Earlier this week, a number of leaks on Twitter gave us our first look at the HTC One successor – the HTC M8. The new device is expected to look a lot like the HTC One, but will be upgraded with much better specs. Now a new leak has given us a better look at the new home screen.

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Jay Leno bid farewell to The Tonight Show and his beloved cast, crew and fans on Thursday night, accompanied by Billy Crystal, Garth Brooks and a bevy of fun and poignant surprises. Following Jay’s final monologue a few pre-filmed goodbyes were shared. Steve Carell sat at his desk from The Office and wished Jay well. Martha Stewart made overt sexual innuendoes. Even President Obama filmed a clip to say goodbye to the late night host.

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Rovio’s late 2013 Angry Birds releases hit their mark. The studio’s Angry Birds Star Wars 2 proved a hit on mobile platforms and the kart-racing Angry Birds Go! gave Angry Birds fans a new way to enjoy the franchise.

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Through a partnership between Microsoft and Superfly Presents, this year’s upcoming Bonnaroo music festival will be streaming, live, on your Xbox Ones and Xbox 360s.
According to Microsoft, Bonnaroo on Xbox is going to be an interactive experience.

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Judging from FTD's Valentine's Day ads, maybe love does mean having to say you're sorry after all. Four 60-second spots by Epsilon Chicago, designed to illustrate that "FTD says it best" for next week's holiday, put couples on a shiny red sofa that's more hot seat than love seat. They bicker about how the guys botched V-Day last year by giving the gals inappropriate gifts (or none at all), when a bouquet or basket from FTD would've worked wonders. In the best of the bunch, feathers fly. "I got her a parrot," brags our would-be Romeo. "He got me a freaking parrot," his lady-love moans.

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Direct-response advertisers have largely embraced programmatic buying, where ad dollars are matched with impressions in an auction-based real-time environment.Brand advertisers? Not so much.Google is hoping to change that with what it is calling "custom brand exchanges," a reverse-engineering of the private publisher exchange, which have become commonplace.

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SapientNitro Worldwide Chief Creative officer Gaston Legorburu has widely been credited with upping the creative ante at the agency, largely through his philosophy of treating digital with as much care and craft as any other creativemedium.Under him, Sapient has made moves in Latin America -- it recently bought Miami-based La Comunidad -- as well as elsewhere in the world, with acquisitions in Germa

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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has granted Google permission to acquire Nest Labs.

Google and Nest announced the deal last month. Google is acquiring the company, which makes smart home devices like smoke detectors and thermostats, for $3.2 billion in cash.

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The pharmaceutical group Shire has decided to stop developing the drug Vyvanse for use to treat depression.

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You could easily argue that Castlevania: Lords of Shadow had simplistic combat. Sure, there was a combo system in place, but it really couldn’t compete with the likes of God of War or Devil May Cry. With Lords of Shadow 2, it looks like the team is stepping up its game with a variety of weapons that can be switched on the fly for custom combos.

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