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HBO Now launches in US on Apple TV, iOS, and Cablevision's Optimum Online for $14.99 per month — HBO Now goes live for Apple TV, iOS and Optimum users — We knew HBO's new Now streaming service would launch ahead of the Season 5 premiere of the popular Game of Thrones series …
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Samsung hopes to rebuild depleted mobile profit margins with Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge after S5 fell flat — Samsung Looks to New Phones to Lift Mobile Profit Margins — Samsung prioritizing design over function with Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge — SEOUL—Amid signs Samsung Electronics Co … | Steven Musil / CNET: |
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Kleiner general partner Matt Murphy, who fired Ellen Pao, to leave KPCB — Kleiner Partner to Leave After Trial — Matt Murphy says he will look for a new opportunity — Venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers will move on from its three-year legal battle … | BuzzFeed: |
Sources: Google plans to announce a product connecting its search users with home-service providers this spring — Google Eyes Home-Services Market — The company is readying a new product intended to connect search users with local home-service providers. — Via Flickr: clement127Thanks:@fwd
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Angela Ahrendts tells employees to encourage customers to order Watch and new MacBook through Apple Store app and online store as part of “change in mindset” — Angela Ahrendts has told Apple employees ‘a significant change in mindset’ is coming to the way the company launches products
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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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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 … | Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Square launches tools to help brick and mortar businesses create and track the effectiveness of email marketing campaigns — 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.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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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Tweets: @fake_api, @tomwarren, @ryansholin, @gaberivera and @anildash
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Dozens of Connecticut towns are on a path towards installing wholesale fiber networks — At Least One State has a (Fiber) Backbone — Who's on track to get citizens high-speed Internet? Hint: it's the only state with the word “connect” in its name. — Maybe you remember Sir Boss …
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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.| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Viacom cites “changing media consumption habits” in $750M writedown — Viacom Says the Internet Made Its Reruns Less Valuable — Sorry, Snooki. You're not worth as much as you used to be. — Blame Amazon, YouTube and the rest of the Internet.| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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