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September 3, 2015, 4:05 PM

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Lauren Goode / The Verge:
SmartThings' new hub supports 200 sensors and switches, video monitoring, has 10 hour battery backup, goes on sale today for $99  —  SmartThings' new hub uses Samsung cameras to monitor your home  —  SmartThings, the open-platform smart home company that sold itself to Samsung a year ago …
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Samsung launches SleepSense, a smart sleep-tracker that connects to your home appliances  —  Samsung has launched a new “Internet of Things” (IoT) healthcare device designed to improve your sleep.  —  At the IFA consumer technology event in Berlin, Samsung unveiled the cylindrical device …
Charles Armstrong / Google Lat Long:
Google launches standalone Street View app with ability to post 360-degree photos to Maps  —  Introducing the new Street View app from Google Maps  —  For all the Street View fans out there: exploring the world just got even easier.  Today we are introducing the new Street View app for Android and iOS …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
AOL Confirms It Is Buying Millennial Media In $238M Deal To Expand In Mobile Ads  —  This just in: AOL, itself acquired by Verizon for $4.4 billion earlier this year, has announced that it is making another purchase of its own.  It is buying Millennial Media as it continues to build …
Dan Seifert / The Verge:
Hands-on with Samsung Gear S2: slim round design, smart interaction model, makes it the most promising Samsung smartwatch so far  —  Samsung's Gear S2 is its best-looking smartwatch yet  —  Samsung and smartwatches have had a tenuous relationship.  It's not for lack of trying …
Dan Levine / Reuters:
Judge gives final approval to $415M settlement from Apple, Google, Adobe, and Intel for anti-poaching suit  —  U.S. judge approves $415 mln settlement in tech worker lawsuit  —  A U.S. judge on Wednesday granted final approval to a $415 million settlement that ends a high profile lawsuit …
Alyssa Bereznak / Yahoo! News:
Men's rights activists are using a 1950s California law to file lawsuits against women-only tech events  —  These men's rights activists are using a 1950s law to shut down women in tech  —  Stephanie Burns came up with the idea for Chic CEO, a free online platform for female entrepreneurs, in 2008, when she was getting her MBA.
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
New iPhone 6S/6S Plus to retain same storage tiers as iPhone 6: 16GB, 64GB, and 128GB, despite 4K video, increased photo resolution, and other improvements  —  Apple Event: New Apple Watch bands, 16GB iPhones confirmed with 7000 series aluminum  —  Starting with the iPhone 3GS …
Rachel King / ZDNet:
Facebook's Parse unveils a catalog of new IoT SDKs for Intel, Broadcom, Texas Instruments, and Atmel to support more connected devices  —  Facebook's Parse expands Internet of Things reach with Intel, others  —  The department has undergone a few leadership changes — most recently losing founder and CEO Ilya Sukhar.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
OLX co-founder's mobile app letgo raises $100M Series A from South Africa's Naspers to take on Craigslist and eBay in US  —  Mobile App Letgo Raises $100 Million From Naspers To Take Over Classifieds In The U.S.  —  Can a mobile classified app topple the behemoth that is Craigslist?
Chris Welch / The Verge:
T-Mobile launches native video calling starting with Samsung's latest phones  —  Starting today, T-Mobile customers with a Galaxy Note 5 or Galaxy S6 Edge+ can place video calls right from their phone's dialer.  The Uncarrier is introducing T-Mobile Video Calling, a VoLTE-powered feature …
Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch:
Cloud security firm Netskope raises $75M round led by Iconiq Capital  —  Security Financings Continue Their Heat Wave With A New $75M Round For Netskope  —  Netskope, which sells a technology service protecting businesses' cloud-based software, has joined the ranks of the massively funded …
Michael Mimoso / Threatpost:
Netflix releases Sleepy Puppy, an open-source tool to track XSS vulnerabilities across multiple apps  —  Netflix Sleepy Puppy Awakens XSS Vulnerabilities in Secondary Applications  —  Most automated scanning and security tools that ferret out cross-site scripting vulnerabilities don't do much analysis beyond the target application.

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