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Apple Watch to be sold at Best Buy stores and online starting August 7 — Apple Watch to Be Sold at Best Buy — One month after Apple Inc. started selling Apple Watch at its own stores, the company said it will bring the device to Best Buy stores in August.
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Homejoy couldn't retain customers enticed by promotional prices for its home cleaning service — What Really Killed Homejoy? It Couldn't Hold Onto Its Customers — A cleaning company charges north of $85 for a 2.5-hour house cleaning, but to rope in as many new customers as possible …
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| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Twitter is deleting stolen jokes on copyright grounds — Let's face it: coming up with a grade-A tweet isn't easy. That's why some people just copy good tweets from other people and act like they came up with the 140-character witticism on their own. This has been going on since the beginning of Twitter.
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Q&A with Baidu CEO Robin Li on moving away from desktop search to focus on online-to-offline commerce on mobile, investment in Uber, and more — China's Baidu, With Uber in Tow, Takes Search to the Offline World (Q&A) — In many ways, Baidu went through the same existential crisis three years ago that Google faces now.| David Morell / Google Webmaster Central Blog: |
Google+ found when visitors of mobile website were presented with an app install interstitial, 69% abandoned the page; user retention spiked after removing it — Google+: A case study on App Download Interstitials — Many mobile sites use promotional app interstitials to encourage users to download their native mobile apps.
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Uber, Airbnb And The Conflict Between Policy's Ratchet Effect And Tech's Accelerating Speed — One day before New York's city council was about to vote on capping Uber's growth, the company and Mayor Bill de Blasio reached a last-minute agreement for a four-month study on the company's impact on city congestion.
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New York Times and The Daily Signal
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Researches create a faster Tor alternative for anonymous Internet use called HORNET — Researchers claim they've developed a better, faster Tor — HORNET, a high-speed onion routing network, could be deployed on routers as part of the Internet. — Tor, the world's largest and most well-known …
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International Business Times, ZDNet, BBC, Engadget, BetaNews, Inquirer, Digital Trends and The Daily Dot
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UK luxury travel deals site Secret Escapes raises $60M Series C for Asia expansion led by Google Ventures, Octopus Investments, with Index, Atlas participating — Secret Escapes gets $60m Google Ventures backing for global expansion — Secret Escapes plans to become a multi-billion pound business (Source: Secret Escapes/YouTube)
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International Business Times, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, CNBC and Skift
| Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal: |
YouTube offers money and help to top creators to ward off online video rivals like Facebook — YouTube Creates Stars. Can It Keep Them? — At VidCon, Google battles with Facebook and startups to woo ‘MyCupcakeAddiction’ and other popular online video creators — YouTube created a new kind of celebrity.
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Karma Go review: a $149 pay-as-you-go mobile hotspot that uses Sprint's LTE and 3G networks — Karma Go review: a mobile hotspot minus the monthly fee — Karma was always intriguing, at least in theory. You get a relatively cheap MiFi and data, but it's open to anybody.| Nathan Donato-Weinstein / bizjournals: |
Exclusive: Amazon planning drive-up grocery stores with the first likely coming to Sunnyvale — sources — For decades, drive-thrus have served up everything from coffee to prescriptions to dry cleaning — not to mention burgers and fries. Now Amazon.com Inc. wants to add another item to the list: Your groceries.| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Android Auto review: A beautiful, but beta alternative to awful OEM solutions — The occasional frustration still beats the very low bar set by car manufacturers. — Car infotainment systems suck. Using the touchscreen in a modern vehicle usually feels more like interacting with an ATM …
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