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Immersion files a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple over 3D Touch, Force Touch, Taptic Engine and other haptic feedback technologies — Haptic Feedback Company Immersion Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Apple — Immersion, a company that develops and licenses haptic touch … | Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
How Facebook and Google dominate digital advertising, and why other tech companies struggle — The Reality of Missing Out — When it comes to ad-supported services, pundits everywhere are fond of the adage “If you're not the customer you're the product”.| M. Mitchell Waldrop / Nature: |
Semiconductor industry roadmap to abandon pursuit of Moore's law for the first time as computing becomes increasingly mobile — The chips are down for Moore's law — The semiconductor industry will soon abandon its pursuit of Moore's law. Now things could get a lot more interesting.
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AWS Bolsters High Performance Computing Offering With NICE Acquisition — AWS attempted to enhance its high performance computing offering today when it purchased NICE, an Italian software and services company for an undisclosed price. — NICE provides a set of tools and technologies …
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Facebook's Free Basics isn't free, it's all about advertising and making money — Nothing Is Free, Not Even Facebook Free Basics — The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has given Facebook's Free Basics (a cutely rebranded Internet.org) a big thumbs-down, according to reports.
| William Herkewitz / Popular Mechanics: |
MyShake Android app uses your phone's accelerometer to detect earthquakes and automatically warn scientists — With “MyShake” App, Your Phone Feels Earthquakes and Automatically Warns Scientists — And MyShake won't kill your battery life, either. — Your newest app hums away …
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Tidal Tops U.S. App Store After Landing Exclusive Rights To Kanye's New Album — After scoring exclusive streaming rights to Kanye's new album, The Life of Pablo, Tidal has taken over the number one spot on the U.S. App Store. … The album, which went live yesterday … | Ben Rosen / BuzzFeed: |
How one teen and her friends use Snapchat, replying to 40 snaps in under a minute, getting scores of 100K+ in 45 days, burning tens of gigabytes of data a month — My Little Sister Taught Me How To “Snapchat Like The Teens” … TRENDING — I'm 29 years old, and I've been on Snapchat for about a year now.
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| Quentin Hardy / New York Times: |
AT&T CEO pitches employee education program, hoping to build a cloud computing business — Gearing Up for the Cloud, AT&T Tells Its Workers: Adapt, or Else — DALLAS — Thirty-four years ago, Kevin Stephenson got his younger brother, Randall, a job with the telephone company.| Bloomberg Business: |
Transitioning to digital, banks file more patents and educate USPTO about their operations so examiners won't issue new bad patents — Wall Street Is Trying to Beat Silicon Valley at Its Own Game — Banks race to beat the patent trolls—and Silicon Valley. — Susan Decker Elizabeth Dexheimer
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Tumblr gets a dedicated ad sales team again, after integration with Yahoo ad sales failed — Yahoo is ditching a plan that caused turmoil within Tumblr — Yahoo's challenges have been in the investor spotlight for months — now signs of turmoil are becoming visible at its Tumblr group.| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Study: investors in unicorns received senior liquidation preferences in 42% of Q4 2015 rounds, up from 15% in previous two quarters — Doomed-i-corns: Unicorns Seemingly Reach a Tipping Point — This morning, the law firm Fenwick & West published new findings about all the U.S.-based unicorn financings … Sponsor Posts
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