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| Terry Myerson / Blogging Windows: |
Microsoft announces Windows 10 will launch this summer in 190 countries and 111 languages, partners with Xiaomi to test the OS on Mi 4 devices — Windows 10 Launching This Summer in 190 Countries and 111 Languages — Today at the renewed Windows Hardware Engineering Community (WinHEC) …
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| Reuters: |
Microsoft to offer free upgrade to Windows 10 even for non-genuine Windows PCs, 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 this summer …
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| Fast Company: |
Tim Cook on Apple's Future: Everything Can Change Except Values — Tim Cook: Steve felt that most people live in a small box. They think they can't influence or change things a lot. I think he would probably call that a limited life. And more than anybody I've ever met, Steve never accepted that.
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Tim Cook talks about his friendship with Steve in an excerpt from “Becoming Steve Jobs”, available March 24 — THE STEVE JOBS YOU DIDN'T KNOW: KIND, PATIENT, AND HUMAN — According to Apple CEO Tim Cook, he first learned about Steve's need for a liver transplant in January 2009.| Claire Atkinson / New York Post: |
Sources: Apple offers to share viewer data with partners for online TV service to enable better ad targeting — Apple offers to share TV data to entice programming partners — Apple is offering to share data with programming partners to get them on board with its cable-like TV network package, The Post has learned.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Nomad's Pod is a $60 portable Apple Watch battery pack that ships in June — Nomad's Pod Is A Clever Portable Backup Battery For Apple Watch — The Apple Watch isn't available yet, but that hasn't stopped accessory makers from coming out of the woodwork to pre-announce a thriving ecosystem of companion devices for the wearable.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook now offers free friend-to-friend payments in its Messenger app using debit cards, to roll out to Android, iOS, and desktop in US over coming months — Facebook Introduces Free Friend-To-Friend Payments Through Messages — When you chat with friends about settling debts or splitting the bill …
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Thanks:@joshconstine| Eric Johnson / Re/code: |
Nvidia announces developer kit for self-driving car platform Drive PX, available in May for $10K — Nvidia Announces Drive PX, Its Self-Driving Car Platform — A developer kit for Nvidia's self-driving car platform, the Drive PX, will go on sale in May for $10,000, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang …
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| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Y Combinator Talks Numbers: 842 Companies Funded To Date, 22% With Women Founders In Current Batch — Y Combinator, the startup accelerator known for being the birthplace of Dropbox, Reddit, Airbnb, Stripe, and a number of other companies, released some updated stats this morning showing … | Nathan Donato-Weinstein / bizjournals: |
Apple leases 260K square feet of additional Cupertino office space in new mixed-use center near Campus 2 — Apple snaps up Main Street Cupertino office buildings, and they're nothing like the spaceship — Apple Campus 2 might be grabbing all the headlines, but it's not the only real estate play for the Mac maker in its hometown.| Astro Teller / Backchannel: |
Google X head Astro Teller on origin of Google X, Project Loon, Glass, self-driving cars, Project Wing, and failure — How to Make Moonshots — Astro Teller says that at Google[x], failure is indeed an option. So is changing the world. … Closing keynote of South by Southwest
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| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Adobe sees solid Q1 with $1.11B in revenue, 517K new paying Creative Cloud subscribers — Adobe now has 3.97 million paying Creative Cloud subscribers, the company shared within its first quarter 2015 financial report today. — Adobe aims to hit nearly six million paid subscribers by the end of 2015 …
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| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Uber now lets developers embed its ridesharing service into any app — Uber just made it so any app can request a ride for you. — Today the company updated its API, introducing a feature called “Request endpoints.” Ignoring the technical jargon detailed here, the feature enables third-party apps to … Sponsor Posts
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