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Apple Acquires Durable Database Company FoundationDB — Apple has acquired FoundationDB, a company that specializes in speedy, durable NoSQL databases, TechCrunch has learned. — A notice on the FoundationDB site notes that it's no longer offering downloads of its database software.| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Google is working on a project that lets users receive and pay bills with debit or credit cards from Inbox app and Gmail, to debut in fourth quarter — Google Working on Project to Let You Receive and Pay Bills Directly Inside Gmail — Google's mission to organize the world's information is now targeting your physical mailbox.
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Sources: YouTube plans to relaunch live streaming service this year with a focus on gaming, taking on Twitch — YouTube to relaunch livestreaming service with focus on esports and gaming — YouTube is preparing to relaunch its livestreaming platform with a renewed focus on live gaming … | Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg Business: |
RadioShack's Bankruptcy Could Give Your Customer Data to the Highest Bidder — The phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and shopping habits of more than 100 million customers are part of RadioShack's bankruptcy auction … The remnants of RadioShack's retail empire went on the auction block on Monday … | TechCrunch: |
47 Startups That Launched At Y Combinator Winter 2015 Demo Day 2 — Y Combinator got so big, it had to split its Demo Day in two. During today's second wave we saw a variety of promising biotech, marketplace, enterprise, and financial tech startups. Yesterday we chronicled 50 consumer, B2B, developer, and hardware companies.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Watch sales training encourages employees to build trust with customers, so they can serve as fashion advisors during sale — Apple's sales overhaul for Apple Watch will focus on building trust, offering fashion views, upselling bands — The job of Apple Retail Store employees will begin changing in profound ways next month.
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Y Combinator's Sam Altman rebuts talk of bubble with a public wager that three tech portfolios will appreciate sharply by 2020 — Bubble talk — I'm tired of reading about investors and journalists claiming there's a bubble in tech. I understand that it's fun to do and easy press, but it's boring reading.
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Facebook F8 App Confirms Messenger As A Platform, Parse For IoT — A notification just sent out by the official app for Facebook's F8 conference later today reads “The Garage and Demo areas are now open! Just revealed: Parse for IoT, Messenger as a Platform, and the Teleportation Station.”| Pendarvis Harshaw / Fusion: |
Nextdoor, the social network for neighbors, is becoming a home for racial profiling — As Meredith Ahlberg ushered friends into her home in East Oakland's Ivy Hill neighborhood for a party on a Saturday in early March, she noticed that her phone was lighting up with notifications.
Tweets: @belaurie, @mikeisaac, @kashhill and @jlev
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft tweaks browser strategy for Windows 10: Spartan will include Edge rendering engine, while IE 11 will include Trident — Microsoft to make rendering engine changes with Spartan, IE in Windows 10 — Summary:Microsoft is tweaking its browser strategy ahead of making ‘Spartan’ available to Windows 10 users.
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Hands on with Hyundai's BlueLink car companion app for Android Wear: requires paid subscription and cumbersome PIN, voice commands offer limited functionality — Can A Smartwatch Make Your Car Smarter? A Week With Hyundai's BlueLink For Android Wear — If you own a reasonably modern car … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Tennessee sues FCC for its right to enforce law preventing municipal broadband expansion — Tennessee fights for its right to squash municipal broadband expansion — FCC faces first lawsuit over vote to preempt state laws that limit competition. — The State of Tennessee is fighting …
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Amazon blasts FAA for slowness on drone regulation, claims its recently cleared drone is already obsolete — Amazon blasts U.S. FAA for slowness on drone regulation — (Reuters) - E-commerce power Amazon.com blasted federal regulators on Tuesday for being slow to approve commercial drone testing …
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