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Motorola unveils $399 Motorola X Style with Universal LTE in US, $299 Moto X Play globally, and an upgraded, waterproof, and customizable $179 Moto G — Motorola doubles down on Moto X with Style, Play, updates Moto G — The Moto X Style will be known as the Pure Edition in the US, and will be sold directly to consumers.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows 10 review: a great fix to the problems of Windows 8 with the new Start menu, Cortana, and more, but bugs linger and Edge browser lacks extensions — Windows 10 review — Looking back at Windows 8, it's easy to see where Microsoft went wrong. It was a giant bet on touch-based computing … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Takes On Product Hunt, Shopify With Launchpad, An All-In-One Marketing And Sales Portal — Product Hunt has made a splash as a new place for startups to market new products, Shopify offers a way for them to easily start selling their products online, and Shyp takes the pain …
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| Noah Kulwin / Re/code: |
Two Weeks After Content Policy Update, Reddit's Head of Community, Jessica Moreno, Has Left the Company — Reddit's head of community, Jessica Moreno, has left the company. She is the fourth senior female employee to exit in less than a month. — Moreno and her husband …
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Twitter Reports Second Quarter 2015 Results — SAN FRANCISCO, California - Twitter, Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2015. • Q2 revenue of $502 million, up 61% year-over-year, and above the previously forecast range of $470 million to $485 million.
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| Cam Bunton / 9to5Mac: |
T-Mobile adds free Apple Music cellular streaming, offers free next-gen iPhone upgrades to iPhone 6 buyers — Summer for T-Mobile this year has meant announcing a series of promotions and plans dubbed #UncarrierAmped. Today, the company launched the latest, and last of these moves.
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T-Mobile Newsroom, CNET, The Daily Dot, The Next Web, TechCrunch, The Verge, Macworld, MacRumors, InvestorPlace, Consumerist, Gotta Be Mobile, GeekWire, The Verge, iMore and iLounge. Tweets: @apollozac
| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Sources say Twitter's list of outside CEO candidates is lacking, pointing to Dorsey or Bain, with Bain in lead because of Dorsey's Square commitment — Adam Bain Is Soooo Nice, Jack Dorsey's Hamlet Act and Other Things You Need to Know About the Twitter CEO Search
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| Stacey Higginbotham / Fortune: |
Intel and Micron unveil new storage chip called 3D Xpoint that's 1,000 times faster than flash memory, doesn't use transistors, and is already in production — Intel and Micron team up to launch a new class of computer memory — The decade-long partnership between Intel and Micron to build better NAND … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Android users can now say ‘Ok Google’ to send messages via WhatsApp, WeChat, NextPlus, Telegram, and Viber — In April, Google launched custom voice actions on Android, allowing users to control select third-party apps simply by starting with the “Ok Google” command.| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Visa Invests in Stripe at $5 Billion Valuation and Strikes Commercial Deal, Too — Credit card companies think they have found an ally in the increasingly competitive world of online payments. Its name is Stripe. — Visa has inked a commercial agreement with the payments startup …
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German regulator orders Facebook to allow pseudonyms — Facebook may not prevent its users from using fake names, a German privacy watchdog said on Tuesday, in the latest privacy setback for the U.S. company in Europe. — The Hamburg data protection authority, which is responsible …
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| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Hands-on with OnePlus 2: Impressive specs for the price with thoughtful software additions, fingerprint unlock sensor works as advertised — The OnePlus 2 pushes the boundaries of how cheap a flagship phone can be — There are more options than ever for getting a good, cheap smartphone, and last year's OnePlus One was a standout.
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TIME, Android Police, Re/code, TechNode, Pocketnow, Android Beat, Android Beat, Wired, Android Authority and 9to5Google
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| Mehedi Hassan / Microsoft News: |
Microsoft Arrow Launcher for Android currently in private beta, APK leaks online — This is Microsoft's Arrow Launcher for Android (download APK) — Microsoft is currently working on a new Android app, and it's an Android launcher. The company's latest app is Arrow Launcher and it is currently …
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GeekWire, TIME, The Verge, Rapid News Network, Geek.com, Neowin, Pocketnow, Android Community and TechnoBuffalo. Thanks:@mehedih_
| Lee Hutchinson / Ars Technica: |
DHI Group plans to sell off Slashdot and Sourceforge — “The Company... has not successfully leveraged the Slashdot user base.” — DHI Group—formerly known as Dice Holdings Incorporated prior to this April—announced plans this morning to sell the combination of Slashdot and SourceForge.
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Adafruit Industries, PR Newswire, NASDAQ.com, StreetInsider.com and Ars Technica UK. Tweets: @ahess247
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft to open its New York City flagship store this fall — Microsoft's first New York City flagship retail store will be opening this fall on Fifth Avenue. — Microsoft is going to open its flagship Microsoft Store in New York City on Fifth Avenue this fall.| Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: |
ShopKeep Registers $60M for Small-Merchant Payments Software — When Oracle Corp. paid $5.3 billion last year for large payments processing business Micros Systems Inc., partners at growth equity firm Activant Capital began scouring the market for innovative startups active in the space …
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Trello Launches Enterprise Service With Single Sign-On Support, Brings Two-Factor Authentication To All Users — Trello, the kanban-style project management service that was spun out of Fog Creek Software last year, launched its enterprise service today. While the company quietly introduced …
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The Next Web, Trello Blog and VentureBeat
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Google Now Lets Developers Bring Their Own Security Keys To Compute Engine — Starting today, developers who use Google's Compute Engine infrastructure as a service platform will be able to bring their own security keys to the service. Google argues that using these customer-supplied encryption keys …
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Google Cloud Platform Blog, ZDNet, InfoWorld, PCWorld, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, VentureBeat and Fortune
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