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Twitter won't count photos, videos, @names in replies toward 140 characters “in the coming months”, will allow self-retweets, touts improved onboarding metrics — Over the past decade, the Tweet has evolved from a simple 140-character text message to a rich canvas …
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KGI: Apple to release MacBook Pros with Touch ID and an OLED touch bar replacing function keys above keyboard in Q4, plus a 13-inch MacBook model — According to a new note from reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo at KGI Securities and corroborated by our sources, Apple plans to introduce …
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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
French government raids Google's Paris HQ as part of ongoing tax investigation seeking €1B+; company says it is working with authorities — Prosecutors follow up on complaint from France's tax authority — PARIS—Dozens of tax investigators swooped into Google's French headquarters …
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| Katie Roof / TechCrunch: |
Google brings new local search ads to Google Maps, will experiment with new formats like promoted pins; advertisers can now place bids for specific device types — Google's AdWords is getting a makeover. The search giant announced today that they have made several updates to make its advertising tools more suitable for mobile.| Steven Levy / Backchannel: |
A look at the design process behind Pebble Core: an untethered music-streaming accessory with two programmable buttons, GPS, and optional cable-less charging — The Pebble Core lives on your keychain. It plays music and tracks your run. But it won't give you the time of day.
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Some startup employees and shareholders invoke an obscure Delaware law to open up financials and value shares, as some firms push employees to waive that right — Delaware law is potentially valuable tool for employees and investors who now question their shares' worth
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twilio ramps up mobile play with programmable SIMs for IoT and handsets with T-Mobile — Twilio stormed into the telecoms market several years ago with a set of services that turned core communications features once controlled by carriers, like text messages and phones numbers … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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| Colin Stretch / Facebook: |
Facebook responds to GOP Sen. Thune on Trending Topics, says investigation found no systematic bias, cannot rule out unintentional bias, plans improvements — Last week we met with Chairman of the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee John Thune to describe our investigation in response …
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Samsung says no Android Wear devices are in development or being planned, citing better battery efficiency of Tizen OS — It was at Google I/O two years ago that Samsung announced its Gear Live smartwatch (now discontinued) running the Android Wear OS. Two years later the collaboration is over.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
VW invests $300M in Uber rival Gett in new ride-sharing partnership — The on-demand transportation service continues to heat up, and today the spotlight is shining on a New York startup whose business is based primarily in Europe. Gett, a cab-hailing startup with operations across some 60 cities …
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| Ted Sarandos / Netflix Media Center: |
Starting in September, Netflix will be exclusive US pay TV home for new releases from Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and Pixar — Summertime = Movies. Well, on Netflix, anytime = movies...but we do see about a 20% increase in movie watching by our members in the US around Memorial Day weekend.
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| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Jon Callas, co-founder of Silent Circle, Blackphone, PGP Corp, was re-hired by Apple in May — Apple Inc (AAPL.O), which has resisted pressure from U.S. law enforcement to unlock encrypted iPhones, this month rehired a top expert in practical cryptography to bring more powerful security features to a wide range of consumer products.Sponsor Posts
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