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IDC analyst says Chromebooks outsold Macs for the first time in the US in the latest quarter — Google's low-cost Chromebooks outsold Apple's range of Macs for the first time in the US recently. While IDC doesn't typically break out Windows vs. Chromebook sales, IDC analyst Linn Huang confirmed the milestone to The Verge.
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| Ina Fried / Recode: |
Google will compete with its partners and sell its own Daydream virtual reality headsets — Think Nexus, but for VR. — While focusing yesterday on its new virtual reality headset as a design that will be licensed to partners, Google also plans to sell a version of Daydream itself.
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Unreal Engine adds full Google Daydream VR support, native Unity support coming this summer — VR developers looking to get started on readying content for Google's new Daydream VR platform can get started today thanks to an Unreal Engine preview version (4.1.2) that adds support for the Google platform.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Developers can test Android apps on select Chrome OS devices starting in June, wide release planned for September — Google is finally bringing the Google Play store, including its more than 1.5 million Android apps, to Chrome OS. Google Play will first arrive with Chrome OS version 53 …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Apple's new SF flagship store introduces suite of changes that will come to future flagship stores including remodelling of “Genius Bar” as “Genius Grove” — In downtown San Francisco, situated across the street from the city's iconic Union Square Park …
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| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
Alphabet CEO Larry Page defended Android's use of Java APIs on the stand, saying they were “free and open” — “It was established industry practice,” says Page, as Oracle v. Google nears end. — SAN FRANCISCO—Alphabet CEO Larry Page testified in federal court this morning …
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| Kate Conger / TechCrunch: |
Oracle co-CEO Safra Catz argues Google split the Java community in two, cost Oracle hundreds of millions of dollars — Oracle and Google are back in the courtroom again — the same court they started in back in 2010, when Oracle first sued Google over the company's use of 37 Java APIs in its Android operating system.
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Samsung and Alibaba announce that Samsung Pay will work with Alipay — South Korean smartphone giant is desperate to revive its position in the Chinese market — Samsung Electronics Co. agreed with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s financial-services affiliate to cooperate on mobile payments …
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Now you can embed Reddit posts on other websites — Reddit posts are going to get the chance to live beyond Reddit itself, thanks to new embedding capabilities. — If you're an online writer or publisher, that means you can start including live Reddit content in your stories.
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Sources: Verizon and others are expected to bid $2B to $3B for Yahoo's core business, less than $4B to $8B figure reported earlier — Most of previous bids for core business came in the range of $4 billion and $8 billion; bids are due first week of June — Verizon Communications Inc …
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Business Insider and The Next Web. Tweets: @scottmaustin, @mikeindustries and @scottmaustin. See also Mediagazer
| Miguel Helft / Forbes: |
Google CEO Sundar Pichai confirms “Area 120” corporate incubator plans, says it is about “giving people a chance at 20% time more formally” — Google CEO Sundar Pichai confirmed to FORBES that the company is planning to set up a new corporate incubator dubbed “Area 120.”| David Wertime / Foreign Policy: |
Study: 488M, or 1 of every 178 posts, on China's social media each year come from pro-government propagandists — New research exposes a “massive secretive operation” to fill China's internet with propaganda. — They are the most hated group in Chinese cyberspace.
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