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Apple's Diversity Report: 70 percent Male, 55 percent White in U.S. — Apple is the latest company to release a report on the diversity of its workforce, saying Tuesday that its numbers represent a work in progress to the diversity it hopes to achieve over time. — Currently seven in 10 of its workers globally are male.
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Ex-Siri engineers promise consumer-friendly digital assistant “Viv” that can teach itself — Forget Siri: This Radical New AI Teaches Itself and Reads Your Mind — Viv was named after the Latin root meaning live. Its San Jose, California, offices are decorated with tsotchkes bearing …
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Apple in talks with Mount Sinai, the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins, and Allscripts about its HealthKit service — Exclusive: Apple prepares Healthkit rollout amid tangled regulatory web — (Reuters) - Apple Inc has been discussing how its “HealthKit” service will work with health providers …
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Xbox One to offer TV streaming on SmartGlass, video playback via USB and DLNA network streaming — Just before its Gamescom presentation kicked off, Microsoft announced some hefty updates for its Xbox One video game console affecting some of the core apps, SmartGlass and live TV.| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Uber says Lyft cancelled 12.9K Uber rides, and Lyft investors pressured Uber to buy Lyft — Accusations Fly Between Uber and Lyft — All is fair, they say, in love and war. And Uber and Lyft, two smartphone-based car services, are most certainly at war.
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OnePlus asks women to participate in degrading contest to get a smartphone — The startup OnePlus recently launched its first smartphone, the One, and to deal with production issues it's been letting people buy them by invitation only, slowly offering them to more people as more are produced.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo Acquires ‘Pandora For Places’ App Zofari — Another acquisition for Yahoo, this one focused on improving the company's local search capabilities: it has bought Zofari, a local recommendation app that uses machine learning, natural language processing and third-party data from sources …
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| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Sony has sold 10 million PlayStation 4 consoles worldwide — Sony is on a roll. During its press conference at Gamescom 2014, the company announced it has now sold 10 million PlayStation 4 consoles worldwide. — To be clear, this is the number of consoles that have been bought by consumers …
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Uber is launching an API to enable “Request A Ride” buttons in more apps — Uber Is About To Launch An API — Uber wins when you hit the “Request A Ride” button, so shouldn't it try to put that button everywhere? It seemed like a smart plan, so I did some digging … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
iOS drops to 67% enterprise share in Q2 2014, Android grows to 32%, and Windows Phone stays flat at 1% — Apple's iOS still rules the enterprise space, even after having fallen 5 percentage points to 67 percent of total device activations in Q2 2014. Android device activations increased …
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| Zachary M. Seward / Quartz: |
Twitter admits that as many as 23 million of its active users are automated — This piece has been updated to clarify the kinds of accounts in question. — Twitter raised eyebrows last month when it suggested that many of its active users aren't actually human. Now we know how many.
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King stock drops 20% as revenue misses expectations, daily users fall 3% from previous quarter — Wall Street Is Not Happy With The Makers Of Candy Crush Saga — King.com's daily active user count actually fell compared to the last quarter, and the company is now more in need of a hit than ever.
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Square killed prototype credit card due to legal hurdles and fear it would alienate partners — Why Jack Dorsey Killed The Square Credit Card — Square, the payments startup from Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey, has prototyped a Square credit card. The plastic card is all black … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Twitter launches Promoted Video ads in beta, only charging advertisers when a user hits play — Twitter today introduced Promoted Video ads in beta. The company is offering advertisers a new Cost Per View (CPV) ad buying model which means they only get charged when a user starts playing the video in question.| Ben Thompson / stratechery: |
BuzzFeed's valuation reflects how the Internet is narrowing the difference between media and software distribution — Is BuzzFeed a Tech Company? — It's telling that Chris Dixon, in a blog post explaining Andreessen Horowitz's $50 million investment, goes out of his way to explain …
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Apple suppliers begin production of new iPads, 9.7-inch to feature anti-reflective coating — Apple's Suppliers Said to Begin Production of New IPad Tablets — Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s suppliers have started manufacturing new iPads, according to people with knowledge of the matter … | Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Mobile publishing startup Onswipe acquired by Beanstock, service will live on — TechStars alum and former Bloomberg reality TV headliner Onswipe today addressed acquisition rumors, confirming its sale to publisher-centric ad tech company Beanstock Media in a stock and cash deal.| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
RelayRides Adds $10 Million From Trinity And Looks To Expand Peer-To-Peer Airport Rentals — When we last checked in with peer-to-peer car rental startup RelayRides about six weeks ago, it had raised $25 million in Series B funding led by Canaan Partners. Well, it wasn't quite finished raising money, as it turns out.| Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal: |
Condé Nast's Lucky Magazine Merging With Online Retailer BeachMint — Move to Strengthen Shopping Title's Web Presence Amid Focus on Digital — Magazine publisher Condé Nast is merging its Lucky shopping magazine with an online retailer, strengthening the title's Web presence … | Kyle Russell / TechCrunch: |
YC-Backed Rigetti Computing Raises $2.5M To Create Commercial Quantum Systems — Once confined to research labs and science fiction, quantum computing is finally reaching a point where researchers aren't simply trying to find out what's possible, but looking at how they can actually work the technology into commercial hardware.| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
HTC builds separate business unit to make software for more than just HTC phones — HTC Builds Software Business Amid Tough Phone Market — Despite building some of the sexiest smartphones this side of Apple, HTC's hardware and financial challenges have been well documented.
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Activision to break with past, release Skylanders for consoles, tablets — For the first time, the game giant will launch a top-tier console title on a tablet at the same time it's coming out for the PlayStation, Xbox, and Wii. Skylanders toys will, of course, join the fray.
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