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| Microsoft: |
Microsoft to buy LinkedIn for $26.2B, Jeff Weiner to remain CEO, reporting to Satya Nadella — Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) and LinkedIn Corporation (NYSE: LNKD) on Monday announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will acquire LinkedIn for $196 per share …
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| Satya Nadella / Microsoft: |
Satya Nadella email to employees on acquisition of LinkedIn — I'm excited to share that today Microsoft announced a deal to acquire LinkedIn. You can see how Jeff Weiner, the CEO of LinkedIn, and I envision the opportunity ahead in this public presentation.
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| Jeff Weiner / LinkedIn Pulse: |
In email to staff, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner assures employees the company will be a “fully independent entity within Microsoft” — This is the email I sent to LinkedIn's global workforce today. I thought it might be interesting to others, too, so I've decided to publish it publicly.
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| Apple: |
Apple announces iOS 10: developer preview available today, public beta in July, final release this fall — SAN FRANCISCO — June 13, 2016 — Apple® today previewed iOS 10, the biggest release ever of the world's most advanced mobile operating system, featuring a huge update to Messages …
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| Lee Hutchinson / Ars Technica: |
Apple's new file system for iOS, macOS, tvOS and watchOS, called Apple File System or APFS, gets detailed in developer documents — Copy-on-write metadata, native encryption, instant cloning, snapshots, and more. — Though the feature wasn't mentioned in Apple's WWDC 2016 keynote …
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| Apple: |
Apple announces macOS Sierra: developer preview available today, public beta in July, final release this fall — SAN FRANCISCO — June 13, 2016 — Apple® today previewed macOS Sierra™, a major update to the world's most advanced desktop operating system, with new features …
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| Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Microsoft debuts Xbox One S, 40% smaller than original Xbox One, 4K Ultra HD support, available in August for $399 with 2TB HD; 500GB version coming for $299 — The Xbox One just got a lot smaller. Announced today at E3 in Los Angeles (and leaked a day earlier), the new Xbox One S takes … | Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft to let Xbox Live users create clubs, control memberships, will provide a BBS-like service to help players find others to play against, by end of year — Players will have the ability to form groups of gamers around the globe and control their membership
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| Apple: |
Apple announces watchOS 3, focusing on speed and simplicity: developer preview available today, final release this fall — SAN FRANCISCO — June 13, 2016 — Today, Apple® previewed watchOS® 3, featuring significantly improved performance with the ability to launch favorite apps instantly …
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
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| Apple: |
Apple announces Apple TV update with new Siri capabilities and single sign-on coming this fall — SAN FRANCISCO — June 13, 2016 — Apple® today announced powerful new Siri® capabilities, single sign-on for Apple TV® and many more great new features for users … | Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat rolls out Snap Ads Between Stories, a new Ads API, and many ad improvements; all ads will be reviewed — Snapchat is ready to make the big bucks that could let it go public thanks to a slew of important updates to its ads offering. They'll give advertisers the spotlight …
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| Apple: |
Apple's Swift Playgrounds for iPad is designed to teach kids programming concepts, will release in fall for free — SAN FRANCISCO June 13, 2016 Apple® today introduced Swift Playgrounds™, an innovative new app for iPad® that makes learning to code fun and easy for anyone.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple unbundles its native apps like Mail, Maps, Music and more, puts them in the App Store — Apple today has made a big change to its suite of native applications for iOS devices, like Mail, Stocks, Compass, Calculator, Watch, Weather and others: it's now making these available as standalone downloads in the iTunes App Store.
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9to5Mac, Mashable, Pocket-lint, Engadget, PhoneDog.com, MacStories, New York Magazine, 9to5Mac and Recode. Tweets: @robertmclaws
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: FanDuel and DraftKings are in merger talks as both face legal battles — At their peaks, both companies had valuations over $1 billion — New York is expected to allow fantasy sports by NFL's start — DraftKings Inc. and FanDuel Inc., the two biggest daily fantasy sports companies … Sponsor Posts
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