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EU Parliament calls on Commission to consider Google break-up — Credit: Shutterstock / Markus Pfaff — Credit: Shutterstock / Markus Pfaff — As expected, the European Parliament has passed a resolution that calls on the European Commission to consider a break-up of Google … | European Parliament: |
EU Parliament urges EU Commission to unbundle search engines from other commercial services — MEPs zero in on internet search companies and clouds — PLENARY SESSION Press release - Free movement of services / Information society − 27-11-2014 - 12:58
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Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina is actively exploring a 2016 presidential run but faces criticisms from prominent Republicans amid failed 2010 Senate race — Carly Fiorina actively explores 2016 presidential run but faces GOP critics — On a Republican presidential debate stage expected …
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Microsoft Appears To Pre-Announce Its Purchase Of Email Startup Acompli — Whoops. Welcome to literal fait accompli. — A short, unfinished blog listed as written by Microsoft corporate vice president Rajesh Jha hit the RSS wires earlier today. Here's what it looked like:
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Apple Watch site refreshed to highlight Timekeeping, New Ways to Connect, and Health & Fitness — Apple has quietly refreshed its Apple Watch microsite with a few changes including more details about the upcoming wearable and newly added interactive images of the device.
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Obama signs E-Label Act, allowing manufacturers to put labels such as FCC symbols in software menus instead of on hardware — The US bill to phase out wonky symbols on the back of gadgets is now a law — The legislation designed to do away with printing various symbols and regulatory compliance numbers …
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Twitter to Start Tracking Which Apps Its Users Have Downloaded — Twitter will soon be peeking in on your smartphone. Literally. — The social network says it will start collecting data on which apps its users have downloaded onto their phones. The update is opt-out …
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Apple's new phones taking screen time from iPads; iPhone 6+ owners open 65% more articles and videos than those with smaller phones — The Screen-Size Debate: How the iPhone 6 Plus Impacts Where We Read & Watch — Every day, millions of articles, videos and web pages are saved and viewed …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Eyeing Up O2, BT Is Also In ‘Exploratory Discussions’ To Buy EE — Earlier this week, it emerged that BT was eyeing up buying a mobile carrier to expand its existing fixed line business, and that O2 was one of the two under consideration. Today we have confirmation of the other one …
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Tiger Global Raises $2.5 Billion For New Deals — Investment firm Tiger Global has been hunting down deals all year, and now it has a lot more cash to run down new prey. — According to an SEC filing, the firm closed $2.5 billion in new funding, that comes a little more than 6 months after it raised a $1.5 billion fund in April.| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Singapore marketplace app Carousell raises $6M series A led by Sequoia for Asia expansion — Mobile Marketplace Carousell Raises $6M Series A Led By Sequoia Capital — Carousell, a mobile app marketplace that lets sellers upload items with a few taps on their smartphones …
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DOJ used 225-year-old law to get federal court to order manufacturer to bypass phone password — Case Suggests How Government May Get Around Phone Encryption — The Justice Department is turning to a 225-year-old law to tackle a very modern problem: password-protected cellphones.
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