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AppleCare+ for Apple Watch: $999 for Edition, $79 for Watch, $59 for Sport — To go along with the premium $10,000 and up pricing of the 18-karat gold Apple Watch Edition, Apple will charge up to $999 for the Apple Watch Edition's AppleCare+ Protection Plan, 9to5Mac has learned.
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Tweets: @markgurman, @markgurman and @9to5mac
| Brendon Lynch / Microsoft on the Issues: |
Microsoft's future browsers will not enable Do Not Track as the default setting, in a reversal of the company's policy with Internet Explorer 10 — An update on Microsoft's approach to Do Not Track — As industry standards evolve, how we implement those standards evolve as well.
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Disney to invest $250M in fantasy sports site DraftKings, valuing company at $900M — Disney to Invest $250 Million in Fantasy Site DraftKings — Walt Disney Co. is investing $250 million in online fantasy sports business DraftKings Inc., valuing the company at roughly $900 million, people familiar with the matter say.
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Pinterest Acquires Team From Hike Labs, Including Google Reader, Blogger Veteran Jason Shellen — Pinterest today scored two notable new hires with the acquisition of a small, two-person startup known as Hike Labs, which had been developing a mobile publishing application called Drafty.| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Mark Russinovich, Microsoft's Azure CTO, said in an off hand remark at a ChefCon panel discussion that an open source Windows is “definitely possible” — Microsoft: An Open Source Windows Is ‘Definitely Possible’ — Microsoft's software empire rests on Windows …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox Is Testing An Online Note-Taking Service With “Project Composer” — It appears that Dropbox is bringing back HackPad, the collaborative documents service the company acquired a year ago. The Y Combinator-backed startup had grown to become a popular tool for taking quick notes at conferences … | Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
A year after firestorm, DHS wants access to license-plate tracking system — The Department of Homeland Security is seeking bids from companies able to provide law enforcement officials with access to a national license-plate tracking system — a year after canceling a similar solicitation over privacy issues.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Dish rebrands DishWorld as Sling International, offering 200 channels in 18 languages to US customers, starting at $15 per month — Dish Rebrands DishWorld as ‘Sling International’ Over-the-Top Service — Dish Network, the No. 2 satellite TV service in the U.S., announced that DishWorld … | Lora Kolodny / Wall Street Journal: |
Ticket marketplace SeatGeek raises $62M Series C led by Technology Crossover Ventures — SeatGeek Scores $62 Million for Its Ticket-Selling App … Mobile marketplaces are a hot ticket for venture investors these days, and SeatGeek Inc. is the latest to raise a significant round …
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TechCrunch, VatorNews, bizjournals, Digital Music News, VatorNews and iamWire. Tweets: @mdudas
| Eric Johnson / Re/code: |
Gondola's dynamic pricing engine intelligently changes the price of game in-app purchases to maximize revenue — What Can the Video Game Business Learn From Airlines and Uber? — When you make a purchase in a free-to-play video game like Candy Crush Saga or Clash of Clans …
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| Martin Beck / Marketing Land: |
Report: ad spending on social networks grew 41% globally to $15.3B in 2014; Facebook accounted for $11.4B; Global MAUs for social networks reached 2B in 2014 — Facebook Accounted For 75% Of Social Ad Spending Globally In 2014 — The global social advertising market grew 41% to $15.3 billion in 2014 …
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Strategy Analytics, The Next Web, WebProNews, USA Today and AdExchanger
Tweets: @shanaglenzer and @lavrusik
| Andy / TorrentFreak: |
EMI granted summary judgement in Grooveshark copyright case, forcing proactive anti-piracy policy — Grooveshark Publishes Proactive Anti-Piracy Policy — Throughout Grooveshark's history the company has come to rely on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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