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Sources: Apple Music now has more than 10M subscribers — Apple's music streaming subscribers top 10m — Apple has passed 10m subscribers for its music streaming service, taking six months to hit a milestone which took its arch-rival Spotify six years to hit, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Photo Evidence Shows Facebook Is Building Messenger For Mac — TechCrunch has obtained photographic evidence and an eyewitness report that Facebook has built an as-yet-unreleased Facebook Messenger For Mac desktop app. The photo below shows a Facebook employee using it.
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2016 Google Tracker: Everything Google is working on for the new year — Android N, a big VR program, Google Glass, and lots more are in store for Alphabet. — It's that time of the year again—welcome to the Google Tracker! This is a bi-annual series where we recap every ongoing project … | Vindu Goel / New York Times: |
Sources: more than 30% of Yahoo's workforce has left in the last year, but company says it is still hiring, and application numbers are strong — Yahoo's Brain Drain Shows a Loss of Faith Inside the Company — SAN FRANCISCO — Marissa Mayer, the glamorous, geeky Google executive hired …
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Twitter removes conservative writer Milo Yiannopoulos's verification badge without stating a reason, inflaming politicized battle over online speech — Twitter Unverifies Writer Amid Speech Wars — Twitter's removal of journalist and provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos's verification badge …
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Juniper Networks will drop code tied to National Security Agency — Juniper Networks Inc said late on Friday it would stop using a piece of security code that analysts believe was developed by the National Security Agency in order to eavesdrop through technology products.
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General Motors partners with HackerOne, opens Detroit's first public security vulnerability disclosure program — GM embraces white-hat hackers with public vulnerability disclosure program — First major automaker (aside from Tesla) to issue guidelines promising not to sue researchers.
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Thunderbolt 3, with increased speed and USB Type-C ports, now found in high end offerings from major PC OEMs — Five years later, Thunderbolt is finally gaining some traction in PCs — Increasing speed and adopting USB Type-C ports seems to be paying off for Intel.
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With Google's move to integrate OpenJDK in Android, Oracle gains influence over a significant part of the Android software stack — Oracle sinks its claws into Android — This is my first blog post since leaving my role as Mozilla's CTO 6 months ago. As you may have read in the press …
| Tracey Lien / Los Angeles Times: |
Lyft defies predictions by continuing to grow as a rival to Uber — From January 2014 to January 2015, Lyft grew fivefold in rides and revenue. Above, a driver for Lyft and Uber at Los Angeles International Airport last month. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times) — It's Saturday night in San Francisco's Mission District.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Razer announces $200 Stargazer webcam with Intel RealSense3D technology, dynamic background removal, face and object 3D scanning — Razer Raises The Bar On VR Gaming With Its New $200 Stargazer Webcam — Last summer, gaming tech company Razer said that it was working with Intel on a webcam …
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Rocket Internet-Backed Easy Taxi Confirms Asia Exit, Doubles Down On Latin America — Easy Taxi, the Uber and GrabTaxi rival backed by Rocket Internet and among other investors, has confirmed that it has exited Asia in order to focus on the ride on-demand market in its native South America.| Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider: |
As some in advertising industry criticize Pinterest's ad efforts, the company touts 5X YoY revenue growth in 2015, and plans to expand ad offerings in 2016 — Insiders say what's going on inside $11 billion Pinterest — and it's not all good — Pinterest is a strong contender to go public in 2016 … Sponsor Posts
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