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Facebook launches Instant Articles on iPhone, with interactive features like videos and maps, names NYT, BuzzFeed, Guardian, and six other partners — Introducing Instant Articles — As more people get their news on mobile devices, we want to make the experience faster and richer on Facebook.
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See also Mediagazer| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Facebook's Instant Articles can provide 100% of the ad revenue and analytics data to publishers, add up to a good deal, at least for now — Facebook Starts Publishing the New York Times, BuzzFeed and More With Its ‘Instant Articles’ Program — Hey Web publishers! Facebook is coming in peace.
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See also Mediagazer| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's Instant Articles build on insights from its Paper app, load 10x faster than mobile web articles — Facebook Starts Hosting Publishers' “Instant Articles” — After months of rumors, Facebook today unveiled “Instant Articles”, a program that natively hosts publishers' content … | Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Facebook Instant Articles: A Slippery Slope For Google To Do The Same, Hurting The Web? — Today, Facebook announced Instant Articles, a way for publishers to post stories directly on Facebook. We've known this would be coming, and there's been some debate over whether it's good or bad.| Rachael King / Wall Street Journal: |
Google's BeyondCorp initiative moves from trusting the corporate network to device-level security for its own internal corporate apps — Google Moves Its Corporate Applications to the Internet — Google Inc., taking a new approach to enterprise security, is moving its corporate applications to the Internet.
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| Curt Woodward / BetaBoston: |
Apple, A123 settling their lawsuit over poached battery engineers — Apple and advanced battery maker A123 Systems say they have nearly settled a federal lawsuit accusing Apple of poaching A123's scientists and engineers to build a competing battery business.
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| Crispin Cowan / Microsoft Edge Dev Blog: |
Microsoft Edge will not support VML, VB Script, Toolbars, BHOs, or ActiveX to improve security — Microsoft Edge: Building a safer browser — With Microsoft Edge, we want to fundamentally improve security over existing browsers and enable users to confidently experience the web from Windows.
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Bigger than Heartbleed, ‘Venom’ security vulnerability threatens most datacenters — Summary:Security researchers say the vulnerability affects “millions” of machines in datacenters around the world. — Move over, Heartbleed. There's a new catastrophic vulnerability in town.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Tim Armstrong says AOL to remain in content business, denies spin-off of Huffington Post, says TechCrunch won't be sold and will retain editorial independence — CEO Tim Armstrong Says AOL Is Staying In The Content Business (And He's Not Selling TechCrunch) — It was an interesting day at AOL.| David Kravets / Ars Technica: |
Warrantless airport seizure of laptop “cannot be justified,” judge rules — Feds said a laptop is simply a “container” that can be searched without warrant. — The US government's prosecution of a South Korean businessman accused of illegally selling technology used in aircraft and missiles … | Walt Mossberg / Re/code: |
Apple Watch review: best functions are fitness, texting, paying, and airport check-ins, a good product with a chance to be great — A Month With the Apple Watch: Does It Pass the Test of Time? — While there have been many reviews of the Apple Watch since it officially emerged in April …
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| Bruce Horovitz / USA Today: |
Domino's to begin taking pizza orders via Twitter beginning May 20 in the US; frequent customers can order using only the pizza emoji — Domino's to roll out tweet-a-pizza — Ordering a pizza is about to get as simple as a tweet. — Beginning May 20, Domino's, the pizza delivery behemoth …
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| Ty Pendlebury / CNET: |
Ultra HD Blu-ray spec finalized, will support HDR, improved color range, 60fps content, and next-gen audio formats — Ultra HD Blu-ray specification now complete, logo unveiled — The Blu-ray Disc Association today announced it has finalized what could be the last major disc-based movie format: Ultra HD Blu-ray.
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Business Wire, HEXUS.net Latest Content, The Verge, TechSpot, Engadget, Hollywood Reporter, USA Today, Forbes and TWICE. Tweets: @ultrahdbluray
| Tony Prophet / Blogging Windows: |
Microsoft introduces Windows 10 Editions: Home, Mobile, Pro, Enterprise, Education, Mobile Enterprise, and IoT Core — Introducing Windows 10 Editions — Windows 10 is coming this summer in 190 countries and 111 languages. Today, we are excited to share more details on the Windows 10 Editions.
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Re/code, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Network World, TechNet Blogs and TechSpot. Thanks:@brandonleblanc
| Peg Brickley / Wall Street Journal: |
Hedge fund Standard General wins auction of RadioShack brand and customer data with $26.2M bid — Standard General Wins Auction of RadioShack Brand — In addition to the trademark, the hedge fund picked up rights to RadioShack's customer data — Standard General LP … | Zach Miners / PCWorld: |
Greenpeace report highlights Apple's investment in renewables, finds streaming video from Netflix, YouTube, and Hulu is driving energy usage higher — Greenpeace fingers YouTube, Netflix as threat to greener Internet — The next time you watch “House of Cards” on Netflix …
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MacRumors, TechCrunch, GeekWire, CloudWedge, Business Insider, iMore, SiliconBeat, The Register, Click Green, bizjournals, Cult of Mac, 9to5Google, USA Today, AppleInsider and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @applespotlight
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Instart Logic Raises A $43M Expansion Round For Its Cloud Application Delivery Platform — Instart Logic, a service that helps businesses speed up the delivery of their cloud applications, today announced that it has raised a $43 million funding round led by new investors Four Rivers Group and Hermes Growth Partners.
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| David Gilbert / International Business Times: |
Right to be Forgotten - Google rejects 70% of 250,000 removal requests — On 13 May 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union made a historic judgement in favour of Spanish man Mario Costeja González who had claimed that an auction notice about his repossessed house in Catalonia dating … Sponsor Posts
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