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Amazon Fire TV review: best experience is reserved for Amazon's own content, somewhat pricey — Amazon Fire TV review: Impressive debut, but room to grow — The Good The Amazon Fire TV is best way to watch Amazon Instant movies and TV yet, and Prime subscribers can stream thousands of titles for no additional charge.
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Amazon Fire TV Teardown — Rainy weather got you down? Stuck inside sitting on the couch eating popcorn? What better to do whilst eating popcorn than...watch TV. While on Fire. Amazon Fire TV.™ Yesterday, Amazon announced a tiny black box that supposedly does everything better than all of the other tiny black boxes.
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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Internal Apple Document Shows Worries iPhone Growth Could Stall — Internal Apple documents show the concern, at least from the company's sales force, that the portion of the market occupied by the iPhone was on the wane amid growing competition from Android devices that have either larger screens or lower prices than the iPhone.
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TechnoBuffalo, Business Insider, MacRumors, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, The Droid Guy, Pocketnow, TUAW, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog and Electronista. Tweets: @fmanjoo
| Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter introducing 15 new ad types over the next 6 months, will debut app ads in a few weeks — Coming to Your Twitter Feed: 15 New Types of Ads — Like Facebook, Social-Media Service to Tap Into Demand for Ads to Download Apps — New ads—lots of new ads—are on their way to Twitter Inc.
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Re/code, Gigaom, The Verge, Marketing Land, Engadget and TechnoBuffalo. Tweets: @marcsettle. See also Mediagazer
| Brian McCullough / Internet History Podcast: |
On The 20th Anniversary - An Oral History of Netscape's Founding — It Was 20 Years Ago Today... On April 4th, 1994, Mosaic Communications Corporation was officially incorporated as a going concern. If you don't recognize the name, that's because the company would eventually change … | Bertel King, Jr / Android Police: |
Amazon introduces voice-enabled Dash barcode scanner to help you shop on AmazonFresh — Amazon Introduces Dash Shopping Accessory, Adds Integration To AmazonFresh Android App — Amazon wants to keep you spending money, and as a commerce company, it has the benefit of having no reason to hide this fact.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Why Is Facebook Page Reach Decreasing? More Competition And Limited Attention — Every Page on Facebook wants everything they post shown to everyone. But people only read a limited amount of News Feed per day. There simply isn't room for everything, and the competition for feed space is intensifying.
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| Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
T-Mobile CEO Fires Back After Losing BlackBerry Sales Arrangement — BlackBerry and T-Mobile executives should read Jordan's #love column. Breaking up over the Internet is rough on everyone. — In a letter released this evening, T-Mobile's outspoken CEO John Legere talked … | Neha Dimri / Reuters: |
Car-pricing comparison service TrueCar files to raise up to $125M in IPO — Car-comparison website TrueCar files for IPO — (Reuters) - TrueCar Inc, which runs a car-pricing comparison website, filed with U.S. regulators on Friday to raise up to $125 million in an initial public offering of common stock.
| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Samsung's Ativ SE Windows Phone now available for pre-order from Verizon — Ships April 12th without Windows Phone 8.1 update — After multiple leaks, the Samsung Ativ SE is now official. As expected, the device arrives with Windows Phone 8, a 5-inch 1080p display, a 13-megapixel camera …
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Verizon Wireless, Engadget, BGR, Softpedia News, LAPTOP Magazine, PC Magazine, Gotta Be Mobile, Electronista, WinBeta, IntoMobile, Gigaom, Softpedia News, BetaNews, SlashGear, Tech2, IntoMobile, Ubergizmo and WMPoweruser. Tweets: @stroughtonsmith
| Mike Isaac / Re/code: |
Vine Co-Founder Colin Kroll to Step Down From General Manager Role — Colin Kroll, one of Vine's founding employees and current leader of the Twitter-owned video sharing startup, plans to leave his position as general manager and assume an advisory position, according to a tweet he posted on Friday.
| Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept: |
Snowden docs show GCHQ discussed using Facebook, Twitter, YouTube for covert propaganda — The “Cuban Twitter” Scam Is a Drop in the Internet Propaganda Bucket — A woman uses her cellphone as she sits on the Malecon in Havana, Cuba. Image credit: Franklin Reyes/AP
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“Cuban Twitter” heads to hearings in Congress — WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the U.S. government agency that secretly created a “Cuban Twitter” communications network designed to undermine the communist government in Cuba is expected to testify next week before a senator who thinks the whole idea was “dumb, dumb, dumb.”| Jonathan Cheng / Wall Street Journal: |
Samsung claims breakthrough in commercializing graphene, of potential use in flexible displays — Samsung Claims Progress on the Next Wonder Material — A group of researchers supported by Samsung Electronics said Friday that they've developed a technique for synthesizing graphene …
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Samsung Tomorrow, The Register, sciencemag.org, Engadget, VentureBeat, ZDNet, 9to5Google, IEEE Spectrum Recent …, iDownloadBlog.com, Tech2, PhoneArena, Business Insider, Softpedia News, CNET, Inquirer, Android Central and SamMobile
Tweets: @alistairmbarr and @wsjd
| Derrick Harris / Gigaom: |
Facebook open sources code for managing A/B tests — A/B tests to determine which features or designs work best is a standard tool of the trade for any data scientist working on a web or mobile application. On Thursday, Facebook released a portion of its A/B testing code, called PlanOut … | Bloomberg: |
Symantec plans to hire JPMorgan Chase to explore options, defend from activist shareholders — Symantec Said to Hire JPMorgan to Seek Options — Symantec Corp. (SYMC) is hiring JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) to explore its options and defend itself from activist shareholders …
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| Andy / TorrentFreak: |
Slysoft DVD Ripper owner fined $30K in criminal action by Antigua & Barbuda court — Slysoft DVD Ripper Owner Found Guilty in Criminal Action — If one existed, Antigua would hardly head up a list of countries sympathetic to copyright claims originating from the United States.
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