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Google to announce relaunch of its Android One project in India in coming weeks with a goal of specifying phones that will cost less than $50 — Google set to reboot Android One smartphone project in India — Google is to relaunch its Android One cut-price smartphone project …
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PCMag Asia Feed, Android Police, The Verge, Liliputing, The Next Web and Ubergizmo
| Terje Solsvik / Reuters: |
Opera Sofware considers sale after lowering growth estimates for the second time in six months, hires investment bankers — Norway's Opera warns on growth, says firm may be sold — * Says has interest from a number of parties — * 2015 revenue now forecast lower at $600 mln to $618 mln
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The Digital Reader and TechCrunch
| Dino Grandoni / New York Times: |
States compete for burgeoning self-driving car business by loosening regulations, building research centers and testing facilities — Among the States, Self-Driving Cars Have Ignited a Gold Rush — Whether it is fuel savings, safer commutes or freed-up time behind the wheel, drivers have many reasons to embrace self-driving cars.
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Webvan founder Louis Borders working on $99/year shopping club offering same day delivery that will rely on heavily-automated warehouses — Webvan Founder Plots an Amazon Prime Competitor Powered by Robots — Fourteen years after his first same-day delivery service went belly up, Webvan founder Louis Borders is working on a redo.| Mark Sullivan / VentureBeat: |
Atlanta, Chicago top RootMetrics' list of cities with best mobile network performance in US — Atlanta has the best wireless service in the land, Denver and L.A. among the worst — Atlanta and Chicago have the best wireless service performance in the United States, says a new report from RootMetrics … | Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Researchers gain complete control of electric skateboards by hijacking unencrypted Bluetooth communications between the board and the remote — Hackers Can Seize Control of Electric Skateboards and Toss Riders — Richard “Richo” Healey was riding his electric skateboard toward an intersection …
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PCWorld, Tech Times, SlashGear and Gizmodo
| Connie Chan / Andreessen Horowitz: |
How WeChat works, and how it became so popular in China: millions of apps within the WeChat app, built-in payments, and more — When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China — This post is all about WeChat, but it's also about more than just WeChat.Thanks:@larrychiang
| Alice Truong / Quartz: |
Linden Lab working on an Oculus game similar to its Second Life offering codenamed Project Sansar, plans to release it before end of 2016 — Could the Oculus Rift help give Second Life a second life? — Second Life—the online world once considered the hottest destination on the internet—never got much past a million users.| Paul Hill / Linux Veda: |
Ubuntu powered BQ Aquarius phones now available for order globally, do not support 4G in US — Ubuntu powered BQ Aquaris available in US — BQ just announced on their Google Plus page that their Aquaris Ubuntu Edition phones will be available ‘wherever you live’, this makes …
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Michael Hall, The Verge and Liliputing
| Erica E. Phillips / Wall Street Journal: |
Silicon Valley investors have poured over $1B into freight-forwarding startups since 2014 in hopes of bringing the $160B/year industry online — Freight Startups Attract Silicon Valley's Attention — Investors are funding dozens of startups with plans to take the low-tech business … | Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
In honor of its 20th anniversary, Yahoo reclaims iconic San Francisco billboard — Yahoo has reclaimed something that had been lost for the past few years. The company has installed a billboard along a stretch of Interstate 80 in San Francisco. While that may not seem like news … Sponsor Posts
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