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Peeple, a Yelp-like app that lets you rate other people, to launch in late November with no opting-out once you've been rated — Everyone you know will be able to rate you on the terrifying ‘Yelp for people’ — whether you want them to or not — You can already rate restaurants, hotels … | Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Nest is releasing its Weave communication protocol for other connected devices to use — Ever since Nest Labs first started selling its learning thermostat in 2011, consumers have responded to its simplicity and the fact that it just works. It wasn't the first thermostat on the market …
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| Mark Scott / New York Times: |
Mike Lynch, Founder of Autonomy, Sues Hewlett-Packard for $150 Million — The legal wrangling surrounding Hewlett-Packard's much-maligned takeover of Autonomy, a British data intelligence company, shows no signs of ending. — On Thursday, Mike Lynch, the founder of Autonomy …
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Google, Microsoft drop about 20 lawsuits in the US and Germany, resolving global patent fight over phones and Xbox — Google, Microsoft Resolve Global Patent Fight Over Phones, Xbox — Tech giants to drop about 20 lawsuits in U.S. and Germany — Companies say they will collaborate, work together on patents
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| Lauren Hockenson / The Next Web: |
Tinder rolls out Super Like globally; tests show users are 3x more likely to find a match, and conversations last 70% longer when the feature is used — Tinder takes the ‘Super Like’ Worldwide — Tinder is adding an extra swipe for eager folks looking to make connections.
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| Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
Google Ads SVP Sridhar Ramaswamy: we need to deal with ad blocking as an industry by defining what an acceptable ad is and improving the user experience — Google Ads Boss: ‘We Need to Deal With’ Ad Blocking as an Industry — Sridhar Ramaswamy, Google's top advertising executive … | Steven Musil / CNET: |
LG reveals Watch Urbane with LTE, the first Android Wear device with cellular capability, and V10 smartphone with secondary display, dual front-facing cameras — LG unveils new V10 smartphone, Urbane smartwatch — The new smartphone features an independent second screen …
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LG Newsroom, The Verge, LG Newsroom, The Verge, Gizmodo, The Verge, Android Police, BBC, SiliconANGLE, BetaNews, Neowin, VentureBeat, PhoneDog.com, PhoneDog.com and Engadget. Tweets: @pierce
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Outlook on the web begins rolling out support for email likes and contact @mentions — Likes and @Mentions coming to Outlook on the web — Over the last several years, social networks have changed the way we communicate. In our personal lives, we show our approval by “Liking” … | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
New Stagefright Bugs Leave More Than 1 Billion Android Users Vulnerable — In July, a security researcher revealed that Android phones could be hacked with a simple text, thanks to a series of bugs in the Android operating system that are now commonly known as Stagefright.| Ashlee Kieler / Consumerist: |
American Airlines Launches Real-Time Baggage Tracking Service For Travelers — After a long day of traveling the last thing you want to deal with is lost baggage, but, unfortunately, that's a very real situation for millions of consumers: over the last five years, the Transportation Security …
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| Jacob Demmitt / GeekWire: |
Microsoft's real-time language translator coming to Skype as baked-in feature on Windows PCs … Microsoft is about to start building its real-time language translation tool directly into Skype for Windows PCs, meaning the 100 million users already on the service will soon be able to have video chats …
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Skype Blogs, The Verge, ZDNet, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Windows Central, MSDN Blogs, The Fire Hose and WinBeta
| Bloomberg Business: |
Sources: Synaptics rejected bid from state-backed Chinese investor that valued it at almost $4B — Synaptics Said to Shun $110-a-Share Bid From China Investor — Proposal reflects 70% premium to Synaptics close Tuesday — Company makes touch-screen technology for Samsung, Apple
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