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Sources: Apple to hold an event on September 9 to unveil new iPhones, iPads, and Apple TV — Apple's Fall iPhone Event To Be Held Sept. 9 — Oh, one more thing: Apple TV. — BuzzFeed/ Warner Bros. — Apple hasn't yet officially announced its annual fall media event …
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Verizon eliminates subsidized phones and contracts, offers 4 plans with 1-12GB of data for $30-80 per month and a $20 per month smartphone access fee — Verizon kills off service contracts, smartphone subsidies — In a radical shift, the company will only offer new plans …
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| Bloomberg Business: |
Square IPO bankers make preparations in case Jack Dorsey leaves to be full-time Twitter CEO — Dorsey's Dilemma: Running Twitter Seen Complicating Square IPO — Jack Dorsey, co-founder and interim CEO of Twitter Inc. and founder and chief executive officer of Square Inc. Photographer: Scott Eisen/Bloomberg
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| Daniel Veditz / Mozilla Security Blog: |
Firefox file-stealing exploit found in the wild, Mozilla issues security update patching the vulnerability — Firefox exploit found in the wild — Yesterday morning, August 5, a Firefox user informed us that an advertisement on a news site in Russia was serving a Firefox exploit that searched …
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| Thomas Mulier / Bloomberg Business: |
NPD: Apple helped US watch sales fall 14% in June, the biggest drop in seven years — Apple Helps Push U.S. Watch Sales to Biggest Drop in Seven Years — U.S. watch sales fell the most in seven years in June, one of the first signs Apple Inc.'s watch is eroding demand for traditional timepieces.| Bloomberg Business: |
American Airlines, Sabre Said to Be Hit in Hacks Backed by China — A group of China-linked hackers that has mowed through the databanks of major American health insurers and stolen personnel records of U.S. military and intelligence agencies has struck at the heart of the nation's air-travel system …
| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Dozens of retailers, including Home Depot and Amazon, pull more than 100 brands from Jet.com, after it placed links to their sites without permission — Jet.com Runs Into Turbulence With Retailers — Home Depot, L'Oreal and others pull brands from new discount website| Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code: |
Sources: European Commission failed to find evidence of collusion between Apple and major music labels to quash free music streaming services — EU Finds No Evidence of Apple and Music Labels Colluding to Kill Free Music — The European Commission failed to find evidence of collusion among …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Twitter hires developer of popular Android Twitter app Falcon, Joaquim Vergés — The developer of the best Android app for Twitter works for Twitter now — The man behind one of Twitter's best third-party Android clients has been hired by Twitter itself.
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| Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
Check Point: Certifi-Gate-based attacks could take complete control of Android devices — Check Point has discovered a serious security hole with mobile remote support tools commonly used by hundreds of millions of Android devices. — Android security holes are popping up like mushrooms after a rain.
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| Rebecca Jeschke / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
EFF's browser extension Privacy Badger out of beta; 1.0 blocks super-cookies and browser fingerprinting — Privacy Badger 1.0 Blocks the Sneakiest Kinds of Online Tracking — Browser Add-On Prevents Data Collection from Ads and Other Hidden Trackers — San Francisco …
| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
Everything new in iOS 9 beta 5: AT&T Wi-Fi Calling, keyboard changes, CarPlay tweaks, and more — With the release of today's iOS 9 beta, Apple has introduced several new features. The first on the list, and probably one of the most important, is support for Wi-Fi Calling on AT&T …
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