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Amazon to offer $8.99/month stand-alone video streaming option in US; Prime membership to be offered monthly for first time for $10.99/month in US — Amazon Ups the Ante on Streaming Video — New stand-alone option for its service is direct challenge to rival Netflix| Dr. Raymond M. Soneira / DisplayMate: |
9.7-inch iPad Pro has the “best performing mobile LCD display that we have ever tested” — iPad Pro 9.7 Display Technology Shoot-Out — iPad Air 2 and iPad Pro 9.7 — President, DisplayMate Technologies Corporation — into any other work without the prior written permission of DisplayMate Technologies Corporation| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Verizon tops pack of Yahoo bidders as deadline nears; Time, AT&T, others drop out as Daily Mail remains in talks with private equity co-bidders — Verizon Tops Pack of Suitors Chasing Yahoo — Telecom giant looks to build online ad business; Time, other potential bidders won't make offers
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Intel unveils Apollo Lake next generation platform for cheap Atom-based devices, with first products shipping in the second half of 2016 — Intel Unveils New Low-Cost PC Platform: Apollo Lake with 14nm Goldmont Cores — This week, at IDF Shenzhen, Intel has formally introduced … | David Pierce / Wired: |
Google VP of VR Clay Bavor describes his vision for VR: perfectly capture and depict reality, create VR spaces for free expression — Clay Bavor, Google's VP of VR, on His Plan to Make Virtual Reality Amazing for Everyone — In late 2013, Clay Bavor began experimenting with teleportation.
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| Sharyn Alfonsi / CBS News: |
On 60 Minutes, security expert Karsten Nohl eavesdrops on cellphone calls and texts knowing just the phone's number by hacking SS7, a global carrier protocol — Hacking Your Phone — Sharyn Alfonsi reports on how cellphones and mobile phone networks are vulnerable to hacking
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Global streaming music revenues grew 45% to $2.9B in 2015; paying users hit an estimated 68M, up from 41M in 2014 — IFPI Global Music Report 2016 — Global music revenues increase 3.2% as digital revenues overtake physical for the first time — Digital sales contribute 45 per cent …
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| Clive Thompson / New York Times: |
The Minecraft Generation: How Mojang's virtual sandbox, which sells 10K copies per day, is teaching millions of children to master the digital world — The Minecraft Generation — How a clunky Swedish computer game is teaching hundreds of millions of children to master the digital world. — J
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Gilt co-founder Alexis Maybank launches Project September, a service with photos from users' Instagram feeds and camera rolls that users tag with buying leads — Gilt Groupe's co-founder has a new fashion app that lets you shop from Instagram photos — Alexis Maybank, Gilt Groupe's first CEO … | Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
Alphabet's Access CEO Craig Barratt says it is looking into providing fixed wireless services where installing fiber is too expensive — Google Fiber wants to beam wireless Internet to your home — Over the past five years, Google Fiber has laid its high-speed Internet in a handful of cities and pledged to come to several more.| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
LinkedIn launches LinkedIn Students app for Android, iOS in the US to help college grads find a job — LinkedIn's newest app helps college grads find a job — For all the talk about its benefit to the “economic graph,” one of the main things LinkedIn is recognized as being is an online resume … | Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
GGV Capital raises $1.2B, with $250M for “Discovery”, a fund focused largely on seed-stage opportunities in China — GGV Capital just raised $1.2 billion; here's where it plans to invest it — Back in February, we told you GGV Capital was raising a more than a billion dollars from its investors.
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