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Sources: Apple is working on adding cell-network connectivity, faster processor to its next-generation Watch — Apple's Watch Outpaced the iPhone in First Year — Despite sizable sales, Apple's latest product has challenges to overcome — Apple Inc. sold twice as many Watches as iPhones in each device's debut year.
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| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Facebook is developing a stand-alone camera app with ability to livestream video, to encourage users to create and share more photos and videos — Facebook Developing Camera-First Format — Camera app to encourage users to create, and share, more photos and videos
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Microsoft releases Word Flow keyboard for iPhone with one-handed mode, custom backgrounds — Microsoft is bringing its predictive Windows Phone keyboard, called Word Flow, to the iPhone. The third-party keyboard is now available for free in the US App Store.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Hundreds of Spotify users' credentials appear online, and users report accounts hacked; Spotify denies being hacked — Hundreds of Spotify credentials appear online - users report accounts hacked, emails changed — A list containing hundreds of Spotify account credentials - including emails … | Los Angeles Times: |
Charter-Time Warner Cable merger and Bright House Networks acquisition get regulatory OK in deals valued at $88B, with terms to protect streaming competition — FCC chairman, Justice Department sign off on Charter's takeover of Time Warner Cable — Charter Communications is closer …
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See also Mediagazer| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google updates Gmail app for Android with Microsoft Exchange support for all devices — Gmail for Android gets Microsoft Exchange support — Google today updated Gmail for Android with a very notable feature: support for Microsoft Exchange. You can download the latest version of the app … | Dave McNary / Variety: |
Lionsgate to distribute more than 100 films on Steam, including The Hunger Games — Lionsgate Launches Distribution Through Steam, Includes ‘Hunger Games’ … Valve Corp. and Lionsgate have formed a partnership under which Lionsgate will license more than 100 films to Valve's Steam digital …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
You can now flag abusive Twitter accounts by reporting multiple tweets at once — Twitter's processing for reporting abusive accounts has long been criticized as being clunky and ineffective. Until now, users who are subject to harassment have had to report every abusive tweet individually.
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Chrome OS source code hints that the Google Play Store and “over a million” Android apps could be coming to Chrome OS — 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.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Critical Android bugs present in older devices now targeted by malvertising campaigns and other drive-by exploits — Active drive-by exploits critical Android bugs, care of Hacking Team — Hostile JavaScript delivered through ads installs ransomware on older Android phones.
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Tweets: @martijn_grooten, @ydklijnsma and @k8em0
| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
MakerBot to stop making its own 3D printers, will outsource manufacturing to Jabil, a contractor with facilities in China — MakerBot will no longer make its own 3D printers — MakerBot has announced that it will no longer manufacture its own hardware. Over the course of the next six months … | Itika Sharma Punit / Quartz: |
Sequoia-backed, India-based PepperTap to end grocery delivery operations, citing hasty expansion and unfeasible discounting, to pivot into logistics business — PepperTap's collapse shows everything that is wrong with India's young internet companies — India's third-largest grocery delivery service is no more.Sponsor Posts
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