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Google's new invite-only “Who's Down” app for Android and iOS shows which of your friends are free to hang out — Google's new 'Who's Down' app shows which of your friends are free to hang out — Google has just quietly released a new app on the Play Store, called “Who's Down”.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple plans to start selling the iPad Pro on November 11th — Apple plans to start selling the 12.9-inch iPad Pro on Wednesday, November 11th via both its physical retail and online stores, according to multiple sources. Apple previously only said that the large tablet would become available during …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon to exit daily deals, closing the Amazon Local platform on December 18 — Amazon To Exit Daily Deals With Closure Of Amazon Local — Amazon is exiting the daily deals space. According to a message now being displayed on the Amazon Local homepage, the company's deals platform is closing up shop on December 18, 2015.| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Amazon stops offering its Local Register credit card reader, will end support for it on February 1 — Amazon Shutting Down Its ‘Register’ Credit Card Processor — There is one fewer player in the payments processing game. — Amazon, the online retailing giant, quietly killed …
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| Kevin Tofel / ZDNet: |
Motorola launching the Droid Turbo 2 as the Moto X Force in Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific regions in November — Moto X Force: A shatterproof Android phone for outside the U.S. — Consumers around the world will be able to get Motorola's ShatterShield tech with a non-Droid version of the Turbo 2.
| Monica Anderson / Pew Internet: |
Report: 68% of US adults now own a smartphone, up from 35% in 2011, 45% own a tablet, no growth in ownership of other digital devices in recent years — Technology Device Ownership: 2015 — 68% of Americans have smartphones; 45% have tablet computers. Ownership of other digital devices has not grown in recent years.
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| Alexei Oreskovic / Business Insider: |
Google's acquisitions in the first nine months of 2015 totaled $250M, the lowest since 2009 — Google slammed the brakes on its acquisition machine, with the lowest deal-making since 2009 — Google has idled its mergers and acquisition machine, with the company reporting the lowest deal activity, by value, in six years.| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Facebook tweaks real name policy: starting in December, users will be allowed to provide context when Facebook requires their name be “confirmed” — Facebook Responds To Open Letter Criticizing ‘Real Names’ Policy — Facebook today announced a couple of process improvements meant …
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Thanks:@kantrowitz| Haze Fan / CNBC: |
Huawei hires former Apple creative director Abigail Brody as chief user experience designer — Huawei hires Apple's former creative director Abigail Brody — Chinese smartphone maker Huawei is hires a former Apple creative director as it plans to set up a user experience design studio in the US.
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TrustedReviews, Gizmodo, TechnoBuffalo, Tech Times, Wall Street Journal and MacNN. Tweets: @timburks
| Felix Kjellberg / PewDiePie: |
Top YouTuber PewDiePie: YouTube Red exists to counter ad blocking, which can devastate smaller channels — Thoughts on YouTube Red. — Since YouTube recently announced their new payed service “YouTube Red”. Everyone has been up to arms about it, for mainly good reasons!| Haroon Siddique / Guardian: |
TalkTalk: hackers accessed fewer than 1.2M email addresses, names, and phone numbers, 21K unique bank account details, 28K obscured credit, debit card details — TalkTalk says hackers accessed fraction of data originally thought — Telecoms company confirms scale of cyber-attack far smaller … | Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Amazon removes all Apple TV, Chromecast listings from its website, including those from 3rd-party resellers, following plans announced earlier this month — Amazon Removes All Apple TV, Chromecast Listings From Its Website — Amazon has followed through on its plans to go nuclear on its competitors …
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