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| Hiroshi Lockheimer / Google Chrome Blog: |
Google emphasizes that “there's no plan to phase out Chrome OS”, but says it's “bringing together the best” of Android and Chrome OS — Chrome OS is here to stay — Over the last few days, there's been some confusion about the future of Chrome OS and Chromebooks based …
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Thanks:@arpitnext| Financial Times: |
Activision Blizzard to buy King Digital Entertainment, the company behind the Candy Crush games, for $5.9B — Activision to buy Candy Crush's King for $5.9bn — Activision Blizzard has agreed to acquire King Digital Entertainment, the London-based group behind the hugely popular Candy …
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| Jay Greene / The Seattle Times: |
Amazon Books, the digital retailer's first brick-and-mortar store, to open in University Village Seattle on Tuesday with 5K-6K titles — Amazon opens first brick-and-mortar bookstore — at U Village — Two decades after it started selling books online, Amazon opens a shopping center storefront with books for sale on actual shelves.
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See also Mediagazer| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Official Plex app for Apple TV now available, offers local streaming, playlists, channels, more — The official Plex app for Apple TV is now available in the App Store. Plex is a media server for video, TV shows, music and photos. The app is fully featured, with quick access to search, playlists and more from the top bar.| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
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| Wilson Rothman / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft Kills Unlimited OneDrive Storage, Downgrades Paid and Free Options — At a time when many companies are expanding cloud storage options, Microsoft Corp. is shrinking its offerings. — Microsoft is ending unlimited OneDrive storage plans, citing user abuse, the company said in a blog post late Monday.
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OneDrive Blog, The Register, BetaNews, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Engadget, Windows Central, TechSpot, Microsoft News, WinBeta and Nokiapoweruser. Tweets: @swiftonsecurity
| Curt Woodward / BetaBoston: |
Internet cloud services firm Endurance buys e-mail marketing company Constant Contact for $1.1B — Endurance International buys Constant Contact for $1.1 billion — Two publicly traded Massachusetts companies that sell technology services to small businesses are joining forces.
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Constant Contact, Peter Krasilovsky's Blog …, Bloomberg Business, Marketing Land, WebProNews, InvestorPlace, ZDNet, Xconomy and Screenwerk. Tweets: @caseynewton. Thanks:@curtwoodward
| Daniel Geiger / Crain's New York Business: |
Sources: Google abandons plans for retail store in New York City after spending $6M in renovations, wants to sublease the space for $2.25M/year — Google abandons plan to open first-ever retail store in New York City but not before spending $6 million to renovate this SoHo space [Photos]
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| Kellex / Droid Life: |
Blackberry Priv Arrives at AT&T on November 6, $249 on a two year contract — Blackberry Priv Arrives at AT&T on November 6 — If you were turned off at the unlocked price of the Blackberry Priv when it went up for pre-order a couple of weeks ago, I can't say I blame you.| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
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| L. Gordon Crovitz / Wall Street Journal: |
LA-based domain registry XYZ.com, in deal with Chinese government, puts global block on domain registrations involving 12K banned words — China Censors Your Internet — Beijing thinks Taylor Swift's ‘1989’ is code for Tiananmen Square and must be blocked.| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Apple indoor positioning app ‘Indoor Survey’ spotted on iOS App Store — Apple could be on the verge of releasing its first dedicated indoor positioning app for iPhone, as a seemingly legitimate, albeit non-operational, first party app called “Indoor Survey” was spotted in the iOS App Store on Sunday.
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MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Digital Trends, App Advice, bizjournals, InvestorPlace, The Daily Dot, The Next Web, Macworld, ZDNet, iPhone Hacks, TechnoBuffalo, Mashable, Daily Mail, Tech Times, PC Magazine, Business Insider, Re/code, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, SlashGear, Spatially Adjusted, MacNN, Pocket-lint, iDownloadBlog.com, Computerworld, Engadget, MacRumors, Ubergizmo, Redmond Pie, 9to5Mac, International Business Times, Gizmodo and iPhone Hacks. Tweets: @stroughtonsmith
| Dan Levine / Reuters: |
Woman drops sexual assault case against Palantir and Formation 8 cofounder Joseph Lonsdale, who dropped counterclaims against her — Woman drops sex assault case against U.S. venture capitalist — A woman who accused prominent U.S. venture capitalist Joseph Lonsdale of sexual assault …
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Google's Project Wing lead David Vos says company aims to start commercial package deliveries by drone in 2017 — Google plans drone delivery service for 2017 — Search giant Google has announced a date for the launch of its drone delivery service. — Called Project Wing …
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