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Apple plans to announce a wearable in September with HealthKit and HomeKit integration — Code/red: Apple Plans to Announce Wearable in September — Start the Countdown Timer on Whatever Old-Fashioned Piece of Junk You Have on Your Wrist Right Now Remember back in June when I said Apple hoped …
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Dropbox Beefs Up Its Pro Feature Set, Now Offering 1TB Of Storage For $10/Month — In today's cloud storage wars, most companies are defined by the amount of space their users get for the least amount of money. With new pricing and updates to its Pro offering, Dropbox is hoping to show …
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How Many People See Your Tweets? Twitter Opens Its Nifty Analytics Dashboard To Everyone — Back in July, Twitter launched a really nifty analytics dashboard. A bit like Google Analytics for tweets, it allows you to gauge the performance of each and every tweet you sent. How many people saw it?
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| Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg: |
Apple Fails Again in Bid for Samsung Smartphone Sales Ban — Apple Inc. (AAPL) failed again to win a sales ban on Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) products found to infringe its smartphone patents, even after requesting what it described as a more limited prohibition.
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Jessica Alba's The Honest Co. Raises $70M, Preps for IPO … In preparation for an IPO, Jessica Alba's The Honest Co., a maker of eco-friendly baby products, has raised $70 million at a valuation just shy of $1 billion and is beginning partnership talks to expand to China, Dow Jones VentureWire has learned.| Eliot Brown / Wall Street Journal: |
Google Eyes Giant Offices in Historic Los Angeles Airplane Hangar — A massive former airplane hangar just north of Los Angeles International Airport was home to construction of the world's largest airplane in the 1940s and then hosted filming for movies including “Independence Day” and “Transformers.”
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Time Warner Cable suffered a nationwide outage this morning due to “Internet backbone” issue — Time Warner Cable suffers massive outage nationwide — The cable giant's services are down in a number of areas across the US, but are slowly coming back online.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
T-Mobile adds Songza, Rdio, others to Music Freedom; Google Play Music ‘later this year’ — Google's got the most votes, but it's not on the list yet — Apparently T-Mobile remains unfazed by net neutrality concerns over its Music Freedom initiative; today the carrier added several new music streaming services to the program.| BBC: |
Intel builds 'world's smallest' 3G modem — Intel has unveiled a 3G modem not much bigger than a UK penny or US one-cent coin, with the aim of embedding it in connected devices around the home. — The company says the XMM 6255, with an area of about 300 sq mm, is the world's smallest modem.
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Apple offering iPhones on AT&T Next installment plans through online store, but no Verizon or T-Mobile financing (yet) — Following our report in late July that Apple was about to start selling iPhones through carrier upgrade/installment plans like AT&T's Next, the company is now offering exactly that through its online store.
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| Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: |
Alibaba's net income nearly triples to $2B in the quarter, may unveil IPO price range as soon as Tuesday — Alibaba Profit and Mobile Revenue Soar Again as I.P.O. Nears — With less than a month before its initial public offering, the Alibaba Group is intent on showing just how profitable — and focused on mobile — it really is.| Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: |
Lending Club files for IPO, lists $500M as a preliminary fundraising target — Lending Club, Leader in Peer-to-Peer, Plans I.P.O. — In its nearly eight years, Lending Club, the biggest marketplace for peer-to-peer loans, has garnered fans across Wall Street.| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Spotify announces Philips Smart TV integration; adds Bose, Panasonic, and Gramofon as Connect partners — Spotify launches smart TV integration, signs deals with Phillips, Bose, and Panasonic — Spotify today announced the launch of the first “Spotify-enabled” smart TV in an exclusive deal … | Claire Cain Miller / New York Times: |
Pew study shows social media users are more reluctant than others to share their dissenting views, online or off — How Social Media Silences Debate — The Internet might be a useful tool for activists and organizers, in episodes as momentous as the Arab Spring or as trivial as the Ice Bucket Challenge.
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Square raising $200M, partly from Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, at $6B valuation — In raising cash, Square heads for $6B valuation: Sources — Square, the payments provider that turns any smartphone into a credit card terminal, is in the process of raising capital … Sponsor Posts
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