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Microsoft set to unveil Windows 9 on September 30th — Microsoft is planning to unveil its Windows 8 successor next month at a special press event. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans tell The Verge that the software maker is tentatively planning its press event for September 30th …
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Report: eBay telling candidates for PayPal CEO role it may spin off the unit as early as next year — EBay considering spinning off Paypal - report — (Reuters) - EBay Inc is considering spinning out its fast-growing payments unit PayPal as soon as next year, news website The Information reported, citing sources.
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SoundCloud to incorporate ads, allow artists to collect royalties, prepares to introduce paid subscriptions — Popular and Free, SoundCloud Is Now Ready for Ads — SoundCloud is the ubiquitous wild child of the digital music world. Without paying artists or record companies …
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / VentureBeat: |
Product Hunt raises $1M seed funding, launches iOS app — Silicon Valley darling Product Hunt gets $1M, launches app for its tech-fanatic community — Two days ago, Product Hunt, one of the buzziest communities in recent times, graduated from the most highly-regarded accelerated program around, Y Combinator.
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
The state of Android updates: Who's fast, who's slow, and why — Android 4.4, KitKat was released on October 31, 2013, or at least, that's what you can say about one device: the Nexus 5. For the rest of the ecosystem, the date you got KitKat—if you got KitKat—varied wildly depending on your device, OEM, and carrier.
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Xamarin raises $54M in funding to bring Microsoft's programming language to other platforms — Xamarin, the San Francisco-based company that allows developers to code applications for a variety of different platforms using Microsoft's C# programming language, announced today that it has raised a $54 million Series C round of financing.| Matthew Miller / ZDNet: |
T-Mobile will give you a year of unlimited LTE data if your friends convert from Sprint, AT&T, or Verizon — T-Mobile offers a year of unlimited LTE to those who throw Sprint friends a lifeline — Summary: T-Mobile is serious about taking the third place spot away from Sprint … | Kyle Russell / TechCrunch: |
Square Announces Analytics Tools For Merchants — With competition in mobile payments heating up, Square continues to expand its offerings for small businesses to other areas where local merchants are missing out compared to big retailers and franchises. — Today the company …
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Felicis, Horizons Ventures Pour $3 Million Into The Vessyl Smart Cup — Mark One, the company behind the Vessyl smart cup, has today closed a $3 million seed round co-led by Felicis Ventures and Horizons Ventures — The Vessyl is a cup that tracks your liquid consumption throughout the day … | Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
LinkedIn Product Head Deep Nishar Departs Business Network — LinkedIn's head of product, Deep Nishar, is leaving the Silicon Valley-based business network. He does not have another job, although the exec has been joining a number of boards and taking advisory roles at several startups of late.| Seth Weintraub / Electrek: |
Tesla Model S software update will bring ability to start car with iPhone — Tesla Model S OS v6.0 to begin rolling out to customers with Calendar app, Traffic/navigation improvements, power savings and iPhone starting — There are some impressive new updates as part …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Comcast's Xfinity On Campus offers students cable over Wi-Fi at five universities — Comcast aims to hook college students on cable with TV over Wi-Fi — It's bundled right in with their room and board costs — Comcast today formally announced a new service that will let college students … | Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Dropbox Loses High-Profile Design Head Soleio — In a Facebook post tonight, Dropbox's high-profile head designer Soleio said he was leaving his job at the cloud storage company. — “Today marks my last day as a full-time Dropboxer,” he wrote. “I'm transitioning back to serving as a company advisor over the coming month.”
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Estimote Wants To Pioneer ‘Nearables’ With New Stickers Beacon Hardware — The Internet of Things gets a lot of hype, but its rollout is slow and it will take a long time for consumers to upgrade existing, non-connected devices that still work fine into something that can communicate with computing gadgets like smartphones.
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| Zeljka Zorz / Help Net Security: |
Report: Most popular Android apps in Google Play store open users to man-in-the-middle attacks — Most popular Android apps open users to MITM attacks — An analysis of the 1,000 most popular free Android apps from the Google Play store has revealed a depressing fact …
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Events app DoubleDutch raises $19M series D from Peter Thiel's Mithril and Silicon Valley Bank — Peter Thiel's Mithril Invests in DoubleDutch, an Events App — It has become a common refrain among Silicon Valley entrepreneurs: We didn't need to raise money, but we did anyway.
| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Swift Navigation Raises $2.6 Million For Its Ultra-Precise GPS System — GPS technology is everywhere nowadays — it's built into phones, cars, and an increasing number of industrial devices. But to date, GPS hasn't been very precise. Conventional GPS modules have an accuracy range of about 15 feet …
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