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Snapchat Said in Funding Talks With Alibaba at $10 Billion — Snapchat Inc., the company that makes a mobile application for disappearing photo messages, is in talks with investors including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (BABA) for a round of financing that may value the company at $10 billion, people with knowledge of the situation said.
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Tweets: @monkbent, @nichcarlson and @stevecheney
| Walt Mossberg / Re/code: |
Exclusive Interview: Best Buy CEO Says Tablet Sales Are “Crashing,” Hope for PCs — Re/code has landed in Minneapolis to talk to the folks at Best Buy — the last standing nationwide big-box, bricks-and-mortar consumer electronics retailer, with over 1,000 main stores and hundreds of smaller mobile device stores.
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SlashGear, Ubergizmo, TechSpot, Good E-Reader, Digital Trends, TechnoBuffalo, Electronista, PC World, BGR and The Tech Report
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Heads rolling at Beats as Apple eliminating redundant positions, Ian Rogers & Trent Reznor to stay on — As Apple's acquisition of Beats Electronics and Beats Music nears completion this financial quarter, the Cupertino and Santa Monica, California-based companies have begun work … | Chris Duckett / ZDNet: |
Samsung mobile profit down by a third in 2Q 2014 — Summary: A decline in profitability of Samsung's IT and mobile communications division has pulled overall profit for the Korean conglomerate lower. — Chris Duckett — Samsung has announced an overall 15 percent fall in operating profit …
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The Verge, Re/code, BBC and Samsung Tomorrow
| Ryan Knutson / Wall Street Journal: |
Virgin Mobile intros customizable prepaid smartphone plans with options for unlimited data on certain services like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest — Sprint Will Sell a $12 Wireless Plan that Only Connects to Facebook or Twitter — For about $12, Sprint will soon let subscribers buy …
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Tweets: @dannysullivan, @qthrul, @chimeracoder, @iansteadman and @wsj
| Reuters: |
European regulators training sights on Google's mobile software — (Reuters) - European regulators are preparing what could be a stern challenge to Google Inc's (GOOGL.O) (GOOG.O) mobile software business in the coming months after a nearly four-year investigation into the company's Web …
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| Maria Kiselyova / Reuters: |
Russia wants access to Apple and SAP source code to see if their products are used for spying — Russia wants Apple, SAP to cooperate against foreign spying — * Apple, SAP guard their source code closely — * Russian, Western relations strained over Ukraine
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
1Password debuts extension for third party apps on iOS 8 — The popular password and security management app 1Password has already previewed its iOS 8 extension and Touch ID support for unlocking and accessing its content outside of its iOS app, and today AgileBits has announced …
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Popcorn Time Adds Apple TV Support, iOS App Coming Soon — The Popcorn Time phenomenon is one of the biggest piracy stories of the year thus far. — The software became an instant hit by offering BitTorrent-powered streaming in an easy-to-use Netflix-style interface.| Alex Chitu / Google Operating System: |
64-Bit Chrome for Windows, Now in Beta — 2 months after the Dev/Canary channels, the 64-bit version of Chrome for Windows is now available in the beta channel. It's still limited to Windows 7 and Windows 8+ and you obviously need a 64-bit operating system.
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Google Chrome Releases, 9to5Google, Ubergizmo, Android Central, PC World and Web Browser
| Sam Gustin / Motherboard: |
FCC Chairman: Verizon Uses a ‘Disturbing’ Loophole to Throttle Unlimited Data — Federal Communication Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler is “deeply troubled” about Verizon Wireless's recently-announced plan to begin slowing down data speeds for some customers, he wrote in a strongly-worded letter to the company's CEO on Wednesday.
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Tweets: @dannysullivan and @howardlindzon
Thanks:@samgustin| Agam Shah / PC World: |
AMD announces dev kit with 64-bit ARM-based server chips for $2,999; paves way for x86 coexistence — AMD's new 64-bit ARM board points way to x86 coexistence — Advanced Micro Devices is moving closer to a motherboard design that will accept both x86 and ARM chips with the shipment of its first 64-bit ARM board.
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AMD, The Register, News & Product Reviews …, Liliputing, The Tech Report and ZDNet
| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Yelp Swings To Profitability In Strong Q2 With $88.8M In Revenue, EPS Of $0.04 — Today after the bell Yelp reported its second-quarter financial performance, including revenue of $88.79 million, and a profit of $0.04 per share. The company had net income of $2.7 million in the period, up from a $878,000 loss in the year-ago quarter.| Mike Futter / Game Informer: |
Sony: EA Access Doesn't ‘Represent Good Value To The PlayStation Gamer’ — Following EA's announcement of the company's new subscription program, Access, we were curious about it being tied only to Xbox One. We reached out to Sony for clarification, and it seems like PlayStation 4 owners shouldn't hold their breath for the program.| Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Samsung's Milk Music Update Adds $3.99 Premium Subscription Option — Samsung pitched Milk Music this spring as a totally free music service exclusive to its devices, but slipped in at the end that it might not be free forever. You can still stream tunes for free without ads …
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The Verge, The Next Web, Engadget and Android Central
| Diane Bartz / Reuters: |
Senate report claims unauthorized wireless cramming charges cost consumers hundreds of millions — U.S. cellphone users frequent victims of ‘cramming’: Senate study — (Reuters) - U.S. mobile phone users have likely paid hundreds of millions of dollars in unauthorized charges “crammed” …
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The Verge, The Hill, Broadcasting & Cable, Computerworld, Roll Call and Washington Post
| Biz Carson / Gigaom: |
BitPay cuts transaction fees on starter plan, making bitcoin payment processing free (and unlimited) for merchants — The Atlanta-based payment processor plans to announce today that it's dropped the 1 percent transaction fee on all starter plans. — The financial barrier to bitcoin processing just got obliterated.
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The BitPay Blog, CoinDesk, Finextra Research news, bizjournals and NEWSBTC. Tweets: @startupljackson
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Hangouts Now Works Without Google+ Account, Becomes Part Of Google Apps For Business And Gets SLA — Say what you want about Google+, but it incubated two great products at Google: Hangouts for video meetings and Google+ Photos. While Photos is still deeply integrated with the social network … | Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: |
Tor Warns of Attack Attempting to Deanonymize Users — The Tor Project has disclosed details of an attack which appeared to be an attempt to deanonymize users of the popular anonymity network. — According to Tor Project Leader Roger Dingledine, the attack was detected on July 4 …
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The Tor Blog blogs, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, PandoDaily, lists.torproject.org …, TechSpot, ZDNet, BBC, Electronista, SC Magazine, Forbes, Telegraph, Deep Dot Web, Softpedia News and Gigaom. Tweets: @csoghoian. Thanks:@wiredmike
| Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
DisplayMate: Surface Pro 3 has one of the best, most accurate displays available on any mobile platform and OS — Microsoft's Surface Pro 3 wins plaudits for display, says researcher — Microsoft's newest 12-inch tablet has one of the best displays of any tablet out there, according to DisplayMate Technologies.
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Andrew Mason's Audio Tour App Detour Steers You Away From The Typical Tourist Traps — I'm about 20 minutes late when I meet Andrew Mason at the famous Boudin Bakery in San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf district. It's a tourist trap, but it's where Mason wants to meet and who am I to complain?
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The Verge, Re/code, Businessweek, WebProNews and VentureBeat. Tweets: @producthunt. Thanks:@anthonyha
| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Interim No More: Rob Glaser Named Permanent CEO of RealNetworks — Rob Glaser, who founded RealNetworks in 1994 and served as its CEO until 2010, has been named permanent CEO of the Seattle-based digital media company. He has been interim CEO for the last two years, trying to turn around RealNetworks …
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