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In another supplier confrontation, Amazon stops taking preorders for forthcoming Warner movies — Amazon Stops Taking Advance Orders for ‘Lego’ and Other Warner Videos — The Everything Store is shrinking again. Amazon customers who want to order forthcoming Warner Home Video features …
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As London cabbies protest, Uber launches UberTaxi platform for London cabbies — Up to 12,000 black-cab drivers (cabbies) are expected to fill the streets of London today, in protest against technology-enabled services such as Uber. Their gripe? Uber allows its users to beckon a cab … | Adam Withnall / The Independent: |
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| Ben Sisario / New York Times: |
Amazon Prime music streaming could launch as early as this week with Sony and Warner, but without Universal — Amazon Said to Be Close to Unveiling Music Streaming Service — Amazon is planning to introduce a limited music streaming feature as early as this week, according to several people briefed on the company's plans.
| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Twitter Mulling Shake Up of Top Execs — Including COO Ali Rowghani Shift — Twitter is undergoing a major reevaluation of its top management, including a possible shift in the duties of its COO Ali Rowghani. — Sources familiar with the company say it has already made some moves … | Ashlee Vance / Businessweek: |
HP Labs working on new computer architecture with new OS and memristor-based memory — With ‘The Machine,’ HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer — If Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) founders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard are spinning in their graves, they may be due for a break.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Here's the iPad split-screen app mode Apple is working on in iOS 8 (video) — As we reported in May, Apple is working on a split-screen multitasking feature for iPad apps for a version of iOS 8. The feature, akin to the key productivity function on the Microsoft Surface …
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Banks say credit cards for sale online were used at P.F. Chang's, restaurant investigating — Banks: Credit Card Breach at P.F. Chang's — Nationwide chain P.F. Chang's China Bistro said today that it is investigating claims of a data breach involving credit and debit card data reportedly stolen … | Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Oculus expects to sell “north of a million units” for first consumer Rift — Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe (left) says he's not expecting “a console-scale market” right out of the gate. — With a recent high-profile buyout to the tune of $2 billion, you might think Facebook and Oculus are expecting …
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| Joey Cosco / Business Insider: |
Path messages to become ephemeral, will be removed from the company server after 24 hours — Path Is Retroactively Making All Messages Temporary — Super secure social network Path is jumping on the temporary message trend — officially starting today. The 3-year-old San Francisco-based … | Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
Comcast to test its YouTube competitor by the end of the year — Comcast is looking to test a new platform for the distribution of online videos through its new X1 cable set-top boxes by the end of the year, the company's SVP of Video Matt Strauss confirmed during an interview at the sidelines of the TV of Tomorrow Show this week.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Powerful worm on Twitter unleashes torrent of out-of-control tweets — Twitter on Wednesday was briefly overrun by a powerful computer worm that caused tens of thousands of users to tweet a message that contained self-propagating code exploiting a bug in the TweetDeck app.| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Wallet's 2-Click Instant Buy Checkout Comes To iOS — About a year ago, Google Wallet launched its Instant Buy API for Android apps, and today it is bringing it to iOS apps. With Instant Buy, developers can integrate Google Wallet's checkout into their apps and have users check out with as few as two clicks.
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Starbucks starts rolling out wireless phone chargers nationwide — Starbucks plans to install Powermat's wireless charging stations at its coffee stores across the US. After a small pilot run with these “Powermat Spots” — small circles that are seamlessly implanted in tables and counters … | Tricia Duryee / GeekWire: |
Watch out, Yelp: Amazon has been quietly collecting local reviews for a month — Amazon has quietly launched the ability for customers to write reviews for local restaurants, spas and activities, putting it squarely in competition with other online services, like Yelp, Angie's List or Google's Zagat.| Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal: |
Firefox OS smartphones as cheap as $25 launching in India and Indonesia later this year — India, Indonesia to Get $25 Smartphones — Mozilla's Firefox Operating System Powers Devices Priced for Emerging Markets — SHANGHAI—Smartphones as cheap as $25 powered by Mozilla Corp.'s software … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Introduces “Google My Business,” A New One-Stop Shop To Help Business Get Found Online — Google announced a suite of tools this morning for business owners, offering them a one-stop shop to update their business information, add photos, read reviews and, of course, use Google+.| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Lytro Partners With 500px, Opens File Format Letting its Pictures Live More Places — One of the big challenges for light-field photography startup Lytro has been dealing with the fact that it has to fit into a world that understands photos and video, but isn't well suited or even interested …
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Feedly suffers DDoS attack as perpetrator tries to extort money [Update: The attack has been neutralized] — Update from Feedly: “We're making some changes to our infrastructure that will allow us to bring Feedly back online. However, these things take some time to put into place …
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