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Microsoft and Yahoo Agree to Amend Search Partnership — SUNNYVALE, Calif. & REDMOND, Wash.—(BUSINESS WIRE)— Today Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) announced that the companies amended their search partnership to improve the search experience, create value for advertisers …
| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
New search deal with Microsoft requires Yahoo to monetize just 51% of its traffic via Bing, not 100% as before — Marissa Mayer redoes Yahoo's search deal with Microsoft, makes huge changes — Yahoo just renewed its search partnership with Microsoft — with huge modifications.
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| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Ahrendts memo: no Apple Watch in-store purchases until June, pre-orders start arriving this Friday; April 24th launch date removed from Apple's website — No Apple Watches in store until June, Ahrendts tells staff as April 24th date removed from website — Angela Ahrendts has told Apple Store staff …
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Slack confirms raising $160M at a $2.8B valuation with new investors including DST Global, IVP, and Horizons Ventures, claims 750K daily users — Slack confirms $160M funding round at $2.8B valuation — Slack, that San Francisco startup with an increasingly popular team communication app …
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TechCrunch, Fortune, Re/code, Business Insider, BetaKit, VatorNews, Mashable, The Verge, bizjournals, Techvibes Global News, Entrepreneur and PE Hub Blog. Tweets: @ingridlunden
| Brett Howse / AnandTech: |
AMD's Q1 earnings miss with non-GAAP loss of $0.09/share on $1.03B revenue, down 16.9% from last quarter — AMD Posts Q1 2015 Results: $180 Million Net Loss — Today AMD released their Q1 FY 2015 financial results, and the company reported revenue of $1.03 billion for the quarter.
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ZDNet, VentureBeat and Benzinga
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Cyanogen partners with Microsoft to bundle and create native integrations of Bing, Skype, OneDrive, OneNote, Outlook, and Office on Cyanogen OS — Microsoft will bundle its apps on Cyanogen's Android OS — Rumors of a Microsoft and Cyanogen partnership have been making the rounds recently … | Russell Holly / Android Central: |
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| Ellen Cushing / BuzzFeed: |
Apple buys around 36K acres of private forestland to be managed by The Conservation Fund and sustainably harvested for packaging — Apple Is Buying Up 36,000 Acres Of Forest To Conserve It — The partnership with The Conservation Fund help supply the company's virgin paper fiber.
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Medium, The Conservation Fund, Tech Times, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, Business Insider, Cult of Mac, The Next Web, CBS San Francisco, MacDailyNews, iLounge, iMore and MacNN. Thanks:@mat
| Natt Garun / The Next Web: |
WikiLeaks launches easy search interface for 30K documents and emails from Sony Pictures hack — WikiLeaks releases a searchable archive of hacked Sony Pictures emails and documents — WikiLeaks today released “The Sony Archives,” a searchable online database that the organization claims contains …
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Engadget, Re/code, The Verge, USA Today, CNET, Variety, Business Insider, Fortune, Hollywood Reporter, 89.3 KPCC and Guardian. See also Mediagazer
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google's mobile search results on Android now prompt users to install apps that have content relevant to the search query — Google's Mobile Search Results On Android Now Prompt Users To Install Apps With Relevant Content — Google's mobile search results on Android will now prompt … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Netflix will stop asking ISPs to exempt its videos from data caps — Netflix regrets striking cap-exempt deal in Australia. — Netflix says it regrets striking a deal that exempted its videos from data caps imposed by an Internet service provider and will avoid such arrangements in the future.
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| Lizette Chapman / Wall Street Journal: |
Navdy, maker of a gadget that projects info onto car windshields, raises $20M Series A at $80M valuation led by Upfront Ventures — Driving Display Startup Navdy Raises $20M to Start Commercial Production … Seeking to end the dangerous juggle many smartphone-wielding drivers do when navigating …
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PE Hub Blog, Fortune, StrictlyVC, Entrepreneur, PandoDaily and bizjournals. Tweets: @ychernova
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Airware Launches Its Commercial Drone Operating System — Drones could save businesses big money by doing dull, dirty, and dangerous jobs much better than humans or helicopters. The problem is that drones can be difficult to program and pilot. Airware is out to change that with today's launch of its Aerial Information Platform.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Updated Google app for Android lets you locate and ring your device by typing “find my phone” into Google search box on desktop — You can now Google your lost Android phone — Despite all its efforts in various markets, Google is still primarily a search company.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple Seeds First OS X 10.10.4 Yosemite Beta to Developers — Apple today seeded the first beta of OS X 10.10.4 to developers, just over a week after releasing OS X 10.10.3 with the Photos for OS X app to the public. — The new beta, build 14E7f, can be downloaded from the Mac Developer Center.
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9to5Mac, iMore and iDownloadBlog.com
| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
Mobile shopping app Spring raises $25M Series B led by BoxGroup, with participation from Yuri Milner, Google Ventures, and others — Swipe-to-buy app Spring raises $25 million to become the first big mobile shopping mall — Spring, an eight-month-old shopping app that partners with hundreds of brands …
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Fortune, TechCrunch, tech.co, VentureBeat and Forbes
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Etsy Stock Surges 86 Percent At Close Of First Day Of Trading to $30 Per Share — Etsy, the online marketplace for handmade goods, went public today. It turns out Wall Street investors like those homespun crafts. Shares opened at $31 on the NASDAQ, popping up 94 percent from the initial set price of $16 per share.| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Problems & Solutions: Analyzing The EU's Antitrust Charges Against Google Over Shopping Search — After years of investigation, we finally have a formal EU antitrust complaint against Google in search. It's narrow — all about shopping search. Here's a look at the specific charges and what they might mean for the search engine.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla prepares marketing and product push in attempt to stop its decline, will release Firefox for iOS; president Li Gong and mobile VP Rick Fant to leave — As Mozilla Prepares Firefox Fightback, President Li Gong And Mobile VP Rick Fant Leave — Mozilla and its Firefox browser …
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Snapchat tries to poach Uber employees using a geolocation filter that appears near Uber's HQ showing an url for its jobs page — Snapchat Sneakily Uses Its Own App To Poach Uber Engineers — Uber Technologies and Snapchat are among the world's most valuable startups and have raised billions of dollars between them.
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Business Insider, PCWorld, Los Angeles Times, Dice News and Fortune
| Kyle Russell / TechCrunch: |
Google launches “Works With Google Cardboard” program to certify VR headsets that are compatible with Cardboard software — Google Announces Certification Program For Cardboard Clones — Google Cardboard has been a surprise hit among early adopters, giving an intentionally cheap … | Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: |
Bing Reaches 20 Percent Search Market Share Milestone In US — Bing has hit 20 percent market share in the US according to new data from comScore. The slow and steady gains resulting in today's milestone have come mostly at the expense of Search Alliance partner Yahoo.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
To-Do App Any.do 3.0 Adds Collaboration, Zoom And List Sorting Among 150 New Features — While the world is getting its first taste of what life will be like when you have a small wearable like a watch to direct you to what you should do next, one of the leaders in personal organization apps for smartphones is releasing a big update.
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The Any.do Blog, Android Police, The Verge, Android Authority, iMore and The Next Web
| Michael Ducker / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter's Fabric adds tools to let developers add Tweet timelines to iOS and Android apps, let apps access content from API without user login — Introducing timelines and guest authentication to Twitter Kit — Today, we're pleased to introduce two new features for Twitter Kit on Fabric …
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SlashGear, The Next Web and VentureBeat
| Cyrus Lee / ZDNet: |
With Android Wear unavailable in China, Baidu previews Android-based DuWear smartwatch OS — Baidu previews Android smartwatch OS — Summary:Chinese search-engine giant Baidu has officially launched the advertising campaign for its Android-based smartwatch OS, which supports various devices including …
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Marbridge Consulting, Tech in Asia and AndroidHeadlines.com
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