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Google finishes porting Songza's features to Google Play Music and will shut down Songza on January 31 — Google will shut down Songza on January 31, 2016 — Google today announced the Songza website and app will be killed off on January 31, 2016. The Google Play Music team … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: potential bidders for a Yahoo sale include Verizon, IAC/InterActive, with News Corp and Time Inc. likely interested in pieces of Yahoo — Bidders Emerge for Yahoo's Internet Business — Potential buyers range from media and telecom giants to private-equity firms| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg Business: |
Steve Ballmer: Microsoft should disclose profit margins and sales for its cloud and hardware businesses, not just the run rate — Microsoft Should Disclose Cloud Revenue, Margins, Ballmer Says — Former CEO says the company should provide hardware metrics — Ballmer comments at Microsoft's annual shareholder meeting
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Sources: Andy Rubin has tried to recruit personnel to help build a new Android phone company — For Andy Rubin, Android Comes Calling Again
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| Ram Ramanathan / Google Cloud Platform Blog: |
Google releases limited preview of Cloud Vision API, an image recognition service for developers — Google Cloud Vision API changes the way applications understand images — Have you ever wondered how Google Photos helps you find all your favorite dog photos?
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Twitter Announces Digits for tvOS to Simplify the App Login Process — Following in Facebook's footsteps, Twitter today announced plans to make some of its Fabric developer toolkit available for tvOS apps. Developers will be able to integrate Twitter's Digits feature into apps … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: YouTube seeks streaming rights for TV shows and movies to support its new subscription service Red — YouTube Seeks Streaming Rights to TV Shows, Movies — Efforts come as YouTube looks to bolster $9.99-a-month subscription service called Red — YouTube is seeking streaming rights …
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| Moxie Marlinspike / Open Whisper Systems: |
Open Whisper Systems releases Signal Desktop in beta, available through Chrome Web Store, links to Android devices only for now — Signal Desktop — Today we're making the Signal Desktop beta available. Signal Desktop brings the trusted private messaging experience of Signal to the desktop …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Uber debuts simple Ride Request Button for devs to include in iOS, Android apps, offers $5 for each new rider sign up, prohibits integrating competing services — Uber's API Now Lets Other Apps Add A “Ride Request Button”, Earn $5 Per Signup — Uber's latest growth strategy is to colonize …
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Thanks:@joshconstine| Brandon Chester / AnandTech: |
Samsung announces new A5, A7 smartphones with fingerprint readers and OIS cameras, and the cheaper A3; available in China first later this month — Samsung Announces Updated Versions of the Galaxy A3, A5, and A7 — Today Samsung announced that updated versions of their Galaxy A3, A5, and A7 smartphones are about to be released.| Napier Lopez / The Next Web: |
Facebook now lets you chat with businesses on their websites via Messenger's Page Plugin, adds events integration — Facebook now lets you chat with businesses via Messenger on their website — Managing a Facebook Page is a crucial social strategy for many business owners today …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Atlassian Now Helps Developers Deploy Code From Bitbucket Directly To AWS, Azure and DigitalOcean — Atlassian isn't just preparing to IPO, it's also launching an update to its Git-based Bitbucket service today that will make it easier for developers to ship their code to some of the most popular cloud services.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Postmates partners with Starbucks, debuts pilot service in Seattle, promising delivery in less than an hour for a $5.99 fee, available only on iOS — Your coffee is here: Starbucks and Postmates launch delivery in Seattle, and this is what it's like
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Re/code, Starbucks Newsroom, GeekWire, Business Insider, App Advice, The Next Web, Consumerist, Engadget, TechCrunch and BetaBoston. Tweets: @startupljackson. Thanks:@taylor_soper
| Faith Hung / Reuters: |
Taiwan official says Facebook considering $300M investment in the country to build its first data center for Asia-Pacific region — Facebook plans first Asia-Pacific data center in Taiwan: Government official — Facebook Inc is evaluating the possibility of investing T$10 billion …
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Judge details why Cox not entitled to DMCA safe harbor protection in BMG copyright case, says it failed to terminate accounts of subscribers accused of piracy — Court: Cox Willingly Failed to Disconnect Pirating Subscribers — Today marks the start of a crucial trial that may define …
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| Karl Bode / DSLreports: |
AT&T plans to phase out the DirecTV and U-Verse names starting in January — AT&T Plans on Killing the DirecTV Name Starting in January — Not too surprisingly, AT&T plans to wean users off the DirecTV name after acquiring the satellite TV provider earlier this year for the rock-bottom price of $69 billion.
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