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Twitter partners with Square to let users in US make political donations through a tweet — Political donations, now through a Tweet — When people have conversations about politics, they have them on Twitter. It's what voters learn and share in these conversations that routinely motivates political action.
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Wall Street Journal, Re/code, The Hill, Wired, iMore, Engadget, International Business Times, The Next Web, The Verge, CNNMoney, Tech Times, VentureBeat, Mashable, TIME, WebProNews and Gizmodo. Tweets: @gov
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce Announces New Internet of Things Cloud, As Dreamforce Opens — When you think of Salesforce.com, you probably don't think about the burgeoning Internet of Things, but Salesforce wants to help customers make sense of all of the data coming from the growing number of connected devices …
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AdExchanger, SiliconANGLE, Computerworld, ZDNet, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Computerworld, New York Times, WebProNews, salesforce.com and Fortune. Tweets: @fmanjoo
| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
Snapchat's latest update lets users pay $0.99 to replay disappearing snaps, adds “Lenses” feature for animating selfies — Snapchat is letting users pay $.99 to replay disappearing snaps, and it just added a ‘lens’ feature to animate your selfies| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Cisco routers in at least 4 countries infected by highly stealthy backdoor — More than a dozen routers in four countries infected with fully featured implants. — Researchers have uncovered active and highly clandestine attacks that have infected more than a dozen Cisco routers with a backdoor …
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| Casey Johnston / The Awl: |
How ad blocking could accelerate the shift to native advertising and publishing directly to social networks and platforms — Welcome to the Block Party — In a 1997 segment on the short-lived tech TV show The Site, host Soledad O'Brien sits at a bar in front of a laptop computer …
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TechCrunch and ECPM BLOG. Tweets: @niallharbison, @harmancipants, @stevekovach, @ckolderup, @tolles, @caseyjohnston, @mattbuchanan and @philgpearson
| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Flickr demonstrates 360-degree panoramic photos on Oculus, hopes to roll out initial stages of Flickr VR by 2016 — Flickr wants you to explore photos in VR — Some day you could be flipping through your vacation photos while wearing a VR headset. At the XOXO Festival taking place in Portland … | Sarah Kessler / Fast Company: |
How apathy and inconvenience led to decline of peer-to-peer markets for low-cost products — The “Sharing Economy” Is Dead, And We Killed It — Five years ago, everybody was excited about the idea of using tech to borrow things like power drills. In practice, though, not so much.
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
EFF project “Let's Encrypt”, with Mozilla and Cisco, releases its first free HTTPS certificate — 'Let's Encrypt' project issues its first free certificate — Last year, the Electronic Frontier Foundation along with Mozilla and Cisco launched an initiative called “Let's Encrypt” … | Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 to support 600 Mbps LTE-Advanced, LTE-U, and Quick Charge 3.0 spec which is up to 27% faster at charging than Quick Charge 2.0 — Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 packs 600Mbps LTE and smarter charging — Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 hype train is getting to be a bit much …
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Qualcomm, The Register, PR Newswire, ZDNet, Inquirer, Ars Technica, The Next Web, Neowin, The Verge, 9to5Google, AndroidGuys, Droid Life, Technology Personalized, Android Police, Android Authority, The Tech Report, PhoneDog.com, Android Beat, Tech Times, TechSpot, TechnoBuffalo, Gizmodo, Android and Me, PhoneDog.com, Pocketnow, Android Beat, SlashGear, BetaNews and Android Authority
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Compass Raises $50M At An $800M Valuation Led By IVP To Supersize Its Real Estate Platform — While sites like Zillow, Trulia and Redfin have become synonymous with how people list and find property online, a startup out of New York called Compass has raised $50 million to help secure its place … | Amar Toor / The Verge: |
Facebook will work with Germany to combat anti-refugee hate speech — Facebook this week said it will work with the German government to crack down on hate speech and xenophobia online, following calls from the country's justice minister to do more to combat hateful speech about refugees.
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Target partners with Instacart to offers same-day grocery delivery in Minneapolis for $3.99/month — Target Teams Up With Instacart to Challenge Amazon on Groceries — Instacart's grocery delivery fee starts at $3.99 per order — Most customers pay $299 a year for Amazon Fresh delivery
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TechCrunch and Fortune
| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Verizon, AT&T Get Own Spaces Inside 250 Best Buy Stores — Once again, Best Buy is carving out a section of its stores to serve as a dedicated showcase for brands willing to foot part of the bills. — This time it is Verizon and AT&T that are getting a store within a store, in separate deals being announced Tuesday.
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