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| Pali Bhat / Official Android Blog: |
Android Pay begins rolling out at over 1M locations in the US today — Tap. Pay. Done. — Today, we're beginning to roll out Android Pay — the simple and secure way to pay with your Android phone at over one million locations across the US. Android Pay also stores your gift cards …
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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Ellen Pao won't appeal verdict in gender discrimination lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins — Ellen Pao: ‘I Have Decided to End My Lawsuit Against Kleiner Perkins’ — The epic and historic lawsuit that has rocked tech over the last year is over. — In a statement today … | Jan Dawson / Tech.pinions: |
iPhone Upgrade Program lets Apple take primary relationship with customers away from carriers, may boost sales in markets where phones aren't subsidized — The iPhone Upgrade Plan is a Game-Changer — Apple announced a lot of new products at its big event on Wednesday - new iPhones …
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| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
Apple's iPhone Upgrade Program is your best bet if you're a US AppleCare+ customer, aren't interested in T-Mobile, and plan on upgrading in less than 2 years — If you buy AppleCare+, Apple's new iPhone Upgrade Program is a great deal — While it lacks the fanfare of new hardware or software … | Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Apple should improve the iPad by making it a better platform for developers, not introducing a new product — From Products to Platforms — Yesterday's Apple keynote was one of the company's best in quite some time.1 One reason why was, as John Gruber noted, a certain sense of stagecraft …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Once seen as bulletproof, 11 million+ Ashley Madison passwords already cracked — Programming errors make 15.26 million accounts orders of magnitude faster to crack. — When the Ashley Madison hackers leaked close to 100 gigabytes worth of sensitive documents belonging to the online dating service …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Periscope Adds Facebook Sharing, Support For Landscape Broadcasts Ahead Of Its Apple TV App — Twitter's live-streaming app Periscope rolled out an update today that introduces support for broadcasting and watching streams while your mobile device is in landscape mode.| Elyse Betters / Pocket-lint: |
iOS 9.1 released to public beta testers and developers, includes new emojis, iPad Pro features including support for accessories — iOS 9.1 includes new emoji like a taco and the middle finger — Apple has seeded the first beta of iOS 9.1 to developers and public beta testers … | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
iPhone 6s and 6s Plus Priced Higher in Canada, Australia and Europe as U.S. Dollar Remains Strong — Apple has set higher prices for the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus in Canada, Australia and other countries to reflect a strengthening U.S. dollar and fluctuating currency exchange rates.
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Salesforce launches App Cloud, puts developer resources under one roof — As part of the App Cloud launch, Salesforce also rolled out Heroku Enterprise, which will address key concerns for CIOs. — Salesforce consolidated its various developer platforms and resources under one cloud service …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
GM took five years to patch privately disclosed takeover vulnerability in millions of GM cars with OnStar dashboard computers — GM Took 5 Years to Fix a Full-Takeover Hack in Millions of OnStar Cars — When a pair of security researchers showed they could hack a Jeep over the Internet earlier … | Christine Magee / TechCrunch: |
Lending startup for small businesses Fundbox raises $50M led by Spark Capital Growth — Fundbox Secures $50 Million More To Power Small Businesses — Less than six months after announcing a $40 million Series B investment, alternative lending startup Fundbox has closed on another $50 million … | Lucian Constantin / Computerworld: |
NY-based health insurer Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield was hacked in 2013, exposing personal, financial, and medical information of over 10M people — Cyberattack exposes 10M records at Excellus — Hackers have penetrated the IT systems of U.S. health insurer Excellus BlueCross BlueShield …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Gives Verified Profiles Its Mentions App With “Live” Streaming And Posts Just To Followers — Journalists might start sharing a lot more of their links to Facebook, as now they can finally opt out of spamming their friends and instead only post to their public followers.
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Facebook Media, Social Media Today, Nieman Lab, SocialTimes, BuzzFeed, Marketing Land, Search Engine Journal, Journalism.co.uk, VentureBeat, The Tech Portal, Mashable, The Next Web and WebProNews. Tweets: @kevinroose. Thanks:@travisbernard. See also Mediagazer
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Uber's Chinese Rival Didi Kuaidi Quietly Backs Its U.S. Rival Lyft — Seeking to boost a fellow Uber competitor, Chinese ride-hailing app Didi Kuaidi invested in U.S. ride-hailing app Lyft, joined by China's top Internet companies, Didi Kuaidi backers Alibaba and Tencent.| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
HP CEO Whitman Joins Board at SurveyMonkey — Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman has been named to the board of directors of SurveyMonkey, the Web survey outfit whose founding CEO Dave Goldberg died suddenly in May. — Whitman joining the board is notable for a few reasons.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
IBM Buys StrongLoop To Add Node.js API Development To Its Cloud Platform — IBM has today made another acquisition to expand its business in cloud services — specifically in the area of enterprise app development. It has acquired StrongLoop, a startup based in San Mateo …
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