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Only 376K or 22% of 1.7M ordered Apple Watches shipped on the first weekend — Watching and Waiting: Only 22 Percent Apple Watches Shipped First Weekend — Most people who pre-ordered an Apple Watch did not receive one in the first wave of shipments, with Slice Intelligence reporting …
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In e-commerce push, Google releases first fashion trends report and plans to share search data to help major retailers with fashion planning and forecasting — The Latest Fashion, Trending on Google — Normcore? So last year. String bikinis? Most definitely over.
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Engineering Director Lars Rasmussen Leaving Facebook To Co-Found A Music Startup — Facebook at Work, Facebook's first move to turn its social network into an enterprise tool, has remained in closed beta since its launch in January this year. But as the product continues to inch …
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The promise—and massive challenge—of making games for the Apple Watch — How to make 15-second microgames with targets “the size of salad bar ham cubes” — When the iPhone was first announced in 2007, Apple didn't sell the pocket computer as a gaming device.
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Google announces Patent Purchase Promotion, experimental marketplace to sell patents to the company, open from May 8 to 22 — Announcing the Patent Purchase Promotion — We invite you to sell us your patents. The Patent Purchase Promotion is an experimental marketplace for patents that's simple, easy to use, and fast.
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Qualcomm Launches Unit to Help Chinese Smartphone Makers Sell Overseas — Chip maker aims to prove itself a valuable partner as Beijing looks to reduce its reliance on foreign technology — Qualcomm Inc. has launched a unit to help Chinese smartphone makers sell overseas …
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Pinterest opens a content publishing API for 10 partners, announces Ads API beta — Pinterest Intros Marketing Development Program, Betas Ads API — Pinterest on Monday announced a Marketing Developer Partners program for its content publishing API, following the lead of Facebook and Twitter.
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Ancestry.com's data export tool for shuttered social networking site MyFamily didn't save the discussions of former users, erasing family memories of avid users — Deleting the Family Tree — When Ancestry.com shuttered its social network for relatives, it erased 10 years' worth of my family's correspondence and memories.| Lizzie Plaugic / The Verge: |
Jay Z takes to Twitter to defend Tidal, says it's “doing just fine”, declares “we are here for the long haul”, notes competitors are even richer — Jay Z defends Tidal in a Sunday afternoon tweetstorm — Jay Z officially relaunched his streaming service Tidal …
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Analysts expect record Apple Q2 results, estimate revenues up 23% YoY to $55.96B, iPhone sales up 33% to 58.1M units, and iPad down 17% to 13.6M units — All signs point to Apple announcing a monster earnings report — Apple reports earnings for the quarter that ended in March after the market closes on Monday, April 27.| Benjamin Brake / Foreign Affairs: |
Governments can better mitigate risk from the burgeoning surveillance software industry with bug bounties, not export controls — The Bug Trade … Since Apple and Google announced last year that they would encrypt mobile user data by default, senior Western officials have denounced … | Jake Halpern / The Atlantic: |
Behind Liberty Reserve, the digital currency shut down by US authorities for money laundering — Bank of the Underworld … In the fall of 2011, the U.S. Secret Service orchestrated a sting operation. The target was a Vietnamese man named Hieu Minh Ngo.
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The dearth of women in Bitcoin mirrors tech as a whole, with some women actively involved, influential, and welcomed in the community — Think there aren't women in bitcoin? Think again. — The bitcoin community—the developers, executives, venture capitalists, policy wonks, academics …
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