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Vox Media acquires Re/code in all-stock deal, Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher to stay at Re/code after merger — Vox Media Acquiring ReCode — ReCode, the news website led by the veteran journalists Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, is being acquired by Vox Media, a deal that reflects …
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See also Mediagazer| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Re/code's reviews team of Katie Boehret, Bonnie Cha, and Lauren Goode to join Verge staff, Mossberg to write reviews, columns for both sites — The Verge and Recode are joining forces — I'm excited to announce that The Verge's parent company Vox Media is acquiring Recode …
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| Ezra Klein / Vox: |
Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff explains the Re/code purchase: complementing The Verge's coverage, conference business, more — The Vox Media-Re/code deal, explained by Vox Media's CEO — On Tuesday night, Vox Media — the parent company of Vox.com — announced it was purchasing Re/code … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 9 to support Force Touch with haptic feedback for iPhone 6S, feature new keyboard, Apple Pay for Canada, iMessage read receipts on contact-by-contact basis — iOS 9 supports ‘iPhone 6S’ Force Touch, may enhance iMessage, Keyboard & Apple Pay — Some of iOS 9's more important planned …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 9 Maps Transit navigation to include San Francisco, New York City, Toronto, London, Paris, and Berlin, in addition to China, at launch — iOS 9 Transit Maps to launch in a handful of cities in North America, Europe & China — While Apple plans to debut its own mass transit directions service … | Stephen Ohlemacher / Associated Press: |
IRS says hackers gained access to tax returns, other info of more than 100K taxpayers by targeting “Get Transcript” service and using SSNs, birth dates, more — APNewsBreak: IRS says thieves stole tax info from 100,000 — WASHINGTON (AP) — Thieves used an online service provided … | Joe Belfiore / Blogging Windows: |
Microsoft's bringing Cortana to iPhone and Android, announces Phone Companion app for Windows 10, which helps automatically sync your smartphone with your PC — Your Windows 10 PC will love all the devices you own — Whether it's a 3-year-old printer or projecting to your brand new TV with Miracast …
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| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Snapchat's Evan Spiegel on eliminating push-to-view for videos, approaching 100M daily active users, being about “entertainment”, more — Snapchat's Evan Spiegel Takes the Stage at Code Conference (Liveblog) — Snapchat considering changing or eliminating push-to-view feature.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Google and Yahoo have both held early acquisition talks with Flipboard in recent weeks but deal price hasn't yet been discussed — Google, Yahoo Have Had Talks to Buy Flipboard — Twitter's Flipboard discussions have largely stalled since April — Several Internet giants have inquired …
Tweets: @harrymccracken
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple replaces problematic OS X networking process discoveryd with mDNSResponder in new beta — Apple drops discoveryd in latest OS X beta following months of network issues — After many complaints from the developer community about poor networking performance on Yosemite …
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| Dashiell Bennett / Bloomberg Business: |
Brick and mortar retailer Hot Topic to buy ThinkGeek parent company Geeknet for $122M in cash and stock — One of the Biggest Tech IPOs of All Time Is Getting Bought by a Teen Clothing Store — From hardware company to e-tailer — Hot Topic, the fashion staple of suburban malls everywhere …
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| Roozbeh Pournader / Google Open Source Blog: |
Google open sources its signature Roboto font, the default used in Android and Chrome — Roboto: Google's signature font is now open source — The Roboto family of fonts, and the toolchain used in creating it, are now an open source project. Roboto is Google's signature font, created by Google designer Christian Robertson.
| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
Android Auto review: maps, speech recognition, Google Now are great, but limited availability on Android and Hyundai Sonata is frustrating — Android Auto Review: The Smartphone Finally Finds Its Rightful Home in the Car — A future without slow, unintuitive in-dash navigation systems is on the horizon| Edmund Lee / Re/code: |
AOL was approached by three bidders other than Verizon, considered selling Huffington Post, TechCrunch; CEO Armstrong gets bonus of about $59M for making deal — AOL Was Approached by Three Other Bidders After Verizon — AOL was approached by three other companies for a possible acquisition …
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See also Mediagazer| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Mandriva, developer of Mandriva Linux for PCs, shuts down after 17 years — A Linux company that spent 17 years competing with Windows is officially over — In a “sad” event for people who love Linux, French tech company Mandriva is being liquidated, according to a notice posted by the company.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook adds critics' reviews to select restaurant pages in a pilot with seven publications including Bon Appetit, Conde Nast Traveler, and Eater — Facebook begins adding critics' reviews to restaurant pages — Two weeks after starting to host news articles on its servers …
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