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iPhone 6 display panel redesign delayed production, impact on launch uncertain — Exclusive: Apple iPhone 6 screen snag leaves supply chain scrambling — (Reuters) - Suppliers to Apple Inc (AAPL.O) are scrambling to get enough screens ready for the new iPhone 6 smartphone as the need …
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| Kevin Poulsen / Wired: |
Secret has closed 42 security holes reported through its bug bounty which began in February — Your Anonymous Posts to Secret Aren't Anonymous After All — White hat hacker Ben Caudill is halfway through his sandwich when he casually reaches over to his iPhone, swipes the screen a few times, then holds it up to me.
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Thanks:@srikardr| Secret Den: |
Secret replaces photo library access with Flickr access, adds polls, moves to block posts with real names — Image search, Questions and Safety — When we first designed Secret, we set a few key principles. Today, we're releasing an update focused on one of them: Words are the centerpiece.| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
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| Dan Frommer / Quartz: |
Most smartphone users download zero apps per month — Mobile apps have skyrocketed in popularity and utility since Apple introduced the iPhone App Store in the summer of 2008. Apps now represent 52% of time spent with digital media in the US, according to comScore, up from 40% in early 2013.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Exclusive: Todd Park stepping down as America's chief technology officer — Todd Park is planning to step down as U.S. Chief Technology Officer by year-end, Fortune has learned from sources familiar with the situation. — He is expected to take on a new White House role …
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Wired, Re/code, VentureBeat, The Hill, Gigaom and Government Technology News
| Nick Statt / CNET: |
Coin delays launch until spring 2015, will offer beta to the first 10,000 pre-order customers who opt in — Coin delays product launch until spring 2015 as questions remain — The startup behind a smart electronic device that stores credit and debit cards will offer a beta program for 10,000 customers.
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Thanks:@richardjnieva| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Twitter Is Working With Payments Startup Stripe on Its Commerce Initiative — Twitter's long-awaited plan to let its users make purchases right from a tweet is nearing, and payments startup Stripe will have a role in the business, multiple industry sources tell Re/code.
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CNET, Engadget, The Next Web, Marketing Land, SlashGear and WebProNews. Tweets: @kabster728. Thanks:@delrey
| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
More Than 1,000 Businesses in U.S. Affected by Same Cyberattack That Hit Target — More than 1,000 American businesses have been affected by the cyberattack that hit the in-store cash register systems at Target, Supervalu and most recently UPS Stores. — The attacks are much more pervasive …
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The Verge, Associated Press, Gizmodo, Business Insider and BetaBoston. Tweets: @nicoleperlroth
| Brian Womack / Bloomberg: |
Google Buys Product-Design Company Gecko for X Projects — Google Inc. (GOOGL) is acquiring Gecko Design Inc. to add product-design capabilities to its research lab. — Terms of the deal weren't disclosed. Gecko, which is based in Los Gatos, California, will join Google's X lab, the startup said on its website.
| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Samsung couldn't resist turning the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge into an ad — It had to be done. Some unscrupulous marketer was always going to try and capitalize on the global popularity of the Ice Bucket Challenge — whose goal is to raise money to fight amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) — as a cheap ploy to sell you more stuff.
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9to5Mac, Android Central, BGR, CNET, AppleInsider, BetaNews, TUAW, AdAge, Business Insider, TechCrunch, App Advice and WebProNews. Tweets: @inafried
| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Twitter only inserts favorited tweets into your timeline after engagement from multiple users you follow — How Twitter Decides What to Place in Your Stream — Earlier this week, Twitter began adding content to users' timelines, and it says it's going to keep doing that.
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SlashGear, WebProNews and hypebot
| Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom: |
Ryan Seacrest's Typo sold thousands of BlackBerry-style keyboards in defiance of court order, faces contempt charge — Typo, which makes add-on keyboards for iPhones, got off to a rocky start this year when a federal judge slapped it with a sales ban for violating BlackBerry patents.
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PandoDaily, Law360, Electronista, iPhone in Canada Blog and CrackBerry.com
| Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal: |
“Sense” sleep tracker fundraising totals nearly $13M: $10.5M from angels, $2.4 from Kickstarter, and none from institutional VCs — Sleep Tracker ‘Sense’ Raises $13 Million, Without Venture-Capital Help — At 23, James Proud is a rising Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur …
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VentureBeat, Business Insider and Crowdfund Insider
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft NoSQL database and full-text search service previews available on Azure — Summary: Microsoft is making available previews of two new Azure services: Its DocumentDB NoSQL service and its full-text search service built on Elasticsearch. — Microsoft is making available in preview form …
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ScottGu's Blog, Microsoft Azure Blog, The Register, SQL Server Team Blog, VentureBeat and Computerworld. Thanks:@msprwatch
| Cyrus Lee / ZDNet: |
China Telecom to sell unlocked iPhone 6 — Summary: China Telecom said it will unlock the next-generation iPhone by supporting the SIM cards of the other two major telecom players in the market. — Cyrus Lee — China Telecom, China's third largest telecom players trailing behind China Mobile …
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9to5Mac, BGR, MacDailyNews, Forbes, MacRumors, TechnoBuffalo, Cult of Mac and PC Magazine. Tweets: @applespotlight
| Steven Perlberg / Wall Street Journal: |
AdDetector plugin detects native advertising on sites like BuzzFeed and the New York Times — Meet AdDetector — The New Plug-In That Labels Native Advertising — A week-old browser plug-in may have helped solve native advertising's labeling problem. — The service, AdDetector …
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Business Insider and AdExchanger
| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Airbnb to Expose 124 Hosts to New York Attorney General — Airbnb plans to hand over the names and addresses of 124 hosts on its service to the New York attorney general, the company said in a blog post Friday. — The apartment-rental site agreed in May to provide Attorney General Eric Schneiderman … | Chris Davies / SlashGear: |
Acer Chromebox CXI distills C7 Chrome OS for desktops — Acer has outed a new Chrome OS machine, the Chromebox CXI Series, bringing Google's cloud-centric platform to the desktop with prices kicking off at under $180. Rather than build on the Tegra K1-powered Chromebook 13, however …
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Gigaom, 9to5Google, Ars Technica, BetaNews, PC World, Electronista, AndroidHeadlines.com and Liliputing
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