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| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Apple Watch has a steep learning curve, but can be a life-changer after apps are streamlined and initial bugs are fixed — Apple Watch Bliss, but Only After a Steep Learning Curve — It took three days — three long, often confusing and frustrating days — for me to fall for the Apple Watch.| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Apple watch is the nicest smart watch, but has performance issues with apps and locations services, is more expensive than rivals — Apple Watch: the definitive review — The Apple Watch is an extraordinarily small and personal device. It is designed to participate in nearly every moment of your day …
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| Joshua Topolsky / Bloomberg Business: |
Apple Watch Review: You'll Want One, but You Don't Need One … I'm in a meeting with 14 people, in mid-sentence, when I feel a tap-tap-tap on my wrist. I stop talking, tilt my head, and whip my arm aggressively into view to see the source of the agitation.
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| CNN: |
Russian hackers accessed sensitive White House information, including real-time details of president's schedule, via compromised State Department system — How the U.S. thinks Russians hacked the White House — Washington (CNN)Russian hackers behind the damaging cyber intrusion …
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PandoDaily, Wired, Help Net Security, Engadget, PC World, Tech Times, Bloomberg Business, Neowin, Forbes, ITProPortal, The Hill, Fox News, MediaCenter Panda Security, Reuters, Newsweek, StreetWise Journal, The Next Web, msnbc.com, USA Today, Fortune, TechCrunch, SC Magazine, ITworld.com, CNET, Business Insider, The Verge and New York Magazine. Tweets: @ahess247
| Fortune: |
Fortune hires six former Gigaom reporters to double down on its technology coverage — Fortune bulks up on technology coverage, hires six Gigaom veterans — Fortune's Editor Alan Murray sent out the following message to staff Wednesday. — To the staff:
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| Blair Hanley Frank / GeekWire: |
Oyster takes aim at Amazon with new e-book store, lands all ‘Big Five’ publishers … Oyster launched a new version of its e-book platform today that puts it in even closer competition with Amazon. The New York-based startup introduced its own e-book store to augment its existing Netflix-esque e-book subscription service.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Google: |
Google appears to be developing a teleconferencing tool called GMeet — First noticed by Florian Kiersch on Google+, Google appears to be testing a new meetings service. Google Meetings, also referred to as GMeet, appears to allow users to schedule and join teleconference calls with one click.
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| Abhijeet M. / SamMobile: |
Samsung's round smartwatch to be called Gear A, come in two variants, one with Bluetooth, one with 3G and calling support — Exclusive: Samsung's round smartwatch to be called Gear A, have 3G and calling support — A perfect smartwatch? There's no such thing, but Samsung … | Eva Dou / Wall Street Journal: |
Xiaomi throws parties for fans every few weeks across China, making customers feel part of an exclusive club — Xiaomi: The Secret to the World's Most Valuable Startup — Xiaomi reaches out to customers through parties and social media — HANGZHOU, China—Zhao Ruiping assembles mechanical valves … | Richard Lai / Engadget: |
HTC One M9+ launches in China: 5.2" Quad HD screen, fingerprint sensor, MediaTek SoC — HTC's bigger and better One M9+ launches in China — HTC clearly gets China's obsession with large-screen phones. Following the plastic 5.5-inch One E9+, the company is back with the metallic M9+ which … | Brad Heath / USA Today: |
US Justice Department and Drug Enforcement Administration secretly tracked billions of international calls from US for nearly a decade before 9/11 — U.S. secretly tracked billions of calls for decades — Starting in 1992, the Justice Department amassed logs of virtually all telephone calls …
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The Hill, Computerworld, Techdirt, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Engadget and PC World
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| Nicole LaPorte / Fast Company: |
An inside look at HBO's strategy to compete with Netflix by launching HBO Now — HBO to Netflix: Bring it on — On a frigid winter Friday in Manhattan's MediaGulch, HBO CEO Richard Plepler glides through the doors of a power-lunch spot called the Lambs Club.| Napier Lopez / The Next Web: |
| John Callaham / Windows Central: |
Kabam abandons Windows Phone development after releasing just one game — Windows Central has learned that Kabam, one of the biggest mobile game developers, has decided to stop making titles from the Windows Phone platform. This decision represents a complete reversal of Kabam's original plans …
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SuperSite for Windows, ZDNet, WinBeta, WMPoweruser and Neowin
| Gaurav Raghuvanshi / Wall Street Journal: |
SingTel To Buy U.S. Cybersecurity Firm Trustwave for $810 Million — SingTel is buying 98% of the equity of Trustwave, with the balance remaining with CEO Robert J. McCullen — SINGAPORE—Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. Wednesday said it would buy Trustwave, a U.S. managed-security services specialist … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Instagram Adds Post Notifications For Specific Accounts, Color And Fade Tools — Instagram has a couple of new photo editing tools available in its mobile applications, out today on Android and coming soon to iOS: Color and Fade. Color lets you adjust the tone of both the highlights …
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| Chris Crum / WebProNews: |
Twitter confirms it's experimenting with a new search interface with more filtering options — Twitter Confirms It's Messing With Its Search Experience — While covering Google's closure of Google Moderator earlier, I searched Twitter on the desktop to see what people were saying about it … Thanks:@ccrum237
| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
The rise and fall of OpenStack startups as venture capital investments in the space dries up — Investors were once tripping over themselves to get into a hot technology called OpenStack. What happened? — Once upon a time, venture capitalists were tripping over themselves to invest …
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| Selena Larson / The Daily Dot: |
Anonymous messaging app After School back in App Store with moderation to combat bullying — After School attempts a comeback with bans on bullying — Wherever there's an anonymous app, there are teens using it to bully each other. — After School, one of the newest applications … | Alan Stafford / PC World: |
Review: Adobe Acrobat Pro DC's electronic signatures are its killer app — AT A GLANCE — With the new Acrobat DC, Adobe offers a killer app that could lure at least some users back from cheaper PDF editors: electronic signatures. Signatures are an essential part of business …
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The Next Web, 9to5Mac, App Advice, Android Police, VentureBeat and Ink, Bits, & Pixels
| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Google and Microsoft case could determine what constitutes a “reasonable royalty” when patents are used as part of a standard — Google Will Battle Microsoft (Again) Over the Value of Patents in Tech Standards — Google and Microsoft will face off in a San Francisco appeals court Wednesday …
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Financial Times and GeekWire
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Rocket Internet Fashion Group GFG Raises $35M, Poaches Amazon Exec To Lead It — Rocket Internet — the Berlin-based startup incubator that went public in October 2014 — is today adding more muscle to the Global Fashion Group, a cluster of five of its emerging market fashion sites …
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