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Oculus releases a Minecraft version for Gear VR headsets on the Oculus Store for $6.99 — Minecraft enters virtual reality on Samsung's Gear VR headset — It's time to move beyond the smartphone screen and into the world of Minecraft. — Oculus VR, Facebook's virtual reality company …
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Oculus, Mojang, Variety, Android Authority, BGR, The Next Web, TIME, CNET, USA Today, Digital Trends, The Verge, Tech Insider, Droid Gamers, Road to VR, Ubergizmo, TouchArcade and SlashGear. Tweets: @minecraft
| Chris Strohm / Bloomberg: |
FBI confirms it won't send method used to hack San Bernadino iPhone to a government review that could have forced FBI to share info about the method with Apple — FBI Makes Official Its Decision to Keep Apple iPhone Hack Secret — Agency says it doesn't have the technical expertise to share
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Apple says it received its first FBI tip via Vulnerability Equities Process on April 14; vulnerability already fixed on iOS9 and El Capitan — Apple says FBI gave it first vulnerability tip on April 14 — The FBI informed Apple Inc of a vulnerability in its iPhone and Mac software on April 14 … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nintendo FY16 misses forecast as profits plunge 60%, NX console to launch in March 2017 — Nintendo earnings plunge 60 percent in fiscal year as it preps new hardware — That's an ugly bottom line. — Nintendo's earnings for the fiscal year ended March 31 fell 60.6 percent to 16.5 million yen …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
IDC: 334.9M smartphones shipped worldwide in Q1, up just 0.2% YoY, marking the smallest YoY growth on record; Samsung extends lead over Apple — IDC: Smartphone shipments flat for the first time; Samsung widens lead over Apple in Q1 2016 — Smartphone vendors shipped a total of 334.9 million smartphones worldwide last quarter.
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IDC, AppleInsider, Re/code, AppAdvice.com Latest, MobileSyrup.com, MacRumors, Android Beat and iPhone Hacks
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Google Calendar adds “Find a time” feature that suggests meeting times based on mutual availability; now on Android for Google Apps for Work or Edu users — Google Calendar for Android: Find a time for my meeting — Smartphones have made productivity portable.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Judge finds Amazon liable for in-app charges racked up by kids — A federal court has ruled that Amazon is responsible for charges billed to parents by their kids through in-app purchases. — The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) first lodged the case against Amazon back in July 2014 …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo reaches deal with activist Starboard adding 4 people to board, including Starboard CEO — As Yahoo continues to weigh up acquisition offers, the company has announced that it's reached a deal with activist investor Starboard, which had written one of its famous letters …
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Re/code, Fortune, Reuters, Business Wire, CNET, Wall Street Journal, ABC News, Business Insider, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Quartz, VentureBeat, USA Today, Fox Business and Tech Trader Daily. Tweets: @ingridlunden
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Spotify buys photo aggregator CrowdAlbum to build more marketing tools for artists — Spotify has made another acquisition to build out the tools that it provides to artists who use Spotify's streaming platform to grow their listeners and overall business. It has bought CrowdAlbum …
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Sources: Comcast in talks to buy DreamWorks Animation for $3B+, would likely merge DreamWorks with Universal Pictures — Comcast in Talks to Buy DreamWorks Animation for More Than $3 Billion — Deal would join DreamWorks with Comcast's Universal Pictures
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New York Times, Ars Technica, Investor's Business Daily, Fortune, Tech Trader Daily, Reuters, Tubefilter, Ubergizmo, The Verge, Engadget, ZDNet, SlashGear, Hollywood Reporter, Light Reading, Gizmodo, DSLreports, TechSpot, Ars Technica UK, Digital Trends, Gizmodo UK, Forbes, Deadline, Consumerist and socalTECH.com
Tweets: @nytimesbusiness and @bizfleury
See also Mediagazer| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Source: Facebook is offering some content creators around $250K for 20 live video posts per month over a three-month period — As Social Shifts To Video, Content Creators Win Power And Dollars — Photo illustration by Alex Kantrowitz, BuzzFeed News / Thinkstock-Facebook
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PCWorld, CNET, ZDNet, VentureBeat, The Register and Business Insider. Tweets: @robinwauters. Thanks:@kantrowitz. See also Mediagazer
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Samsung's Gear 360 camera goes on sale April 29, captures near 4K-quality video for VR via two fisheye F2.0 lenses; price still unknown — Samsung's Gear 360 camera is going on sale in 2 days and we still don't know how much it costs — Samsung unveiled the Gear 360 virtual reality cameralast month at Mobile World Conference.| Sonam Joshi / Mashable: |
Starting 2017, all new mobile phones sold in India must have a “panic button” function that lets users make emergency calls, in move to improve women's safety — From 2017, all new mobile phones in India will have a panic button for women's safety
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| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
Smart home company Vivint raises $100M co-led by Peter Thiel and Solamere Capital — Peter Thiel and Mitt Romney invested $100 million in a company that wants to be the Apple of smart homes — Vivint, a smarthome company based out of Provo, Utah, has raised $100 million in its first round of venture-capital funding.| Johana Bhuiyan / Re/code: |
Arianna Huffington joins Uber's board of directors — Arianna Huffington, the co-founder and editor in chief of the Huffington Post (and an Uber investor already), has joined Uber's board of directors, company CEO Travis Kalanick announced today. — As a director, Huffington is in the company …
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Tweets: @jamesliamcook, @dangillmor, @saraashleyo, @ariannahuff, @danprimack and @mhbergen
See also Mediagazer| Olivier Laurent / TIME: |
Getty Images files EU antitrust complaint against Google for scraping pics from websites, displaying and allowing downloads of hi-res images — Google Accused of Enabling Photography Piracy — Photography company Getty Images is accusing Google of scraping images from third party websites …
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Getty Images Press Room, Techdirt, SiliconBeat, Financial Times, Digital Trends, BetaNews, TorrentFreak, The Register, Search Engine Land, 9to5Google, ZDNet, BBC, Ubergizmo, Guardian, Engadget, TechSpot, Gizmodo UK, Fortune, Inquirer, ResearchBuzz, VentureBeat, Android Central and The Verge. Thanks:@lutherlowe. See also Mediagazer
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Apple services revenue grows 20% YoY to $5.99B, now higher than Mac revenue — Apple now makes more money from its services than selling Macs — Apple now makes more revenue from its services than it does from selling Macs. Revenue from services like iTunes, the App Store, iTunes …
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