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Sources: YouTube's ad-free subscription service coming in the next few months for around $10/month, will offer offline viewing, creators required to join — YouTube's paid subscription offering takes shape — and it's almost here — YouTube's forthcoming paid subscription offering …
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| Ryan Roslansky / Official LinkedIn Blog: |
Welcome to the LinkedIn Family, lynda.com! — Many people don't know that I started my first company when I was a freshman in college. I didn't know the first thing about designing a website and relied on a Lynda Weinman web graphics book to get my site up and running.
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Zynga founder and chairman Mark Pincus returns as CEO, replacing Don Mattrick — Mark Pincus, Zynga's Founder, Returns as C.E.O. — When Mark Pincus hired a new executive to run Zynga, the online games company he founded, he tweeted a message calling the executive, Don Mattrick, an “Internet treasure.”
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| Ronald Grover / TheStreet.com: |
Sources: Disney pressures Apple to carry more of its channels on rumored TV streaming service, Apple wants fewer channels to keep cost of service down — Disney Presses Apple to Carry More Channels on Internet TV Service — NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Apple (AAPL - Get Report) and Walt Disney …
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| 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 … | Lisa Fleisher / Wall Street Journal: |
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Facebook launches a standalone website for Messenger at Messenger.com for users who want a dedicated desktop messaging experience — Facebook Launches Messenger for Web Browsers — Facebook is bringing Messenger, its standalone messaging tool, to the Web.
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| Apple: |
Apple Watch in-store preview and online only pre-order begin Friday — Apple Watch In-Store Preview & Online Pre-Order Begin Friday — Available for Purchase Online April 24 — Apple Watch™, Apple's most personal device yet, will be available for preview and pre-order on Friday, April 10.
| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
DJI's new Phantom 3 drones start at $999, feature visual positioning, GLONASS support, bundled Lightbridge video streaming, 4K camera option — DJI updates our favorite line of drones with the new Phantom 3 — DJI created the Kleenex of consumer drones with its Phantom line of quadcopters.
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| Jeff Carlson / Macworld: |
Review: Photos for OS X is faster than iPhoto but less powerful than Aperture — AT A GLANCE — Last June, Apple announced the impending retirement of iPhoto and Aperture in favor of Photos for OS X, a new application it demonstrated briefly at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC).
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| Gabor Cselle / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter retires Discover and Activity features for iOS and Android users, moves Trends tool to search page — Updating trends on mobile — Trends are a great way to find out what people are talking about on Twitter at a given moment and at a single glance.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 8.3 expands iPhone WiFi Calls to Sprint in the U.S., EE in the U.K. — In addition to adding a slew of more diverse Emojis and several bug fixes, iOS 8.3 has expanded the iPhone's WiFi calling feature to a pair of new carriers: Sprint in the United States and EE in the United Kingdom.
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Intel demos its latest RealSense depth-sensing camera, small enough for a 6-inch smartphone — Intel's made a tinier, longer-range depth camera for phones — Intel's been a huge backer of gesture control plus 3D scanning, and so far it's managed to integrate its RealSense technology into select desktops …
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| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Twitter is not currently a takeover target; recent rumors fueled by management instability, slowing growth, vulnerable single-class stock structure — Get Used to More Twitter Takeover Rumors — At the beginning of this year, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo was rumored to be stepping down immediately (he didn't).| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Apple Quietly Bought Dryft, A Keyboard App — Apple quietly bought Dryft, a startup that develops keyboard apps — an acquisition that appears to have occurred last year — TechCrunch has learned. — The acquisition seemed to be confirmed by Randy Marsden's LinkedIn profile, which lists him as joining Apple last September.| Bloomberg Business: |
Kik Interactive Said to Explore Sale or Corporate Investment — Kik Interactive Inc., which makes a messaging application popular with young teens, is exploring a sale, people with knowledge of the matter said. — The company hired Qatalyst Partners to set up conversations with potential acquirers …
| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple Watch review: stylish and a great fitness tracker, but first-gen hardware and frustrating software make it difficult to recommend — What the Apple Watch Does Best: Make You Look Good — Apple isn't just selling some wrist-worn computer, it's selling good looks and coolness, too
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft to add virtualized containers, Nano Server mode to Windows Server 2016 — Summary:Microsoft confirms it will have a Nano Server mode in Windows Server 2016, along with new Hyper-V containerization technology. — Although the second test build of Windows Server 2016 isn't coming until May … Sponsor Posts
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