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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.| 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 … | 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.| 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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| 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.| 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 … | Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
FCC fines CenturyLink $16M and Intrado $1.4M for 911 outage in 2014 — FCC hits company with record fine for 911 failures — In April of last year, a coding error knocked out 911 service for more than 11 million people, leaving more than 6,600 emergency calls — calls about a home intruder … | Farbod Faraji / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
New South Wales Attacks Researchers Who Found Internet Voting Vulnerabilities — A security flaw in New South Wales' Internet voting system may have left as many as 66,000 votes vulnerable to interception and manipulation in a recent election, according to security researchers.
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