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Google, Intel and TAG Heuer Partner on Luxury Smartwatch — Watch industry, consider yourself warned — Swiss watchmaker TAG Heuer is creating a smartwatch in partnership with American technology firm Google. The watch is an attempt to compete with devices by consumer-electronics makers, particularly the much-hyped watch by Apple.
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FTC report from 2012 reveals key staff recommended filing lawsuit against Google for anticompetitive tactics — FTC Staff Sought Antitrust Suit Against Google — Key FTC staff wanted to sue Internet giant after finding ‘real harm to consumers and to innovation’
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NYC has 14K cars affiliated with Uber, outnumbering 13.5K medallion cabs, 4 years after launch — More Uber cars than yellow taxis on the road in NYC — Black is the new yellow. — Uber has thrown down the gauntlet in the Big Apple taxi wars — overtaking the yellow-cab industry …
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Magic Leap demos its augmented reality tech in YouTube video showing in-office gameplay experience — Watch Magic Leap's Video Of Seamless Augmented Reality Office Game Play — Magic Leap is showing what it might look like to use its hardware for augmented reality gaming in the future …
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| Alyssa Bereznak / Yahoo Tech: |
Facebook Engineering Director David Recordon joins White House as Director of Information Technology, a newly created position — Exclusive: Facebook's Engineering Director Is Headed to the White House — The White House just added another Silicon Valley veteran to its growing roster of tech experts.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Store retail plan for Watch: 15-minute appointments, at least 10 try-on stations, some employees dedicated to assisting Edition buyers — Apple Store retail plan for Watch: 15 min. appointments, 10+ try-on stations, Experts for Edition — Apple will introduce several major initiatives …
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| Matt Peckham / TIME: |
Nintendo CEO talks about plans for smartphone games, says most will be developed in-house — Exclusive: Nintendo CEO Reveals Plans for Smartphones — It's official: Mario, Donkey Kong and Zelda will appear on smartphones and tablets at last—and that's just the start.| Mark Hachman / PC World: |
Windows 10 will come in 32-bit and 64-bit versions, supports phones up to 8 inches and requires that they have at least 512MB of RAM and 4GB of storage — Windows 10 hardware specs allow for huge phones and teeny tablets — If you thought the six-inch Lumia 1520 was a monster phone …
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| Ben Sisario / New York Times: |
RIAA finds streaming services made $1.87B in 2014, eclipsing US CD sales for the first time — Sales of Streaming Music Top CDs in Flat Year for Industry — The American market for recorded music was flat in 2014, but income from streaming services like Spotify and Pandora has quickly grown …
| Kashmir Hill / Fusion: |
Latest version of Apple's HealthKit still does not track menstrual cycles, despite criticism for not considering women's health — Apple has a lady problem: the new version of HealthKit still doesn't track periods — Last night, Apple pushed out iOS 8.2, an update to the iPhone operating system.| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Rakuten Buys Ebook And Audiobook Platform OverDrive For $410M — Rakuten is beefing up its digital content chops after it announced the acquisition of ebook and audiobook marketplace OverDrive for $410 million. — The Japanese e-commerce giant got into the e-reader game when it picked up hardware maker Kobo for $315 million in 2011.
| Wall Street Journal: |
HBO, Showtime, and Sony Corp. have talked to ISPs about treating streaming TV as “managed” services in separate lanes, avoiding congestion and data caps — Streaming TV Services Seek to Sidestep Web Congestion — HBO, Sony and Showtime ask for separate lanes, opening question on net neutrality| Geoffrey Smith / Fortune: |
Alibaba's Jack Ma demos Smile to Pay app that validates mobile payments using facial recognition — Alibaba's Jack Ma shows off new ‘pay with a selfie’ technology — New facial recognition software is intended to buttress the fast-growing mobile-payments business.| Ben Woods / The Next Web: |
Deezer's high-quality ‘Elite’ streaming service is now available worldwide - but still only on Sonos — Deezer's ‘Elite’ high-quality music streaming service is now available to users around the world following a brief US-only stint at the end of 2014. — First launched in September … Sponsor Posts
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