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Samsung To Donate $3M To Charities Chosen By Ellen, Says It Was Included “Organically” In Her Oscar Selfie

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Anthony Ha So … what was the deal with Ellen DeGeneres’ already-famous, celebrity-packed selfie at the Oscars? Why did she use what appeared to be a Samsung Galaxy Note to take the photo? I mean, nothing against the Galaxy Note, but there’s been some debate about whether DeGeneres, who was hosting the ceremony, got paid by Samsung to use the phone. Well, a Samsung spokesperson just sent me a statement suggesting that wasn’t the case.…

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Facebook in talks to buy drone company, could battle Google’s internet balloons

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As reported on Engadget. BY MAT SMITH   Facebook is in discussions to purchase Titan Aerospace, a company that makes solar-powered drones that can apparently stay up in the skies for up to five years at a time. According to Techcrunch’s sources, Facebook wants solar-powered drones to deliver sky-based internet access, with a view to building 11,000 UAVs to deliver data services, at least initially, in Africa. The drone company has confirmed that there are discussions with…

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Early Shakeups In Nadella’s Microsoft

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As a reported on TechCrunch. by Alex Wilhelm Earlier today Kara Swisher reported that Microsoft’s Tami Reller, executive vice president of marketing, and Tony Bates, executive vice president of the company’s Business Development and Evangelism group will both depart. A reportedly formal announcement date of Tuesday now appears to be little more than a coming perfunctory exercise in rehashing. If nothing else, the changes indicate that Microsoft under Satya Nadella will look quite different than the firm during…

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Samsung debuts its first Galaxy S5 ad during the Oscars and turns sponsorship dollars into all-star selfies

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As reported on Engadget. BY MAT SMITH In case you hadn’t heard, Samsung’s newest phone is coming. At the Oscars, theGalaxy S5 just got a huge shot of publicity, both in a 30-second ad segment and the not-so-casual presence of its big bro, the Note 3, throughout the award ceremony. We hope you like Hollywood stars and selfies, because Ellen’s going to be tweeting a whole lot of them. That’s your sponsorship dollars at work, Samsung, even if…

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Now Serving 4M Downloads Daily, The Windows Store Has Grown 135% Since October

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Alex Wilhelm Buried in its MWC slides, Microsoft announced that it now serves 4 million application downloads daily from the Windows Store, the application marketplace for Windows 8.x. Four million downloads per day works out to 120 million per month, or around 1.4 billion per year. The number essentially slipped past the larger media radar — props to wind8apps! — which means even though a few days have passed, we have work to do.…

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Netflix engineers experiment with bump-based video sharing and sleep tracking

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As reported on Engadget. BY JON FINGAS Netflix uses its internal Hack Day competitions to encourage new thinking around its streaming video service, and its latest event has produced a few clever experiments that we wouldn’t mind seeing in finished apps. One of them, Netflix Beam, uses Apple’s Bluetooth-based iBeacon technology to share Netflix videos between iOS devices just by bumping them together. Another effort uses a Fitbit to check if you fall asleep mid-movie; if you do, you can resume from…

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TC Makers: Inside The American Giant Factory Where They Make The Greatest Hoodie Ever

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As reported on TechCrunch. by John Biggs American Giant | TechCrunch Makers When someone tells you they make the greatest hoodie ever, what do you do? You visit their factory outside of San Francisco and see just what all the fuss is about. Welcome to another edition of TechCrunch Makers where we meet Bayard Winthrop founder of American Giant, an SF-based clothing brand that manufacturers all of its clothing in the US. Their factory south of the city was surprisingly…

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Goophone took just two days to rip off the Galaxy S5

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As reported on Engadget. BY DANIEL COOPER Goophone’s a bit like a covers band that just happens to make knock-off smartphones. Not content with just plundering better artists’ catalogs, the company has apparently managed to copy the Galaxy S5 in under two days. The Goophone S5,yep, has a 5-inch, 1,920 x 1,080 display, paired with a 2GHz octa-core MediaTek chip and 2GB RAM. Keep looking, and you’ll find 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, dual-SIM slots, 32GB storage and a 2,800mAh battery, in addition…

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AT&T announces free, unlimited international text, picture and video messaging for Mobile Share customers

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As reported on Engadget. BY MAT SMITH Starting February 28th, all AT&T Mobile Share and Mobile Share Value users will be able to send text picture and video messages internationally for free. However, there’s a not-so ulterior motive behind the announcement (one that’s referenced in AT&T’s own release), as in comparison “other messaging services or applications will incur cellular data charges,” pointing a vague finger at the likes of Hangouts, WhatsApp, Viber, LINE and, well, all the other…

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Sony’s Waterproof Wearable To Be Available Worldwide In March

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As reported on TechCrunch.  by Matt Burns Sony introduced the SmartBand SWR10 at CES 2014. The diminutive wearable is part of Sony’s push into an ever-connected experience centered around its Xperia products. Sony was mum about the release schedule back at CES, but today, at Mobile World Congress, the company announced that the device will be available in 60 markets next month. The SmartBand sports the standard affair of fitness tracking. But Sony is positioning this device…

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