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Activision acquires assets of Major League Gaming for $46M; CEO Robert Kotick says he wants to build “the ESPN of video games” — Activision Buys Major League Gaming to Broaden Role in E-Sports — Activision Blizzard, the publisher of Call of Duty and other hit video game franchises …
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Windows 10 is Now Active on 200 Million Devices Worldwide — Share Tweet Pin it Reddit Share Share — Microsoft announced this morning that Windows 10 is now “active” on over 200 million devices worldwide. This figure presumably includes PCs, phones, Xbox Ones, and other devices …
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| Evan Blass / VentureBeat: |
Source: waterproof 5.1" Samsung Galaxy S7 and 5.5" S7 edge will come with microSD support, larger 3000 mAh, 3600 mAh batteries, and 12 megapixel f/1.7 cameras — Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge will feature microSD, water resistance, and larger batteries — EXCLUSIVE:
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| Andrew Wallenstein / Variety: |
Yahoo shuts down Yahoo Screen, moves video content to its digital magazines like Yahoo Music — Yahoo Shutters Video Service Yahoo Screen (Exclusive) — Yahoo has shut down Yahoo Screen, the video hub the beleaguered company launched over two years ago to unite its many original and syndicated programming under one roof.
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GM invests $500M in Lyft as part of a $1B round at a $5.5B valuation, will work with Lyft on a fleet of on-demand autonomous vehicles within next 10 years — Lyft And General Motors Are Partnering To Bring You On-Demand Driverless Cars — Silicon Valley companies have given …
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GeekWire, GM Media News, Business Insider, Slate, Lyft Blog, New York Times, Bloomberg Business, TechCrunch, The Verge, New York Times, Washington Post, PC Magazine, Inc.com, CNET, Vox, IEEE Spectrum, Brad Ideas, BBC, PYMNTS.com, PE Hub Blog, Car and Driver Blog, The Huffington Post, Ubergizmo, Adweek, bizjournals, AppleInsider, TechSpot, Wall Street Journal, Ars Technica, AVC, The Week, Tech Times, Re/code, Seeking Alpha, VentureBeat, USA Today, Engadget, Gizmodo, International Business Times, Tech Insider, Jalopnik and Business Insider. Thanks:@jmbooyah
| James Risley / GeekWire: |
Oculus says Rift pre-orders start 8AM PST on January 6, price and ship date unknown — Oculus Rift preorders start in less than 48 hours, but price and ship date still a mystery … It's been nearly four years since Oculus wrapped up the Kickstarter campaign for its virtual reality headset, the Rift.
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Tweets: @oculus and @gartenberg
| Jeremy Gillula / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
EFF Confirms: T-Mobile's Binge On Optimization is Just Throttling, Applies Indiscriminately to All Video — Back in November, T-Mobile announced a new service for its mobile customers called Binge On, in which video streams from certain websites don't count against customers' data caps.1 …
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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Intel buys German drone maker Ascending Technologies — Intel Follows Qualcomm Into Drone Business With German Startup Purchase — Intel said Monday it is buying German drone maker Ascending Technologies for an undisclosed price, following rival chipmaker Qualcomm's move into the space.| Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: |
Bing Results & Ads Now Live On AOL Search — It was announced last year, but now it's official: “Bing powers AOL's web, mobile, and tablet search, providing paid search ads and algorithmic organic search results to AOL's properties worldwide.” Citing comScore data, Microsoft now says that Bing is behind …
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
SEC filing shows Alphabet paid $380.2M to buy cloud software firm Bebop; founder Diane Green to donate shares worth about $148.6M to donor-advised fund — Google paid $380M to buy Bebop, executive Diane Greene donating her $148M share — Google's umbrella company, Alphabet …
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Twitter invests in Muzik, maker of high-end wireless headphones; social network will be integrated directly into headphones, allowing users to share music — Twitter Invests in Muzik, a High-End Headphone Startup — Here is something you didn't expect to hear about coming out of CES this year … | Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Intel, Warner Bros. sue LegendSky, a Chinese maker of HDFury devices that allow users to pirate 4K streams by stripping HDCP encryption — Warner Bros and Intel Sue 4k Content Protection “Stripper” — Last November several pirated copies of 4K videos started to leak from both Netflix and Amazon.
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