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Square acquires food delivery startup Caviar in reported $90M all stock deal — It's Official: Square Acquires Food Delivery Service Caviar — Square has acquired curated food delivery service Caviar today, confirming earlier reports that the companies had been in serious talks.
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Re/code, Caviar Blog, The Verge, The Technology Chronicles, Fortune, CNET, Square, Business Insider, Gigaom, Re/code, ZDNet, The Next Web, GeekWire and FoxSmallBusinessCenter.com. Tweets: @delrey
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Apple hires Angela Ahrendts' confidant & former Nike exec to lead social media efforts — Apple is giving its social media department a significant shot in the arm this week. The Cupertino-based company has hired Musa Tariq, the former social media chief for both Nike and Burberry.
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AppleInsider, iMore, Electronista, iPhone in Canada Blog, Mashable, App Advice and iLounge. Tweets: @jspepper
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Beijing to bar Symantec, Kaspersky anti-virus in procurement: report — (Reuters) - China has excluded U.S.-based Symantec Corp (SYMC.O) and Russia's Kaspersky Lab from a list of approved anti-virus software vendors, according to a Chinese media report suggesting Beijing is expanding efforts to limit use of foreign technology.| Abhijeet M. / SamMobile: |
4.7" Samsung Galaxy Alpha with 720p display, metal construction, and iPhone-like chamfered edges expected to be announced this month — Leaked photos show Samsung Galaxy Alpha in white — With the Galaxy Alpha getting closer and closer to an official unveil, quite a few details have leaked about Samsung's upcoming metal-clad phone.| Patrick Hoge / bizjournals: |
The female Pinterest engineer who pressed tech giants to air embarrassing diversity numbers — Before the recent wave of big technology companies releasing diversity data, there was a one-woman effort by Tracy Chou, a software engineer at the social bookmarking website Pinterest.| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
NFL Now app with on-demand highlights and extensive archives coming to Apple TV this month — NFL Now app coming to Apple TV this month — The NFL will be launching a new NFL Now service later this month, and it will be coming to the Apple TV with a dedicated application …
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Macworld, CNET, The Verge, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gizmodo, SlashGear, VentureBeat, Engadget, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com, MacDailyNews, MacRumors, iMore and MacNN. Thanks:@markgurman
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Hidden sensors embedded in everyday objects like car seats may be more useful than wearables — Sensors And Sensitivity — There's only so much practical real estate on the human body for wearables — unless you're willing to revive the over-accessorizing trend of the 1980s.| Eva Dou / Wall Street Journal: |
Xiaomi Overtakes Samsung in China Smartphone Market — China's “Little Rice” has gotten big. — Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone maker with the diminutive name, became the leading smartphone vendor in China in the second quarter, with its shipments exceeding Samsung 's for the first time … | Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Taboola Acquires Perfect Market, Launches Taboola-X To Help Publishers Monetize Their Sites — Content recommendation startup Taboola has spent the last seven years perfecting a technology that is designed to help publishers drive more traffic to their sites and make some money from external advertisers at the same time.
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VentureBeat, PE Hub Blog, Fortune, Perfect Market, BestTechie, AdExchanger and The Next Web
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Docker sells dotCloud business to German PaaS company cloudControl, focuses on core container management business — Docker parts ways with its dotCloud business — The container management startup is selling off its dotCloud business to the German PaaS company cloudControl GmbH as it concentrates on its container technology.
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Instagram starts looking more like Twitter with suggested follows and a curated Explore page — Instagram is embracing its inner Twitter — With suggested follows, curated content, and perhaps soon trending hashtags, Instagram looks to kick growth into high gear
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Q&A with Pinterest's Evan Sharp on the company's function, competitors, and ambition — What Is Pinterest? A Database of Intentions — Evan Sharp, one of the co-founders of Pinterest, delves into what the wildly popular image-collecting site is really about, and what it's likely to do in the future.| Joe Miller / BBC: |
Wikipedia link hidden by ‘right to be forgotten’ — Jimmy Wales had previously voiced his opposition to the right-to-be-forgotten ruling — A Wikipedia entry has been removed from certain Google search results, under the new EU “right to be forgotten” law.
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