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Sources: Apple acquires mapping analytics and visualization startup Mapsense for $25M-$30M — Apple Acquires Mapsense, a Mapping Visualization Startup — Apple's steady stealth campaign to rival Google in maps continues apace. This month, the company acquired Mapsense … | Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
Updating to iOS 9 and El Capitan partially mitigates AirDrop exploit on iOS and OS X; otherwise disable AirDrop until patch issued — One Great Reason To Update To iOS 9 - A Nasty Silent AirDrop Attack Is In Town — It's another big Apple AAPL -0.04% launch week with iOS 9 landing today …
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iOS 9 review: great multitasking support for newer iPads, searchable Settings, proactive Siri not as useful as Google Now — iOS 9, thoroughly reviewed — Apple gives the iPad a lot of love as iOS goes back into spit-and-polish mode. — iOS 8 wasn't the smoothest operating system rollout in Apple's history.
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iMore, Search Engine Land, CNET, AppleInsider, The Verge, MacRumors, Gigaom, Patently Apple, VentureBeat, eWeek, Ubergizmo, 9to5Mac, iMore, Macworld, Tech Times, CIO.com, Cult of Mac, Engadget, The Tech Report, BGR, ABC News and OMARCAST. See also Mediagazer
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Didi Kuaidi and Lyft in discussions with India's Ola and Singapore's GrabTaxi to expand ride share alliance internationally — Uber Rivals Form International Alliance — San Francisco's Lyft, China's Didi agree to allow their apps to work in respective countries
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Times of India, SiliconANGLE, Engadget and TechNode
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Apple Delays Release Of watchOS 2 Due To Bug — Apple has delayed the release of watchOS 2, which was expected to be available today to owners of the Apple Watch. — “We have discovered a bug in development of watchOS 2 that is taking a bit longer to fix than we expected,” an Apple spokesperson told TechCrunch.
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Marco Arment launches Peace, a $2.99 privacy-focused content blocker for iOS 9 that uses Ghostery's robust tracker database — Introducing Peace, my privacy-focused iOS 9 ad blocker — Running the Ghostery browser add-on in my Mac browsers has been illuminating:| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple's first Android app ‘Move to iOS’ is now available in Google Play store — Apple's ‘Move to iOS’ app is now available on Android — The first Android app credited to “Apple Inc.” has arrived. Apple's still working on Apple Music for Google's mobile OS … | Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider: |
Google hiring engineers, including three from Amazon's Lab126, for Project Aura, a new wearable tech initiative that builds on Glass — Google has hired a bunch of engineers from Amazon's Lab126 for a new wearable tech initiative called ‘Project Aura’ — Google is working …
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Wall Street Journal, Engadget, Android Authority, The Next Web, 9to5Google, Phandroid, Re/code and The Verge. Thanks:@lexnfx
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Leak of Amazon 10-inch Fire tablet shows repositioned front-facing cam, new button placement, lightweight UI, more — Amazon ten-inch Fire tablet leak hints at lightweight new UI — It's been about a year now since Amazon's last big refresh of its Fire tablet lineup …
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AFTVnews, Good E-Reader, TechnoBuffalo and Phandroid
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China asks US tech firms to pledge compliance for questionable practices including sharing user data and intellectual property — China Tries to Extract Pledge of Compliance From U.S. Tech Firms — HONG KONG — The Chinese government, which has long used its country's vast market as leverage …
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GeekWire and Bloomberg View
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Facebook will likely launch a freemium version of its workplace product Facebook at Work by the end of the year in attempt to compete with Slack, Yammer — Facebook Is About to Take the Training Wheels off Facebook at Work — Facebook is preparing to push its new workplace product into a lot more cubicles.
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Business Insider, The Verge, Social Media Today, WebProNews and BuzzFeed
| Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter: |
News Corp to Acquire Social Video Ad Platform Unruly for up to $176 Million — Rupert Murdoch's News Corp will acquire social video advertising platform Unruly for up to $176 million, the company said Wednesday. — “Unruly is a feisty and creative company with a start-up sensibility … | Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Fitbit becomes HIPAA compliant, signs up Target to offer device to 335k workers in enterprise push — Fitbit becomes HIPAA compliant as it eyes more business customers — Fitbit Wellness is a business-to-business unit that could diversify the wearable device maker and protect it from price wars.
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Bloomberg Business, Fortune and investor.fitbit.com
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Microsoft makes Send hybrid texting-email app available for Android, expands availability for iPhone users to UK, Brazil, and Denmark, adds features for iPhone — Microsoft brings its Send hybrid texting-email app to Android — Microsoft is extending availability of its Send hybrid texting-email app …
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