Comcast terminates $45B Time Warner Cable merger agreement
Comcast / Time Warner Cable / Charter Transactions Terminated — Comcast Corporation announced this morning that its merger agreement with Time Warner Cable and its transactions agreement with Charte...
Apple Watch teardown reveals 205mAh battery, Apple S1 CPU, inside view of Taptic Engine and Digital Crown
Apple Watch Teardown — Time flies: it's been eight months since Apple announced its (digital) crowning achievement: the Apple Watch. Join us as we make time stand still by tearing …
Comcast's hurdles were too high, despite political donations, deep Washington ties, and $17M spent on lobbying
Comcast Finds Golf and 128 Lobbyists Can't Sell U.S. on Merger — The company brought formidable muscle to its arguments, and lost. — t TShields3
Comcast's Time Warner Cable bid and FCC's stance on net neutrality were separate yet intertwined issues
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Apple opens up the Apple Watch App Store with “more than 3,000 apps” [Updated]
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Apple shares list of must-have apps for Watch, including Twitter, Instagram, New York Times, Mint, Citymapper, Strava, and more, as Watch App Store goes live
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Comcast and TWC combined would have controlled 57% of national broadband market, too high a threshold for FCC and DoJ
Comcast Confirms End of Deal With Time Warner Cable — Comcast confirmed Friday that it had called off its $45 billion takeover of Time Warner Cable …
Developers describe making Apple Watch apps with no access to the device, focusing on simplicity in first gen apps, and how apps will evolve
and massive challenge—of making games for the Apple Watch Gina Hall / bizjournals : Apple Watch apps debut — download these to get you through your day Stuart Dredge / Guardian : 20 Apple Watch apps w...
Filings: Kleiner Perkins offers to waive nearly $1M in legal fees if Ellen Pao doesn't appeal, offered $965K settlement last year
Kleiner Perkins Is Seeking Nearly $1 Million in Legal Fees From Ellen Pao — Silicon Valley venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers filed legal …
Amazon.com Announces First Quarter Sales up 15% to $22.72 Billion
and growing fast Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal : Amazon Pulls Back Curtain on Cloud Business Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily : Amazon Up 4% on Q1 Beat; AWS a $5B Business; Q2 View Misses Tweets...
Analysts predict Charter Communications will renew attempts to buy Time Warner Cable
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Reproductive health app Glow now allows men to track factors affecting their fertility and link with partners' accounts
An App for Hacking Fertility Now Also Works for Men — In our culture, reproduction is often seen as women's work. From pregnancy to childbirth through nursing a newborn child …
Amazon Web Services generated $5.16B in revenue last year, $1.57B in revenue last quarter, up from $1.1B in the same quarter last year
Amazon breaks out cloud results for first time on Q1 earnings report — Summary:Analysts and shareholders have been waiting many moons for Amazon …
Microsoft FY15 Q3: Increasing usage of Azure, Office 365, Bing, and Xbox Live contributes to growth
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The history of YouTube and how Google overcame legal, financial, and technological problems to build a site that has almost 50 years of video uploaded daily
Cheaper bandwidth or bust: How Google saved YouTube — Leading the Web video revolution was an almost constant battle for survival.
Facebook testing new notifications tab that acts as news hub, includes birthdays, events, local news, nearby friends, and more
Facebook's new notifications tab is a robust mini-news hub — Facebook wants notifications to become much more than a perfunctory list of recent behavior, events and invitations.
Italian eyewear maker Luxottica working with Google on cheaper version of Glass to be out soon
Italian Eyewear Maker Luxottica Working on New Version of Google Glass, CEO Says — A new version of Google Glass is in the works and will be out soon, the Chief Executive Officer of Italian eyewear ...
Victorious Launches Its First Apps For Online Stars And Their “Superfans”
Victorious is launching mobile apps today built for Internet video stars Ryan Higa and The Young Turks. — I assume this is good news if you're a fan of Higa or The Young Turks, but even if you're no...
Dropbox's Collaborative Note-Taking Service, Dropbox Notes, Heads Into Beta Testing
Earlier this month, Dropbox was spotted testing an early version of an online note-taking service dubbed “Project Composer,” which appeared to have roots in the company's 2014 acquisition of collabora...
Amazon revenue up 15% YoY to $22.72B, posts net loss of $57M after $108M profit a year ago
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Social music app Smule raises $38M in debt and equity round led by Adams Street Partners
Musical social network raised $38M for expansion — Musical social network Smule raised $26 million in equity and $12 million in debt funding on Thursday to grow its platform.
Microsoft's Q3 revenue grew 6% YoY to $21.7B, Surface revenue up 44%, Commercial Cloud revenue up 106%, Office 365 hits 12.4M subscribers
Microsoft Beats In Its FQ3 With Revenue Of $21.7B, EPS Of $0.61 — did not Today following the bell, Microsoft reported its fiscal third quarter financial results …
Valve lets PC game modders sell their work through the Steam Workshop, starting with Skyrim
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Tests reveal Snapdragon 810 runs hot and throttles early and severely, causing performance issues
In-depth with the Snapdragon 810's heat problems — This is a hot chip that throttles early and often, and it makes a difference. — If you're using a relatively recent, non-Apple …
Samsung reveals next-gen Gear smartwatch will have round face while announcing SDK release
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Sources: Comcast to drop proposed Time Warner Cable takeover deal after FCC staff recommends hearing; announcement as soon as today
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Acer unveils a new 15-inch Chromebook, Iconia One 8 tablet and gaming-centric Predator tablet
Windows, Chromebooks, Android devices, and Predator gaming Agam Shah / PCWorld : Acer's new laptops, hybrids set tone for Windows 10-Chromebook battle Sam Rutherford / Tom's Guide : Acer Gets Serious ...
Defense Secretary Tries To Thaw Relations With Silicon Valley, Opens New ‘Defense Innovation Unit X’
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Samsung Gear VR for Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge pre-orders start April 24 from Best Buy website
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Sources: BitTorrent laid off about 40 of their 150 domestic employees
Google misses estimates with $17.26B revenue, rising US dollar and slowing growth to blame
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Pandora's Q1 Beats Estimates With $230.8 Million In Revenue
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Beacon marketer Swirl raises $18M from Twitter Ventures, Hearst Ventures, SoftBank Capital, and others
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Previously Bootstrapped, GoFundMe Is Raising At A Valuation Of Around $500M
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Instacart Finally Tells You When It's Charging You More Than Stores
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