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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 … | 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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| 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 …
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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.
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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 … | 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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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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| Saritha Rai / New York Times: |
With Big Names and Money Flowing In, Tech Start-Ups in India Heat Up — BANGALORE, India — Intense interest from prominent investors is helping to drive eye-popping valuations among Indian tech start-ups. — Venture capital firms, hedge funds and the likes of business executives … | Steven Sinofsky / Re/code: |
Mobile phones and low cost solar panels revolutionizing Africa — Africa's Mobile-Sun Revolution — The transformative potential for mobile communications is upon us in every aspect of life. In the developing world where infrastructure of all types is at a premium …
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Google acquires startup behind Timeful, a popular iOS time-management app — With Timeful Acquisition, Google Aims To Supercharge Its Apps' Time-Management Smarts — When time-management startup Timeful launched its iOS app last July, it faced a basic challenge.
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