Mobile Minutes: Facebook changes journalism; Cinemas ban wearables; Lenovo buys Motorola; Verizon unveils Droid Turbo
Many of the people who read this article will do so because Greg Marra, 26, a Facebook engineer, calculated that it was the kind of thing they might enjoy. Mr. Marra?s team designs the code that drives Facebook?s News Feed ? the stream of updates, photographs, videos and stories that users see.
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Movie theaters ban Google Glass and other wearables
That idea you had about bringing your Google Glass to the movie theater to
surreptitiously record Ben Affleck bare all in "Gone Girl"? Don't
even think about it, the movie industry says. It announced late Wednesday a
"zero tolerance policy" towards wearable recording devices.
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Lenovo closes purchase of Google?s Motorola phone unit
Lenovo Group Ltd. closed its $2.91 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility
from Google Inc. as the Chinese company tries to boost global smartphone sales
that were surpassed by crosstown rival Xiaomi Corp.
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Verizon, Motorola unveil Droid Turbo
While Motorola has been busy with its new Moto X and Nexus 6 phones, on Tuesday
it returned to New York to unveil the latest in its popular Droid collaboration
with Verizon Wireless. Dubbed the Droid Turbo, the company's new device is
designed to compete with those two new Motorola devices as well as the latest
phones from Samsung, Apple and HTC.
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