Officially Shuts the Door on FriendFeed — RIP, FriendFeed. — Facebook is shutting down the News Feed-like social network it acquired back in 2009, according to a blog post.

More: The Next Web, VentureBeat, Bloggers Blog and FriendFeed Blog

Tweets: @paul_kinlan, @louisgray and @mikeisaac

Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:

Source: Twitter closes deal to acquire live streaming startup Periscope, which is still in closed beta — Twitter quietly bought a video startup that hasn't launched yet, Periscope — Last month, Twitter acquired a startup that hasn't launched yet, Periscope, which is building an app for streaming video from your phone.

More: Re/code, The Verge, SlashGear, Mashable and Gizmodo

Tweets: @mikeisaac, @rstephens and @rsarver

Glenn Peoples / Billboard:

Sources: Apple backs down in effort to offer $7.99/month rate for its upcoming subscription music service as labels reject pricing below $9.99/month — Fight Between Apple and Spotify Could Change Digital Music; Labels Said to Reject Pricing Below $9.99 — A renewed focus on the value …

More: AppleInsider, Business Insider, The Verge, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog and App Advice. Tweets: @sterlewine

Owen Williams / The Next Web:

Apple announces ResearchKit to help medical researchers collect data — At Apple's March event today, the company announced ResearchKit, a software framework that allows medical researchers to get data directly from iPhone users. — The company said that users can sign up to participate …

More: Apple, Techvibes Global News, Macworld, ReadWrite, TechCrunch, Gigaom, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Ars Technica, ZDNet, Engadget, Re/code, VentureBeat, The Verge and 9to5Mac

Tweets: @laurengoode, @marcoarment, @thenextweb, @bajarin and @joshuatopolsky

Michael Steeber / 9to5Mac:

Hands on with the first medical apps using ResearchKit

More: BGR and BuzzFeed

David Ruddock / Android Police:

Google Officially Announces Android 5.1, Rollout Starts Today - Dual SIM Support, HD Voice, And Device Protection — Android 5.1 is finally here, at least according to Google (they'd know, right?). The company just posted on the official Android blog that the 5.1 Lollipop update begins rolling out today …

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