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IDC revises projections for 2015 PC shipments downward, now expects a 5% drop this year — No, Really, the PC Is Dying and It's Not Coming Back — A little while back, we started to hear a few voices speaking up against the drumbeat of doom. No, PCs weren't dead. They were maybe even coming back.| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
A competitive landscape, and disgruntled partners and advertisers, challenge YouTube's dominance — YouTube Turns 10: How Competition Crashed the Party — If there could be said to be a poster boy for YouTube, it may well be Freddie Wong. Known online as FreddieW, the 29-year-old is the creator of … | Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
YouTube is exploring the prospect of launching its own subscription VOD service, modeled on YouTube Music Key — YouTube may launch subscription video service for a monthly fee — YouTube may soon have a subscription option for its best original content.
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| Michael Wolf / Medium: |
Gigaom's former VP of Research on how venture capital and the growth expectations that come with it contributed to Gigaom's demise — Gigaom: The Life and Death of a Venture Funded Media Startup — As most know, we lost Gigaom last week. It was a sudden passing of a widely beloved tech media company …
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| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
Bill Gurley amps up bubble talk, predicting “dead unicorns” this year and a Facebook revenue hit — Bill Gurley predicts ‘dead unicorns’ in startup-land this year — A crash would affect more than just startups. Bill Gurley, the prominent investor behind Uber and Snapchat …
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| Martin Bryant / The Next Web: |
Google is working on an open API for Google Now, allowing apps to supply information — A Google Now open API is in the works... and support for theme park ride queue times — Google Now will one day be able to work with information from all of the apps you use.
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Evolution of the smartwatch, like the smartphone, will be a multi-year, multi-vendor effort, with Apple Watch now contributing app-centric approach and Wi-Fi — Apple's contribution to the smartwatch: An app-centric approach and Wi-Fi — Key differences make Android Wear and Apple Watch two very different platforms.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
How ResearchKit minimizes obstacles to participation, enabling transformative medical research — ResearchKit An “Enormous Opportunity” For Science, Says Breast Cancer Charity — This week Apple bundled a big announcement inside it's long awaited Apple Watch ‘Spring Forward’ event.| Alex Hern / Guardian: |
The dual personality of Reddit: a problem for CEO Ellen Pao should she try to cleanse the site — Reddit: can anyone clean up the mess behind ‘the front page of the internet’? — The social news site is almost as famous for its never-ending supply of creepy subforums as it is for memes, pictures and assorted lols.| Charles Babcock / InformationWeek: |
Widely-used open source Network Time Protocol depends primarily on one overworked project lead — NTP's Fate Hinges On ‘Father Time’ — The Network Time Protocol provides a foundation to modern computing. So why does NTP's support hinge so much on the shaky finances of one 59-year-old developer?
Tweets: @storagezilla, @kylemaxwell and @holdenweb
| Andrea Peterson / Washington Post: |
Yahoo demos plug-in for end-to-end email encryption, to launch by end of year; rolls out single-use password via SMS feature — Yahoo's plan to get Mail users to encrypt their e-mail: Make it simple — Keeping your e-mail messages super private can be a pain.
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| Cat Zakrzewski / TechCrunch: |
Q&A with Massachusetts Rep. Katherine Clark, who's urging FBI to take online threats seriously in wake of Gamergate — Q&A With The Congresswoman Taking On Gamergate — Earlier this week, Massachusetts Rep. Katherine Clark called other members of Congress to sign a letter …
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