Monday, May 1, 2017

Angie’s List will merge with HomeAdvisor after finally accepting IAC’s acquisition offer

 After two years of wooing, Angie’s List has finally agreed to be acquired by IAC. After the deal closes, Angie’s List will combined with HomeAdvisor, IAC’s home services marketplace, into a new public company called ANGI Homeservices. Read More

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'Gears 4' adds new maps, support for multiple graphics cards

It's taken a while since Gears of War 4's October debut, but Microsoft has finally added an often-requested feature for PC gamers: SLI support. That way they can take advantage of multiple GPUs to render the game at its maximum quality, instead of le...
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Amazon gives Prime to everyone in Manchester-by-the-Sea

Amazon just highlighted one of the bonuses of both producing movies and running the internet service that plays them: you can offer viewer perks that conventional studios can't match. The online giant is giving away a year of free Prime membership (...
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Crunch Report | Airbnb Hugs It Out in San Francisco

Aurea acquires Jive for $462 million, Airbnb settles lawsuit with the City of San Francisco over unfair overregulation of short-term rentals, Theranos settles a lawsuit with one of its investors and Verizon backs Renovo. All this on Crunch Report. Read More

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Is this Microsoft's new Surface Laptop?

Tomorrow Microsoft is holding its #MicrosoftEDU event where we expect to find out how it will take on Google's Chrome OS, but some of the news may have already leaked. Notorious Microsoft watcher @h0x0d tweeted out a few images of a slim 13.5-inch la...
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Airbnb Hugs It Out in San Francisco | Crunch Report


Aurea acquires Jive for $462 million, Airbnb settles lawsuit with the City of San Francisco over unfair overregulation of short-term rentals, Theranos settles a lawsuit with one of its investors and Verizon backs Renovo. All this on Crunch Report.
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Airbnb Hugs It Out in San Francisco | Crunch Report


Aurea acquires Jive for $462 million, Airbnb settles lawsuit with the City of San Francisco over unfair overregulation of short-term rentals, Theranos settles a lawsuit with one of its investors and Verizon backs Renovo. All this on Crunch Report.
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Apple Watch apps for Amazon, eBay and Google Maps disappear

Have you noticed a few apps disappearing from your Apple Watch? It's not just your imagination. AppleInsider has learned that the Amazon, eBay and Google Maps iOS apps no longer include versions for Apple's smartwatch. The first two appear to have...
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What's on TV: 'Prey,' 'Sense8' and 'TumbleSeed'

This week we get the second season of the Wachowski's Sense8 series on Netflix, as Hulu continues on with The Handmaid's Tale. For gamers, a rebooted Prey arrives at the end of the week, along with indie charmer TumbleSeed on Switch, PS4 and PC, plus...
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Fyre Festival sued over cheese sandwiches (among other things)


Can you sue someone over Instagram hype? One unhappy Fyre Festival attendee is going to try. In case you were fortunately poor enough (and no, that’s not an oxymoron in this case) to miss it, the Fyre Festival was an event supposed to be taking place last weekend in the Bahamas. It didn’t turn out so well. Daniel Jung is suing the festival for $100 million in a class action lawsuit for fraud and breach of promise. The so-called Festival commanded a high ticket price — plaintiff Daniel Jung claims he spent $2,000 on a package deal for the weekend. There…

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Twitter announces new live shows from the WNBA, BuzzFeed, Viacom and more

 Looks like Twitter’s streaming video news deal with Bloomberg was just the first of more than a dozen content partnerships that it’s announcing today. The company unveiled the full slate at the NewFronts, where online publishers pitch their content to advertisers. (This was the first time Twitter’s held its own NewFronts presentation.) Read More

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Twitter wants to be your home for watching live shows

Twitter's livestreamed content has been mostly sports and politics over the last few years, with fans able to watch and tweet about the latest boxing match or presidential debate right on Twitter itself. The company is set to double down on the strat...
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Siri credited with saving fishermen’s lives after boat sinks


Siri might not always get it right, but she nailed it when it counted, according to a trio of Florida fishermen. After running into rough seas this weekend while fishing four miles off the coast of Key Biscayne, the boat began taking on water in the rough seas. While the men put on their life jackets, the boat began to sink. Cold, wet, and unable to use the touchscreen to call 911, the men instead relied on Siri to make the call for them. Once emergency services were reached, a coast guard chopper found the boaters and dropped a diver…

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