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Project Lightning demotes the timeline to get to the core of Twitter: curated news and information — Twitter Is Killing Twitter To Save Twitter — Twitter isn't about a 140-character limit. It's not about a timeline. It's not about your joke going viral, or getting Justin Bieber to follow you by any means necessary.
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Nokia to design and license smartphones in 2016 when Microsoft agreement permits it — Nokia CEO says to get back into phones: Manager Magazin — Nokia, once the world's biggest maker of mobile phones, plans to start designing and licensing handsets again once an agreement … | Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
The DxO One is a $599, 20.2MP, 1-inch sensor camera that attaches to your iPhone via lightning port; preorders open now, shipping in September — The DxO One makes your iPhone better than most compact cameras — We all take pictures with our phones but some of us want to grow the experience up a little.
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| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Toshiba's Windows 10 laptops all have a built-in Cortana key — Toshiba just unveiled its back-to-school laptop lineup, and while mainstream notebooks are normally a bit of a snooze, there's at least one detail that makes these worth a second look. Everything in the line …
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Fitbit shares soar in trading debut, close up 48.4% or $9.68, at $29.68 — Fitbit Shares Surge 48 Percent in Market Debut — Shares of Fitbit soared in their trading debut on Thursday, even after the company priced its initial public offering above an already heightened range.
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| Jim Edwards / Business Insider: |
Interview with Nuzzel CEO Jonathan Abrams on news, Twitter, Friendster, founders as CEOs, and the future of Nuzzel — We talked to the CEO who some people think owns the one thing Twitter needs most — A few days ago, the Silicon Valley investor Chris Sacca was talking on Periscope about Nuzzel, the newsgathering app.| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook Moments will not be available in Europe until an opt-in choice is offered due to regulators' concerns about facial recognition — Facial-Recognition Concerns Keep Facebook ‘Moments’ From Europe — Facebook is not offering its new photo-sharing app Moments in Europe …
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| Dean Hudson / SoundCloud Developers: |
SoundCloud introduces rate limits to its API, limiting developers to 15K play requests per day, effective July 1 — Introducing Rate Limits — At SoundCloud, we're building an ecosystem where creativity thrives. Developers are an important part of that ecosystem.
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Music Business Worldwide, The Next Web, The FADER and FACT Magazine
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| Gautham Nagesh / Wall Street Journal: |
FCC votes in favor of giving consumers the right to block robocalls and spam text messages — FCC Moves to Prevent Robocalls and Spam Texts — Under new plan, phone carriers can block robocalls and automated text messages to cellphones and landlines — WASHINGTON—The Federal …
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| Samsung Tomorrow: |
Samsung will roll out security update to fix Galaxy keyboard vulnerability in coming days, says likelihood of successful exploits using vulnerability is low — Information Regarding the Keyboard Security Issue and Our Device Policy Update — Samsung takes all security threats very seriously.
| Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
Ellen Pao Officially Found Liable For Roughly $276,000 In Court Fees From Kleiner Perkins — Ellen Pao not only lost on all counts of a high-profile sexual discrimination case earlier this year, but Judge Harold Kahn has officially ordered the interim Reddit CEO to pay more than a quarter …
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| Barb Darrow / Fortune: |
Former EMC, HP exec Dave Donatelli to lead Oracle's converged hardware group, report once again to Mark Hurd — Dave Donatelli, ex of EMC, ex of HP, to lead Oracle hardware — That thing F. Scott Fitzgerald said about there being no second acts in American lives? It clearly does not hold for Dave Donatelli.
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