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Symantec: Spam falls below 50% of all email for the first time since 2003 — Good news for all of us who still have to use email: spam rates are dropping! In fact, junk messages now account for just 49.7 percent of all emails. — The latest figure comes from security firm Symantec's … | Re/code: |
Google Hires Tech Team From Homejoy, Readies Leap Into Home Services Market — Google is preparing to stomp into yet another market: Home services. To do so, the search giant is scooping up the technical team behind Homejoy, the startup that connected online users with professional cleaners.
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| Carmel DeAmicis / Re/code: |
Homejoy shuts down, unable to raise a large enough round after facing slow growth — Homejoy Shuts Down After Battling Worker Classification Lawsuits — Cleaning services company Homejoy is shutting down on July 31 after struggling to raise a big enough round of funding.
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| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
HTC cancels previously unveiled Grip fitness band that was slated for a Spring 2015 launch — HTC won't ship the Grip after all, but its fitness ambition lives on — Hey, remember that time HTC built a fitness tracker (with a little help from Under Armor) and showed it off in Barcelona?| Chris Johnston / Guardian: |
British man Lauri Love rearrested, charged wth hacking into US government agencies including the US army, NASA, and the Federal Reserve, faces extradition to US — British man accused of hacking into US government networks arrested — Lauri Love arrested in Suffolk on an extradition warrant …
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Sources: Hulu exploring an ad-free option for about $12-$14/month, launching as early as fall — Hulu Explores Adding Ad-Free Option to Its Service — Option could launch as early as this fall and be priced at around $12 to $14 a month — Hulu is exploring plans to add an advertising-free option …
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Startups grapple with prospective employees increasingly seeking information such as cap tables and liquidation preferences — Employees Wise Up — This week, a Bay Area founder was taken aback when an engineer being recruited by his startup asked for both its cap table and information regarding …
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Yahoo quietly launches Livetext, combining mobile messaging with silent live video, in Hong Kong's iTunes store — Yahoo Quietly Launches A New “Video Texting” Mobile Messaging App On iTunes — Yahoo has been rumored to be working on a revamped messenger app for a while now … | Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
YouTube's global watch time grew 60% YoY; average mobile viewing session now over 40 minutes — Google Grows YouTube Views, Revenue Despite Facebook Threat — YouTube got a big shout-out during Google's Q2 2015 earnings call Thursday, with Google's new CFO Ruth Porat stating that the company has seen …
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| Kait Gaiss / Pocket Blog: |
Pocket brings Listen, its text-to-speech feature, to iOS — Text-to-Speech for iOS is Now Available! Listen to Your Articles in Pocket — We don't always have the opportunity to sit down and read the amazing content we save to Pocket every day. Sometimes, our hands are simply full …
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iPod touch 6th-gen teardown: slightly more repairable and double the RAM of last model at 1GB — iPod Touch 6th Generation Teardown — Teardown — Teardowns provide a look inside a device and should not be used as disassembly instructions. — Featured Guide| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Hacking Team's evil Android app had code to bypass Google Play screening — Full backdoor code wasn't installed until after user activated app. — Security researchers at Trend Micro's Trend Labs have uncovered a trick in a sample of a fake news application for Android created …
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Yahoo Files To Spin Off Its Alibaba Stake As “Aabaco Holdings” — Yahoo is moving forward with plans to spin off its Alibaba assets, as outlined in a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. — Basically, Yahoo is tossing its Alibaba stock and a minor part of its operations into a new corporate entity.Sponsor Posts
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Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
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