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Source: new Apple TV remote to include touch pad for scrolling, two physical buttons, and will be slightly thicker — Apple TV Remote Expected to Add Touch Pad in Redesign — Apple has long ridiculed remote controls for being too complex. Now after eight years of a minimalist design …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple launches official “Made for Apple Watch” program for third-party bands, doesn't allow for use of the hidden diagnostic port or charging — Apple launches official ‘Made for Apple Watch’ third-party bands program — In line with our report from a couple of weeks ago …
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| Clinton Jeff / UnleashThePhones: |
Microsoft is working on 5.2" and 5.7" Lumia phones with QHD displays, 20mpx cameras, 3GB of RAM and other high-end specs, to launch this fall — Exclusive: Microsoft has two high-end Lumias coming this year [Specs] — Good news, Windows Phone fans! Microsoft apparently … | Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
T-Mobile launches Never Settle Trial for Verizon customers, will lend phones for free trials, pay up to $650 in ETF fees if they switch — T-Mobile tempts Verizon customers by lending them phones for free trials — Once again, T-Mobile is mounting direct assaults on its carrier competitors … | Reuters: |
U.S. jury orders Motorola Mobility to pay $10 million in Fujifilm patent suit — (Reuters) - Motorola Mobility said a U.S. jury ordered the company to pay $10.2 million in damages for using Fujifilm Corp's patented technology in its phones without permission.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Millions of Snapcodes, Snapchat's QR codes for users, being scanned each week, can now be downloaded in vector format to share on sites and posters — How Snapchat Made QR Codes Cool Again — QR codes have been a laughing-stock for years now. The gangly square bar codes were slapped … | Emojipedia Blog: |
Microsoft brings the middle finger emoji, unsupported on iOS, OS/X, or Android, to Windows 10 along with skin tone modifiers — Windows 10 Emoji Changelog — Skin tone modifiers, the middle finger, and a sassier information desk person are amongst the emoji updates in Windows 10.
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| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Dropbox for iOS will soon allow users to create and edit Microsoft Office documents directly within the app — Dropbox for iOS will soon let users make Microsoft Office documents directly within the app — A number of the recent improvements made to Dropbox have focused around greater integration with Microsoft Office.
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Twilio raising $100M Series E at a $1B valuation according to April filing — Twilio Has Joined The Unicorn Ranks With Stealthy $100 Million Raise — Twilio is the latest tech startup to join the ranks of private companies worth at least $1 billion after quietly raising a $100 million round of funding, Forbes has learned.| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Sprint's Q4 loss widens to $224M, but adds 1.2M customers, retains 3rd ranking ahead of T-Mobile — Sprint Posts Wider Loss, Cedes Ground in Battle for Smartphone Customers — Sprint continued to lose core postpaid phone customers and money for the first three months of 2015, though it lost fewer such customers than a year ago.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Delivery Hero Eats Up Turkey's Yemeksepeti For A Record $589M — Delivery Hero, the billion-dollar takeout food service based out of Berlin, is making another big acquisition as it continues to scale up its business worldwide. It's buying Turkey's Yemeksepeti for $589 million … | Michael Mimoso / Threatpost: |
New Rombertik spyware self-destructs, wipes hard drive, overwrites master boot record if it detects it's being analyzed or audited — Rombertik Malware Can Overwrite MBR if Audited — A new strain of spyware that logs keystrokes and steals data has a destructive side to it …
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| Elena Yunusov / BetaKit: |
FreshBooks CFO Mark MacLeod steps down, launches SurePath Capital Partners, plans to address two pain points for startups: fundraising and exit — FreshBooks CFO Mark MacLeod steps down to launch SurePath Capital Partners — The Canadian startup ecosystem is about to get a lot more exit … Sponsor Posts
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