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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
IHS: 38mm Apple Watch Sport component and manufacturing costs are $83.70, about 24% of retail price — Apple Watch Sport Component Costs Estimated at $83.70, Which Won't Sit Well With Tim Cook — IHS iSuppli often tears down devices to estimate component costs, and today … | Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Teardown of Apple's S1 Watch chip reveals custom CPU, 512MB RAM, 8GB flash storage, components from ADI and IDT — Early Looks Inside Apple Watch's S1 Chip Confirm 512 MB RAM, Unexpected Suppliers — Since the Apple Watch's initial unveiling last September, Apple has touted the S1 chip …
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| Scott Flynn / Unity Technologies Blog: |
Unity announces full support for Microsoft HoloLens — Announcing Support for Microsoft HoloLens — Holograms for all! We've expanded our strategic collaboration with Microsoft to include full support for Microsoft HoloLens holographic computer. Microsoft made the announcement today during …
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows 10 won't launch on phones this summer — While Microsoft is planning to launch Windows 10 on PCs this summer, the phone part of the operating system will debut at a later date. Speaking at a media event at Build in San Francisco today, Microsoft's Joe Belfiore explained the company's plans for the launch of Windows 10.
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| Bloomberg Business: |
Leaked Lyft presentation to investors reveals estimated $130M revenue in 2014; company spends $530 marketing per driver and 22 passengers in SF — Leaked Lyft Document Reveals a Costly Battle With Uber — The startup also describes its rival as having an “anti-social culture”
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| Ben Thompson / stratechery: |
A long-winded case for replacing Dick Costolo — Twitter Needs New Leadership — Yesterday Twitter released very disappointing quarterly results, with misses on both user and revenue growth. From the Wall Street Journal: … The symbolism of the leak was appropriate …
| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Mobile news app Circa seeking a buyer after failing to secure a new round of venture funding — Exclusive: News app Circa is seeking a buyer — Mobile news app Circa is seeking a buyer after failing to secure a new round of venture capital funding, Fortune has learned.| Reem Nasr / CNBC: |
LinkedIn plunges 27% after hours on lower outlook after reporting Q1 revenue of $638M — LinkedIn shares down 17 percent after weak outlook — Shares of LinkedIn plunged after the company released lowered guidance for the year. The company reported earnings per share of 57 cents …
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft showcases face detection API with a web site that guesses your age based on a photo, which quickly goes viral — Microsoft's face-recognition app How Old gets everyone's age wrong, turns into a meme — My Twitter timeline just blew up with selfies with boxes hovering above faces guessing …
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| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Warby Parker raises $100M round led by T. Rowe Price, sources say at a valuation of $1.2B — Eyeglass Retailer Warby Parker Valued at $1.2 Billion — Online eyeglass retailer Warby Parker has raised a fresh round of capital that values it over $1 billion and bolsters its expansion of brick-and-mortar stores.
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| Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide: |
Apple poaches top producers from BBC Radio 1 for new Spotify rival — Whatever Apple is creating to rival Spotify just got a lot more intriguing. — Little more than two months after poaching Zane Lowe from BBC Radio 1, MBW understands that Apple has pinched four producers from the station …
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Fortune, Mashable, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechnoBuffalo, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, iLounge, AppleInsider, FACT Magazine, MacRumors and Cult of Mac
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Image sensors in iPhone 6 and Galaxy S6 generate as much as $20 per unit for Sony — How Sony Makes Money Off Apple's iPhone — Image sensors for Apple, Samsung fuel Japanese consumer-electronics giant's turnaround strategy — TOKYO—Sony Corp. lost the smartphone war but rings up a sale … | Orr Hirschauge / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Microsoft to pay about $30M for assets of touch screen technology company N-trig — Microsoft to Pay Around $30 Million for N-trig — Company's components used in Microsoft's Surface Pro 3 tablet — Microsoft Corp. has signed an agreement to buy the assets …
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| Jeff Beck / Android Police: |
Custom Voice Actions Launch On Android, Allow You To Control Selected 3rd Party Apps — Over on the Android Developer's Google+ page an awesome new feature for Google's voice search was just announced. A small selection of applications will now open directly when using certain voice commands.Sponsor Posts
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