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FBI officially confirms the 3rd-party hacking tool it used does not work with the iPhone 5s or later iPhones — FBI director: We bought ‘a tool’ to hack terrorist's iPhone — FBI Director James Comey said Wednesday that the government had purchased “a tool” from a private party in order …
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Reddit launches its first official apps for iOS and Android — Reddit's long-awaited native mobile applications - the first-ever to be built by the company in-house - have now launched. Available today for both iOS and Android, the new Reddit app will not only serve as the official means …
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Facebook Messenger hits 900M MAUs, adds short URLs and Snapchat-like scannable codes for starting conversations with businesses and individuals — Facebook pushes businesses to Messenger with new tools for Pages, including Snapchat-like scannable codes — A day after people started noticing Facebook …
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Samsung forecasts solid Q1 earnings due to strong Galaxy S7 sales, helped by an early debut and lower pricing — Samsung Rewrites Playbook to Juice Galaxy S7 Sales — Estimates of S7 sales raised to 9 million units from 7 million — S7 expected to sell triple the amount of S6 in same period
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook adds video search to combat original content sharing decline — Facebook is desperate to get you to watch original videos. They're all over the feed, yesterday it launched a dedicated video browsing hub, and now it's announcing a video search engine.| Office Blogs: |
Outlook iOS and Android apps now integrate events and tasks from Wunderlist, Facebook, and Evernote — Introducing Wunderlist, Facebook and Evernote in Outlook on iOS and Android — The Outlook team is passionate about making your life easier by helping you manage and make the most of your time.
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A dozen WiFi-connected trucks from Volvo and Daimler completed an autonomous trip across Europe, driving in a tight “platoon” to improve fuel efficiency, safety — A fleet of trucks just drove themselves across Europe — About a dozen trucks from major manufacturers like Volvo …
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Amazon expands its same-day Prime delivery service from 16 to 27 US metro regions — Amazon brings same-day delivery to nearly a dozen more U.S. metros — Amazon's same-day delivery service is today seeing a notable expansion here in the U.S. The online retailer announced this morning …
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Kantar report: iOS market share fell for the first time in urban China since August 2014, a 3.2% drop between February 2015 and February 2016 — Android OS Share in China Gets Boost from New Year's Sales — The latest smartphone OS data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech …
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Marketing Land, Neowin, ARC, TechCrunch, Phandroid, AppleInsider, WinBeta, 9to5Mac, Patently Apple and Pocketnow
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In his annual shareholder letter, Jeff Bezos reveals AWS is on track to reach $10B in annual sales, defends Amazon's working culture, and more — Jeff Bezos Calls Amazon ‘Best Place In The World To Fail’ In Shareholder Letter — In his annual shareholder letter, which was unveiled on Tuesday …
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Tweets: @stevesi, @forbesinvestor, @drahmedkalebi, @forbestech, @forbestech, @mgsiegler, @gregbensinger, @verge and @mdudas
| Biz Carson / Business Insider: |
On-demand parking startup Luxe confirms $50M Series B led by Hertz, source says round valued company at over $110M — Luxe, a startup that valet parks your car when you can't find a spot, just raised $50 million from Hertz — It's already a pain to find parking in crowded cities.
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TechCrunch, PR Newswire, Luxe, Silicon Valley Business … and silicontap.com. Tweets: @joefernandez. Thanks:@mattrosoff
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BlueStacks partners with Twitch to stream mobile games to PCs, TVs, and mobile devices — BlueStacks makes it easy to stream mobile games to Twitch — BlueStacks has integrated its service with livestreaming site Twitch to stream mobile games to PCs, TVs, or mobile devices.Sponsor Posts
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