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| Owen Hill / Mojang: |
Mojang's founders Markus “Notch” Persson, Carl Manneh, and Jakob Porsér to leave the company after Microsoft acquisition — Yes, we're being bought by Microsoft — Yes, the deal is real. Mojang is being bought by Microsoft. — It was reassuring to see how many of …
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| Markus Persson / notch.net: |
Markus “Notch” Persson on selling and leaving Mojang: “It's not about the money. It's about my sanity.” — I'm leaving Mojang — September 15th, 2014 I don't see myself as a real game developer. I make games because it's fun, and because I love games and I love to program …
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| Microsoft Corporation: |
Microsoft buys Minecraft maker Mojang for $2.5B — Minecraft to join Microsoft — Iconic cross-platform franchise to become part of Microsoft Studios. — Microsoft Corp. today announced it has reached an agreement to acquire Mojang, the celebrated Stockholm-based game developer, and the company's iconic “Minecraft” franchise.
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| Phil Spencer / Xbox Wire: |
Head of Xbox Phil Spencer: we will “grow the Minecraft community and nurture the franchise”, continue to make the game available on all existing platforms — Minecraft to Join Microsoft — By Phil Spencer, Head of Xbox — Today is an incredibly exciting day for our team …
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| Apple: |
Apple Announces Record Pre-orders for iPhone 6 & iPhone 6 Plus Top Four Million in First 24 Hours — Available in More Than 20 Additional Countries on Friday, September 26 — Apple® today announced a record number of first day pre-orders of iPhone® 6 and iPhone 6 Plus …
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| Leo Kelion / BBC: |
Google launches Android One smartphones for around $105 in India, supports seven local languages and offline YouTube playback — Android One smartphones released in India by three companies — The three new smartphones feature the Android One branding on their backs
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| Stuart Dredge / Guardian: |
Apple makes it easier to delete the new U2 album from iTunes libraries — Responds to controversy around ‘Songs of Innocence’ being pushed to people's devices with new web removal tool — Apple has responded to criticism of its deal to give away U2's new album to iTunes users by making … | Wall Street Journal: |
Bill Gurley says Silicon Valley is taking on the most risk since 1999, will see high-profile failures in the next year or two — Venture Capitalist Sounds Alarm on Startup Investing — Silicon Valley Has Taken on Too Much Risk, Gurley Says — Silicon Valley is a risk-driven place.| Christina Farr / Reuters: |
Stanford, Duke University hospitals to launch HealthKit trials with diabetics, other patients — Exclusive: Two Apple medical trials shed light on how HealthKit will work — (Reuters) - Two prominent U.S. hospitals are preparing to launch trials with diabetics and chronic disease patients …
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| Brett King / Finextra: |
Apple Pay cements NFC as the industry standard, accelerates the shift toward ubiquitous mobile payments — Africa, ApplePay and the iPhone 6: Resistance is futile — If you've followed my bullish ramblings on mobile payments here at Finextra, you'll know that talk of the coming ubiquitousness …
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WikiLeaks releases copies of FinFisher malware governments reportedly use to spy on journalists, political dissidents, and others — SpyFiles 4 — Today, 15 September 2014, WikiLeaks releases previously unseen copies of weaponised German surveillance malware used by intelligence agencies around …
| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
T-Mobile to Upgrade iPhone “Test-Drive” Units to iOS 8, With iPhone 6 Coming — T-Mobile, which has been letting potential customers try out an iPhone 5s for free, says it wants to incorporate Apple's latest technology into its program. — The carrier told Re/code that it will start upgrading …
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Panasonic puts a 1-inch sensor and a Leica lens on new CM1 smartphone — Seeking to set a new benchmark for the cameraphone category — Panasonic has made the biggest news of Photokina so far with the announcement of its new Lumix CM1 Android smartphone.
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| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
FCC has now received 3M net neutrality comments, up 2X from last week; submissions end today — The FCC has now received 3 million net neutrality comments — The Federal Communications Commission has just released an updated count of how many comments it's received on net neutrality … | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Ride-sharing service Sidecar raises $15M as it prepares for national expansion, adds Richard Branson as investor — Sidecar raises $15M to build 'world's largest transportation marketplace' as Richard Branson hops on as investor — Sidecar may not make quite as many headlines as Uber or Lyft … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Qualcomm Quietly Acquires AI-Based Image Recognition Startup Euvision — Another acquisition in the area of image recognition technology, and another exit for a European startup to a U.S. giant. Qualcomm has acquired Euvision Technologies, a specialist in image recognition applications powered … Sponsor Posts
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