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| Emily Steel / New York Times: |
Netflix launches in 130 additional countries, now available in 190 countries worldwide, excluding China, Crimea, North Korea, and Syria, stock up 9% — At CES, Netflix Announces Worldwide Expansion of Streaming Service — Netflix went live with its streaming television service …
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See also Mediagazer| Apple: |
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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| Shira Ovide / Bloomberg Business: |
Despite recent reports of cuts by iPhone suppliers, Apple remains most profitable company in S&P 500
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Tweets: @mgsiegler, @alistairnz, @nishagopalanhk, @riskreversal, @maxnisen and @daiwaka
| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
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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| Owen Williams / The Next Web: |
Microsoft will stop supporting Internet Explorer 8, 9, and 10 on January 12 — Web developers rejoice; Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 die on Tuesday — Internet Explorer has long been the bane of many Web developers' existence, but here's some news to brighten your day: Internet Explorer 8 …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Nextbit announces first wave of GSM Robin smartphones will ship February 16 — Nextbit's cloud-savvy smartphone ships on February 16th — Good news if you've been sitting on pins and needles waiting for Nextbit's Robin smartphone to ship: it's nearly ready for action.| Johana Bhuiyan / BuzzFeed: |
Uber agrees to overhaul privacy and security practices and pay a $20K fine in settlement over “God View” with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman — Uber Settles With New York Attorney General Over “God View” Tracking Program — The ride-hailing company agrees to overhaul …
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Tweets: @agschneiderman and @mathewi
Thanks:@jmbooyah| Biz Carson / Business Insider: |
Sources: Yahoo to lay off at least 10%, or 1,000+ of its employees, as early as this month — Yahoo is prepping to lay off 10% or more of its workforce — Major layoffs will be coming to Yahoo as part of its planned reorganization to get its business back on track.| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Tango, the faltering messaging app unicorn, gets a new CEO in co-founder and former CTO, Eric Setton — Faltering Messaging App Unicorn Tango Gets A New CEO To Turn Things Around — Fresh from laying off 9 percent of its 200 staff and closing down its e-commerce service at the end of 2015 … | 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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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Razer launches Nabu Watch with activity tracking, smartphone notifications, prices start at $150 — Razer's first smartwatch is mostly meant for fitness — Razer's first experiments with wearable tech had their share of problems (notably months of delays), but the company is willing to give it another shot... with a bit of a twist.
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Razer, TechRadar.com, Liliputing, iMore, TweakTown News, Wareable, SlashGear and Pocket-lint
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
SEC filing shows Tim Cook earned about $10.2M during 2015 while other Apple executives earned around $25M — Tim Cook earns $10.3M in 2015 as other executives bring home $25M each — Apple today made a new filing with the SEC in which it revealed the earnings of its top executives during 2015.
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SiliconBeat, iMore and MacDailyNews
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Entrepreneurs and investors turn to bots in messaging platforms to disrupt web services, apps, and search — The search for the killer bot — The first bot I ever befriended went by the name of GooglyMinotaur. The Minotaur appeared in 2001 to promote Amnesiac, the latest album from Radiohead …
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NFC World+, WebProNews, Engadget, Gizmodo, The Stack, Business Insider and TechCrunch
Tweets: @sg, @tomazstolfa, @greylockvc, @nireyal and @joshelman
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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Medium, Mashable, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Verge, Seeking Alpha, Social Media Today, The Tech Portal and The Next Web
Tweets: @dannysullivan, @jonrussell, @joshconstine and @joshconstine
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
BlackBerry CEO says the Priv is coming to Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint, offers no timeline; John Legere tweeted to confirm arrival on T-Mobile Jan. 26 — The BlackBerry Priv is coming to Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint — BlackBerry's Priv, its Android-powered smartphone with a sliding keyboard …
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TmoNews, Android Authority, Phandroid, Tech Insider, Android Police and Engadget
Tweets: @johnchen and @johnlegere
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