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Federico Viticci / MacStories:

After Six Months of Rejections, Launcher Returns to the App Store — When Greg Gardner, an independent developer based in San Francisco, released Launcher for iOS last year, he didn't think his handy utility would make headlines around tech blogs and push other developers to approach widgets for iOS 8 differently.

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Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

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Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

Sony's PlayStation Vue streaming TV service launches today in NYC, Chicago, and Philadelphia, starts at $50/month with about 50 channels including CBS, Fox, NBC — Sony's PlayStation Vue streaming TV service launches today in New York City, Chicago, and Philadelphia

Telis Demos / Wall Street Journal:

Ad tech firm AppNexus acquires rival Yieldex for $100M+ in cash-and-stock deal — AppNexus Buys Yieldex for $100 Million … Two New York-based startups are merging, with potential IPO ramifications. AppNexus Inc., the automated online advertising technology firm, is acquiring rival Yieldex, the companies are set to announce.

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Rich Lander / MSDN Blogs:

MSBuild Engine is now Open Source on GitHub — Today we are pleased to announce that MSBuild is now available on GitHub and we are contributing it to the .NET Foundation! The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is a platform for building applications. By invoking msbuild.exe on your project …

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Dan Seifert / The Verge:

Acer Chromebook 15 review: great trackpad, performance, and battery life, looks clunky and cheap — Acer Chromebook 15 review: the big Chromebook has arrived — Say the word “Chromebook,” and the image that comes to mind for most people is a small, cheap, basic computer. That's exactly what most Chromebooks are.

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Slack launches app for Windows 7 and above — Press the Start Button: Slack for Windows Has Arrived — Every week, hundreds of thousands of people all around the world sign into Slack from a web browser on Windows. Each of them is (we imagine) yearning for something more.

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Reuters:

Microsoft will offer free upgrades to Windows 10 even for PCs with non-genuine copies of Windows, to tackle piracy — Microsoft tackles China piracy with free upgrade to Windows 10 — (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is making its biggest push into the heavily pirated Chinese consumer computing market …

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Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

Amazon Will Shut Down Amazon Webstore, Its Competitor to Shopify and Bigcommerce — Amazon has started telling online merchants that it plans to shut down its Amazon Webstore business, which helps small and midsize retailers create and run their own online shop, according to sources.

More: GeekWire

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Skype for Business will offer phone numbers to Office 365 users, available in preview this summer — Earlier this week, Microsoft launched previews of Office 2016 for Windows and Skype for Business, but the Skype news didn't end there. The Microsoft-owned company today detailed its plans for the next year …

More: Office Blogs, Redmond, Microsoft, Computerworld, The Fire Hose, N4GM.com, Business Insider, WinBeta and The Next Web

Adrian Wan / South China Morning Post:

Yahoo to close Beijing research center, its only office in China, and to lay off 350+ employees — Yahoo to close Beijing research centre as company seeks to downsize — US internet giant Yahoo will close its research and development centre in Beijing as the firm seeks to consolidate some jobs into fewer offices....

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