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Sources: Apple has a Berlin office seeking engineers and partners for a car project; talks with BMW and Daimler ended, Magna believed to be current favorite — Exclusive: BMW, Daimler Reject Cooperation with Apple over “iCar” — German carmakers Daimler and BMW have ended talks with Apple …
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9to5Mac, Silicon Republic, SiliconANGLE, Tech Times, The Next Web, Tech Insider, TechCrunch, iPhone Hacks, iMore, VentureBeat, Investor's Business Daily, MobileSyrup.com, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacDailyNews, iDownloadBlog.com, Mashable, SiliconBeat, MacRumors, ZDNet, HEUREKA magazine and Ubergizmo
| John Herrman / New York Times: |
Vox Media launches a gadget blog, Circuit Breaker, primarily as a Facebook page, with a section on The Verge's website as well — Vox Media Tries Something Old on Something New — Vox Media, the ambitious online news start-up that runs Vox, a politics site; SB Nation, a network of sports sites …
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The Verge. Tweets: @eringriffith, @ranjanxroy, @joannastern, @jeffjarvis, @saramorrison, @mathewi, @rafat, @mims, @sokane1, @reckless, @jbenton, @cjam, @pkafka and @mims. See also Mediagazer
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Chrome OS source code hints at upcoming Google Play Store support for the platform — It looks like the Play Store is headed to Chrome OS with “millions” of apps — Google Play integration clues pop up in the source code and on users' devices. — The work-in-progress dialog box that a user was able to bring up.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Sirin Labs says it raised $72M to launch Solarin, a $10K+ Android-based, privacy-focused “Rolls-Royce of smartphones”, alongside retail store in London this May — Sirin Labs nabs $72M to build the Rolls-Royce of smartphones: ‘Solarin’ goes on sale in May
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Reuters, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, Telegraph, International Business Times, ZDNet, The Next Web, Tech Times, The Memo, FinSMEs, Tech in Asia, GeekTime, Ubergizmo and Tech.eu
Tweets: @danprimack and @jyarow
| Jessi Hempel / Wired: |
Pinterest execs and engineers discuss overhauling its underlying software, its new iOS app, plans to capture international audiences, more — Pinterest Reinvents Itself to Prove It's Really Worth Billions — It's a week before Pinterest will announce its biggest engineering and design overhaul ever … Thanks:@malliegator
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
DARPA seeks encrypted comms app with blockchain infrastructure, message repudiation, self-deleting messages, more in Small Business Technology Transfer request — DARPA Is Looking For The Perfect Encryption App, and It's Willing to Pay — While the FBI keeps crying wolf about the dangerous dark future … | Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
High-end smartphones priced at about $400 are on the rise, disrupting $700 flagships — The rise of the $400 smartphone—you want how much for a flagship? — Newcomers to the smartphone market are arriving with disruptive pricing. — For a long time, the cost of a fast …
Tweets: @arstechnica
| Nathan McAlone / Business Insider: |
Sources: Google plans an in-house startup incubator “Area 120” overseen by Don Harrison and Bradley Horowitz and located in San Francisco — Google has a new division called ‘Area 120’ where employees can build their own startups — Google is creating an in-house startup incubator …
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The Information, The Verge, ZDNet, Fortune, Tech Times, Digital Trends, Engadget, The Next Web, TalkAndroid.com, VatorNews and Wired.co.uk
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Private equity owned eBay Enterprise merges with Innotrac, rebrands as Radial — Ebay Enterprise merges with Innotrac to become Radial — Ebay sold off its enterprise unit to a consortium of companies led by private equity firm Permira last year. That consortium included Sterling Partners, Longview Asset Management and Innotrac.
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Business Wire, ITProPortal, PYMNTS.com, ZDNet, VentureBeat, internetretailer.com, VatorNews and Reuters
| Dan Grover: |
WeChat PM: chat apps succeed when they streamline high-friction processes like app installation, login, and payment, not when they rely on conversational UI — Bots won't replace apps. Better apps will replace apps. — Lately, everyone's talking about “conversational UI.” It's the next big thing.
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THE EQUITY KICKER and New York Times. Tweets: @joshelman, @dwr, @bgurley, @ilyasu, @vgr, @efeng, @vgr, @pbump, @timoreilly, @scottbelsky, @codinghorror and @spolsky
| Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
BeautifulPeople.com Leaks Very Private Data of 1.1 Million ‘Elite’ Daters — And It's All For Sale — Sexual preference. Relationship status. Income. Address. These are just some details applicants for the controversial dating site BeautifulPeople.com are asked to supply … | Leena Rao / Fortune: |
COO Vishal Makhijani appointed Udacity's CEO; Sebastian Thrun steps down, but will remain president and chairman — Sebastian Thrun Steps Down As Udacity's CEO — Udacity's founder Sebastian Thrun is stepping down as chief executive officer, the company announced on Friday.
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