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Google will take on Amazon's Twitch by launching YouTube Gaming, an app and website for live-streamed and on-demand gaming video, this summer in US and UK — Google is launching a ‘YouTube built for gamers’ to take on Twitch — Google is now officially taking on Twitch.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Here are marketing images for Nokia's Moonraker smartwatch project, which was later canceled by Microsoft — Microsoft Moonraker was Nokia's smartwatch before it was killed — While Apple was working on its Watch, Nokia had its own ideas about smartwatches.| Euan Rocha / Reuters: |
Sources: BlackBerry considering Android for upcoming smartphone as it moves focus to software and device management — Exclusive: BlackBerry may put Android system on new device: sources — BlackBerry (BB.TO) is considering equipping an upcoming smartphone with Google Inc.'s (GOOGL.O) …
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| Wired: |
Office of Personnel Management hacker breach is far worse than first believed, was exposed during sales demo by security company — Why The OPM Breach Is Such a Security and Privacy Debacle — If it's not already a maxim, it should be: Every big hack discovered will eventually prove to be more serious than first believed.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Expands Its “Experiments” Beta Testing Program To iOS — In 2013, Twitter launched a beta testing program for Android that allows users to try out new builds of the Twitter application as well as test experimental features ahead of a public release.
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French privacy watchdog demands Google make right to be forgotten delistings global, gives 15 days to comply — Google Must Expand Privacy Delistings, Says French Watchdog — The French data protection watchdog has ordered Google to widen its implementation of the so-called European 'right … | Fortune: |
Crowdsourced hardware maker Quirky ditches device manufacturing, is close to raising a new round of funding — Exclusive: Quirky ditches device manufacturing, preps for new investment — Quirky is just days away from raising a new round of venture capital funding, Fortune has learned … | Carmel DeAmicis / Re/code: |
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
New iOS 9 ReplayKit will screen record gameplay & app videos without need for Mac or third-party SDK — You're about to hear a lot more about gameplay and in-app screen recording as Apple implements an API for the first time in iOS 9. ReplayKit, a new framework that arrived for developers … | Ryan Mac / Forbes: |
Sources: Square plans IPO for this year — Square Expected To Go Public This Year — Square, a San Francisco-based payments company, is expected to go public this year, sources familiar with the company told FORBES. It's unclear whether the company has already filed …
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| Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
Sources: Google's Android One program has failed to gain wide traction, program further stymied by underwhelming support from OEM partners — Beset With Failures, Google Tries to Breathe New Life Into Android One — Last September, Google inaugurated Android One, a cheap smartphone line … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Medium Launches An Android App, Initially In Closed Beta — Medium has brought its publishing* platform to Android, after the company announced the launch of a beta version for Android. — This is very much a work-in-progress and only available to the first wave who download it.
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| Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal: |
Ad Tech Firms Find Venture Capital Funding Is Running Dry — It's a tough time to be raising money if you have the words “ad” and “tech” close together in your business plan. — Executives in the advertising technology sector and venture capitalists who are versed in the space say the climate …
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AdExchanger and socalTECH.com. Tweets: @counternotions, @charliewwells, @ganeumann and @eringriffith
| Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal: |
Read the emails that Dick Costolo and Jack Dorsey sent to Twitter staff announcing CEO change — Read Dick Costolo's Goodbye to Twitter and Jack Dorsey's Hello — Shortly after 1 p.m. in San Francisco on Thursday, Dick Costolo told his staff, and the world, that he would be stepping down at Twitter in a surprise announcement.
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