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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, which can provide 100% ad revenue and analytics data, add up to a good deal to publishers, 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.| 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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Slashdot, Redmond, Windows Central, Securelist, BetaNews, Pocketnow, WinBeta, Digital Trends, CNET, Mashable, HEXUS.net Latest Content, SecurityWeek, Neowin and Tom's Hardware Guide. Tweets: @artem_i_baranov
| 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.| Alex Kantrowitz / AdAge: |
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See also Mediagazer| 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.| 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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| 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 … | Rachael King / Wall Street Journal: |
Google moves its internal applications to the internet, relies on device-level instead of network-level trust for security — 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.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google debuts its first Apple Watch app with update to Google News & Weather for iOS — Google Debuts Its First Apple Watch App With “Google News & Weather” — The Apple Watch already had a healthy ecosystem of third-party applications when the smartwatch debuted in April … | 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 …
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| Asif S. / SamMobile: |
Samsung's Gear SDK reveals design, UI, and specifications for Gear A, codenamed Orbis, with rotating bezel to help navigate software — Samsung's Gear SDK reveals Orbis design, UI, and specifications — Earlier today, Samsung released next-generation Gear smartwatch SDK to developers.| Wall Street Journal: |
Lee Jae-yong, likely Samsung's next chairman, may shift strategy to reinvigorate the company's weakening smartphone business, focus less on scale, more on M&A — After Galaxy Smartphone Debacle, Samsung Questions Game Plan — Heir apparent is likely to rethink his father's big-scale strategy; the iPhone 6 challenge
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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.| 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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