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Google Removes Amazon's App Listing From Google Play Search Following Addition Of Appstore, Instant Video Integrations — In October, we spotted that Amazon had quietly launched a hidden and functional app store within its main Android application which was available for download on Google Play.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Xbox One sells 1.2M units in U.S. in November, topping PS4 and Wii U in early holiday battle — Microsoft's Xbox One posted overall record unit sales in November, with 1.2 million units sold in the U.S. — reaping the benefits of a $50 price cut to top the PlayStation 4 and Wii U …
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Apple now requires cases protect devices from 1m drops, meet new environmental standards — Apple recently started requiring case manufacturers in its Made for iPhone (MFi) licensing program follow new requirements that will ensure cases better protect Apple devices and cover glass from impact …
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Apple online retail stores in US and UK now accepting PayPal — Apple's Online Store Starts Accepting PayPal — Apple.com shoppers in the U.S. and the U.K. have a new way to pay for the latest iPhone or iPad: PayPal. Previously available as a payment option only in Apple's app and content stores …
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China's Baidu Set To Partner With Uber And Reportedly Invest Up To $600M — Uber may have just raised a fresh $1.2 billion this month, but the company looks set to welcome a new investor, Chinese internet giant Baidu, which is reportedly set to invest as much as $600 million into the U.S. firm.
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YouTube is experimenting with a built-in GIF maker tool for videos — YouTube Now Lets You Make GIFs From Videos — Making short GIFs of YouTube videos is a pretty well-established practice now — so much so that there's dozens of websites dedicated to this finest of art forms.| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Adobe acquires stock photo giant Fotolia for $800 million in cash — Buried within its fourth quarter earnings report, creative technologies company Adobe today revealed it plans to acquire Fotolia, a stock photo site which hosts 34 million images and videos.
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Microsoft ready to show off Windows 10 mobile SKU on January 21 — Summary:Microsoft will share more about the Windows 10 ‘consumer experience’ at an event on January 21 in Redmond. — Microsoft officials sent invitations on December 11 to selected press and analysts to its next Windows 10 reveal event.| Oculus VR: |
Oculus acquires skeletal hand tracking firm Nimble VR and 3D mapping company 13th Lab, hires motion capture expert Chris Bregler — Nimble VR, 13th Lab, and Chris Bregler join Oculus — Computer vision is at the heart of delivering comfortable and incredible virtual reality.
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Nimble VR, Gizmodo, 13th Lab, TechNode, TechCrunch, Engadget, VG247, SlashGear, The Verge, Gigaom, CNET, Gamasutra, Seeking Alpha and GamesIndustry.biz
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| Tom Huddleston Jr / Fortune: |
Google to close its Russian engineering office before country's new rules on data storage take effect Jan. 2015 — Google gives a big ‘nyet’ to Russian engineering operations — Google may be the latest tech company to pull up stakes in Russia. — The online search giant is reportedly planning … | Julia Love / Mercury News: |
Protesters storm Apple campus urging better working conditions for service workers — CUPERTINO — As rain pummeled the Bay Area, a group of protesters stormed Apple's campus Thursday, calling for the tech giant to help the service workers who keep its campus humming make a better living.
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Canada's Competition Bureau probing Apple's contracts with domestic wireless carriers, says it has found no evidence of wrongdoing so far — Canada competition watchdog probing Apple mobile carrier deals — (Reuters) - Canada's Competition Bureau is investigating allegations … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Qualcomm, Intel, and others speak out against Title II net neutrality — Much of the fight over how to handle net neutrality has been between the two industries that have the most obvious stake in it: cable companies and web services. Today, though, 60 tech companies, including Intel …
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Verizon Public Policy, Cult of Mac, PC World, SlashGear, FierceWireless, Engadget, The Register, CNET, Ars Technica and eWeek. Tweets: @stevesi
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Gizmodo, Re/code, Ars Technica, Techdirt, DSLreports, Associated Press and Washington Post. Tweets: @timkarr
| Kia Kokalitcheva / VentureBeat: |
Google chips in $2M to help San Francisco's homeless — Google is donating $2 million in grants to San Francisco to help the city's homeless population, the mayor's office announced today. — The grants go to three organizations — Hamilton Family Center, Larkin Street Youth Services … | Matthew Zeitlin / BuzzFeed: |
Robinhood launches commission-free stock trading app for iOS — Robinhood Can Turn Every iPhone User Into A Trader — The mobile stock trading startup turns stock buying and selling into yet another thing to be done inside a mobile app. The target is young people that have turned away …
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TechCrunch, Robinhood Blog, The Verge, TheStreet.com, Institutionalinvestor.com, VentureBeat, TIME, Entrepreneur, Business Insider Australia, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, Mashable and Wired. Tweets: @mattzeitlin. Thanks:@kbarker19
| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
App-analytics company New Relic picks up $115M in its IPO, setting price at $23 — New Relic today announced that it has raised $115 million from investors before it hits the New York Stock Exchange on Friday under the symbol NEWR. — The company set the price of its shares at $23 …
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Facebook allows adding buttons such as “sign up”, “book now”, “use app” to tops of Pages — New Facebook Buttons Let You Make Reservations, Launch Apps and More … Facebook has rolled out a new feature that will let you click a single button …
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Facebook for Business, VentureBeat, memeburn, Marketing Land, Inside Facebook, The Next Web and AllFacebook. Tweets: @wsjd
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LinkedIn Rolls Out A Simplified Homepage With Analytics And News Feed Front And Center — LinkedIn, the social network for the working world, today gets around 198 million monthly unique visitors globally to linkedin.com spending on average 4.6 minutes per visit, according to comScore …
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Official LinkedIn Blog, Re/code, Gigaom, TheStreet.com, ReadWrite, SiliconBeat and WebProNews. Tweets: @ingridlunden
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