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Andy Rubin's hardware incubator Playground Global raises $48M from Google, HP, Foxconn, others, and will provide support in exchange for equity, not capital — Android Creator Andy Rubin Launching Playground Global — Firm to provide support, advice to tech startups making devices
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Andy Rubin joins Redpoint as a venture partner — Andy Rubin Joins Redpoint — Most people know Andy Rubin as the creator of Android. I know Andy as a twenty-something engineer at WebTV who had built a sleeping loft above his cubicle so he didn't have to leave the office. 20 years …
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Apple Acquired Search Startup Ottocat To Power The ‘Explore’ Tab In The App Store — Apple has slowly been making changes to improve how people search and navigate the App Store. Part of the way it does that is via small acquisitions — some of which stay under the radar for years.| Owen Williams / The Next Web: |
Twitter now lets you add a comment of up to 115 characters when you retweet on iOS and web, coming to Android soon — Twitter is finally fixing the Quote Tweet button — Twitter is finally fixing one of the worst things about its services: the “Quote Tweet” button.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Tim Cook: Apple employees will get 50% off Apple Watch, 1000+ apps submitted — Apple CEO Tim Cook today sent out a memo to all employees ahead of the Apple Watch's retail try-on kickoff this Friday. Cook thanks employees who have worked on the Apple Watch by saying, “congratulations …
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Square Brings Accountability To Email Marketing — Square is in the process of building up a series of products and services that use its payments platform as a foundation. The latest, launching today, is an email marketing tool gives physical businesses the same advantages of online stores.
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| Matt O'Brien / Mercury News: |
FTC asked to investigate YouTube Kids for deceptively targeting toddlers with ads — MOUNTAIN VIEW — Prominent consumer and child advocacy groups Tuesday will ask the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google's new YouTube Kids application, arguing that the search engine giant is unfairly … | Cat Zakrzewski / TechCrunch: |
In Snowden interview, John Oliver makes surveillance debate relatable by avoiding civil liberty hypotheticals, focusing on NSA's ease of access to “dick pics” — John Oliver Just Changed The Surveillance Reform Debate — Remember Edward Snowden?
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| Jennifer Cloer / Linux.com: |
10 Years of Git: An Interview with Git Creator Linus Torvalds — Ten years ago this week, the Linux kernel community faced a daunting challenge: They could no longer use their revision control system BitKeeper and no other Software Configuration Management (SCMs) met their needs for a distributed system.
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| Rhonda Richford / Hollywood Reporter: |
Vivendi confirms takeover bid for DailyMotion, unofficial reports put value of deal at $272M — Vivendi Makes Offer for DailyMotion — French media giant Vivendi has a made a takeover bid for online video company DailyMotion, Vivendi confirmed April 7. Terms of the offer were not disclosed … | Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple Maps now includes hotel reviews from TripAdvisor and Booking.com, indicating the end of Yelp exclusivity — Apple Maps Now Includes Hotel Reviews From TripAdvisor and Booking.com — Since the release of Apple's in-house Maps app as part of iOS 6 back in 2012, Yelp …
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
US Department of Justice announces first e-commerce antitrust case, against a third-party seller on Amazon Marketplace — U.S. announces first antitrust e-commerce prosecution — (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust division on Monday announced its first prosecution …
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Nvidia wins Markman ruling, a pretrial claim construction decision, in patent suit against Samsung/Qualcomm — Patent fight, round one: NVIDIA: 1, Samsung, Qualcomm: 0 — Samsung and Qualcomm might have had a falling out over the chips that would have been used for the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge … Sponsor Posts
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