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After delay, Amazon rolls out $299 “Prime Fresh” annual membership required for AmazonFresh purchases — After delay, AmazonFresh rolls out mandatory $299/year ‘Prime Fresh’ grocery membership … Amazon has followed through on its plan to require a special $299/year membership … | Matt Rosoff / Business Insider: |
Some VCs, appearing defensive, dismiss WSJ's reporting on Theranos, but should actually welcome investigative journalism — Some tech investors sure seem to be getting defensive lately ... Nobody likes to be questioned. — But lately, some of Silicon Valley's big tech investors seem …
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Twitter's decision to hide links in Moments is the latest sign that social giants want to be destinations, not portals to publishers' sites — Twitter And Facebook Are Turning Publishers Into Ghost Writers — Publishers are in danger of becoming dumb content in the smart pipes of platforms like Facebook and Twitter.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Android 6.0 Marshmallow review: the premier feature, Now on Tap, is magical when it works but it isn't dependable — Android 6.0 Marshmallow review — Android 6.0 Marshmallow is such a mishmash of features that I spent a long time trying to suss out the unifying principle behind it all.| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Stanford and Michael Bloomberg invest combined $100K in each startup that goes through Y Combinator as part of new seed funding terms — Stanford, Michael Bloomberg Now Back Every Y Combinator Startup — When startup incubator Y Combinator changed the terms of its seed funding last year …
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Banks are likely the next big competitors for Android Pay and Samsung Pay, as Capital One becomes the first US bank with tap-to-pay in its Android app — The Next Big Competitors for Android Pay and Samsung Pay: Banks — Eighteen months ago, rulings by Visa and MasterCard gave banks … | Andrew Tangel / Wall Street Journal: |
NYC yellow taxis to test using GPS to calculate fares to keep up with tech-driven competitors — Tech Inside Yellow Cabs Faces an Overhaul — Taximeters could be replaced by GPS and ‘Taxi TVs’ may be on way out as regulators set pilot project — The technology inside many New York City yellow taxis … | Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
Survey: 33% of teens say Instagram is their most important social network, 20% Twitter, 19% Snapchat, 15% Facebook — Survey Finds Teens Prefer Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat for Social Networks — A new survey may reignite the debate over teenagers' use of Facebook .
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New pilot program opens up federal student loans to select coding boot camps and MOOCs — You Can Now Use Federal Money To Pay For Unaccredited Coding Boot Camps — The federal government will allow students to use federal funding to pay for a small group of coding boot camps …
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Amazon Fire TV 2015 review: fastest content loading of any streaming box, universal search is great but doesn't support some apps like Netflix — Amazon's 2015 Fire TV: Finally, Amazon gets the streaming box right — Connectivity, interface issues are met with gaming, search boosts. Plus, it's fast.| Anil Dash / Backchannel: |
Apple's new Magic Mouse, with a Lightning port on its underside, is unusable and ridiculous while charging — So here's the thing. — This is ridiculous. It's obviously ridiculous. It looks wrong, and was so absurd I at first assumed it was a joke image, or that someone...
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Top 13 YouTube stars earned $54.5M collectively according to Forbes “World's highest-paid YouTube Stars 2015”, with PewDiePie topping the list at $12M — The World's Highest-Paid YouTube Stars 2015 — Ask just about any stranger on the street who Felix Kjellberg is and you'll likely get a blank stare.
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