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| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
MacBook review: beautiful, but has disappointing battery life, struggles on performance-intensive tasks, having a single USB Type-C port is a pain — Apple MacBook Review: The Laptop of the Future Isn't Ready for the Present — Are you willing to give up battery life and convenience to own the most beautiful laptop ever?
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Tweets: @wsjd and @stevekovach
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
MacBook review: great display and trackpad but performance is a step behind Broadwell-based Macs, and life with one port is a compromise — The 2015 MacBook previews a future that's not quite here — Review: This laptop is defined by the features it doesn't have.
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Engadget, ABC News, iPhone Hacks, Gotta Be Mobile, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Mashable and Business Insider
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Source: Google close to making Android Wear work with iPhone using companion app — Exclusive: Google is close to making Android Wear work on the iPhone — Google is working on getting its Android Wear smartwatch platform to work with the iPhone, and it is close to finishing the final technical details …
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ZDNet, Android Authority, ReadWrite, Android Central, iMore, Digital Trends, Phandroid, PC World, App Advice, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, CNET, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, PhoneDog.com, Ubergizmo, iPhone Hacks, Electronista, SlashGear, ConnectedArena, WebProNews, BetaNews, Pocketnow, Droid Life, Mashable, AppleInsider, TechnoBuffalo, Polygon, Patently Apple, BGR, Telegraph and SiliconANGLE
| Apple: |
Apple announces Watch pre-orders begin Friday 12:01am PT, in-store previews begin Friday, confirms orders will be online-only during “initial launch period” — Apple Watch In-Store Preview & Online Pre-Order Begin Friday — Available for Purchase Online April 24
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MacRumors, BuzzFeed, Forbes, The Verge, Digital Trends, ZDNet, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, Bloomberg Business, Mercury News, New York Times, Ubergizmo, OMARCAST, Wired, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, GeekWire, Tech Times, Mashable, The Daily Dot, Reuters, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear, Quartz, TodaysiPhone.com, Cult of Mac, iPhone Hacks, Pocketnow, Gotta Be Mobile, WebProNews, BGR, Washington Post, Macworld, Daring Fireball, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, Boing Boing, iDownloadBlog.com, Medium, MobileSyrup.com, iLounge, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, PhoneDog.com, Engadget, The Next Web and TIME
Tweets: @harrymccracken and @viticci
| Reuters: |
Apple spent $38M on its “Watch Reimagined” television campaign since its March 9 event, compared to the $42M it spent over five months for iPhone 6 and 6 Plus — With primetime TV, Apple hopes to hook customers for new Watch — (Reuters) - As Apple Inc (AAPL.O) …
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AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Ubergizmo and iDownloadBlog.com
| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
LinkedIn to acquire online learning firm Lynda.com in a cash and stock deal valued at $1.5B — LinkedIn buys Lynda.com for $1.5 billion — Summary:Executives for both companies said the deal, which is LinkedIn's largest acquisition to date, is the “kind of fit that benefits everyone.”
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| Ryan Roslansky / Official LinkedIn Blog: |
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Amazon announces new Elastic File System storage service for EC2 machines; preview coming soon — Amazon Launches New File Storage Service For EC2 — At its AWS Summit in San Francisco, Amazon today announced the launch of the Amazon Elastic File System (EFS), a new storage service … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
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AWS Official Blog, GeekWire, iTnews, Bloomberg Business, Business Wire, Forbes, VentureBeat, eWeek, ZDNet, WebProNews and Jutia Group
| Office Blogs: |
Microsoft and Dropbox partner to let you edit Dropbox files in Office Online — Office Online and Dropbox web integration now available — Last year Office announced an ongoing partnership to create better connections between Office and Dropbox. We continue to work closely with the Dropbox team …
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Dropbox Blog, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, ZDNet, SlashGear, The Next Web, Neowin, Windows Central, The Verge, PC Magazine, BetaNews, GeekWire, Android Police, Ink, Bits, & Pixels, Engadget, SuperSite for Windows and WebProNews. Tweets: @edbott
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Jawbone UP3 to begin shipping April 20, four months late, without the 10 meter water resistance promised at launch — Jawbone UP3 to Begin Shipping on April 20 With Lower Water Resistance Capabilities — Jawbone announced the newest iteration in its line of wrist-worn UP fitness trackers …
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The Jawbone Blog, SlashGear, PC World, CNET, BBC, 9to5Mac, iMore, TechCrunch, Ubergizmo and Yahoo Tech
| Mitch Stoltz / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Entertainment Software Association seeks to prevent restoring functionality of old video games on copyright grounds, even for museums and archives — Videogame Publishers: No Preserving Abandoned Games, Even for Museums and Archives, Because All “Hacking” is Illegal
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Polygon, IGN, Slashdot, TorrentFreak, gameinformer.com, Plagiarism Today, Consumerist, The Tech Report, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Blue's News and GamePolitics blogs. Tweets: @stephanierieger
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon files first-ever suit over fake product reviews, alleging sites sold fraudulent praise … Amazon has filed suit against the alleged operators of sites that offer Amazon sellers the ability to purchase fake 4- and 5-star customer reviews of their products.| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
SoundCloud starts working with YouTube's partner to scan music for copyright infringement — SoundCloud has formed a new partnership to scan uploaded music for instances of copyright infringement, but the deal isn't necessarily about filing more takedown requests.
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Yahoo! Finance, PC Magazine, Engadget and Tubefilter
Tweets: @lgstream, @verge and @caseynewton
See also Mediagazer| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
European Facebook Privacy Lawsuit Heads To Court In Vienna — A class action data privacy lawsuit that's being brought against Facebook in Europe — for participation in the NSA's PRISM dragnet surveillance program, among other alleged data protection violations — gets its first preparatory …
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Guardian, Wired.co.uk, BBC, BBC, Marketing Land, The Independent, The Register, broadstuff, TechEye, VentureBeat and The Next Web
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