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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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Business Insider, The Verge, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, The Next Web, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, VentureBeat, Fortune, iMore, BGR, Tech Insider, Pocketnow, PhoneDog.com, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com, TechnoBuffalo, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, Seeking Alpha, iLounge, App Advice and MobileSyrup.com. Tweets: @jandawson
| 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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Re/code, Verizon Wireless, BetaNews, ABC News, Ars Technica, SiliconBeat, BGR, Android Authority, Engadget, Macworld, TechCrunch, ZDNet, VentureBeat, iMore, Pocketables, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, InvestorPlace, Seeking Alpha, Tech Insider, iPhone Hacks, PhoneDog.com, TmoNews, TechSpot and The Wirecutter
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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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Mozilla, The Daily Dot, Ars Technica, SiliconBeat, ITworld.com, The Verge, SC Magazine, Macworld, ZDNet, BetaNews, CIO.com, WHNT-TV, PCMag Australia Feed, Digital Trends, Inquirer, The Register, SD Times, Consumerist, Yahoo Tech, Business Insider, Gizmodo, SlashGear, Neowin, VentureBeat, The Next Web, SecurityWeek, TechSpot, Help Net Security, CNET, Tech Insider, Engadget, Mashable, IT Security News and TIME
| 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 …
| 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.| 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| 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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Check Point Blog, Gizmodo, CSO, ITWire.com, MarketWatch, Engadget, AndroidHeadlines.com and The Register
| 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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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Informatica goes private, counts Microsoft, Salesforce as strategic investors — Salesforce Ventures and Microsoft buy into partner Informatica as the data integration and management company goes private in a $5.3 billion deal. — Informatica closed its deal to go private Thursday … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Opera Acquires Bemobi, A Netflix-Like Subscription Service For Premium Apps — Browser maker Opera today announced that it has acquired Bemobi — a subscription-based mobile-app-discovery service with a focus on the Latin American market. Opera expects the acquisition to close in the third quarter of 2015.
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