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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: |
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.| 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: @stevekovach and @wsjd
| 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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Apple announces Apple Watch pre-orders and in-store preview begin Friday, confirms orders will be online-only during unspecified “initial launch period” — Apple Watch In-Store Preview & Online Pre-Order Begin Friday — Available for Purchase Online April 24
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Sources: 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 … | 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.| 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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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
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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Tweets: @jessicalessin, @brianstelter and @caseynewton
| 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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| 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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| Min-Jeong Lee / Wall Street Journal: |
Samsung Facing Supply Shortages for Curved-Screen Galaxy S6 Edge — Company's mobile chief points to difficulties in manufacturing the screens — SEOUL—Samsung Electronics Co.'s mobile chief J.K. Shin said Thursday there could be limited supplies of its new curved-screen smartphone … | Lori Grunin / CNET: |
Adobe updates Creative Cloud apps, announces augmented-reality iOS app Project Candy, and previews new animation tool — Adobe adds some slick but important tools to its Creative Cloud video applications — The company's NAB announcements for upgrades and new products look like some really useful features.
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| 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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IGN, TorrentFreak, gameinformer.com, Slashdot, Plagiarism Today, The Tech Report, GamePolitics blogs and Blue's News. Tweets: @stephanierieger
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows 10 unifies apps, movies, and music into a single store — Microsoft is finally bringing apps, movies, TV shows, and music into a single location for Windows 10. The software giant is testing out a new section of the Windows 10 store today that includes movies and TV shows …
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VentureBeat, Blogging Windows and Neowin
| Don Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
U.S. Agencies Block Technology Exports for Supercomputer in China — Moves comes as U.S. technology companies grapple with Beijing's proposed restrictions — U.S. officials are blocking technology exports to facilities in China associated with the world's fastest supercomputer …
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