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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft's Surface Pro 4, Band 2, and new Lumias set for October launch event — Microsoft is planning to hold a massive hardware launch event in October. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans tell The Verge that the software giant will use the event to unveil two new Lumia handsets, the Surface Pro 4, and a Microsoft Band 2.| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Ashley Madison hackers post new 20GB archive that appears to include company emails and internal documents — Hackers Dump More Ashley Madison Data — Over the past few days, people have been digging through 10GB of data apparently sourced from the extramarital dating site Ashley Madison, and its parent site Avid Life Media.
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| Samuel Gibbs / Guardian: |
UK data protection watchdog gives Google 35 days to remove links to news stories about right to be forgotten link removals — Google ordered to remove links to stories about ‘right to be forgotten’ removals — UK data protection watchdog orders search engine to remove search result links …
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Thanks:@samuelgibbs. See also Mediagazer| Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
New Spotify privacy policy says it can collect data on location, sensors, and photos from your phone — Location, Sensors, Voice, Photos?! Spotify Just Got Real Creepy With The Data It Collects On You — Spotify has updated its privacy policy, and users should be careful about what they agree to.
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Intuit announces it will divest Demandforce, QuickBase, and Quicken as it reports mixed Q4 earnings — Intuit reports mixed bag on Q4 earnings; divestitures on deck — Wall Street expected a loss of 12 cents per share, with revenues of $738.9 million. — Intuit published its fourth quarter …
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Bing for Android update beats Google On Tap to the punch, offering information and actions based on what's on screen when you hold down the home button — Microsoft beats Google to the punch: Bing for Android update does what Now on Tap will do — Microsoft today is introducing a major … | Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
96.8 percent of new smartphones sold are either iPhone or Android devices — The latest quarterly smartphone sales data from Gartner is out today, and it tells a very familiar story. BlackBerry keeps shrinking, Microsoft is stagnating, and Google and Apple are tightening their already dominant grip over the entire market.| Rachel King / ZDNet: |
Salesforce beats Q2 targets, with revenue of $1.63B, up 24% year-over-year; outlook strong — Salesforce.com delivers above Q2 targets, outlook strong — Wall Street was looking for earnings of 18 cents per share with $1.60 billion in revenue. — Salesforce.com published better …
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Giphy releases Giphy Cam, an iOS app that lets you create and share homemade gifs — Giphy Cam Lets You Create And Share Homemade Gifs — Giphy, the search engine for all things gif, has today released a new app called Giphy Cam that lets users create their own gifs to send or share on social media.
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| Ricardo Bilton / Digiday: |
Amazon will no longer accept Flash ads on its site or advertising platform as of September — Amazon puts another nail in Flash's coffin — Adobe Flash is having a rough month. — Amazon said this week that starting in September, it will no longer accept Flash ads on Amazon.com …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Brings Interactive Watch Faces And Built-In Google Translate Support To Android Wear — Android Wear's watch faces are getting a bit more interesting today. Developers were always able to display a lot of information on their watch faces, but users couldn't interact with it.| Jack Clark / Bloomberg Business: |
HP Q3 revenue falls to $25.3B, down 8.1% YoY on slumping PC sales, lower demand for services — HP Forecast Misses Estimates on PC Market Slump Before Split — Hewlett-Packard Co. issued a profit forecast that fell short of estimates, hurt by slumping personal-computer sales that underscore …
| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
ZocDoc valued at $1.8B after raising $130M round that closed in July — ZocDoc Valued at $1.8 Billion in New Funding Round … Online doctor-appointments service ZocDoc Inc. is now one of New York's most highly valued, venture-backed companies after raising $130 million in funding.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Sony's SmartBand 2 monitors heart rate, is waterproof, will be available in September for $132 — Sony's SmartBand 2 will monitor your heart rate and field your calls — Sony has officially unveiled its SmartBand 2 after accidentally publishing details about the activity tracker earlier this year.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Note5 review: excellent software support for the S Pen and amazing screen make it a great smartphone despite a smaller, irreplaceable battery — Samsung Galaxy Note 5 review — Samsung's Note line of phones has always been about three things: a huge screen, outsized performance, and a stylus.
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| Myles Udland / Business Insider: |
Twitter fell below its original IPO price of $26 after dropping more than 5% today, closes at $26.00 — Twitter closes level with its $26 per share IPO price — Investors who bought Twitter's public debut are right back where they started. — On Thursday, shares of Twitter closed at $26 … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Search app Vurb, with Tencent as an investor, adds messaging with eventual goal of integrating e-commerce as WeChat does — Search App Vurb Adds Messaging To Become The U.S. WeChat — WeChat dominates China with its messaging hub that lets you shop, call a taxi, and pay bills — all from one app.| Maeve Duggan / Pew Internet: |
Pew: 70% of Facebook users log in daily, 36% of smartphone owners use messaging apps, Instagram and other social sites see increase in engagement — Mobile Messaging and Social Media 2015 — In today's world, people — particularly young people — are continually finding and adapting … | Andy / TorrentFreak: |
Danish police arrest operators of two Popcorn Time guide websites that didn't link to any copyright-infringing material — Police Arrest Men For Spreading Popcorn Time Information — More than a year after its 2014 launch and the popularity of the now famous Popcorn Time video streaming application … | Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
Infinix's $90 Hot 2, with a 5-inch display, 1GB RAM, and 16GB storage, is the first smartphone to launch in Africa as a part of Google's Android One program — Google expands Android One to six countries in Africa with $90 Hot 2 — Ahead of Google's major reset of Android One … Sponsor Posts
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