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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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Tweets: @drbarnard and @bzamayo
| 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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| Natt Garun / The Next Web: |
Netflix expands to 130 new countries including India, Vietnam, Turkey, South Korea, Poland, and Russia, but not China; stock up over 7% — Netflix officially arrives in India, Russia, Vietnam and more - totaling 130 new countries — At the opening keynote at CES, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings …
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Pre-orders open for Oculus Rift consumer edition, on sale for $599, shipping in March; orders already backlogged until May — Virtually a reality: Oculus Rift goes on sale for $599 — Pre-orders are open ahead of March ship date for consumer version — After dozens of trade-show demos …
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Snapchat is shutting down its lens store on Friday, only two months after its launch — Snapchat is killing its lens store — We barely knew Snapchat's lens store, and it's already time to say goodbye. The social media platform is shutting down the store on Friday, only two months after its launch.
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| Garett Sloane / Digiday: |
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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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The Verge, Seeking Alpha, The Tech Portal, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Social Media Today, Engadget, The Stack, Business Insider, WebProNews and NFC World+
Tweets: @joshconstine, @chrismessina and @mims
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
David Chaum, known for inventing cryptographic protocols, introduces PrivaTegrity, an encryption scheme for messaging with a “carefully controlled backdoor” — The Father of Online Anonymity Has a Plan to End the Crypto War — It's been more than 30 years since David Chaum launched …
Tweets: @mattblaze, @csoghoian, @kpoulsen, @hakantee, @martijn_grooten, @ioerror, @milouness, @ioerror, @dalytics, @ridt, @a_greenberg and @da_667
| Simon Khalaf / 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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| 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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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Yuneec unveils six rotor Typhoon H drone for $1,799, which shoots 4K video and 12MP stills, has ultrasonic proximity detection to avoid collisions — Yuneec's new Typhoon H drone is the biggest challenge yet to DJI's supremacy — For the past three years our favorite drone has consistently been produced by one company, DJI.
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| Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
Fitbit hit with class-action suit over inaccurate heart rate monitoring — Wearable maker Fitbit was hit with a class-action lawsuit yesterday, just after the unveiling of its newest fitness watch. — In the suit, consumers from California, Colorado, and Wisconsin allege that the heart rate tracking …
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The Next Web, Android Authority and SiliconANGLE
| 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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| Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
Dell unveils refreshed Latitude 7000 series of business notebooks with Core M and Core i7 options, USB-C, lighter frame, starting from $1,079-$1299 — Dell refreshes Latitude 7000 line, adds USB Type-C and a hint of style — After refreshing the 5000 work notebook series, Dell is back with new 7000s too.
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ZDNet, VentureBeat and The Verge
| 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 … | 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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Business Wire, PCWorld, Computerworld, Business Insider, CNET, NFC World+ and TIME. Tweets: @tomwarren
| 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 … | Reuters: |
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 … | Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest hires Candice Morgan as its first head of diversity and will launch two initiatives to get more engineers from underrepresented backgrounds into tech — Pinterest Hires Its First-Ever Head Of Diversity — Pinterest has hired Candice Morgan, formerly of Catalyst …
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| Kirsty Styles / The Next Web: |
Twitter misses deadline to pay $50K fine for hosting what Turkey's telecoms regulator defined as terrorist propaganda — Twitter misses deadline to pay Turkey's $50,000 terrorist propaganda fine — Twitter has missed the deadline for paying a $50,000 fine imposed on it by the Turkish government … | @jack: |
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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