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New OS X beta suggests iPad Mini 4 will be faster and support split-view apps — El Capitan file hints at faster iPad mini 4 with full split-view apps support — One of iOS 9's marquee additions is support for split-screen applications on the iPad. This allows users to operate two iPad applications simultaneously, side-by-side.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Launches New Site To Showcase Experimental Open Source Apps For Android And Android Wear — Google launched Android Experiments today, the mobile apps counterpart to its Chrome Experiments site. — Just like with Chrome Experiments, the idea behind Android experiments is to showcase apps … | Nancy Jo Sales / Vanity Fair: |
Inside the hookup culture accelerated by the rapid rise of Tinder and other dating apps — Tinder and the Dawn of the “Dating Apocalypse” — As romance gets swiped from the screen, some twentysomethings aren't liking what they see. — It's a balmy night in Manhattan's financial district …
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Why Google's Alphabet Is Nothing like Berkshire Hathaway - and Much Riskier — Google's new structure has few historical precedents, in tech or outside it. — Before Apple's Steve Jobs died in 2011, he told Google cofounder and CEO Larry Page that his company was trying to do too much.
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| Neil Irwin / New York Times: |
Three pathways that Alphabet could take, based on analogues of Berkshire Hathaway, GE, and AT&T — Is the New Google More Like Berkshire Hathaway, General Electric or AT&T? — Google's decision to restructure is the strongest signal yet that it intends to be a 21st-century innovator … | Richa Naidu / Reuters: |
Fidelity National to buy software maker SunGard in $9.1 billion deal — Financial industry software maker Fidelity National Information Services Inc (FIS.N) said it would buy SunGard Data Systems Inc for $9.1 billion including debt, scooping up one of the longest-held investments in private-equity history.
| Owen Williams / The Next Web: |
Lenovo shipped laptops with an “anti-theft” rootkit that reinstalled unwanted software, has issued manual, optional patch to remove the functionality — Lenovo used a hidden Windows feature to ensure its software could not be deleted — A recently uncovered feature …
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| Ryan Knutson / Wall Street Journal: |
Inside SoftBank's Struggle to Turn Around Sprint — Two years after takeover, SoftBank's Masayoshi Son struggles to overhaul the U.S. carrier — Billionaire Masayoshi Son asked to speak with U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy right away one Saturday last year.
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| Terry Collins / CNET: |
Twitter increases maximum length of direct messages from 140 to 10K characters — Chat away: Twitter removes 140-character limit for direct messages — The social network now allows users to chat privately without feeling constrained by a space limit. Blabbermouths, however, will get cut off at 10,000 characters.
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| Colleen Wright / New York Times: |
Neighborhood Car Service Companies Adopt Their Own Apps to Fend Off Uber — The chatty, frenetic dispatch hubs of neighborhood car services are getting quieter. — When the phone rings at High Class Limousine and Car Service in the Bronx, the conversation comes and goes in fleeting bursts … | Maren Kate / Medium: |
Zirtual announces it has been acquired by startup launch platform Startups.co, and will resume service — Zirtual: What Happened and What's Next — First, let me start by telling you a story... Over four years ago I moved to San Francisco from Reno, Nevada, with a backpacker's pack …
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Alibaba's Q2 revenue rose 28% YoY but misses estimates; $4B stock buyback planned over the next two years — Alibaba Revenue Disappoints; Company Plans $4 Billion Stock Buyback — Shares fall after revenue misses estimates, though profit beats — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd … | Medium: |
Ray Ozzie's startup Talko integrates with Slack, offers team calling on web and iOS, coming to Android soon — Talko + Slack — Team calling in Slack channels, for mobile & web. Recorded for replay of important moments. — Shortly after our launch we heard from several teams who were using both Slack and Talko daily.
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Events Performance Monitor DoubleDutch Raises $45 Million In Series E Funding — DoubleDutch is hoping to make measuring the success of your event as easy as skipping rope, and now they've got some more cash to make it happen. — The company announced Wednesday that they had raised $45 million in Series E funding.Sponsor Posts
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