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Sources: Google plans to announce a product connecting its search users with home-service providers this spring — Google Wants To Send You A Plumber — The company is readying a new product intended to connect search users with local home-service providers.
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Samsung's round smartwatch to be called Gear A, come in two variants, one with Bluetooth, one with 3G and calling support — Exclusive: Samsung's round smartwatch to be called Gear A, have 3G and calling support — A perfect smartwatch? There's no such thing, but Samsung …
| Brad Heath / USA Today: |
US Justice Department and Drug Enforcement Administration secretly tracked billions of international calls for nearly a decade before 9/11 — U.S. secretly tracked billions of calls for decades — Starting in 1992, the Justice Department amassed logs of virtually all telephone calls …
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HBO Now launches in US on Apple TV, iOS, and Cablevision's Optimum Online for $14.99 per month — HBO Now goes live for Apple TV, iOS and Optimum users — We knew HBO's new Now streaming service would launch ahead of the Season 5 premiere of the popular Game of Thrones series …
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| Jim Edwards / Business Insider: |
Angela Ahrendts tells employees to encourage customers to order Watch and new MacBook through Apple Store app and online store as part of “change in mindset” — Angela Ahrendts has told Apple employees ‘a significant change in mindset’ is coming to the way the company launches products
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| Chris Thompson / Poynter: |
Fortune Magazine to announce hiring of six former Gigaom reporters, a third of editorial staff — Fortune Magazine to hire roughly one-third of GigaOm's editorial staff — Fortune Magazine will announce Wednesday morning that it has hired six reporters from GigaOm, according to multiple sources close to the matter.
| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Google and Microsoft case could determine what constitutes a “reasonable royalty” when patents are used as part of a standard — Google Will Battle Microsoft (Again) Over the Value of Patents in Tech Standards — Google and Microsoft will face off in a San Francisco appeals court Wednesday …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google Moderator, a service that ranked user-submitted questions, suggestions, and ideas, is closing on July 31 — Google Moderator is shutting down on July 31, 2015 — Google has quietly announced Google Moderator will be shut down on July 31, 2015. Users can download their Google Moderator data …
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| Don Reisinger / CNET: |
iFixit teardown shows Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge is difficult to repair, gives it 3 out of 10 for repairability — Teardown shows Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge is tough to repair — The smartphone, which has a curved screen at the edge, received a score of three out of 10 for repairability from iFixit.| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Former Uber CTO launches Ride, a carpool-organizing service for co-workers, backed by Uber investor TPG — Early Uber Architect Launches Carpooling App ‘Ride’ — A new smartphone app with ties to Uber aims to make carpooling easier for millions of daily commuters.| Brad Stone / Bloomberg Business: |
Uber accounted for 47% of all ground transportation business expenses of US companies using Certify software last month; Lyft accounts for 1% — Uber Is Winning Over Americans' Expense Accounts — The app accounts for nearly half of all ground transportation business expenses at many companies in North America
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Certify, BuzzFeed, Certify, Uber Blog, VatorNews, ZDNet and Business Insider. Tweets: @kimmaicutler
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Instagram Adds Post Notifications For Specific Accounts, Color And Fade Tools — Instagram has a couple of new photo editing tools available in its mobile applications, out today on Android and coming soon to iOS: Color and Fade. Color lets you adjust the tone of both the highlights … | Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
Meld, creator of smart oven knobs with automatic temperature controls, launches Meld Knob and and Clip on Kickstarter — With Meld, Another Step Toward the Internet of Tasty Things — SEATTLE — Most demonstrations of new technology do not involve cooking and then tasting freshly fried potato chips …
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Data integration company Informatica goes private after $5.3B acquisition by private equity firm Permira — Informatica goes private in $5.3 billion deal — Summary:The data integration and management software provider will pursue its growth plans as a private company owned by Permira and Canada's pension plan.| Christine Dobby / Globe and Mail: |
Bell Canada reverses its online tracking policy to opt-in after privacy commissioner report — Bell to change Web-tracking policy after report from privacy watchdog — Bell Canada says it will change its policy on tracking the Internet browsing habits of its cellphone customers in response … | J.T. Quigley / Tech in Asia: |
Dropbox surpasses 10M Japanese users, inks biz cloud deal with SoftBank — Dropbox co-founder and CEO Drew Houston (left) with Japan Country Manager Hiroaki Kawamura. — Dropbox co-founder and CEO Drew Houston was in Tokyo this morning to announce the firm's partnership with SoftBank Commerce and Service (SoftBank C&S).
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Telecompaper, USA Today, Business Wire, ZDNet and Fortune
| Gaurav Raghuvanshi / Wall Street Journal: |
SingTel To Buy U.S. Cybersecurity Firm Trustwave for $810 Million — SingTel is buying 98% of the equity of Trustwave, with the balance remaining with CEO Robert J. McCullen — SINGAPORE—Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. Wednesday said it would buy Trustwave, a U.S. managed-security services specialist … | CNN: |
Russian hackers accessed sensitive White House information, including real-time details of president's schedule, via compromised State Department system — How the U.S. thinks Russians hacked the White House — Washington (CNN)Russian hackers behind the damaging cyber intrusion …
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