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Amazon Fire Phone's $200 price cut is just one more sign of its dismal market performance — Amazon Cuts Struggling Phone's Price to 99 Cents — SAN FRANCISCO — Sixty thousand people vied to attend the unveiling of Amazon's first smartphone in late June.
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| Dan Frommer / Quartz: |
Apple keynotes by the numbers: How long is the CEO on stage? At which minute is the big unveil? — The hidden structure of the Apple keynote — One of Apple's most successful products—which rarely gets recognized as such—is made not of aluminum and glass, but of words and pictures.| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
5.5" ‘iPhone 6’ said to launch in limited quantities on Sept. 19 alongside 4.7" model — Apple fans clamoring for the anticipated 5.5-inch version of Apple's “iPhone 6” may not have to wait long, as a new report claims that the “phablet” model will launch alongside the 4.7-inch version on Sept. 19 …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Nancy Pelosi urges FCC to reclassify broadband as a utility — A good number of politicians have recently made statements in favor of net neutrality, but House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is going further than most of them today and asking that the Federal Communications Commission reclassify broadband …
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| Brendan Sasso / National Journal: |
Netflix to Join ‘Internet Slowdown’ Protest Over Net Neutrality — Your videos won't load slower, but the protest could add more pressure on the FCC to enact tough rules. — If you see a spinning loading icon when you try to watch Netflix videos Wednesday, there isn't a problem with your Internet connection.| David Kravets / Ars Technica: |
Comcast Wi-Fi serving self-promotional ads via JavaScript injection — Comcast has begun serving Comcast ads to devices connected to one of its 3.5 million publicly accessible Wi-Fi hotspots across the US. Comcast's decision to inject data into websites raises security concerns and arguably cuts … | Ian Kar / Bank Innovation: |
Apple pilot program to develop partnerships with merchants may be related to a loyalty/rewards program — Apple to Launch Pilot Program For Merchant Partnership — Apple will be launching a pilot program to develop partnerships with merchants, including retailers, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the program.
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| Sapna Maheshwari / BuzzFeed: |
Tinder settles sexual harassment lawsuit brought by former executive Whitney Wolfe; Justin Mateen no longer at the company — Tinder Settles Fast With Co-Founder In Sexual Harassment Suit — The shocking lawsuit, which sparked a national conversation around the treatment of women in tech, has been dropped.
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| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Home Depot confirms retail payment systems breach, says credit cards but not PINs were exposed — Home Depot Finally Confirms Its Payment System Was Hacked For Months — Remember that “suspicious activity” that Home Depot was looking into last week? — Six days later …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
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| Abel Avram / InfoQ: |
Developers rename their Markdown enhancement “CommonMark” after dispute with John Gruber — Standard Markdown Becomes Common Markdown then CommonMark — A group of representatives from Stack Exchange, GitHub, Reddit, and others have started to standardize and enhance Markdown under the name Standard Markdown.
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| Winnie Hu / New York Times: |
SheTaxis, an Uber-like service for women with exclusively women drivers, launches next week in New York State — New Service Offers Taxis Exclusively for Women — New Yorkers can already choose from yellow taxis, green cabs or black livery cars. They can tap a smartphone app for a ride, or simply stick out an arm.| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Google Backtracks, Puts Banned App ‘Disconnect Mobile’ Back Into The Play Store — Google has changed its mind and allowed an app it previously banned from Google Play, called Disconnect Mobile, back into its app store. — The app blocks advertisements from planting tracking software onto your computer without your consent.| Barry Levine / VentureBeat: |
Verizon plans to create a sharing platform for virtually anything — not just cars — The “sharing economy” is now moving into the “sharing services economy.” — This morning, Verizon Enterprise Services announced its “Auto Share” service, enabling any car company to become a Zipcar.
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Good Eggs Raises $21 Million From Index Ventures To Deliver The Farmer's Market To Your Door — Organic food delivery startup Good Eggs wants to change the way people eat, making it easier for customers to buy organic foods produced by independent farmers and vendors nearby.
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| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Paypal's Braintree announces One Touch payments and Bitcoin integration for developers — PayPal's Braintree Embraces Bitcoin, One-Touch Payments — Nearly a year after PayPal acquired it in an all-cash $800 million deal, online and mobile payments platform Braintree is unveiling one-touch payments and is integrating Bitcoin.| T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
If Reddit is a government, it's a failed state unable to control events within its borders — Reddit is a failed state — The “front page of the internet” is run by warlords — As Reddit trips over itself trying to contain its stolen nude photo problem, CEO Yishan Wong finally addressed …
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Uber CEO says company is creating 50K jobs a month, shouldn't be as ruthless now that it's big — Uber CEO Thinks It Needs To Be Kinder And Gentler Now That It's On Top — Uber CEO Travis Kalanick says he and his company get a bad rap for being aggressive because he learned to be fierce while running his last scrappy startup.
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple Now Sending Alert Emails When iCloud Accounts Accessed via Web — In an interview last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook noted that Apple would be beefing up iCloud security measures in response to the recent disclosure of compromised celebrity accounts. Among the additional security features … | Dave Hoch / Lead-Gen Blog: |
iPhone 5 is still the most popular Apple smartphone, iPad 2 the most used tablet — iPhone 5 and iPad 2 Still Dominate As Apple Prepares for Announcement — Tomorrow, Apple is expected to launch the iPhone 6. With anticipation building for the announcement, one question looms large: will we get two new iPhones, or one?
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MacRumors, DisplayBlog, PadGadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore, Quartz and Business Insider
| Eric Johnson / Re/code: |
Twitch CEO: “Entire Website” Is a Native Advertising Hub, Not a Store — Twitch is already good at selling people on games, but it's not interested in selling the games directly. — That's the word from CEO Emmett Shear, asked at TechCrunch Disrupt about how the company plans to integrate with its new owner Amazon.| Agam Shah / PC World: |
Intel wants to modernize data centers with new Xeon server chips — Intel has designed its latest server chips to provide the building blocks to modernize “legacy data centers” by providing more processing cores, throughput and power-saving features. — The Xeon E5-2600 v3 chips …
| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
First vehicles with Apple's CarPlay hit the road as Ferrari delivers new FF to customers — Vehicles with Apple's new CarPlay functionality are starting to hit the roads with Ferrari announcing today that it's delivered its first batch of Ferrari FF models equipped with the new feature.
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