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Apple faces opposition from India's largest phone brands in its push to import and sell used iPhones in the country to gain market share — Apple's Push to Flood India With Used iPhones Ignites Backlash — Apple seeks again to import and sell used phones into India| Alison Griswold / Quartz: |
Zero tech companies went public in the US in Q1 2016, which hasn't happened since Q1 2009 during the recession — Zero tech companies went public in the US in Q1 2016, which hasn't happened since Q1 2009 — The US market for tech IPOs has totally frozen over.| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
LG G5 review: inferior to Galaxy S7 in almost every way; modular design and accessories, wide-angle camera feel more like gimmicks than useful features — LG G5 Review: A Bit Of A Mess, Frankly — LG is a company whose smartphone products have gone from bottom of the barrel to highly competitive in under four years.
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Inside the development of Amazon Echo: early Echo team members recount company's ambitions for the device and the challenges they faced — The inside story of how Amazon created Echo, the next billion-dollar business no one saw coming — When Amazon executive Dave Limp first saw the pitch …
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| Salvador Hernandez / BuzzFeed: |
FBI Tells Local Law Enforcement It Will Help Unlock Phones — A law enforcement official told BuzzFeed News the FBI sent the advisory to local authorities on Friday in order to provide them with “technical assistance.” — Just days after breaking into a terrorist's iPhone using …
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Thanks:@cauchon| Paul James / Road to VR: |
Oculus Refund Shipping Costs as Rift Shipments Delayed Due to “Component Shortages” — It seems that Oculus are acknowledging the troublesome Rift launch and associated delivery delays by covering shipping costs for affected customers. According to emails sent out by Oculus to customers still waiting …
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| Michael D. Shear / New York Times: |
The White House is undergoing its first major IT overhaul in over a decade, now has improved WiFi and color printers, allows employees to use iPhones, more — Technology Upgrades Get White House Out of the 20th Century| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Study finds that of 108M DMCA takedown requests, 99.8% targeted Google search, 28% of all requests are “questionable”, Google likely removes more than it should — 28% of Piracy Takedown Requests Are “Questionable” — In recent years copyright holders have overloaded Google … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Netflix throttling itself isn't a net neutrality problem, FCC chair says — Wheeler disappoints Netflix critics who called for investigation. — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler said yesterday that he has no plans to investigate Netflix for throttling its own video streams … | Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Airbnb to purge illegal hotels from San Francisco listings, releases SF data set showing 1/5 of full-home rentals are controlled by multiple-property operators — Airbnb to purge illegal hotels from San Francisco listings — Airbnb says it is cracking down on San Francisco hosts who violate the city's law on short-term rentals.
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| Vidya Nagarajan / Official Google for Work Blog: |
Acer and Google announce Chromebase for meetings, a 24-inch, all-in-one video-conferencing device, available from $799 in US, UK, Canada, Australia, and Ireland — Chromebase for meetings makes video-conferencing personal and simple — Since we introduced Chromebox for meetings just over two years ago …
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| Leena Rao / Fortune: |
New OpenTable CEO Christa Quarles says OpenTable made nearly 250M reservations in 2015, discusses global expansion, Premium Reservations, mobile payments, more — OpenTable's New CEO Talks Mobile Payments, Premium Reservations, and More — OpenTable is one of the few Web 1. companies …
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