Source: new Apple TV remote to include touch pad for scrolling, two physical buttons, and will be slightly thicker
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Apple launches official “Made for Apple Watch” program for third-party bands, doesn't allow for use of the hidden diagnostic port or charging
Apple launches official ‘Made for Apple Watch’ third-party bands program — In line with our report from a couple of weeks ago …
Microsoft brings the middle finger emoji, unsupported on iOS, OS/X, or Android, to Windows 10 along with skin tone modifiers
Windows 10 Emoji Changelog — Skin tone modifiers, the middle finger, and a sassier information desk person are amongst the emoji updates in Windows 10.
T-Mobile launches Never Settle Trial for Verizon customers, will lend phones for free trials, pay up to $650 in ETF fees if they switch
T-Mobile tempts Verizon customers by lending them phones for free trials — Once again, T-Mobile is mounting direct assaults on its carrier competitors …
New Rombertik spyware self-destructs, wipes hard drive, overwrites master boot record if it detects it's being analyzed or audited
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Microsoft is working on 5.2" and 5.7" Lumia phones with QHD displays, 20mpx cameras, 3GB of RAM and other high-end specs, to launch this fall
Exclusive: Microsoft has two high-end Lumias coming this year [Specs] — Good news, Windows Phone fans! Microsoft apparently …
U.S. jury orders Motorola Mobility to pay $10 million in Fujifilm patent suit
(Reuters) - Motorola Mobility said a U.S. jury ordered the company to pay $10.2 million in damages for using Fujifilm Corp's patented technology in its phones without permission.
Dropbox for iOS will soon allow users to create and edit Microsoft Office documents directly within the app
Dropbox for iOS will soon let users make Microsoft Office documents directly within the app — A number of the recent improvements made to Dropbox have focused around greater integration with Microso...
Millions of Snapcodes, Snapchat's QR codes for users, being scanned each week, can now be downloaded in vector format to share on sites and posters
How Snapchat Made QR Codes Cool Again — QR codes have been a laughing-stock for years now. The gangly square bar codes were slapped …
Sprint's Q4 loss widens to $224M, but adds 1.2M customers, retains 3rd place ranking ahead of T-Mobile
Sprint Posts Wider Loss, Cedes Ground in Battle for Smartphone Customers — Sprint continued to lose core postpaid phone customers and money for the first three months of 2015 …
Snapchat rolls out update letting users embellish Discover clips with text and drawings, share them with friends
Snapchat Tries To Jumpstart Discover By Letting You Send Clips To Friends — Snapchat's Discover feature feels like the awkward guy in a nice suit at a casual party.
Delivery Hero Eats Up Turkey's Yemeksepeti For A Record $589M
Delivery Hero, the billion-dollar takeout food service based out of Berlin, is making another big acquisition as it continues to scale up its business worldwide. It's buying Turkey's Yemeksepeti for ...
Twilio raising $100M Series E at a $1B valuation according to April filing
Twilio Has Joined The Unicorn Ranks With Stealthy $100 Million Raise — Twilio is the latest tech startup to join the ranks of private companies worth at least $1 billion after quietly raising a $100...
Comcast spent $336M on failed attempt to buy Time Warner Cable; TWC spent $219M
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :
Gamification returns to Swarm in v2.3 with unlockable stickers; mayorships and leaderboards coming in v3.0
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch :
Comcast now has more Internet than cable customers after reaching parity in Q1 with 22.4M
Tali Arbel / Associated Press :
Google to let developers A/B test app profile pages on Play Store, try different price points, will likely announce at Google I/O 2015
Google Sweetens Android for App Developers — App stores have hardly been hotbeds of innovation in recent years. But Google is taking some new steps …
Docker-competitor CoreOS spins off its App Container project into a separate foundation with Google, VMware, Red Hat, and Apcera support
Yevgeniy Sverdlik / Data Center Knowledge :
Google acquires startup behind Timeful, a popular iOS time-management app
welcoming Timeful to Google Kevin Tofel / ZDNet : Google buys Timeful, promising intelligent event scheduling for Inbox and Calendar Andrew Grush / Android Authority : Google's latest acquisition will...
Google rolls out Collections, a Pinterest-like feature for curated sets of Google+ posts
Liam Spradlin / Android Police :
MyFitnessPal launches its first paid product, a $9.99/month ad-free premium tier for power users with custom reports, other features
Ben Popper / The Verge :
FreshBooks CFO Mark MacLeod steps down, launches SurePath Capital Partners, plans to address two pain points for startups: fundraising and exit
Elena Yunusov / BetaKit :
Comcast releases Xfinity Share app, which lets X1 subscribers live stream and share photos and videos to set tops and mobile phones; available for iOS, Android
Jeff Baumgartner / Multichannel News :
Chuck Robbins' appointment as Cisco CEO is a surprise to many inside and outside the company
Julie Bort / Business Insider :
With Big Names and Money Flowing In, Tech Start-Ups in India Heat Up
Saritha Rai / New York Times :
Facebook And Nokia Quietly Ink Deal For Here To Power Maps On Mobile, Instagram And Messenger
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Mobile phones and low cost solar panels revolutionizing Africa
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