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The 9 best apps for Apple Watch you can get right now — Apple has the best smartphone ecosystem, the best tablet ecosystem, and as of today, the best smartwatch ecosystem when it comes to apps. But the app story is dramatically different on the Watch in a way that you won't quite understand until you start to use one.
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Apple Begins Offering Virtual “Personal Setup” Appointments To New Watch Owners — As a number of early customers will receive their Apple Watch smartwatches today, Apple has also begun to send out email invitations offering “personal setup” appointments that take place via video sessions with an Apple Specialist.| Comcast Corporation: |
Comcast terminates $45B Time Warner Cable merger agreement — Comcast / Time Warner Cable / Charter Transactions Terminated — Comcast Corporation announced this morning that its merger agreement with Time Warner Cable and its transactions agreement with Charter Communications, Inc. have been terminated.
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Charter's Advisers Said to Contact Time Warner Cable for Talks — Advisers for Charter Communications Inc. have already reached out to Time Warner Cable Inc. to begin friendly talks on an acquisition after Comcast Corp. withdrew its bid for the company, people with knowledge of the matter said.| Manuela Mesco / Wall Street Journal: |
Italian eyewear maker Luxottica working with Google on cheaper version of Glass coming soon — Italian Eyewear Maker Luxottica Working on New Version of Google Glass, CEO Says — A new version of Google Glass is in the works and will be out soon, the Chief Executive Officer of Italian eyewear maker Luxottica said Friday.
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| John Biggs / TechCrunch: |
Swiss postal service to test drone delivery for the first time using drones made by Matternet — Matternet To Test The First Real Drone Delivery System In Switzerland — The Swiss postal service, Swiss Post, is going to attempt drone deliveries for the first time ever using Matternet …
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Google lets you send notes and directions to your Android phone from search on desktop — Android Action Cards in Google Search — Google has a few search cards that let you send some information to an Android phone from your desktop computer. In addition to finding your device …
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| Liam Spradlin / Android Police: |
Google Apparently Testing ‘Collections’ For Followable, Curated Content Sets On Google+ — According to a tipster (and a report over at DroidLife), Google is testing a new feature for Google+ that could be big news for the platform. For now, it's called “Collections,” and it's being tested for an unspecified release target.
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Software maker Apigee raises $87M in IPO, shares close down 1.88% from $17 IPO price — Apigee makes Wall Street debut with $87 million IPO — SAN JOSE — Shares of software maker Apigee popped 17 percent when the firm joined Wall Street Friday, becoming the second public offering … | Jack Clark / Bloomberg Business: |
Oracle CEO says 95% of its products will be available in the cloud by October, up from 65% — Oracle CEO Hurd Plans to Lift Almost All Products Into Cloud — Oracle Corp. plans to make almost all of its services available via the Internet by mid-October, Co-Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd said … | Yahoo! Finance: |
Apple wins appeal in China over patent rights to Siri voice recognition software — Apple wins patent appeal in China — Apple (NasdaqGS: AAPL - news) has won an appeal in China over patent rights to voice recognition software such as the iPhone's “Siri”, with a court overruling …
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How crowdsourced hardware maker Quirky brought money-losing inventions to market and ultimately cut a third of its staff — How the invention factory at Quirky almost imagined its way out of business — In February of this year, the staff of the New York startup Quirky gathered …
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