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Activist investor with over $2B stake urges Qualcomm to spin off chip unit from its more profitable patent-licensing business, cut costs, accelerate buyback — Activist Puts Pressure on Qualcomm — Jana Partners urges chip maker to consider breakup, other steps to improve stock price
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eWeek, CNET, Tech Trader Daily, The Register, Light Reading, NASDAQ.com and Reuters
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| Dave McClure / Medium: |
High private tech valuations the result of investors betting against doomed public incumbents unable to innovate — Bubble, My Ass: Some Unicorns Might Be Overvalued, But All Dinosaurs Gonna Die. — Summary: pundits argue billion-dollar startups are overvalued, but few realize …
Tweets: @mdudas, @mitchellharper, @valaafshar, @zack and @abatalion
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Sharp announces 5.5" 4K (2160 x 3840) IGZO display with 806 ppi, in mass production from 2016 — Sharp not even joking, announces 5.5-inch 4K IGZO display with mind-blowing 806ppi pixel density — Like it or not, 4K smartphone displays are heading towards us, and there's nobody left to stop them!| Dan Frommer / Quartz: |
Over 1M US Apple Watch preorders, with two-thirds for Sport line, and black bands most popular, according to shopping data firm Slice Intelligence — Apple Watch pre-orders were 1 million in the US on its first day, a shopping data firm estimates — (Ryan Emberley/Invision for Apple/AP Images)
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Slice Intelligence, Fortune, ZDNet, TIME, TechCrunch, MacRumors, PCWorld, CNET, Marketing Land, Reuters, Telegraph, Los Angeles Times, AppleInsider, USA Today, OMARCAST, The Register, bizjournals, O'Grady's PowerPage, Business Insider, TechnoBuffalo, MacRumors, SlashGear, Tech Times, iPhone in Canada Blog, TodaysiPhone.com, BGR, iDownloadBlog.com, Racked, Cult of Mac, Network World, Geeky Gadgets and SiliconANGLE
Tweets: @fromedome, @lessien, @gruber and @panzer
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Apple Gazette, The Loop, App Advice and Tech.pinions
Tweets: @reckless, @danieleran, @reckless, @reckless, @danb and @dangillmor
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn Raises Its Game In Social Media With Elevate, An App To Suggest And Share Stories — LinkedIn, the social platform with 350 million users where people network for business deals, new jobs, news, and soon to learn a thing or two, is now tapping another business area: social media management.
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Official LinkedIn Blog, The Next Web, ZDNet, Marketing Land, PCWorld, Re/code, WebProNews, Re/code, BuzzFeed and VentureBeat
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Twitter Is Pushing Celebrities And Publishers To Stop Using Meerkat — Twitter is doing whatever it can to help its live video streaming acquisition Periscope beat independent competitor Meerkat. Multiple sources tell TechCrunch that Twitter has been contacting celebrities who use Meerkat …
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SiliconANGLE, International Business Times, TechSpot, Digital Trends, Adweek, SlashGear, PC Magazine and tech.co
Tweets: @orli and @ourielohayon
See also Mediagazer| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon launches X-Ray on Fire TV to bring IMDb movie and TV data to the big screen — Amazon is bringing its “X-Ray for Movies and TV” service to the big screen for the first time, with the news that the contextual information offering is rolling out for Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick.
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The Next Web, Amazon.com, The Verge, TechCrunch, TechHive, GeekWire, Engadget and Wired. See also Mediagazer
| Jack Shepherd / Journalism.co.uk: |
University of Florida and Yik Yak team up for geolocated student news feeds — University of Florida explores geolocation news feeds — The university has teamed up with social media app Yik Yak to bring its students the latest local news — Credit: Screenshot from UFJSchool on YouTube.| Bloomberg Business: |
Xiaomi says it lost more than half of its Mi Power Bank sales to counterfeiters last year — Xiaomi Confronts Counterfeits as Fake Products Eat Into Sales — Xiaomi Corp., the Chinese smartphone vendor that overtook Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. in the world's largest market, now faces another foe: counterfeiters.
| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Asus VivoWatch has a 10-day battery life, stainless steel body, is dust and water resistant, comes with heart-rate monitor and sleep tracker — ASUS' fitness-centric VivoWatch has a 10-day battery — In our review, we became quite fond of ASUS' rather handsome ZenWatch except, perhaps … | Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Sprint Direct 2 U will send workers to customers' homes to deliver and help set up new phones, available today in Kansas City, nationwide by end of the year — Sprint Will Come to Your Home or Office to Set Up Your Next Phone — Sprint is launching a new program that will send a worker …
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