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| Walt Mossberg / The Verge: |
The quality and reliability of Apple's apps on iOS and OS X have gradually degraded over the past few years — Mossberg: Apple's apps need work — People think of Apple as a maker of excellent premium hardware. In fact, many reviewers regard Apple devices as the best you can buy.
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg Business: |
Apple Pay is now available in 2M retail locations, coming soon to Crate & Barrel, Chick-fil-A, Zappos, and Au Bon Pain — Apple Pay Locations Reach 2 Million, With Chick-Fil-A to Come — The mobile-payment service doubled in-apps purchase volume — Greater competition looms while consumers still skeptical
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
YouTube Red to launch its first original programming, three films and a series, on Feb. 10 — YouTube Set to Premiere First Original Movies, PewDiePie Series — YouTube next week is set to launch its first exclusive programming — a test of how many customers will fork over $10 per month …
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Driving analytics company Zendrive raises $13.5M led by Sherpa Capital — Zendrive raises $13.5M to make roads safer by tracking your driving behaviors — Zendrive today announced that it has raised $13.5 million in funding for its technology to make transportation safer.
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Premium Spotify subscribers can now play music directly on Amazon Echo — Amazon's Echo can now play music directly from Spotify — Playing Spotify music on the Amazon Echo is now as easy as saying three words: “Alexa, Play Spotify.” The e-retailer-slash-device-maker launched voice control …
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| Jonathan Soble / New York Times: |
Sharp says it's leaning toward a takeover offer from Foxconn over offer from the Japanese government-backed fund INCJ — Sharp leaning toward takeover offer from Foxconn over offer from government-backed fund — NAGOYA, Japan — Sharp, the struggling Japanese technology company best known … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Justin Kan to restart his lifecasting channel, Justin.tv as a Snapchat channel — Justin.tv is coming back to life as a Snapchat channel — Justin Kan is relaunching the channel that created the modern live-streaming movement. Justin.tv, founded in 2007 and shuttered in 2014 …
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| Blair Hanley Frank / PCWorld: |
Microsoft announces Azure IoT Hub, its cloud service for managing internet-connected devices, will become generally available February 4 — Microsoft launches IoT Hub to ingest data from the physical world — The service helps companies manage a massive fleet of embedded devices| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Apple ordered to pay $625M to VirnetX after court finds FaceTime, VPN, iMessage infringed patents — Apple ordered to pay $625M in revived VirnetX patent trial — A federal jury on Wednesday found Apple guilty of willfully infringing on four VirnetX patents, awarding …
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Thanks:@mikeycampbell81| Robert Hackett / Fortune: |
Software supply chain manager Sonatype raises $30M led by Goldman Sachs — Goldman Sachs Leads $30 Million Investment in Software Supply Chain Fixer — Imagine an auto assembly line in which each factory worker is allowed to make random supplier and part decisions.
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| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
Cisco: Internet traffic will pass a zettabyte this year driven by mobile, will double again in 2019; 5.5B people will own a mobile device by 2020 — Phones Will Drive Internet Traffic Past the Zettabyte Mark This Year — It's no real secret that the rise in the world's Internet traffic … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
GoPro CEO says firm will discontinue three of its cameras in April, but Hero 4 Black at $500, Hero 4 Silver at $400, and Hero 4 Session at $200 will remain — GoPro will slash camera lineup to just three models in April — Coming to terms with a rather miserable financial quarter … | Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Square NFC payment reader available in US Apple stores for $49, compatible with chip-enabled cards, Apple Pay, Android Pay, and Samsung Pay — Square is selling its NFC payment reader in Apple Stores — Last November, Square finally got on with the times and unveiled an NFC-friendly reader …
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VentureBeat, MacRumors, TechnoBuffalo, Fortune, The Next Web, App Advice, MacNN, iPhone Hacks, TechCrunch, App Advice, iClarified, 9to5Mac, iMore, WebProNews and AppleInsider. Tweets: @brianroemmele
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