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Sidecar, once an Uber and Lyft competitor, is shutting down on December 31 — Sidecar has announced it's shutting down at the end of the year. Company chief executive Sunil Paul explained in a Medium post (not the company's official blog, strangely) that the move was intended to help pave …
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Samsung is adding SmartThing hubs to its 2016 HD TVs to control connected devices — Your next Samsung HD television could be a hub that ties all the connected devices in your home together. The Korea-based electronics manufacturer revealed today that its 2016 smart TV lineup …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Samsung's Bio-Processor chip that has built-in support for measuring body fat, muscle mass, heart rate, skin temperature, and more goes into mass production — Samsung's new processor is meant for building much better fitness trackers — Samsung thinks it's about time that fitness trackers did more than monitor your pulse.| Ed Christman / Billboard: |
Spotify sued for $150M over alleged unpaid royalties, proposed class exceeds 100 members — Spotify Hit With $150 Million Class Action Over Unpaid Royalties — EMAIL ME — Vocal artist rights advocate David Lowery brings a massive action against the largest streaming service.| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Twitter hires Apple's Jeffrey Siminoff as new vice president of diversity and inclusion — Twitter Hires New VP Of Diversity And Inclusion From Apple — Twitter has hired Jeffrey Siminoff to replace Janet Van Huysse as the company's new vice president of diversity and inclusion.
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| Nandita Bose / Reuters: |
Samsung plans to let US users pay online with Samsung Pay, expand it to lower-priced smartphones soon — Samsung Pay plans to enable U.S. online shopping in 2016 — Samsung Electronics Co plans to expand its fledgling mobile payment service in the United States next year …
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Tweets: @mdudas and @brianroemmele
| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
How Wish, the shopping app startup and top app advertiser on Facebook and Instagram, aims to become the next trillion dollar marketplace — Meet Wish, the $3 Billion App That Could Be the Next Walmart — As the words poured out of Peter Szulczewski's mouth, I thought he must be pulling my leg.
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GeekWire and Business Insider. Tweets: @modestproposal1, @delrey, @treehcapital, @delrey, @jyarow and @mdudas
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Twitter cracks down on harassment by rearranging paragraphs in its terms of service — In the wake of former CEO Dick Costolo admitting the company “suck[s] at dealing with abuse,” Twitter has devoted many blog posts to explaining how seriously it takes the issue.
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The Twitter Blog, Marketing Land, Gigaom, Engadget, USA Today, The Next Web, Tech Times and Guardian
| Andy / TorrentFreak: |
How Hollywood Caught the UK's Most Prolific Movie Pirates — Following a three year investigation by Hollywood-backed anti-piracy group the Federation Against Copyright Theft, last week five of the UK's most prolific movie pirates were sentenced in the West Midlands.
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Engadget, Guardian, SlashGear, Tech Times and Digital Trends
Tweets: @marcwrogers, @edent and @thegrugq
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Every new Apple product or feature released in 2015 was essentially in beta — 2015: Apple's year in beta — The Gizmodo headline last week was blunt, in the way that the best Giz headlines are blunt: Everything Apple Introduced This Year Kinda Sucked. It's worth reading …
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Macworld, ZDNet, InfoWorld, Cult of Mac and Quartz
Tweets: @benbajarin, @tomwarren, @fmanjoo, @jyarow and @caseynewton
| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
Facebook tests multiple, topic-based feeds on its mobile app in place of one main News Feed, also tests wider rollout of Marketplace feature with its own tab — Facebook is testing multiple news feeds on mobile — Facebook is testing multiple, topic-based feeds on its mobile app in place of one main News Feed.
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| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Gabriel Stricker returns to Google to lead communications for Fiber after three years at Twitter as chief communications officer — Gabriel Stricker Returns To Google To Lead Policy And Communications For Fiber — During all of Twitter's changes this year, one move stuck out as quite significant …
Tweets: @ericjackson and @howardlindzon
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