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Quirky unveils Wink app and $79 hardware hub to connect smart home devices, partners with Home Depot, expects 60 Wink-enabled products by July — Quirky to Create a Smart-Home Products Company — The repurposed red brick warehouse in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood is a bustling hub of modern industrial activity.
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| Liam Spradlin / Android Police: |
HTC planning an 8.9" Tegra K1 tablet internally referred to as the Nexus 9 for Q4 2014 — This Is Volantis, HTC's Nine-Inch Nexus Tablet — With Android Silver rumors brewing, and LG's Ken Hong indicating that the manufacturer doesn't have a Nexus phone in the cards …
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| Christopher Breen / Macworld: |
A next-gen Apple TV, acting as a HomeKit hub, could let you control home devices on the road — Apple's HomeKit hub may already be in your house — At Apple's recent Worldwide Developers Conference, the company announced—among a great many other things—HomeKit, a suite of tools … | Vindu Goel / New York Times: |
Marissa Mayer tries to make Yahoo a “daily habit” with Tumblr-inspired digital magazines — Yahoo Wants You to Linger (on the Ads, Too) — Four editors were deep in debate at Yahoo Food's offices in Manhattan: Would Yahoo visitors click on a feature about foods of the ancient Silk Road … | Wall Street Journal: |
Andreessen Horowitz invests $90M in enterprise cybersecurity firm Tanium at $900M valuation — Andreessen Invests in Cybersecurity Firm — Tanium, Which Helps Pinpoint IT Threats, Gets $90 Million — Venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is placing its second-biggest bet ever … | Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
The Feature Google Killed The + Command For — Direct Connect — Is Now Dead — Cast your mind back to November 2011, only a few months after the launch of Google+. That's when Google made one of its biggest Google+ification moves. It demoted a long-standing search feature involving …
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| Andy Baio / Medium: |
How public profiles and friending could improve discovery in the App Store and help indie devs — Friending the App Store — How we discover games and apps is broken, hitting indie developers hardest. Here's one way to fix it. — I love indie games, and follow the indie game scene pretty closely.
Tweets: @waxpancake and @zephoria
| Luke Vnenchak / New York Times: |
NYT's content management system Scoop manages 700 articles, 600 images, and 50 videos a day — Scoop: A Glimpse Into the NYTimes CMS — You know the importance of technology to the future of journalism has become a widely accepted fact when a prominent editor decides to join a new company because of its content management system.
Tweets: @christianyates and @robinsloan
| David Heinzmann / Chicago Tribune: |
Chicago installing sensors in light poles to observe air, weather, sound, and cell phone traffic — New sensors will scoop up ‘big data’ on Chicago … The curled metal fixtures set to go up on a handful of Michigan Avenue light poles later this summer may look like delicate pieces of sculpture …
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Uber blocking secondary stock sales, has recently offered early shareholders buybacks at a price pegged to sub-$4B valuation — Uber plays hardball with early shareholders — Uber is very valuable. But there's only one way to sell its stock. Two months ago, an early Uber employee thought … | Emily Badger / Washington Post: |
Taxi medallions have been the best investment in America for years. Now Uber may be changing that. — CHICAGO — A taxicab is a car remade by government, modified dozens of ways by edicts within subsections of articles of the city's taxi code. — “Everywhere on this car has been regulated,” John Henry Assabill says.
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Skift and VentureBeat. Tweets: @washingtonpost, @mheadd, @washingtonpost, @mattapuzzo, @stevesi, @mattyglesias and @codinghorror
| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Snapchat says Stories are viewed 1 billion times per day, are more popular than Snaps — Surprise: Snapchat's most popular feature isn't snaps anymore — Stories are now bigger than your self-destructing snaps — So, Snapchat's just for sexting, right? Apparently not.Sponsor Posts
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