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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 …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
iPad Pro and refreshed iPad mini may debut at Apple's September 9 event; iPad Pro expected to ship November — iPad Pro planned for Sept. 9 debut with iPad mini 4; October pre-orders, November launch — Apple's September 9th event is set to be one of the company's largest events in history …
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VentureBeat, ZDNet, O'Grady's PowerPage, Tech Times, ValueWalk, CNET, MacRumors, Patently Apple, AppleInsider, Ubergizmo, SiliconANGLE, Digital Trends, iPhone in Canada Blog, Pocketnow, Redmond Pie, TechnoBuffalo, TIME, Network World, International Business Times, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com, Tech Insider, iPhone Hacks, SlashGear and Fortune. Thanks:@apollozac
| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Sources: Google will unveil LG and Huawei Nexus smartphones in San Francisco on September 29 — Google will hold Nexus event Sept. 29 in San Francisco — The search giant will introduce two smartphones at the event, one made by LG and the other by Huawei.
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Inquirer, International Business Times, Tech Times, Android Community, Fone Arena, AppleInsider, Pocketnow, Seeking Alpha, Ubergizmo, Digital Trends, Droid Life, AndroidGuys, 9to5Google, The Next Web, MobileSyrup.com, Android Authority, TechnoBuffalo, PhoneDog.com, Pocket-lint, Android Beat, Neowin, Android Police, BGR and The Verge
| Bloomberg Business: |
Sources: Twitter board meets Thursday to discuss CEO search; Jack Dorsey remains a leading internal candidate, Padmasree Warrior among external candidates — Twitter CEO Search Gains Urgency as Stock Slips, Executives Exit — Pressure on Twitter Inc.'s board is mounting.
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ITProPortal, PYMNTS.com, SiliconANGLE, Social Media Today and Seeking Alpha
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| 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.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple TV 4 hardware revealed: A8 chip, black remote, 8/16GB storage, same ports, no 4K — The fourth-generation Apple TV, set to be unveiled at an event on September 9th and released in October, will feature a mix of new and familiar hardware, according to reliable sources.| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
PhantomAlert files suit against Waze, claims Waze copied its database, incorporated it into its own application before sale to Google — Rival traffic app PhantomAlert wants to shut Waze down after alleged theft — CEO says he was “crushed” by Waze, which Google bought in 2013 for over $1B.
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| 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 …
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MacRumors, BGR, Telegraph, TechEye, AppleInsider, Ubergizmo, TechnoBuffalo, Tech Insider, WatchAware, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks and PhoneDog.com. Tweets: @mgsiegler. Thanks:@jordankahn
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg Business: |
Microsoft to appeal ruling allowing US government access to data stored overseas by US firms — The Case That Has Microsoft, Apple and Amazon Agreeing for Once — Company's general counsel targets ‘government snooping’ — Some clients may not use cloud services if U.S. wins case| 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 …
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AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks and Neowin
| Dan Ackerman / CNET: |
Asus announces GX700 water-cooled laptop with 17-inch 4K display and overclocked Skylake chip; ROG gaming laptops updated to G752 series, starting at $1,500 — Asus updates ROG gaming laptops, and teases liquid cooling — Asus is known for its powerful gaming PCs, such as the ROG G751 …
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ASUS Press Room, PCWorld, The Verge, AnandTech, InformationWeek, Ubergizmo, BGR, The Register, ExtremeTech, SlashGear, Digital Trends, Engadget and PC Magazine
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Aol Confirms It Has Acquired Millennial Media In $238M Deal To Expand In Mobile Ads — This just in: Aol, itself acquired by Verizon earlier this year, has announced that it is acquiring Millennial Media as it continues to build out its presence in digital advertising and specifically mobile ads.| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Twitter names developer platform lead Jeff Seibert head of consumer product in product team restructure — Twitter Restructures Product Team, Promotes Jeff Seibert — Twitter has promoted Jeff Seibert, the man who's been running the company's developer products for over a year.
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| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Apple News app to include more than 50 publishers when it launches this fall — Apple Adds More Publishers for Its News App, Which Will Launch Soon — One thing you won't hear much about at Apple's media event next week: Its News app, a newsreader that will work something like Flipboard … | Joshua Ho / AnandTech: |
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 twice as fast, power efficient as predecessor thanks to quad-core Kryo CPU; Symphony System Manager to handle heterogeneous computing — Qualcomm Announces Kryo CPU Details: Quad Core 2.2 GHz, 14nm FinFET — Today, Qualcomm announced a number of details in the Snapdragon 820 … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Lenovo intros 6.98" Phab, 6.8" Phab Plus, Vibe S1 with 2 front-facing cameras, Vibe P1 and P1m with switches for power saving; retailing outside North America — Lenovo's new smartphones are weird — Alongside all of its other announcements today, Lenovo is showing off a pile of random, weird smartphones.| Scott Moritz / Bloomberg Business: |
Source: Verizon will launch its Go90 mobile video service in coming days, with free ad-supported shows from AOL, Awesomeness TV, Vice Media, and Viacom — Verizon Said to Start Pared-Down Video Service in Coming Days — Company plans low-key introduction, relying on social media
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SlashGear, CED, Wireless Week, RCR Wireless News, Multichannel News, DSLreports, Seeking Alpha, FierceWireless, TheStreet.com and FierceCable. Tweets: @ericjackson. See also Mediagazer
| Biz Carson / Business Insider: |
On-demand valet service Zirx announces strategic multi-million investment from BMW's iVentures — BMW invests millions in a startup that will park your car for you — The worst thing about driving in a city is not the traffic. It's finding a place to park your car that's safe and doesn't empty your wallet.
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TechCrunch, bizjournals, BMW BLOG, The Auto Channel …, VentureBeat, silicontap.com, socalTECH.com and FinSMEs
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