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Apple announces record $1.1B App Store sales during holiday season, $20B during 2015, and has paid developers $40B since 2008 — Record-Breaking Holiday Season for the App Store — App Store Has Now Paid Developers Nearly $40B and Continues to Drive Incredible Job Growth
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| Eva Dou / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple has cut order forecasts to iPhone suppliers in past several months — Apple Scales Back Orders for Its iPhones — Component suppliers that rode the iPhone's boom are now bracing for lower sales — BEIJING— Apple Inc. is scaling back orders for its iPhones …
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Jack Dorsey likens additional text in tweets to text screenshots, affirms the value of the 140-character constraint, predicts most tweets will still be short — At its core Twitter is public messaging. A simple way to say something, to anyone, that everyone in the world can instantly see. We didn't start Twitter with a 140 character restriction. We added that early on to fit into a single SMS message (160 characters).
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Sources: Facebook giving some developers access to chat SDK to build bots in Messenger for shopping, booking travel, more — Facebook's Secret Chat SDK Lets Developers Build Messenger Bots — M won't be the only artificial intelligence on Facebook Messenger.
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Business Insider, Gizmodo, The Tech Portal, Engadget, The Stack, The Verge, The Next Web, WebProNews and NFC World+. Tweets: @mims
| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Double Robotics unveils a faster telepresence robot with an attachable camera — Double Robotics has introduced the next generation of its telepresence robot for the enterprise. Called the Double 2, this $2,499 robot comes equipped with better controls for navigating around common floor obstacles …
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Samsung's new Notebook 9 laptops take “thin-and-light” to a beautiful extreme, with the 13.3-inch model weighing just 1.85lbs, the 15-inch 2.84lbs — Samsung's Notebook 9 laptops take ‘thin-and-light’ to a beautiful extreme — Before Intel coined the term “ultrabook” …
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| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
| Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Casio's Android Wear watch is drop and shock resistant, will have up to a month of battery life, coming April for about $500 — Casio's First Android Wear Watch Will Be Ruggedized And Have Up To A Month Of Battery Life — Most of the Android Wear devices out there are similar takes on the same use case … | Flurry Insights Blog: |
Flurry Report: Mobile app usage grew 58% in 2015, led by emoji keyboards, news, and productivity apps — Media, Productivity & Emojis Give Mobile Another Stunning Growth Year — In the seven years that Flurry has been reporting on mobile app usage, we have seen nothing but growth, and this year continued the trend.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Intel Says Its Button-Sized Curie Will Ship In Q1, Costing Under $10 — Computing devices are getting smaller by the day, and today at CES in Las Vegas Intel's CEO Brian Krzanich announced new details about one of its big (little?) efforts in the space. Curie, Intel's button-sized wearable … | Reuters: |
Study: Automakers dominate tech companies in number of driverless car patents; Google, the tech company with the most patents, ranks 26th — Automakers, not Silicon Valley, lead in driverless car patents: study — Automakers, not technology companies, are in the driver's seat in developing self-driving …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung's Family Hub refrigerator, available May in US, offers grocery ordering from built-in 21.5-inch touchscreen using MasterCard-created shopping app — Samsung's new fridge can order Fresh Direct groceries from its humongous touchscreen — Samsung is really, really eager …
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Sources: Verizon to auction off 48 data centers to focus on core business, hopes to raise $2.5B+ — Exclusive: Verizon launches auction to sell data centers - sources — Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) has started a process to sell its data center assets, hoping to fetch more than $2.5 billion … | Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Cyanogen OS 12.1.1 With Cortana Integration Is Rolling Out To The OnePlus One — Cyanogen Inc is rolling out Cyanogen OS 12.1.1 for the OnePlus One today, and it's not just any update. This is the first version of Cyanogen OS with support for Microsoft Cortana baked right in.
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| Yevgeniy Sverdlik / Data Center Knowledge: |
Apple to build another data center adjacent to its existing campus in Reno — Apple Doubling Down on Data Center Construction in Reno — Apple has filed for approval to build another massive data center campus adjacent to the existing Apple data center site in Reno, Nevada, local officials told the Reno Gazette Journal.| Mike Brunker / NBC News: |
Lumosity to Pay $2M to Settle FTC Charges Over ‘Brain Training’ Ads — The company that created the Lumosity “brain training” program has agreed to pay $2 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers into believing that its mind games could help users excel …
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Cloudability buys data visualization startup DataHero — Cloudability, a startup with a tool that helps companies track their spending on public cloud infrastructure, is announcing today that it has acquired DataHero, a startup with an easy-to-use data-visualization service.
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TechCrunch, Fortune, Cloudability and silicontap.com
| Jon Healey / Los Angeles Times: |
Dish releases Hopper 3 set-top box, can record 16 HD shows simultaneously, introduces HopperGo, a portable, $99 battery-powered storage device — CES 2016: Dish offers a DVR for the stream-and-binge generation — Dish Network's Hopper 3 set-top box can record programs on 16 channels simultaneously … | Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
PlayStation 4 sales now total 35.9M units after 5.7M game consoles are sold in the fall — PlayStation 4 sales top 35 million after a huge holiday — If you had a hunch that the PlayStation 4 would keep up its gangbuster sales rate through the holiday season... well, you guessed correctly.
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TechnoBuffalo, VentureBeat, The Verge and BGR
| Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post: |
President Obama instructs Defense Department, the Justice Department, and DHS to research and regularly review smart gun technology in executive action — Obama embraces smart guns, thrilling proponents of the controversial technology — Proponents of smart guns say President Obama's executive action … | Garett Sloane / Digiday: |
Sources: Snapchat is building an ad API, and reaching out to potential ad partners — Snapchat is building an ad technology platform — Snapchat is working on a crucial part of its growing digital ad business: an application programming interface (API) that would let partners start buying ads …
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AdExchanger, SiliconANGLE, Tubefilter, Marketing Land, Fortune and Business Insider. Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Oracle Buys Audience Tracking Firm AddThis For Around $200M — Oracle continues to ramp up its business in the area of marketing tech. Today the enterprise software giant announced that it has acquired AddThis, which makes sharing features (i.e., those buttons on web pages that let you share stories …
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| James Niccolai / PCWorld: |
Panasonic and Facebook develop freeze-ray cold storage system; Facebook to deploy 300GB disks this year, companies working on 500GB and 1TB disks — Panasonic to commercialize Facebook's Blu-ray cold storage systems — Facebook has said Blu-ray can cut costs significantly for long term data storage
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