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Microsoft evaluates possible bid for Salesforce though companies are not in talks; trading of Salesforce briefly halted — Microsoft Is Said to Evaluate Possible Bid for Salesforce.com — Microsoft Corp. is evaluating a bid for Salesforce.com Inc., after the cloud software provider …
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Apple's Ahrendts was the top-paid woman in the US last year with $83M, Marissa Mayer was the country's highest-paid female CEO making $59.1M — Apple's Ahrendts Emerges as Top-Paid U.S. Woman With $83 Million — Angela Ahrendts, Apple Inc.'s senior vice president of retail and online stores … | Matt Townsend / Bloomberg Business: |
Home Depot announces it will accept Apple Pay after equipment upgrade, making it the biggest retailer to do so with more than 2K stores — Home Depot to Become Largest Retailer to Accept Apple Pay — Home Depot Inc. plans to enable Apple Inc.'s mobile-payment platform at its more than 2,000 stores … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: Apple to announce new Beats at WWDC on June 8 with consumer non-beta launch late June — Beats revamp still debuting at WWDC, global release late-June, iOS 9 details revealed — According to a report today from Billboard, Apple does not have the deals in place to launch … | Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal: |
Google rolls out new ad formats for small screens as mobile searches overtake desktop in US, Japan, and eight other countries — Google Rolls Out New Ads as Mobile Searches Top PCs in 10 Countries — Google Tuesday expanded its suite of ads for mobile devices that offer users information …
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Source: Twitter CFO Anthony Noto to head marketing department as search for CMO continues — Twitter gives control of its hapless marketing department to its chief financial officer — As an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, Anthony Noto orchestrated Twitter's initial public offering.
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Google to let developers A/B test app profile pages on Play Store, try different price points, will likely announce at Google I/O 2015 — Google Sweetens Android for App Developers — App stores have hardly been hotbeds of innovation in recent years. But Google is taking some new steps … | Sharon Begley / Reuters: |
IBM's Watson to guide cancer therapies at 14 centers, analyzing tumors' genetic make-up with the findings of scientific papers and clinical trials — IBM's Watson to guide cancer therapies at 14 centers — (Reuters) - Fourteen U.S. and Canadian cancer institutes will use International … | Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
GOG's DRM-free Steam competitor is finally open to everyone — GOG is best known for its library of classic games — it was originally called Good Old Games — but last year the company announced a new venture that would put it in direct competition with PC gaming behemoth Steam.
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Google Ventures' Bill Maris likens the $6M cash-out by founders of portfolio company Secret to a “bank heist” in interview — The Lessons Google Ventures Learned From Secret — For many in Silicon Valley, the rapid rise and precipitous fall of Secret, the prominent start … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Netflix urges FCC to reject AT&T/DirecTV merger “as currently proposed” — AT&T/DirecTV will have incentive to harm online video providers, Netflix says. — Netflix wants the Federal Communications Commission to reject AT&T's proposed acquisition of DirecTV, or at least impose conditions … | Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code: |
OpenTV files lawsuit against Apple alleging iTunes software violates five streaming patents — Interactive TV Pioneer OpenTV Sues Apple, Alleging Patent Infringement — Interactive television pioneer OpenTV has sued Apple, alleging that the Cupertino technology giant infringed on its patents.
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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 … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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| Jacob Gershman / Wall Street Journal: |
US 11th Circuit Court of Appeals reverses decision, rules citizens have no expectation of privacy when third party company holds data such as cell phone records — Appeals Court Overturns Privacy Win in Phone-Tracking Case — Police don't need a warrant to track the cellphones of criminal suspects …
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Elance-oDesk Rebrands As Upwork, Debuts Slack-Like Chat Platform — A new chapter starts today for Elance-oDesk, a platform where 4 million businesses connect with 10 million knowledge worker freelancers to fill contract jobs. More than a year after the two competitors merged to form …
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| Rachel King / ZDNet: |
Intel announces new Xeon chips with up to 18 cores designed for real-time business analytics, continues with Cloudera deal — Intel adds more Xeon chips for business analytics, continues with Cloudera deal — Summary:Suffice to say, these chips are meant for massive big data sets run … | Paul Thurrott / Thurrott.com: |
Microsoft launches Surface 3, lets you trade in Surface RT or Surface 2 for up to $150 toward Surface 3 — Surface 3 Debuts with a Surface RT/2 Trade-In Program — Microsoft's new Surface 3 tablet is available for purchase starting today in the United States and nine other markets.| Edward C. Baig / USA Today: |
Amazon, JetBlue partner to let Prime subscribers stream Instant Video with no inflight WiFi charges — Amazon Prime Video takes to the skies via JetBlue — NEW YORK—Amazon is teaming up with JetBlue to stream its Prime Video service in the air. — For passengers on most JetBlue flights … | Ian King / Bloomberg Business: |
Nvidia Gives Up on Modem Effort, Offers Icera for Sale — Nvidia Corp., the biggest maker of chips for computer graphics cards, said it will give up trying to make modem chips for mobile devices, abandoning a key element of its attempt to break into the smartphone market.
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