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Behind PayPal-owned mobile payments app Venmo, which processed $700M in payments in Q3 2014 — Mobile Payment Startup Venmo is Killing Cash — Kristen Geil, a writer for an Internet marketing firm in Chicago, heard about Venmo for the first time two summers ago.
Tweets: @kaylatausche
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Full disk encryption on Nexus 6 leads to 62.9% drop in random read performance — Encryption and Storage Performance in Android 5.0 Lollipop — As alluded to in our Nexus 6 review, our normal storage performance benchmark was no longer giving valid results as of Android 5.0.
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PC Magazine, Droid Life, Android Beat, TechSpot, Digital Trends, Electronista, BetaNews, Ubergizmo, BGR and Android Authority
| Laura Hudson / New York Times: |
How Twine, a creation tool for text-based video games, brought more diverse voices to gaming — Twine, the Video-Game Technology for All — Perhaps the most surprising thing about “GamerGate,” the culture war that continues to rage within the world of video games, is the game that touched it off.
Tweets: @john_brindle, @bryfitz, @laura_hudson and @nytmag
| Ken Dilanian / Associated Press: |
Internal NSA debate led Obama to consider plan to stop gathering US phone records in 2009 — AP Exclusive: Before Snowden, a debate inside NSA — 1 photo — WASHINGTON (AP) — Years before Edward Snowden sparked a public outcry with the disclosure that the National Security Agency …
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| Lauren Schwartzberg / Fast Company: |
The Oral History of The Poop Emoji (Or, How Google Brought Poop to America) — Everyone's favorite emoji began in Japan. But without Google, it may have stayed there. — If the story of the poop emoji's rise were told in emojis, it would look like this:| Lane Wood / Medium: |
Pando founder Sarah Lacy's allusions to physical threats distort media narrative on Uber scandal — Here ego again. — There's something unsettling about all this Uber stuff. — Maybe it's the fact that I have to wade through all the technorati tweets about “#Ubergate” … | Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Eyes-on with Streaming Photoshop: Adobe's plan to bring PS to the cloud — We have seen Photoshop work in a browser, and it looked pretty good. “Streaming Photoshop” is Adobe and Google's plan to bring the incomparable photo editor to Chrome OS and the Chrome Browser.
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VentureBeat, TechCrunch, The Verge, PetaPixel and PopPhoto.com
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo Acquires Photo Startup Cooliris — Photo app-maker Cooliris just announced that it has been acquired by Yahoo. — It's been a long road to this exit. Cooliris was founded back in 2006 and was initially known for creating a “3D wall” for navigating photos and other media content.
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Cooliris, ZDNet, Tech in Asia and The Next Web
| Susan Decker / Bloomberg: |
Samsung Files Complaint to Block Nvidia Chips From U.S. — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) is seeking to block computer-graphics chips made by Nvidia Corp. (NVDA) from the U.S. market, escalating a battle begun after licensing talks failed. — Samsung filed a complaint today against Nvidia …
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Engadget, NASDAQ.com, Reuters and Wall Street Journal
| Derek Walter / Greenbot: |
Google Maps 9.1 for Android now displays local weather, time, and tips about your destination — Google Maps 9.1 is a rather minor update, compared to the major Material Design overhaul in 9.0. — But it turns out there are some useful features tucked away, especially if you rely on the app …
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Android Police, BGR and Engadget
| Financial Times: |
European parliament draft motion says breakup of Google should be considered — Google break-up plan emerges from Brussels — The European parliament is poised to call for a break-up of Google, in one of the most brazen assaults so far on the technology group's power.
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New York Times, MacDailyNews, 9to5Google, Gigaom, Ars Technica, Guardian, Business Insider, The Register, Ubergizmo, Digital Trends, Electronista, CNET, Slate, ZDNet, Los Angeles Times, Daring Fireball and Reuters
Tweets: @amir, @chris_ciaccia and @chris_ciaccia
| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Assembly raises $2.9M for a platform letting anyone contribute to projects and share profits — With Assembly, anyone can contribute to open-source software and actually get paid — A new startup wants to evolve open-source methods, adding a wide range of skills and profit sharing
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TechCrunch, PE Hub Blog and VentureBeat
| Elyse Betters / Pocket-lint: |
Pebble Android app update brings support for full notifications and more languages — Pebble is on a roll. — Despite kicking off the week with handy apps like Domino's Tracker and PayPal, the smartwatch maker has yet another announcement up its sleeve: an update for the Pebble Android app … Sponsor Posts
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