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Live coverage of Apple Watch reveal
We’re live-blogging the Apple Watch event, “Spring Forward,” scheduled to start at 10 a.m. Monday, March 9, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco. Follow @ChronicleBenny
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Money troubles force tech news site Gigaom to shut down
Respected technology news site Gigaom abruptly shut down operations because it could no longer pay its debts. Less than three hours after Gigaom reporters posted their last story on Monday’s Apple...
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A man’s fake Facebook suicide post gets him detained
Shane Tusch found out the hard way that Facebook’s suicide prevention tool works — sort of. In fact, what began as a test of the system landed him in mental health facilities for about 70 hours. The...
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Strong dollar, politics, port drama threaten to depress U.S. exports
Could U.S. exports actually fall this year for the first time since the Great Recession? Does anyone, outside of the Obama administration and business community, actually care? The answer to the first...
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Square shutting Order ahead service after just six months
Photo by Square Square is shutting down a mobile app that was billed as a way to get around long lines at the coffee shop. After just six months, the San Francisco company decided to “retire” Square...
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Apple reportedly on new quest to start online TV service
Photo by Eric Risberg/AP With online television gaining momentum this year, Apple TV has reportedly renewed talks with network officials about starting its own web TV offering this fall. Apple has...
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Facebook in developing countries: helping companies sell condoms
Facebook’s goal to expand its reach in developing countries looks like it’s succeeding — but not in the ways you might think. One of its projects is an ad campaign in Indonesia, where Facebook users...
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Tech royalty including Marc Benioff attend ‘Game of Thrones’ season five...
HBO pulled out all the stops for the season five premiere of “Game of Thrones,” bringing stars and crew to walk the red carpet at San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House Monday night. But they...
View ArticleGoogle announces new wireless plan
Google announced a new wireless plan Wednesday that will allow customers to pay for the exact amount of data they use on their smartphones. The plan, which works with Nexus 6 phones, goes like this:...
View ArticleComedian-entrepreneur Damon Wayans demos his new app
Comedian-turned-tech entrepreneur Damon Wayans was in San Francisco on Wednesday night to pitch his company’s new social messaging app, Vhedz (pronounced V-heads). The star of “In Living Color,”...
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Thousands line up for Google’s ‘Super Bowl of Android’
Thousands of Google fans lined up early Thursday morning for Google’s annual developers conference, or what some called the “Super Bowl of Android.” “It’s the Super Bowl of Google, but it’s also the...
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Apple Watch goes on sale in stores June 26
Apple Watch Limited Edition Apple on Thursday said it will finally begin selling the Apple Watch in its own stores on June 26, about 11 weeks after the company began taking orders online. Apple also...
View ArticleApple’s WWDC 2015 Keynote Live
Apple’s five-day Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off Monday morning with a keynote address that should provide a road map for the Cupertino computer company’s direction for the coming year. But...
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Female presence at Apple’s WWDC keynote falls short
Apple CEO speaks at WWDC. (The Chronicle) Despite Apple CEO Tim Cook’s promise of increased female presence during the company’s kick off of the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on Monday, it...
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Confused about Apple Music? Here’s what we know so far
Apple CEO Tim Cook, right, hugs Beats by Dre co-founder and Apple employee Jimmy Iovine at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Monday, June 8, 2015. The maker of iPods and...
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PlayStation online TV service, with local sports, comes to Bay Area
Andrew House, president and chief executive officer of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., speaks about PlayStation Vue, at the E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo on Monday, June 15, 2015. Photo by...
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The dad in Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’ is a total startup dude
Pixar has a way of slipping unexpected ideas into its movies — little details or lines of thought that only reveal themselves with repeat viewing. But the studio’s latest offering — “Inside Out,”...
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Lexus says it’s built a rideable hoverboard
UPDATED: Has Lexus really taken us back to the future with a hoverboard? Toyota’s luxury auto brand claims in a news release posted Wednesday that it has combined magnetic levitation technology with a...
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Man crawls onto Broadway stage to charge his phone
Sure, we all feel a sense of urgency these days when our mobile phones are out of juice and need to be recharged. But one tech-addicted Broadway patron stole the show last week when he crawled up on...
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Tech bus drivers for Apple, Yahoo, Zynga to vote on contract
Shuttle bus drivers that transport workers from several Bay Area tech companies, including Apple, Yahoo and Genentech, will vote on a union contract Saturday. A shuttle bus bound for Silicon Valley...
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