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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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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Apple would be better off improving the iPad by making it a better platform for developers, not making 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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| Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / ZDNet: |
Adobe accidentally says the iPad Pro ships with 4GB of RAM in blog post, later removes mention from the article — iPad Pro has 4GB of RAM, claims Adobe — While Apple was typically tight-lipped as to how much RAM was packed into the new iPad Pro, Adobe is far more loose-lipped.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
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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 … | John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Thoughts about Apple's event: iPad Pro should compare favorably to recent MacBooks, Apple TV might be the most disruptive Apple product since iPhone, more — Brief Thoughts and Observations Regarding Today's ‘Hey Siri’ Apple Event — All for One, One for All
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Tweets: @drbarnard, @tweak, @jyarow and @gonsalves_r
| 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.| 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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| 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 … | 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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| 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 … | Reuters: |
Dell says to invest $125 billion in China over five years — Computer maker Dell Inc will invest $125 billion in China over the next five years, its chief executive said on Thursday, as the company continues to expand in the world's second-largest economy. — The world's third-largest maker … | 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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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Secondhand Clothing Site ThredUp Raises $81 Million at Valuation Around $500 Million — The shakeout in the online used-clothing industry is here, and ThredUp is looking to separate from the pack. — The San Francisco-based shopping site, which sells secondhand clothing for women and children … | 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, Marketing Land, BuzzFeed, SocialTimes, Search Engine Journal, Nieman Lab, Journalism.co.uk, The Next Web, VentureBeat, The Tech Portal, Mashable and WebProNews. Tweets: @kevinroose. Thanks:@travisbernard. See also Mediagazer
| Steve Reilly / USA Today: |
Attackers compromised US Department of Energy computer systems 159 times between 2010 and 2014; no comment on whether sensitive data was accessed — Records: Energy Department struck by cyber attacks — Attackers successfully compromised U.S. Department of Energy computer systems … Sponsor Posts
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