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August 20, 2015, 10:20 AM

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Mark Bergen / Re/code:

Sources: Google Express to shut down its two Bay Area delivery hubs, looks to outsource delivery to on-demand startups — Google Express Plans to Shut Down Its Two Delivery Hubs — Google Express, the search giant's same-day delivery service, is shutting down its two delivery hubs …

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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.

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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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Casey Newton / The Verge:

Ashley Madison's data breach could have profound consequences for users and will likely be catastrophic for the company — The mind-bending messiness of the Ashley Madison data dump — Massive data breaches have become so routine as to become background noise.

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Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:

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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.

More: Sony, TechCrunch, Engadget, Android Authority, PCWorld, iMore, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Tech Times, Xperia Blog, Ausdroid, Fone Arena and SlashGear

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 …

More: Social Media Today, Marketing Land, SiliconBeat, CNNMoney, USA Today, Business Insider, The Hill, SocialTimes and Nieman Lab

Mark Wilson / BetaNews:

Google releases version 1.5 of its programming language Go, last vestiges of C removed from code — Go, Google's C-killing programming language, hits version 1.5 — Six years and six updates later, Google's own programming language, Go, has reached version 1.5.

More: eWeek, blog.golang.org, VentureBeat, SD Times, ReadWrite, Wired, InfoWorld and Slashdot. Thanks:@sparklemarkle

Andy / TorrentFreak:

Denmark 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 …

More: International Business Times, Gizmodo, The Verge, Ubergizmo and Engadget

Gina Hall / Silicon Valley Business Journal:

Mobile marketing automation startup Kahuna raises $45 million in Series B funding to grow its platform — Mobile marketing automation startup Kahuna raised $45 million in Series B funding Wednesday to grow its platform. — Tenaya Capital led the round with participation from previous investors …

More: Wall Street Journal, silicontap.com and PE Hub Blog

TechCrunch:

Here Are The 52 Startups That Launched At Y Combinator Summer 2015 Demo Day 2 — Hardware was the clear-cut theme of Day 1, but Demo Day 2 of Y Combinator's Summer 2015 was a bit more... eclectic. Moving services! Streaming services! Hotel booking, augmented reality, esports!

More: MediaNama

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.

More: The Next Web, TechCrunch, Reuters, Engadget, BBC, TechEye, 9to5Google, 9to5Mac, Business Standard, MobileSyrup.com, The Memo, Cult of Mac and TrustedReviews

Amin Vahdat / Google Research Blog:

How Google's networking infrastructure has evolved over ten years and five generations to deliver more than 1 petabit/sec of total bisection bandwidth — Pulling Back the Curtain on Google's Network Infrastructure — Pursuing Google's mission of organizing the world's information …

More: Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Dice Insights, Tnooz and CIO.com

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