Microsoft releases Word Flow keyboard for iPhone with one-handed mode, custom backgrounds
Microsoft is bringing its predictive Windows Phone keyboard, called Word Flow, to the iPhone. The third-party keyboard is now available for free in the US App Store.
Chrome OS source code hints at upcoming Google Play Store support for the platform
It looks like the Play Store is headed to Chrome OS with “millions” of apps — Google Play integration clues pop up in the source code and on users' devices. — The work-in-progress dialog box that ...
Sources: Apple is working on adding cell-network connectivity, faster processor to its next-generation Watch
Apple's Watch Outpaced the iPhone in First Year — Despite sizable sales, Apple's latest product has challenges to overcome — Apple Inc. sold twice as many Watches as iPhones in each device's debut...
Sources: Apple has a Berlin office seeking engineers and partners for a car project; talks with BMW and Daimler ended, Magna believed to be current favorite
Exclusive: BMW, Daimler Reject Cooperation with Apple over “iCar” — German carmakers Daimler and BMW have ended talks with Apple …
Vox Media launches a gadget blog, Circuit Breaker, primarily as a Facebook page, with a section on The Verge's website as well
Vox Media Tries Something Old on Something New — Vox Media, the ambitious online news start-up that runs Vox, a politics site; SB Nation, a network of sports sites …
New Roku Streaming Stick review: fast, cheap at $50, “private listening” via Bluetooth is a great value, but WiFi-only and has no Ethernet ports or 4K support
Small is beautiful (and fast) — If you think there must be some benefit to the larger size of a device like the Roku 2, let me disabuse you of that notion.
Sirin Labs says it raised $72M to launch Solarin, a $10K+ Android-based, privacy-focused “Rolls-Royce of smartphones”, alongside retail store in London this May
Sirin Labs nabs $72M to build the Rolls-Royce of smartphones: ‘Solarin’ goes on sale in May
BeautifulPeople.com Leaks Very Private Data of 1.1 Million ‘Elite’ Daters — And It's All For Sale
Sexual preference. Relationship status. Income. Address. These are just some details applicants for the controversial dating site BeautifulPeople.com are asked to supply …
Private equity owned eBay Enterprise merges with Innotrac, rebrands as Radial
Ebay Enterprise merges with Innotrac to become Radial — Ebay sold off its enterprise unit to a consortium of companies led by private equity firm Permira last year. That consortium included Sterlin...
DARPA seeks encrypted comms app with blockchain infrastructure, message repudiation, self-deleting messages, more in Small Business Technology Transfer request
DARPA Is Looking For The Perfect Encryption App, and It's Willing to Pay — While the FBI keeps crying wolf about the dangerous dark future …
OpenText acquires HP's customer experience content management assets for $170M, says it expects they will generate between $85M and $95M in the first year
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Bitstamp Bitcoin exchange gets licensed by Luxembourg, license will apply in 28 EU countries
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COO Vishal Makhijani appointed Udacity's CEO; Sebastian Thrun steps down, but will remain president and chairman
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Sources: Google plans an in-house startup incubator “Area 120” overseen by Don Harrison and Bradley Horowitz and located in San Francisco
Heather Clancy is a contributing editor at Fortune. Jake Smith / ZDNet : Google launching in-house startup incubator called ‘Area 120’ Gina Hall / Silicon Valley Business Journal : Google wants staffe...
High-end smartphones priced at about $400 are on the rise, disrupting $700 flagships
The rise of the $400 smartphone—you want how much for a flagship? — Newcomers to the smartphone market are arriving with disruptive pricing. — For a long time, the cost of a fast … Tweets: @mims a...
A fiber optic network project by 31 Massachusetts towns is indefinitely delayed because of state apathy and delays in approval and funding
Susan Crawford / Backchannel : Tweets: @bryanalexander , @jujueyeball and @jessamyn Tweets: Bryan Alexander / @bryanalexander : Rural broadband is all too often a serious problem in the US: http://ba...
Pinterest execs and engineers discuss overhauling its underlying software, its new iOS app, plans to capture international audiences, more
Pinterest Reinvents Itself to Prove It's Really Worth Billions — It's a week before Pinterest will announce its biggest engineering and design overhaul ever … Thanks: @malliegator
PwC: eSports industry will make $463M in revenue in 2016, up 43% from 2015
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YouTube capturing only a sliver of TV ad spending, with higher CPMs and content quality among the major concerns for advertisers
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @pkafka Tweets: Peter Kafka / @pkafka : The TV ad $ to Web video ad $ transfer we've heard about for years has yet to happen. Good from @digitalshields ht...
How FCC's reallocation of TV spectrum to the wireless industry over the next few years will work
Colin Lecher / The Verge : Tweets: @carloskn Tweets: Carlos Kirjner / @carloskn : It was all invented at a 5-person dinner in DC about 6 years ago. Amazing (despite all the implementation screw ups) ...
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