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LG will reveal “G Watch R” circular smartwatch at IFA next week to compete with the Moto 360 — LG will reveal a circular smartwatch next week to compete with the Moto 360 — Of the three Android Wear smartwatches introduced at Google's developer conference in June …
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| Dan Frommer / Quartz: |
Top 25 most used apps in US: Facebook on top, followed by YouTube; Google is top publisher — These are the 25 most popular mobile apps in America — In its latest mobile app report, comScore tracks the 25 most popular apps in the US. This is an interesting slice of the App Store …
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| Claire Cain Miller / New York Times: |
Delivery startups return: services like Instacart try to avoid flaws of dot-com-era companies — Delivery Start-Ups Are Back Like It's 1999 — Last year, I was excited to hear about a new start-up in San Francisco that delivered cheap bottles of wine within an hour. It was called Rewinery, and it was fantastic.
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| Adam Jourdan / Reuters: |
China's homegrown OS with app store support may be ready for desktops in October, will extend to mobile devices later — China targets own operating system to take on likes of Microsoft, Google — (Reuters) - China could have a new homegrown operating system by October to take on imported rivals …
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Xinhua News Agency, Computerworld, PhoneArena, PC Magazine and Engadget
| Nellie Bowles / Re/code: |
YC's Jessica Livingston Was Hit On by a VC on the Way to This Interview — When Jessica Livingston, a co-founder of the influential startup accelerator Y Combinator, arrived at The Wine Room in Palo Alto, Calif., a little early for our meeting, a man who was also waiting outside the wine bar started to chat her up.| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Conjecture on new iPhone resolutions: 1334 x 750 for the 4.7" model, 2208 x 1242 for 5.5" — Conjecture Regarding Larger iPhone Displays — Throughout the entire rumor cycle for this year's new iPhones, we've been inundated with reports of two new screen sizes, 4.7 and 5.5 inches.
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Forbes, MacRumors, Rusty Rants, Softpedia News, Cult of Mac, MacDailyNews, iPhone in Canada Blog and Ars Technica
Tweets: @jjlin, @incanus77, @toddmparker, @robjdavey and @tapbot_paul
| Cat Zakrzewski / TechCrunch: |
Wells Fargo Launches Accelerator To Promote Innovation In Financial Services — Wells Fargo on Wednesday announced the launch of its first accelerator program, which will provide funding and mentorship to young companies aiming to pioneer new financial services technology.
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bizjournals, San Francisco Chronicle, bizjournals, Wells Fargo, Fox Business, tech.co and Silicon Prairie News
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| Blair Hanley Frank / GeekWire: |
OnBeep raises $6.25 million to create a Star Trek-style communicator device — OnBeep, a San Francisco startup founded by Chef co-founder and former Amazon Availability Program Manager Jesse Robbins, has raised a series A funding round worth $6.25 million. The money will be used to fund …
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Mashable, SlashGear, Wired, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Gigaom, FierceWireless and PC World. Thanks:@johnhcook
| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Aim of Amazon's in-store payment system may be to allow brick and mortar shops to sell on Amazon's online store — Predicting Amazon's Secret Plans in Physical Retail — The recent launch of Amazon's in-store credit card reader and checkout software was one of Jeff Bezos' most deliberate acts …
Tweets: @mdudas
| Robert McMillan / Wired: |
White House recruits techies like Mikey Dickerson by dropping suit requirement; still issues BlackBerries — The White House Gives Up on Making Coders Dress Like Adults — The U.S. Government wants to hire more people like Mikey Dickerson. He's the former Google engineer …
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White House.gov Blog, NPR, FishbowlDC, Washington Post, 9to5Google, The Hill, ReadWrite, The Register, Quartz and Fortune
Tweets: @alejandropoire, @vkhosla, @andrewsu, @nickdawson and @mims
| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
Kreyos smartwatch ships to some Indiegogo backers 9 months late, and containing numerous flaws — Utter Failure Of Kreyos Smartwatch With $1.5 Million In Backing Shows The Continued Perils Of Hardware Crowdfunding — Crowdfunding complex hardware is risky business, and it seems that risk …
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Gizmodo, docs.google.com, Betabeat, Betabeat, Gizmodo, Crowdfund Insider, TechHive, Crowdfund Insider, and The Guardian. Tweets: @richardlai
| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
N3twork becomes a video discovery app for Apple TV with unique AirPlay remote functionality — A Video Startup Teaches Apple TV Some New Tricks — Remember when AirPlay was going to be a big deal? — AirPlay is Apple's system for beaming stuff from users' phones, tablets and laptops to Apple TVs, and then onto actual TV sets.Sponsor Posts
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