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Yahoo and Google make search deal: Yahoo will call on Google to provide some results and ads for Yahoo search queries — Yahoo reaches search deal with Google after loosening Microsoft ties … BREAKING NEWS: Yahoo just announced a search deal with Google, taking advantage an earlier revision …
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
HTC's One A9 has a high-quality look and feel, similar to an iPhone, available this November for $399 with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage — HTC's One A9 is a $399 iPhone running Android 6.0 — The HTC One M9 introduced earlier this year was a disappointment, both to fans of high-end smartphones and, consequently, to HTC itself.
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| Brad Smith / Microsoft on the Issues: |
Microsoft outlines four-step proposal in wake of Safe Harbor decision, to balance privacy, a global Internet, and public safety, in a new legal framework — The collapse of the US-EU Safe Harbor: Solving the new privacy Rubik's Cube — When people who care about technology look back at the year 2015 …
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| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Nexus 5X review: great value, quick and accurate fingerprint sensor, but mediocre battery, and no microSD card slot — Nexus 5X review: Google's triumphant return to smaller, cheaper phones — While the Nexus 6 received plenty of praise when it debuted last year, it also got its fair share of flack.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Huawei Nexus 6P review: uncommon USB Type-C, photo processing can be slow, but great camera, fast and accurate fingerprint reader, the best Android phone yet — Nexus 6P review: the best Android phone — The Nexus 6P is a premium phone. — “Premium” is a funny word when it comes to phones.| Joe Palazzolo / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple tells federal judge it's impossible to access user data on locked iPhone running iOS 8 or higher — Apple Tells Judge It Can't Unlock New iPhones — Apple Inc. told a federal judge that it “would be impossible” to access user data on a locked iPhone running one of the newer operating systems …
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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Uber nabs Jill Hazelbaker, the Snapchat communications head poached from Google just one year ago, to be VP of communications and public policy — Uber Nabs Snapchat Communications Head Hazelbaker for Key Policy and PR Role — Jill Hazelbaker, the high-profile Google communications … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sky-high valuations begin to backfire on some Silicon Valley companies trying to raise more money or go public — Tech Startups Feel an IPO Chill — Sky-high valuations are starting to backfire on some Silicon Valley companies that are trying to raise more money or go public; Dropbox stalls
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| Ravi Somaiya / New York Times: |
New York Times partners with Google on virtual reality project, will distribute over 1M cardboard VR viewers to subscribers, and will release new VR film — The Times Partners With Google on Virtual Reality Project — The New York Times announced on Tuesday a virtual reality project …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook rolls out instant articles to all iOS users and announces an Android beta — Five months after introducing its fast-loading instant articles into the News Feed, Facebook is now rolling out the format to all iPhone users, the company said today. Speaking at The Wall Street Journal's …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple TV Gains CBS All Access, NBC, and Made to Measure Channels — Just a week ahead of the launch of the fourth-generation Apple TV, Apple has added several new channels to the existing set-top box. As of today, NBC, CBS All Access, and Made to Measure (M2M) are available on the Apple TV.
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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg Business: |
Former YouTube exec's startup, Krypton, now valued at $400M, has raised at least $25M to compete against Microsoft Office; latest round led by Khosla Ventures — Former YouTube Exec's Startup Said to Be Valued at $400 Million — Krypton plans to create a mobile Microsoft Office competitior
Tweets: @jyarow
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Maps for Android now lets you add multiple destinations to your route, check gas prices — Google Maps Now Lets You Add A Stop Along Your Route, Check Gas Prices — Google announced today it's rolling out an update to its Google Maps mobile app that will (finally!) allow users to add a stop along their current route.| Charles Arthur / The Overspill: |
Google's growing problem: 50% of people do zero searches per day on mobile — Amit Singhal in 2011 showing a comparison of search volumes from mobile and “early desktop years”. Photo by Niall Kennedy on Flickr. — Amit Singhal, Google's head of search, let slip a couple of interesting statistics … | Office Blogs: |
OneNote adds support for FiftyThree's Pencil stylus on iPad, announces Ink Shape Recognition feature coming in November — OneNote partners with FiftyThree to support Pencil and Paper, plus Shape Recognition coming soon — Digital handwriting—or inking as we like to call it …
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| Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
With 100 Million Monthly Users, Google Is Ready to Talk About Numbers With Google Photos — Love for Google Photos inside the Googleplex overfloweth. At conferences, on earnings calls, in cocktail parties, Google execs shower praise on the cloud photo storage and sharing service it launched back in May.Sponsor Posts
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