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With its design prowess, retail stores, and customer base, Apple is best positioned to make the wearable market — How Apple Will Make the Wearable Market — Last fall, Apple CEO Tim Cook described the Apple Watch as the “next chapter” in Apple's history, placing it at the same level as the Mac, iPhone and iPod.
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Apple Watch Edition won't appeal to the technologist, the collector, or the gold lover, only the douchebag — The Gold Apple Watch Is Perfect For Douchebags — Editor's Note: Kevin Rose is the founder of Digg, a technology investor, and CEO of North Technologies, creator of the watch news aggregator, Watchville.
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Apple Stops Selling Jawbone Up, Nike FuelBand in Stores — Making Way for the Apple Watch — Apple has removed competing fitness bands from its retail stores as the company prepares to ship its own wearable, the Apple Watch. — Checks of major stores in San Francisco, Palo Alto …
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Sources: Alibaba to invest $200M in Snapchat at a valuation of $15B — Snapchat Is Raising Money From Alibaba at a $15 Billion Valuation — (Bloomberg) — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. plans to invest in Snapchat Inc., the mobile application for sending disappearing photos …
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Lyft Has Raised $530 Million In Series E Funding Led By Rakuten, Is Now Valued At $2.5 Billion — Ride-hailing startup Lyft has closed $530 million in new funding led by Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten, TechCrunch has learned. The new financing, which is slated to be announced tomorrow …
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Google launches new Chromebook Pixel at a lower price with two USB Type-C ports, $999 for Core i5, $1,299 for Core i7, now for sale on Google Store — Meet Google's New Chromebook Pixel — Google's Chromebook Pixel has always been an aspirational machine meant to show off Chrome OS at its best.
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In under 24 hours, 11K people signed up for Stanford's cardiovascular study using ResearchKit — Thousands Have Already Signed Up for Apple's ResearchKit — (Bloomberg) — Stanford University researchers were stunned when they awoke Tuesday to find that 11,000 people had signed … | Reuters: |
Judges reject Uber, Lyft requests that drivers be deemed contractors, say juries must decide — Uber, Lyft rebuffed in bids to deem drivers independent contractors — (Reuters) - Ride hailing apps Uber and Lyft failed to persuade separate U.S. judges on Wednesday to rule that their drivers … | Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Twitter updates privacy policy, prohibits uploading intimate photos and video taken without subject's consent — Twitter Takes Steps To Combat Stolen Nudes And Revenge Porn — The company issued new rules that prohibit uploading nonconsensual nudes and says it will lock the accounts of users who have posted them.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Google's Project Loon balloons can cover an area the size of Rhode Island with LTE; remote locations still the primary targets for commercial service — Google balloons, “cell towers in the sky,” can serve 4G to a whole state — A single Project Loon balloon can cover an area the size of Rhode Island.
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Kleiner Perkins Portrays Ellen Pao as Combative and Resentful in Sex Bias Trial — SAN FRANCISCO — The esteemed venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, its star partner, John Doerr, once said, “is a family, with occasional disputes.” — Maybe, if by “family” … | Elizabeth Dwoskin / Wall Street Journal: |
Guardian corrects, clarifies articles on Whisper app privacy, takes down commentary post — Guardian Backpedals on Whisper App Privacy Violations — The Guardian on Tuesday clarified and corrected a series of controversial articles it published late last year about Whisper, a mobile app designed to transmit messages anonymously.
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Guardian, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, The Next Web, PandoDaily, Business Insider, Re/code, Poynter and Mashable
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Nielsen: 36% of US households subscribe to Netflix, 13% to Amazon Prime, 6.5% to Hulu Plus; traditional TV time falls almost 10% in second half of 2014 — Nielsen Charts Reach of Video Streaming — About two in five American households now subscribe to a video streaming service like Netflix …
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India's cab-hailing firm Ola to raise $400M from DST Global and others at a valuation close to $3B — India's Cab-Hailing Firm Ola Close to Raising $400 Million — Startup Could be Valued at About $3 Billion| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Cisco, Microsoft target cloud vendors with new platform combining Azure and Cisco's networking devices — Cisco, Microsoft target cloud vendors in expanded partnership — Summary:The companies launched a new platform that combines the Microsoft Azure Pack with networking devices and servers from Cisco's ACI.
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