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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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| John Herrman / New York Times: |
Vox Media is launching a gadget blog, Circuit Breaker, on Monday, 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 …
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| 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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| 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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New York Times. Tweets: @joshelman, @dwr, @bgurley, @ilyasu, @vgr, @efeng, @vgr, @pbump, @timoreilly, @scottbelsky, @codinghorror and @spolsky
| 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, ZDNet, The Verge, Digital Trends, VatorNews, The Next Web, Engadget, TalkAndroid.com and Wired.co.uk
| 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
| 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
| 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
| 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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VentureBeat and EdSurge
| 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 … | Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal: |
YouTube capturing only a sliver of TV ad spending, with higher CPMs and content quality among the major concerns for advertisers — YouTube's Quest for TV Advertising Dollars — While the Google platform has had the most success siphoning off some TV ad spending, its challenges offer a cautionary tale for Facebook, Twitter
Tweets: @pkafka
| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
How FCC's reallocation of TV spectrum to the wireless industry over the next few years will work — How the FCC's massive airwaves auction will change America — and your phone service — The system that underpins wireless communication in the United States is about to dramatically change.
Tweets: @carloskn
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