Apple’s plan to temporarily relocate its flagship Fifth Avenue store from the base of the GM building to the old FAO Schwartz location has apparently evolved into a desire to permanently occupy the space — and without paying the going rate for rent.
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Widening the battleground with Apple Pay, Google on Wednesday announced that Android Pay will soon be usable at some ATMs, as well as by mobile Chrome users.
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With Acura’s launch of its second automated vehicle, the RLX, the luxury sedan manufacturer is closer to providing an attractive consumer option –?a market Apple watchers expect the company’s secretive “Project Titan” is also eyeing.
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At the beginning of its I/O developer conference on Wednesday, Google revealed that the next major version of Android — codenamed “Android N” — is launching in beta later today, and will introduce features like better performance, improved multitasking, and even virtual reality support when it officially arrives in late summer.
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Google hopes to shake up the mobile communications landscape this summer with a cross-platform release of both Allo, a new smart messenger, and Duo, a simplified one-to-one video calling service.
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The smart home battle between Apple, Google and others continues to heat up, with Google on Wednesday announcing Home, a new voice-activated hardware kit that brings the Google assistant service to any room in your house.
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New images published on Wednesday appear to support rumors that Apple will finally bring Siri to the Mac in the next major version of OS X, premiering at WWDC 2016 in June.
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Fitbit on Wednesday announced the purchase of Coin’s wearable payments assets, a takeover which should put Fitbit on a path to launching its own mobile payments technology sometime in 2017, and hence competing even more closely with Apple.
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For a limited time this week, grab the lowest price ever offered on Apple’s 12.9″ iPad Pro (128GB, WiFi, Silver) at $745 ($204 off). Or pick up a new 13″ MacBook Pro for $1,149 or 15″ MacBook Pro for $1,799, both with no sales tax outside NY.
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While patents reveal Apple has explored the possibility of adding new functionality to the Apple Watch with connectable smart bands, a new Kickstarter campaign hopes to beat it to the punch with a GPS-connected, battery-equipped smart band for the Pebble Time smartwatch.
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