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Peter Thiel acknowledges he spent around $10M to fund a team of lawyers to help Gawker “victims” like Hulk Hogan sue the company, in act of “deterrence” — A billionaire Silicon Valley entrepreneur was outed as being gay by a media organization.
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Sources: Apple had preliminary discussions about buying Time Warner last year as spending on original content set to increase — A top Apple executive raised the prospect of the iPhone maker buying Time Warner at a meeting with the owner of HBO, CNN and Warner Brothers, according to three people who were briefed on it.| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
HP goes big on gaming with new Omen laptops and desktop — HP gave us a brief taste of the legendary Voodoo PC gaming brand with its Omen laptop over nearly two years ago. Now, the company is bringing the Omen name to all of its gaming hardware — a new lineup of laptops and desktops, as well as a 32-inch quad-HD monitor.| Paul McNamara / Network World: |
FCC formally fines Chinese firm $34.9M for selling illegal cellphone jammers and a Florida man $48K for using them — Two years ago the FCC announced its intention to fine a Chinese electronics maker $34.9 million and a Florida man $48,000 for respectively selling and using illegal cell-phone jammers.
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Lenovo Q4 profit up 80% to $180M but revenue falls 24% to $9.13B YoY as PC demand slows — First-quarter profit up drastically, helped by cost cuts — HONG KONG—A year and a half ago, Lenovo Group Ltd. spent $5 billion to buy itself into growth sectors as the personal-computer market slowed.| Barb Darrow / Fortune: |
Salesforce to spend $400M on Amazon Web Services over next four years according to 10Q statement and sources — We knew Salesforce and Amazon Web Services were getting cozy, ever since Salesforce's recent earnings call when its chief executive, Marc Benioff, effusively praised Amazon's cloud unit.| Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land: |
Google releases Data Studio, a free version of its data visualization tool, Data Studio 360; tool only available in US for now — Google Data Studio integrates with AdWords, Analytics, YouTube and other data sources. — Google has released Google Data Studio, a free version of its new reporting …
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Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur — Reddit never let you upload images, until now. That could dismantle Reddit's informal alliance with image-sharing community Imgur. That's where Redditors would typically post their images or GIFs and then share the links on Reddit.| Marty Swant / Adweek: |
Facebook to shut down its desktop-based ad retargeting exchange as company shifts focus toward mobile — Social platform redirecting advertisers to mobile — Facebook is shutting down Facebook Exchange and moving advertisers to newer products in a coordinated effort to focus more heavily …
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| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Source: Twitter curtails development of Buy button and product pages, moves commerce team to other projects — Jack Dorsey puts Dick Costolo-era project on backburner as Twitter refocuses on core product. — Twitter has curtailed product development on its ‘Buy’ button and product pages …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Chrome 51 released with new APIs, including Credential Management API, more efficient page rendering; available for Windows and Mac, Linux coming soon — Google today launched Chrome 51 for Windows and Mac, promising that the Linux version will “ship shortly.”
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Foxconn replaces 60K factory workers with robots, denies that it means long-term job losses — Apple and Samsung supplier Foxconn has reportedly replaced 60,000 factory workers with robots. — One factory has “reduced employee strength from 110,000 to 50,000 thanks to the introduction of robots” …
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| Kotaku: |
Sources: Microsoft is planning a cheaper, smaller Xbox One for E3 and a more powerful model in 2017; possible partnership with Oculus in the works — Microsoft is preparing at least two new Xbox models for release in the next two years, sources tell Kotaku.
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