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| Joe Belfiore / Blogging Windows: |
Microsoft's bringing Cortana to iPhone and Android, announces Phone Companion app for Windows 10, which helps automatically sync your smartphone with your PC — Your Windows 10 PC will love all the devices you own — Whether it's a 3-year-old printer or projecting to your brand new TV with Miracast …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 9 to support Force Touch with haptic feedback for iPhone 6S, feature new keyboard, Apple Pay for Canada, iMessage read receipts on contact-by-contact basis — iOS 9 supports ‘iPhone 6S’ Force Touch, may enhance iMessage, Keyboard & Apple Pay — Some of iOS 9's more important planned …
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| Stephen Fry / Telegraph: |
Jony Ive talks about his new role as Apple's chief design officer as he relinquishes day-to-day management duties to Richard Howarth and Alan Dye — When Stephen Fry met Jony Ive: the self-confessed tech geek talks to Apple's newly promoted chief design officer
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Thanks:@pavanrajam| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
Tim Cook memo: Jony Ive to remain responsible for overall design, Alan Dye moves to VP of UI design, Richard Howarth to VP of industrial design, starting July 1 — Jony Ive promoted to ‘Chief Design Officer,’ handing off managerial duties July 1st [Tim Cook Memo] — Alan Dye, Jony Ive, and Richard Howarth
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Twitter brings live-streaming app Periscope to Android — Periscope, the promising live-streaming app owned by Twitter, arrives on Android today. Like its cousin on iOS, which debuted two months ago to the day, Periscope for Android lets you watch and record broadcasts from your mobile device.
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| Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter: |
Charter to acquire Time Warner Cable for $55B in cash and stock, including debt, valuing TWC at $78.7B, also buys Bright House for $10.4B — It's Official: Charter to Acquire Time Warner Cable in Deal Valued at $78.7 Billion — Charter Communications, in which John Malone's Liberty Media owns … | Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Source: two new Nexus phones coming this year - 5.2" LG Angler and 5.7" Huawei Bullhead, no new Nexus tablet — [Rumor] No Nexus Tablet In 2015, But Two Phones—A 5.2-Inch LG (Code Name Angler) And A 5.7-Inch Huawei (Code Name Bullhead) — The Nexus 6 was a break from the past … | Barb Darrow / Fortune: |
EMC expands cloud push with $1.2 billion buy of Virtustream — Joe Tucci is at it again. The longtime EMC chief executive and chairman has made another purchase, buying Virtustream, an enterprise-oriented cloud computing company, for $1.2 billion in cash.| Bloomberg Business: |
Snapchat claims 60% of smartphone owners age 13-34 in the US are active users, says they watch 2B videos a day on the service — Evan Spiegel Reveals Plan to Turn Snapchat Into a Real Business … Evan Spiegel begins a conversation in the offices of his startup, Snapchat …
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Security researchers say mobile and wearable devices can be tracked by monitoring Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) signal transmissions — Sniffing and tracking wearable tech and smartphones — Researchers at Context Information Security have demonstrated how easy it is to monitor … | Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook adds critics' reviews to select restaurant pages in a pilot with seven publications including Bon Appetit, Conde Nast Traveler, and Eater — Facebook begins adding critics' reviews to restaurant pages — Two weeks after starting to host news articles on its servers … | Stephanie Kirchgaessner / Guardian: |
Court orders Uber to end UberPop service in Italy, says it creates “unfair competition” — Uber ordered to discontinue Pop service in Italy — Milan court rules that allowing users of company's smartphone app to order a ride from an Uber driver creates ‘unfair competition’
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| Edmund Lee / Re/code: |
AOL was approached by three bidders other than Verizon, considered selling Huffington Post, TechCrunch; CEO Armstrong gets bonus of about $59M for making deal — AOL Was Approached by Three Other Bidders After Verizon — AOL was approached by three other companies for a possible acquisition … Sponsor Posts
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