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Google partners with Barnes & Noble for same-day book deliveries from stores in West LA, SF Bay Area, and Manhattan — Google and Barnes & Noble Unite to Take on Amazon — Google and Barnes & Noble are joining forces to tackle their mutual rival Amazon, zeroing in on a service …
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Microsoft in talks for flashy Fifth Ave. store: sources — Tech giant would go head to head with Apple on prime Manhattan retail strip — Tech giant Microsoft is in negotiations to open its first ever New York City retail store on Fifth Ave., sources told the Daily News.
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BGR, Gizmodo, The Verge, iPhone, Softpedia News, WinBeta, Patently Apple, Neowin, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac and Business Insider
| Nick Bilton / New York Times: |
uBeam wireless charging technology, which uses ultrasound to charge portable electronics, expected to be on shelves within 2 years — Wireless Charging, at a Distance, Moves Forward for uBeam — LOS ANGELES — When Meredith Perry, 25, started studying astrobiology at the University of Pennsylvania …
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Engadget, Ubergizmo, Softpedia News, Laughing Squid, Business Insider and The Next Web. Tweets: @arrington
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Krebs says report on the theft of 1.2B email accounts is “for real”, having seen the data — Q&A on the Reported Theft of 1.2B Email Accounts — My phone and email have been flooded with questions and interview requests from various media outlets since security consultancy … | Robin Wauters / Tech.eu: |
Philippine telco PLDT buys 10% stake in Rocket Internet for 333 million euros, valuing it at 3.3 billion euros ($4.4 billion) — Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT), the largest telecommunications company in the Philippines, is buying a 10 percent stake in German tech startup incubator Rocket Internet.
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| Leo Kelion / BBC: |
Microsoft tips off authorities about child abuse images saved to OneDrive — Microsoft tip leads to child porn arrest in Pennsylvania — Microsoft's terms and conditions say it has the right to scan images in users' accounts — A tip-off from Microsoft has led to the arrest of a man …
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The Register, The Verge, cloudpro.co.uk, TechSpot, Neowin, CNET and SlashGear
| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
Android “L” Release Will Very Likely Include Multiple User Support For Phones — Earlier today, someone decided to post to the Android issue tracker complaining about the lack of multiuser support for smartphones. Within a few hours, a developer at Google responded and closed the issue …
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| Aditi Pai / mobihealthnews: |
Practice Fusion acquires after-hours patient-physician consultations company Ringadoc — San Francisco-based Practice Fusion, which offers electronic health records and patient management software company, has acquired after-hours virtual visits company Ringadoc for an undisclosed sum.
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| Sue Decker / HBR.org: |
Ex-Yahoo president Sue Decker on investing in Alibaba and learning from doing business in China — An Insider's Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal — Editor's note: When the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba goes public, as it will soon, Yahoo will earn many times its significant original stake …
Tweets: @peterschloss
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Google Acquires Emu, An IM Client With Siri-Like Intelligence — Google has acquired Emu, a new mobile messaging application that just exited beta earlier this year. Emu was at heart an IM client, but it differentiated itself from the crowded market with smart features that incorporated … | Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest Rolls Out Messaging So Pinners Can Have Conversations Around Shared Pins — Pinterest today is unveiling a new way users can communicate, collaborate and share with one another. With the launch of a new messaging feature, users will be able to keep discussions going on Pinterest around …
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Oh, How Pinteresting!, The Verge, The Next Web, Engadget, Electronista, Mashable, ReadWrite, USA Today, CNET and Gigaom. Tweets: @caseynewton
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft's Windows ‘Threshold’ expected to add virtual desktops, drop charms — Summary: Microsoft is going to do more than reintroduce a Start menu as part of its plan to make Windows 9, a k a ‘Threshold,’ more appealing to Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 users.| Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom: |
Yelp lied about review policies to inflate stock price, lawsuit claims — An investors' class action lawsuit against Yelp could help reveal whether rumors about the company's ad practices, which have never been proven, are true. — Yelp, a site that lets consumers post reviews of local businesses …
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| Mark Hachman / PC World: |
OneDrive continues Microsoft migration to Amazon mobile devices — As Amazon continues to blaze its own trail in Android devices, Microsoft's services are moving right along with it. — On Wednesday, Microsoft announced that its OneDrive cloud-storage app is now available in the Amazon Appstore …
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OneDrive Blog, ZDNet, The Next Web, SuperSite for Windows, Neowin, Engadget, WinBeta and 9to5Google. Tweets: @theromit
| Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom: |
The Hesse era at Sprint was a 7-year struggle with Nextel and bad network decisions — History isn't going judge Dan Hesse's tenure kindly, but many of the problems Hesse faced weren't of his own making. And instead of fixing Sprint's cultural flaws when he took over, SoftBank's Masayoshi Son only reinforced them.| Michael McWhertor / Polygon: |
Twitch implements YouTube-like system for blocking copyrighted audio — Twitch users now need to be more vigilant about the music they play while making gameplay videos. Starting today, Twitch is now scanning videos for unauthorized third-party audio — in-game and ambient music — and automatically muting that content.| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Twitter just dropped a huge hint that it will introduce shopping services — The evidence that Twitter is planning a move into e-commerce is stacking up, after a handful of users noticed a new (and seemingly dormant) setting for “payment and shipping” inside the company's Android app.
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Daily Dot, Gizmodo, AllTwitter, Marketing Land and InvestorPlace
Tweets: @journeydan and @serbanpaun
| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Google's YouTube Buys Mobile Video Startup Directr — In its latest effort to boost advertising by small businesses, Google said its YouTube unit had acquired Directr, a mobile-video app used by small businesses to create marketing videos. — No purchase price was disclosed.
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Directr for Business Blog, VentureBeat, AndroidHeadlines.com, Tech2, SlashGear, TechCrunch, 9to5Google and MarketWatch. Tweets: @alistairmbarr
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Gmail now surfaces Unsubscribe links to the top of emails — Google today released a neat feature for those who like to reduce the number of emails they receive. In short, Gmail will now surface the Unsubscribe link in certain emails to the top, beside the sender's email address.
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