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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Twitter launches Periscope: replays are its killer feature, push notifications are noisy — Periscope, Twitter's answer to Meerkat-style live streaming, is now available — Live-streaming apps are the thirstiest of all media. A Facebook post wants a like, a tweet begs for favs, and a snap means little without a response.
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See also Mediagazer| Mat Honan / BuzzFeed: |
Meet Periscope, Twitter's New Live Video App — The interactive video app is gorgeous and fast. But is it enough to beat Meerkat's head start? — BuzzFeed News San Francisco Bureau Chief — There's a whistle and a vibration in my pocket and I pull out my phone and its John Hodgman.
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| Adam Lashinsky / Fortune: |
Profile: since replacing the legendary Jobs, Tim Cook has led Apple to even greater financial success and changed the culture of the company — Apple's Tim Cook leads different — Tim Cook assumed he was ready for the harsh glare that shines on Apple's AAPL CEO.
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Fortune, MacRumors, AppleInsider, iMore, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, MacDailyNews, Business Insider and Business Insider. Tweets: @tim
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Galaxy S6 release date is April 10th, and US pre-orders start tomorrow — Samsung today announced that the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge will be available on US carriers starting April 10th, the same time as they are scheduled to be available for sale across the world.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon Cloud Drive goes unlimited: $11.99/year for photos and $59.99/year for everything — Amazon has announced two unlimited storage plans for its cloud-based storage service, Amazon Cloud Drive, which sees a massive price reduction for its giant hard-drive in the sky. — The plans focus on two specific scenarios.
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| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Facebook is poised to become the gateway to the mobile internet by building an app ecosystem to rival that of Apple and Google — Facebook Is Eating The Internet — For years now there've been two competing versions of Facebook. It's either an app on your phone or it's your entire homescreen.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
| Bloomberg Business: |
Apple acquired UK-based data analytics company Acunu in late 2013 to expand its cloud-computing services — Apple's FoundationDB Acquisition Builds on Earlier Database Buy — (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc.'s acquisition of FoundationDB LLC gives it some top engineering talent …
| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
HTC One M9 to go on sale for $649 unlocked tonight — Never mind that M9+ thing in China. Back in the US, it's all about the M9 for local HTC fans, as the device is about to hit the official online store at midnight ET for $649 unlocked (it'll have the same bands as the AT&T model).| Bloomberg Business: |
Apple to expand iPhone trade-in program to China as soon as March 31 in partnership with Foxconn — Apple Plans China IPhone Trade-In Program With Foxconn — (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. plans to introduce a trade-in program for iPhones in China, people familiar with the effort said, after a similar program bolstered sales in the U.S.| Zac Bowden / WinBeta: |
Microsoft working on successor to Surface 2 tablet running full Windows instead of Windows RT, and Intel Atom or Core M processor — EXCLUSIVE: Microsoft is building a successor to the Surface 2 (RT), here are the first details — The Surface 2 is currently Microsoft's latest iteration of its Windows RT based tablet line-up.| Michael Zelenko / The Verge: |
Tinder hack fools men interested in female bait profile into unwittingly flirting with each other — A brilliant Tinder hack made hundreds of bros unwittingly flirt with each other — Man is a thirsty beast, and nowhere is that thirst more acutely exemplified than on Tinder …
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| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Meerkat's Series B investors includes an array of Hollywood names along with lead Greylock — Meerkat Confirms It Raised A Round Led By Greylock, Josh Elman Joins Meerkat's Board — Late last week, our own Jordan Crook reported that Meerkat, the trendy, Twitter-centric livestreaming app …
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| New York Times: |
Apple unable to persuade record labels to lower licensing costs for Beats streaming music service; will be priced similarly to rivals at around $10 — Apple and Beats Developing Streaming Music Service to Rival Spotify — In what would be the biggest change to its music strategy in years …
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Tweets: @mattrosoff, @pkafka and @mgsiegler
See also Mediagazer| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Watch launch retail stock to be limited for many models, reservations favored — If you want to buy the Apple Watch model of your choice at an Apple Store at launch, you should consider pre-ordering online or through an Apple Store reservation, sources have told 9to5Mac.
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| Glyn Moody / Ars Technica: |
EU: Don't use Facebook if you want to keep the NSA away from your data — Court case could make it harder for US companies to take personal data out of EU. — In a key case before the European Union's highest court, the Court of Justice of the European Union, the European Commission admitted yesterday … | Reuters: |
SoftBank leads group in talks to buy up to $1 billion stake in India's Micromax: sources — (Reuters) - A group of investors led by Japanese mobile telecom firm SoftBank Corp is in talks to buy a 20 percent stake in Indian handset maker Micromax Informatics for up to $1 billion, two people aware of the discussions said.| Amy Schatz / Re/code: |
FTC Denies Report That Agency Ignored Staff Recommendation on Google — Three Federal Trade Commission members denied media reports that the agency essentially ignored a staff recommendation to sue Google during its 2012 investigation of the search giant's practices.| Brody Mullins / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Google to improve scrolling in Chrome with support for Pointer Events, a standard introduced by Microsoft in Internet Explorer — Google will finally improve Chrome scrolling using a Microsoft invention — Google is finally adopting a standard that supports both mouse and touch navigation for its Chrome browser.
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Ars Technica, Tech Times, Phandroid, Ubergizmo and ZDNet
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Lyft adds optional user profiles for drivers and passengers to its app — Lyft Adds Profiles to Make Ride Sharing More Personalized — In 1971, Herb Kelleher, a founder of Southwest Airlines, had an idea: As competition in the burgeoning airline industry intensified, he wanted to make his small …
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Engadget, Lyft Blog and VentureBeat
| Josh Taylor / ZDNet: |
Australia passes law requiring telcos to retain customer data for two years for warrantless access — Mandatory data retention passes Australian parliament — Summary:The government and Labor have jointly ensured that the telecommunications data of all Australians will be retained …
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