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Sources: Apple escalates talks with Hollywood execs, seeking to have development and production teams ready by 2016 to compete with Netflix — Apple Eyes Move Into Original Programming (EXCLUSIVE) — The moment the media and technology industries have been expecting for years may finally be arriving …
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PayPal Launches PayPal.Me, A Simpler Way To Request Money Using Your Own Personalized URL — PayPal today is launching a new take on peer-to-peer payments with the debut of a platform it's calling PayPal.Me. For the first time, PayPal customers will be able to set up their own user profiles …
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Ashley Madison created 70K female bots which sent fake messages to 20M of 31M men in the database; 11M of them were chatted up by automatic ‘engagers’ — Ashley Madison Code Shows More Women, and More Bots — After searching through the Ashley Madison database and private email last week …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple TV 4: near universal Siri control, focus on gaming, support for third-party game controllers, Bluetooth 4.2, and 802.11ac Wi-Fi — Apple TV 4: Gaming and Siri will be major focuses, expect Bluetooth game controllers + enhanced wireless — New Apple TV will look similar, but thicker (image via Michael Steeber)
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Sony using its crowdsourcing platform for Wena smartwatch; has analog face with electronics in wristband, available in Japan for iOS March 2016 from ¥34,800 — Sony is crowdfunding this premium smartwatch — The latest product to hit First Flight, Sony's own crowdfunding platform in Japan … | Mark Scott / New York Times: |
European Firms Team Up to Target Google in Civil Lawsuits — Google already faces antitrust charges from Europe's competition authorities. — Now, the American search giant may be the target of a series of new civil lawsuits that claim Google abused its market dominance to favor its own services over those of its rivals.
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Source: LG Nexus will come with Snapdragon 808, 5.2" 1080p display, 3GB RAM, 2700mAh Battery, USB-C, more — Source: New “Nexus 5” By LG Will Feature Snapdragon 808, 5.2" 1080p Display, 3GB RAM, 2700mAh Battery, USB-C, And More — We've received information from a reliable source detailing … | Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
European Payments Power Klarna Launches in the U.S. With Overstock.com as a Customer — Klarna has become a household name in Northern Europe. Now it'll try to do the same in the U.S. — The Sweden-based payments company, which gives online shoppers nearly a month to pay off their web purchases … | Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
Google Here project enabling third parties to send proximity based Maps alerts via beacons was killed due to privacy concerns, doubts about demand — Google shut down a secret Google Maps project called ‘Google Here’ — Google GOOG was set to launch a new product that added context to one of its most successful apps, Google Maps.| Re/code: |
A breakdown of Silicon Valley's donations to 2016 presidential candidates: who is giving, who is receiving, and how much — Which Presidential Candidate Is Winning the Tech Money Race? — It is becoming clear that the road to the White House in 2016 leads straight through Silicon Valley.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google launches Android Wear app for iOS on iPhone 5 and later with support for LG Watch Urbane and all future Android Wear watches — Android Wear smartwatches come to the iPhone — In a nondescript conference room at Google's headquarters a few weeks ago, I paired my iPhone to a smartwatch running Android for the first time.
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Everything announced at VMworld 2015 so far — Enterprise software vendor VMware kicked off its big annual VMworld conference in San Francisco today with several news announcements, from new open-source tools to a new “intelligent automation engine” for making the best use of companies' data center equipment.| Wall Street Journal: |
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