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Google renames Chromecast app Google Cast; Vizio P-Series TVs launched with Cast support and a 6-inch Android tablet — Remote, Controlled — How Vizio and Google radically reinvented the TV — Matt McRae is fired up about remote controls. Or, more specifically, about getting rid of them.
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Tweets: @reckless, @davechensky, @rdr0b11, @googlecast, @crafty, @dannysullivan, @chartier and @hoitab
See also Mediagazer| Jack Clark / Bloomberg Business: |
Google to boost hiring for cloud division, plans 12 new data centers in next 18 months — Google's Greene Hastens Cloud Expansion in Race With Amazon — Company plans 12 new cloud data centers in next 18 months — Cloud division to boost hiring, marketing under Diane Greene
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| Jonathan Zdziarski / Zdziarski's Blog of Things: |
Why the FBI's alternative method to unlock iPhone may involve NAND mirroring by an external forensics firm to enable brute force guessing of shooter's PIN — My Take on FBI's “Alternative” Method — FBI acknowledged today that there “appears” to be an alternative way into Farook's iPhone 5c …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Apple confirms it considered buying UK chip technology firm Imagination Technologies, but has no plans to make an offer now — Apple confirms it considered buying Imagination Technologies, no plans to buy now — Earlier today a report was published by Ars Technica claiming that Apple …
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Tweets: @pkafka, @benbajarin and @reneritchie
Thanks:@ingridlunden| Brian Solomon / Forbes: |
DoorDash announces $127M Series C led by Sequoia Capital, discusses how it raised in a down market — What It's Like To Raise $127 Million As Silicon Valley's Bubble Bursts — When Tony Xu calls 2015 a “blitzkrieg” year, it's hard to disagree. — The 31-year-old cofounder and CEO … | Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider: |
Adobe launches Marketing Cloud Device Co-op to help marketers track users across devices, offers opt-out — Adobe has figured out a clever way to track people as they switch between devices — Adobe announced Tuesday it is launching a “cross-device co-op” that will offer marketers …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Silicon Valley legend and former Intel CEO Andy Grove passes away at 79 — Intel has announced that the company's former CEO and chairman, Andrew S. Grove, who was born in Hungary as András István Gróf, died today at age 79. — Grove was one of the key figures of the information age …
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Tweets: @zpower, @intel, @tim_cook, @pmarca, @michaeldell, @billgates, @sundarpichai, @chamath, @pkedrosky, @harrymccracken, @johndoerr, @harrymccracken, @om, @muneeb, @bradstone, @digiphile, @stevecapus, @alexstamos, @deantak, @mdudas, @intelnews, @stevecase, @a16z, @shiraovide and @bhorowitz
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
HTC's next flagship phone will be unveiled on April 12th — HTC will unveil its next flagship phone three weeks from today, on April 12th. The new phone is believed to be called the HTC 10 and is supposed to be a continuation of the One line, featuring a similar design with improved specs.| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
SV Angel co-founder David Lee launches Refactor Capital fund, seeking $50M; sources say fund will focus on seed-stage startups on the West Coast — SV Angel Co-Founder David Lee Launches New VC Firm — David Lee, the seed-stage venture capitalist who last year resigned from the firm …
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| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Cisco CEO email to company on reorganization of engineering unit into four new teams: networking, cloud services and platforms, security, applications and IoT — Here's the email Cisco's CEO just sent to the troops to announce a big reorg — On Monday, Cisco's new CEO Chuck Robbins announced … | Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: |
RIAA report: streaming accounted for more US recorded-music revenue than downloads in 2015, rising from 27% in 2014 to 34% in 2015 — US recorded-music revenues rose slightly in 2015 says RIAA — US music industry body the RIAA has published its figures for 2015, revealing …
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UK IT firm Micro Focus to acquire Serena Software in $540M deal — Micro Focus targets Serena Software in $540m US expansion drive — Micro Focus is set to acquire Serena Software in a move worth $540m, as the British technology group continues to pursue big deals across the Atlantic.
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