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Microsoft evaluates possible bid for Salesforce though companies are not in talks — 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 was approached by another would-be buyer, people with knowledge of the matter said.
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| 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 …
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| 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 … | New York Times: |
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 …
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| 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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| Nitasha Tiku / The Verge: |
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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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft's Outlook.com will be powered by Office 365, but the name will remain the same — Microsoft's Outlook.com will be powered by Office 365 — Microsoft is planning to replace the technology and interface of Outlook.com with Office 365. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans tell …
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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 … | Madeline McMahon / Bloomberg Business: |
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 … | 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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| Antonio Regalado / MIT Technology Review: |
Sources: Apple working with US researchers to offer DNA testing via ResearchKit — Apple Has Plans for Your DNA — The iPhone could become a new tool in genetic studies. — Of all the rumors ever to swirl around the world's most valuable company, this may be the first that could involve spitting in a plastic cup.
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EU court rules Skype's name is too similar to Britain's Sky broadcasting, preventing Microsoft from registering trademark — Court says Skype's name is too similar to Sky's — The court said Skype's logo resembled a cloud — Video chat software Skype's name is so similar …
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| 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 … | 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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| Klint Finley / Wired: |
Facebook and IBM partner to combine retail data and Facebook user data to improve ad targeting — Facebook and IBM Team Up To Supercharge Personalized Ads — Facebook and IBM are teaming up to help retailers better target advertising on the world's largest social network.
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| 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 … | Stacey Higginbotham / Fortune: |
Comcast expands home automation platform with nine new partners including Nest, August, and Automatic, plans SDK later this year — Comcast's Xfinity home platform adds Nest, August, and more — Comcast has expanded its home automation lineup by adding support for devices … | Michael McWhertor / Polygon: |
PlayStation Now, Sony's cloud gaming subscription service, will be available for PS3 on May 12 — PlayStation Now subscriptions coming to PS3 on May 12 — Subscriptions for Sony's game streaming service, PlayStation Now, are coming to PlayStation 3 on May 12, PlayStation … | 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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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 … Sponsor Posts
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