iPhone Killer: The Secret History of the Apple Watch
The inside story of the Apple Watch: the people who made it, why it's important, and just how much the world's largest company has riding on it. — The post appeared first on WIRED.
European Commission seeks permission to publish confidentially filed antitrust complaints from shopping, local, and travel firms against Google
EU Lays Groundwork for Antitrust Charges Against Google — Regulator seeks permission to publish complaints against Internet giant in long-running probe
Google's ARC now runs Android apps on Chrome OS, Windows, Mac, and Linux
“App Runtime for Chrome” takes a big step toward making Android a universal binary. — The ARC Welder is a Chrome app that makes Chrome apps. It shows up in the app list.
Apple wants TV networks to handle infrastructure and costs of streaming for its video service
Apple Asks TV Programmers to Supply Their Own Streams for Apple's TV Service — Apple wants the TV guys to provide their shows for its proposed streaming video service.
Airbnb now offers about 1,000 listings in Cuba, limited to US travelers
The online lodgings marketplace offers about 1,000 listings for U.S. travelers — Airbnb operates in 190 countries and 34,000 cities around the world, but its latest addition could be a momentous one...
Google Chrome will banish Chinese certificate authority for breach of trust [Updated]
Draconian move follows the issuance of certificates masquerading as Google domains. — Google's Chrome browser will stop trusting all digital certificates issued by the China Internet Network Informa...
European regulators scrutinise Apple over music streaming plans
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Comcast offering 2Gbps broadband service starting in Atlanta next month, twice as fast as Google Fiber
Comcast leapfrogs Google Fiber with new 2Gbps internet service — One way to answer critics and competitors alike is to simply do better, and for once Comcast is doing exactly that.
Survey: 64% of US adults own a smartphone, 10% of whom do not have broadband at home
U.S. Smartphone Use in 2015 — The traditional notion of “going online” often evokes images of a desktop or laptop computer with a full complement of features, such as a large screen, mouse, keyboard...
Adobe's Slate Is A Visual Storytelling App For The iPad
With Slate, Adobe is launching a new text- and photo-centric storytelling app for the iPad today. — About a year ago, Adobe launched Voice, its first standalone storytelling app that lets users reco...
Meerkat usage has dropped due to competition from Periscope, poor stream recommendations, and because it's no longer featured on the App Store
Here's why Meerkat's popularity is suddenly plunging — After bursting onto the scene through the trend-spotting site Product Hunt and winning …
Firefox 37 enables opportunistic encryption by default, encrypts HTTP connections over TLS
New Firefox version says “might as well” to encrypting all Web traffic — Ready or not, “opportunistic encryption” goes live. (Some configuration required.) — Developers of the Firefox browser …
France, Spain, and Italy join Germany and Belgium in Dutch-led probe into Facebook's privacy practices
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Hudl Scores $72.5M From Accel To Rally Teams To Its Sports Video Coaching Tool
You might not have heard of Hudl, but it's how 100,000 sports teams spent $30 million last year to review game tape on mobile. Hudl never raised institutional funding since starting in 2006 …
Audit of Truecrypt software finds minor issues, no deliberate backdoors or severe design flaws
Truecrypt report — A few weeks back I wrote an update on the Truecrypt audit promising that we'd have some concrete results to show you soon. Thanks to some hard work by the NCC Crypto Services gro...
Ford is experimenting with its own app-based ride-hailing service called the Dynamic Shuttle
Ford Is Chasing Tesla And Uber Into The Future — Ford CEO Mark Fields says the legacy car manufacturer is trying to think like a startup. — Ford — In the race to define the …
They can't all be unicorns: Once-hyped cloud startup Nebula goes out of business
Nebula Shuts Down Neil McAllister / The Register : Ex-NASA OpenStack pioneer Nebula sucked into black hole Yevgeniy Sverdlik / Data Center Knowledge : Private OpenStack Startup Nebula Goes Out of Busi...
N64 and Nintendo DS games available on Wii U Virtual Console from today
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Social+Capital and Kleiner Perkins deal fell apart because Social+Capital wanted to reorganize and run KPCB
Why The Kleiner Perkins-Social+Capital Deal Fell Apart — In January, reports surfaced that Social+Capital was in “acquisition” talks with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
Apple's trade-in program meets lukewarm response in China
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Sling TV will offer HBO for $15/month by April 12 as part of Dish and Turner distribution deal
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Confirmed: Twitter Buys TenXer For Under $50M To Improve Its Tools For Engineers
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Joint statement from 39 tech leaders calls for state laws to protect “everyone including LGBT people and people of faith”
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Groupon Quietly Launches Groupon Stores, a Marketplace for Its $2 Billion Goods Business
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Roundup of April Fools' Day gags by tech companies
When this post is 10 minutes old, a button … Selena Larson / The Daily Dot : When a brand's April Fools' Day prank is just a lie Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed : Your Complete Guide To The Best April Fools...
Windows 10's new Music and Video apps finally drop the Xbox naming
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Google increases funding for its mobile-focused research group, Advanced Technology and Projects, will unveil new projects in May
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Salesforce buys mobile authentication startup Toopher
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Cisco to buy SDN startup Embrane
Life is about moving from one journey to the next. Richard Chirgwin / The Register : Cisco buys back alumni: wants to acquire Embrane Sean Michael Kerner / EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet : Cisco Acquires ...
Apple + IBM add 8 new enterprise iOS apps, first for industrial products & healthcare industries
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Acer is launching an all-in-one Chromebase desktop with a touchscreen this summer
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Rubicon Project acquires Canadian ad intent marketing firm Chango for $122M in stock and cash
and it just made a $122 million buy to help Barry Levine / VentureBeat : Rubicon CEO predicts ad tech will both consolidate and boom See also Mediagazer
Google says 5% of its visitors have ad injectors installed, disables 192 deceptive Chrome extensions
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