Ahrendts memo: no Apple Watch in-store purchases until June, pre-orders start arriving this Friday; April 24th launch date removed from Apple's website
No Apple Watches in store until June, Ahrendts tells staff as April 24th date removed from website — Angela Ahrendts has told Apple Store staff …
Microsoft and Yahoo Agree to Amend Search Partnership
SUNNYVALE, Calif. & REDMOND, Wash.—(BUSINESS WIRE)— Today Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) announced that the companies amended their search partnership to improve the search experie...
L.A. school district ditches iPad curriculum, seeks refund from Apple
The Los Angeles Unified School District has canceled further plans to use expensive curriculum that was part of a $1.3-billion effort to provide iPads to every student, teacher and campus administrato...
Technological shifts may over time weaken the rationale for EU's antitrust case against Google, like they did for the case against Microsoft
Farhad Manjoo / New York Times :
Jawbone announces $199 Up4 fitness band with NFC for AmEx payments and mid-range $100 Up2 band
Jawbone's latest health bands: $99 Up2 & Up4 with AmEx payments — We're still waiting for Jawbone's long-delayed Up3 to start shipping next week, but that's not stopping it from debuting two new hea...
What's Next for Google and the EU? It Could Be a Quick Settlement.
Human trafficking bill stalls patent reform — Data breach bill loses Dems Matt O'Brien / Mercury News : Google in the bull's eye of European Union James Cook / Business Insider : There's no way Google...
Cyanogen partners with Microsoft to bundle and create native integrations of Bing, Skype, OneDrive, OneNote, Outlook, and Office on Cyanogen OS
Microsoft will bundle its apps on Cyanogen's Android OS — Rumors of a Microsoft and Cyanogen partnership have been making the rounds recently …
Etsy opens at $31, up 93% from IPO price, valuing company at over $3.5B
Etsy starts trading on the Nasdaq at $31 per share — nearly double its original price — Etsy began trading on the Nasdaq at $31.86 a share — a big pop from the $16 a share price the company set yest...
Google to EU: our vertical search products fail in the market, but are useful enough for our users to display
Mike Masnick / Techdirt :
New search deal with Microsoft requires Yahoo to monetize just 51% of its traffic via Bing, not 100% as before
Marissa Mayer redoes Yahoo's search deal with Microsoft, makes huge changes — Yahoo just renewed its search partnership with Microsoft — with huge modifications.
Virginia e-voting systems relied on weak hard-coded passwords, trivial Wi-Fi security, unpatched OS
Meet the e-voting machine so easy to hack, it will take your breath away — Virginia decertifies device that used weak passwords and wasn't updated in 10 years.
EU's three gripes with Android: What you need to know
Summary:Did you know there are really two main versions of Android? The one Google controls is under fire for potential antitrust practices. Here's why. — After five years of investigation, the Eu...
Google Research launches handwriting input keyboard in Play Store, rendering text and emojis, supports 82 languages
Google Launches Handwriting Input For Text And Emoji On Android — Google Research today launched its latest project: Google Handwriting Input.
Sources: Jawbone closes $300M investment round from BlackRock, giving it a valuation of about $3B
Jawbone to Launch Payments Wearable With Amex, as It Closes a $300M Investment Round — “Reports of our death are greatly exaggerated,” said Jawbone CEO Hosain Rahman to me earlier today in an interv...
Bing Reaches 20 Percent Search Market Share Milestone In US
Bing has hit 20 percent market share in the US according to new data from comScore. The slow and steady gains resulting in today's milestone have come mostly at the expense of Search Alliance partner...
To-Do App Any.do 3.0 Adds Collaboration, Zoom And List Sorting Among 150 New Features
While the world is getting its first taste of what life will be like when you have a small wearable like a watch to direct you to what you should do next, one of the leaders in personal organization a...
Snapchat tries to poach Uber employees using a geolocation filter that appears near Uber's HQ showing an url for its jobs page
Snapchat Sneakily Uses Its Own App To Poach Uber Engineers — Uber Technologies and Snapchat are among the world's most valuable startups and have raised billions of dollars between them.
KGI's Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple makes “last-minute decision” to use TSMC for 30% of A9 chip orders for next iPhone
Apple makes ‘last-minute decision’ to use TSMC for 30% of ‘A9’ chip orders for next iPhone — Facing poor yield rates from chipmaker GlobalFoundries …
Target settles with MasterCard, will pay card issuing banks $19M for 2013 data breach; settlement with Visa still pending
Target announces $19 million data breach settlement with MasterCard — (Reuters) - Target Corp said it had agreed to reimburse about $19 million to financial institutions …
Cloud startup Vlocity raises $42 million led by Salesforce Ventures
Summary:Vlocity has honed in on the industry-specific cloud approach, with a portfolio built entirely on the Salesforce Customer Success Platform. — Industry cloud startup Vlocity has raised $42.8 m...
Apple buys around 36K acres of private forestland to be managed by The Conservation Fund and sustainably harvested for packaging
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Cell phones proliferate in sub-Saharan Africa: texting, taking pictures and video are the most common uses, mobile money popular in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania
Cell Phones in Africa: Communication Lifeline — In a few short years, the proliferation of mobile phone networks has transformed communications in sub-Saharan Africa.
KGI estimates over 2.3M Apple Watch pre-orders, 85% Sport, less than 1% Edition. Run rate pegged at 2-3M/month
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac :
Spotify hires four lobbyists on issues like competition and licensing, as Justice Department, Congress weigh music streaming
Spotify turns up volume in D.C. — The online streaming service hires four lobby firms on issues like competition and licensing, as it gears up to do battle with Apple.
MacBook teardown: terraced battery fully glued to body, CPU/RAM/flash storage soldered to logic board, 1/10 repairability score
Apple packed a lot in that tiny frame Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors : Retina MacBook Teardown Reveals iPad-Like Battery Connector, Details Force Touch Trackpad Luke Dormehl / Cult of Mac : The new Ret...
US government report: planes with avionics and passengers on same network could theoretically be vulnerable to hackers
Ola, Uber's rival in India, closes $400M Series E led by DST Global as it looks to expand its network to over 200 cities
Ola, Uber's Big Rival In India, Raises $400M To Grow To 200 Cities This Year — Ola, the largest rival to Uber in India, has announced that it has raised …
European online banking startup Number26 raises $10.6M in Series A led by Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures
Number26 Grabs $10.6 Million To Bring Its Bank Of The Future To Everyone — It feels like Number26 opened its doors yesterday, but the young startup just raised a $10.6 million Series A round …
Google Opens Cloud Dataflow To All Developers, Launches European Zone For BigQuery
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DEA has been buying spyware produced by Italian surveillance tech firm Hacking Team since 2012
Mugs — Sasha Issenberg, the leading … Timothy J. Seppala / Engadget : The DEA's using powerful spyware for surveillance too Kate Knibbs / Gizmodo : The DEA Is Buying Off-the-Shelf Spyware From a Ske...
Meerkat announces public beta for upcoming Android app
Chance Miller / 9to5Google :
Google Maps loophole lets man add verified listing for “Edward's Snow Den” inside White House
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land :
Acorns, the app that automatically invests your spare change, raises $23 million
Kia Kokalitcheva / Fortune :
Facebook tests “sidebar status” feature in mobile apps, similar to AIM's away message
Casey Newton / The Verge :
VR content-maker Virtual Reality Co, which works with directors like Spielberg, raising $23M
Erich Schwartzel / Wall Street Journal :
Netflix stock up over 10% after beating estimates for new subscribers: 2.3M in US, and 2.6M non-US; Q1 revenue of $1.57B
4.9 million new subs. http://recode.net/... See also Mediagazer
Report: Yahoo launching messaging app to “combine live and recorded video and text” this quarter
Jay Yarow / Business Insider :
Chinese Drone Maker DJI in Talks to Raise Funding at Valuation of $10 Billion
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Verizon Galaxy S6 won't come with Skype, OneNote, or OneDrive preinstalled; AT&T S6 just comes with Skype and OneNote
Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal :
Meal delivery service Sprig raises $45 million in funding
Beth Kowitt / Fortune :
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