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Amazon announces updated Fire TV with Alexa and 4K support for $100, Fire TV Stick and voice remote bundle for $50, all shipping in October — Amazon's answer to Apple TV: a Fire TV box with Alexa and 4K video support — Last week Apple sucked up most of the air in the tech press with its newest gadgets …
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| Megan Geuss / Ars Technica: |
Amazon announces $50 7" Fire tablet, available in a six-pack for $250, and updated versions of Fire HD 8, HD 10, Kids Edition tablets, all shipping in October — Amazon introduces a slew of cheap tablets starting at $50, upgraded Fire TV — New devices include a bargain basement 7-inch tablet, as predicted.| Facebook Media: |
Facebook launches Signal, a discovery and curation tool for journalists to find and embed content from Facebook and Instagram — Introducing Signal for Facebook and Instagram — By Andy Mitchell, Director of Media Partnerships — We've heard from journalists that they want an easy …
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Apple will ask Supreme Court to hear its ebooks price-fixing case — Defying the expectations and desires of some—who thought it might be time to move on—Apple AAPL will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a federal judge's finding that it conspired to fix the prices of ebooks … | Susan Decker / Bloomberg Business: |
Federal appeals court rules Apple was entitled to block Samsung from using Apple's patented slide-to-unlock, autocorrect, and quicklinks features — Apple Wins Ruling to Force Samsung to Change Products — Apple Inc. won an appeals court ruling that may force Samsung Electronics Co … | Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Independent publishers are collateral damage in the war over ad revenues between Google, Apple, and Facebook — Welcome to hell: Apple vs Google vs Facebook and the slow death of the web — So let's talk about ad blocking. — You might think the conversation about ad blocking …
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See also Mediagazer| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Pinterest discloses user numbers for the first time, says it crossed 100M monthly active users — Pinterest Crosses User Milestone of 100 Million — Pinterest said on Wednesday that it has surpassed 100 million monthly active members, in a milestone for the digital scrapbooking start-up …
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Software needed to run every Google internet service spans 2B lines of source code, all in a single repository available to all 25K engineers — Google Is 2 Billion Lines of Code—And It's All in One Place — How big is Google? We can answer that question in terms of revenue or stock price …
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| Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
ZenPayroll Is Now Gusto, Adds Benefits To Take On Zenefits — Payroll startup ZenPayroll changed its name to Gusto today and is moving beyond payroll, into benefits such as health insurance and workers compensation. — Sound familiar? We've heard that cloud HR benefits company Zenefits plans … | Kyle Cheney / Politico: |
Carly Fiorina's record as CEO at HP assailed during second Republican debate — Trump and Fiorina pummel each other over business record — The two CEOs on the Republican debate stage — Donald Trump and Carly Fiorina — took turns thrashing each other's business records …
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| Husain Sumra / MacRumors: |
T-Mobile and Sprint to Start Selling Apple Watch on September 25 — While T-Mobile CEO John Legere announced last week that the carrier would begin selling the Apple Watch he did not provide a specific release date. MacRumors has learned that T-Mobile will begin selling the Apple Watch on September 25.
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Snapchat signs one-year deal with NFL, will curate Live Stories including league and fan content; both Snapchat and NFL will sell ads and split revenue — Snapchat Inks NFL Deal to Bring Football Into Its Live Stories — Are you ready for some football? Snapchat is!| 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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Computerworld, Wall Street Journal, SiliconBeat, GeekWire, PC Magazine, US News, Engadget, Patently Apple, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, InvestorPlace, TechnoBuffalo, Digital Trends, Tech Times, Wearable Tech Insider, Wired.co.uk, Fortune, SlashGear, Mashable, Fone Arena, Entrepreneur, Re/code, Pocketnow, Wareable, VatorNews, Android Authority, MobileSyrup.com, Android Central, Pocket-lint, Phandroid, The Next Web, The Verge, Seeking Alpha and 9to5Google. Thanks:@lexnfx
| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Website-to-app converter platform DWNLD raises $12M Series A round led by Greylock Partners — DWNLD, The Easy-Bake Oven For Apps, Picks Up $12M In Series A — DWNLD, the publishing platform that takes any website and seamlessly turns it into an app, has today announced the close …
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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:
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