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Samsung and Oculus announce new, consumer Gear VR with support for Samsung's 2015 flagship phones and a redesigned trackpad, shipping in November for $99 — Samsung's new Gear VR virtual reality headset only costs $99 — And even better, the new Gear VR works with all of Samsung's flagship Galaxy phones released in 2015.
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Behind the fake traffic schemes using bots for fraudulent ad clicks that will cost advertisers $6.3B this year — The Fake Traffic Schemes That Are Rotting the Internet — Ron Amram has been in the brand marketing business for about 20 years. In the 2000s he was media director …
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Microsoft launches Invite for iPhone, an app for scheduling meetings, in the US and Canada; coming soon to Android and Windows Phone — Invite—the easiest way to organize meetings on the go — We all know that organizing group meetings can be tricky—especially when you're on the move.
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Crystal ad-blocking iPhone app leaves Safari unable to fully render e-commerce sites of major retailers like Walmart and Sears — Apple's ad-blocking move causes big problems for retailers like Walmart — When Apple AAPL last week released a new operating system that permits ad-blocking extensions …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Note taking app Google Keep comes to iPhone and iPad, 2.5 years after debuting on Android — Google launches its Keep note-taking app for iOS — Google today launched Google Keep for iOS. You can download the new app now directly from Apple's App Store.
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The Next Web, 9to5Mac, ZDNet, Engadget, PCWorld, iMore, The Verge, Official Google for Work Blog, Redmond Pie, PhoneDog.com and Lifehacker. Tweets: @caseynewton
| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
IBM opening new AI hub in San Francisco in 2016, Watson gets smarter with new developer tools — IBM's A.I. System Watson to Get New West Coast Home — IBM's Watson is moving West and widening its ambitions. — The company plans to open a second headquarters for Watson … | Jessi Hempel / Wired: |
Internet.org rebrands its free services mobile website and app as Free Basics to distinguish it from larger initiative, adds 60 new services, HTTPS support — Facebook Renames Its Controversial Internet.org App — Facebook is rebranding its most prominent—and controversial—effort to connect the unconnected.
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LTE adoption report: Asia has the best performing networks, 20 Mbps connections now commonplace, and the US is falling behind others in speed — The State of LTE — Have we fully entered the 4G age? The answer to that question depends on where on the globe you live.
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PC Magazine, The Daily Dot, CNET, Macworld, Daring Fireball, iPhone in Canada Blog, Tech Times, MobileSyrup.com, The Verge, Gizmodo, The Next Web, DSLreports and TechEye. Thanks:@brendan_gill
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
P2P lending platform Prosper Marketplace acquires personal finance-tracking startup BillGuard for $30M+ — BillGuard, the crowdsourced security app for personal finance, has been acquired by peer-to-peer lending giant Prosper Marketplace. — While the full value of the deal has not been revealed … | Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
Economic data startup Premise raises $50M round led by Valor Equity Partners, whose CEO joins board — Economic Data Startup Premise Raises $50 Million, Adds Tesla, Solar City Board Member — From Silicon Valley to Washington, D.C., to Brussels, there's a mad dash to absorb as much data about the world as possible.
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| Nikhil Sonnad / Quartz: |
First look at Chinese OS NeoKylin, a Windows-like Linux system installed on 40% of commercial Dells sold in China — A first look at the Chinese operating system the government wants to replace Windows — Microsoft Windows is the dominant operating system in China, but the government is trying to encourage homegrown replacements.
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Ars Technica UK, Gizmodo and Neowin
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Cloud-based CAD software firm Onshape raises $80M round led by Andreessen Horowitz — Onshape Raises $80 Million More To Go Big In Cloud CAD Software — Collaboration is very in. Workplace chat phenomenon Slack hit unicorn status in record time. All flavors of cloud apps can help teams create … Sponsor Posts
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