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Apple hasn't fixed or even acknowledged widely-reported networking issues on OS X Yosemite and iOS 8 related to discoveryd — discoveryd Clusterf**k — I usually keep things fairly clean on this site. I have a simple metric: would I be embarrassed if my Mom read this post?
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| Nathan Donato-Weinstein / bizjournals: |
Mountain View city council allocates LinkedIn 1.4M of 2.2M square feet in North Bayshore, threatening Google's campus expansion plans — In stinging defeat for Google, LinkedIn scores lion's share of real estate capacity in Mountain View's North Bayshore — LinkedIn Corp. came away …
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| Carolina Milanesi / Kantar Worldpanel: |
Kantar: phablets made up 21% of US smartphone sales in Q1, up from 6% a year ago, driven by iPhone 6 Plus sales — US phablet market soars — Phablets claimed 21% of all US smartphone sales in Q1 2015 - nearly quadrupling their 6% share from the first quarter of 2014 …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google to shut down its website optimization service PageSpeed on Aug. 3 — Google Shuts Down PageSpeed Service For Accelerating Websites — Google is shutting down PageSpeed Service, its hosted solution for optimizing websites for faster delivery, on August 3.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Cody Wilson, inventor of the 3D printable gun, files countersuit against US State Department claiming the blueprints are protected free speech — 3-D Printed Gun Lawsuit Starts the War Between Arms Control and Free Speech — This week marks the two-year anniversary since Cody Wilson …
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| Eric Johnson / Re/code: |
Zynga to lay off 364 people, or 18% of its staff, within the next three quarters as part of the company's $100M cost reduction program — Zynga Narrows Focus, Will Cut 18 Percent of Staff — With Don Mattrick out and founder Mark Pincus reinstalled as CEO, what will Zynga's future look like?| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google posts I/O 2015 schedule: Android M, voice access, ATAP wearables, multi-screen Chromecast games, more — Digging into the Google I/O 2015 schedule: Android M, voice access, and more — Google just released the I/O 2015 schedule, and there is a lot of info inside.| Paul Thurrott / Thurrott.com: |
Sources: Microsoft to add TV recording functionality to Xbox One, probably this year — Confirmed: Media Center is Dead — You may have seen recent rumors that Microsoft has killed off Windows Media Center, the ten-foot digital media interface that it first developed for a special version of Windows over 10 years.| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Banjo raises $100M from SoftBank to build out software that detects world events in real time, using photos and videos uploaded to social media sites — Banjo Raises $100 Million to Detect World Events in Real Time — Banjo started four years ago as a simple app for viewing social media posts tagged …
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Work Management Platform Wrike Raises $15M Series B Round — Work management and collaboration platform Wrike today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series B round led by Scale Venture Partners with participation from DCM Ventures and previous investor Bain Capital Ventures.
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VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, Business Wire, PE Hub Blog, Forbes and silicontap.com. Tweets: @scalevp
| Asif Shaik / SamMobile: |
Some Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge units have Sony IMX240 camera sensors, others have Samsung's own ISOCELL sensors — Here's the difference between Samsung and Sony camera sensors on the Galaxy S6 and S6 edge — Yesterday, there was a report stating that Samsung is shipping some units … | Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
PayIvy is an open web marketplace for stolen account credentials and license keys using PayPal to carry out transactions — PayIvy Sells Your Online Accounts Via PayPal — Normally, if one wishes to buy stolen account credentials for paid online services like Netflix, Hulu, XBox Live or Spotify …
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Sources: BMW, Audi, Mercedes-Benz, and Baidu preparing formal bid for HERE mapping service at “considerably more than €2B” — German Car Makers Preparing Formal Bid for Nokia's Here Map Service With China's Baidu — BMW, Audi, and Mercedes-Benz eager to acquire technology needed to run self-driving cars
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