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Tom Warren / The Verge:

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 …

Reuters:

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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Ben Sisario / New York Times:

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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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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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.

More: TechCrunch, Fortune, TechCrunch, Gigaom, iPhone Hacks, Mashable, The Next Web and Re/code

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.

More: 9to5Google, Guardian and BGR

Blair Hanley Frank / GeekWire:

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.

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

ESPN Launches Score-Tracking App for Pebble Smartwatch — ESPN wants to grab sports fans by the wrist: The cable programmer has unveiled a real-time score app for the Pebble smartwatch. — The app, launched Thursday, can track multiple games and causes the Pebble to vibrate when it receives game updates and score changes.

More: Pebble App Store, Gizmodo, Engadget, iMore, Android Police and ESPN MediaZone

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.”

More: Wall Street Journal

Malathi Nayak / Reuters:

Ouya partners with Xiaomi to bring its games to the Chinese smartphone maker's streaming boxes and smart TVs — Exclusive: Ouya scores Xiaomi partnership to take games to China — (Reuters) - U.S video game service Ouya is turning to Asia to capture the growth that has eluded the startup on its own home turf.

More: Engadget, SlashGear and Android Central

Timothy B. Lee / Vox:

White House cybersecurity czar brags about his lack of technical expertise — Michael Daniel is the White House's cybersecurity coordinator, the man who “leads the interagency development of national cybersecurity strategy and policy” for the president. And in a recent interview with GovInfoSecurity …

More: GovInfoSecurity. Tweets: @edfelten, @markrussinovich, @rickgivens, @dangillmor and @csoghoian

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

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 …

More: PE Hub Blog, Wearable World News, Crowdfund Insider, VentureBeat, SlashGear, Business Insider and Re/code

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 …

More: VentureBeat, squareup.com, Town Square, ZDNet, SiliconBeat, CIO.com, Mashable, Washington Post, The Next Web and Payments News

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 …

More: Newsroom, Digital Trends, eWeek, LAPTOP Mag, CNET, ABC News, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Windows Phone Central, Gizmodo, Droid Life, TmoNews, Gotta Be Mobile and DSLreports

James Kendrick / ZDNet:

Citrix and Google partner to bring native enterprise features to Chromebooks — Summary: Enterprise capabilities of Chromebooks just got a lot better with new software by Citrix. — James Kendrick — Chromebooks are making inroads into the education sector, and a push is coming …

More: Gigaom, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, eWeek, Mashable and Business Wire

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.

More: Gizmodo, Washington Post, Gigaom, The Next Web, Quartz, GeekWire, The Verge and SlashGear. Thanks:@stevecheney

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 …

More: PE Hub Blog, VentureBeat and Forbes

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.

More: LinkedIn Pulse, Wall Street Journal and Gigaom

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Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Salesforce Beats In Its Fiscal Q2 With Revenue Of $1.32B, EPS OF $0.13 — After the bell, Salesforce reported its fiscal second quarter financial results, including revenue of $1.32 billion and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.13. — The company beat estimates in the fiscal 2015 quarter …

More: Re/code, PR Newswire, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, TheStreet.com, Bloomberg, Forbes, ValueWalk and 24/7 Wall St.

Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:

Google updates voice search, allows users to automatically switch between five languages — Google's Search App Is Now Truly Multilingual — Around the world millions of people are multilingual or partly so. In the US, census data reflect that 20 percent of the population speaks …

More: 9to5Google, Android Police and Droid Life

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