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Apple Launches Support Account on Twitter With Tips, Tricks, and Customer Service — Apple today created an official Twitter support account to provide customers with tips, tricks, and customer service regarding the company's product and services. One of the account's first tweets shares step … | Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Google pilots Hands Free, a voice activated mobile payments system, at stores including McDonald's and Papa John's in San Francisco's South Bay area — Google experiments with a way to pay without taking out your phone — Google is rolling out a pilot program today that introduces …
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| Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
Amazon adds the $130 Tap and the $90 Dot to the Echo family — Amazon's voice-operated command center Echo produces something close to modern-day magic within our homes: Get the latest news, order a pizza, turn off the lights or find out who killed Bruce Wayne's parents in fewer than 1,200 milliseconds.
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IBM's SleepHealth debuts as first ResearchKit app for IBM Watson Health Cloud, to study how sleep quality impacts daytime activities — SleepHealth debuts as first ResearchKit app & study to support IBM Watson Health Cloud — Almost one year after IBM announced Watson Health Cloud …
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Sources: Intel is working on an augmented-reality headset that uses RealSense 3D camera tech — Intel Working on Augmented-Reality Headset — RealSense 3-D camera technology would be used — Intel Corp. is joining the race to reshape reality. — The chip giant is developing …
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LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner forgoes his annual stock package, sources say valued about $14M, and puts it into employee pool — LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner Is Passing His $14 Million Stock Grant to Employees — How do you perk up employees after your company's stock price falls off a cliff? More money!
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Wall Street Journal, Tech Times, Business Insider, Silicon Valley Business …, Fortune and Silicon Republic. Tweets: @sachinrekhi
| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg Business: |
Sources: Slack is seeking between $150M and $300M in new financing at up to a $4B valuation — Messaging Startup Slack Seeks Up to $4 Billion Valuation in Funding Round — The company is said to be in talks to raise $150 million to $300 million in financing.
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TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, VatorNews, Silicon Valley Business …, GeekWire, Wall Street Journal, SiliconBeat and Business Insider
Tweets: @wsjd, @ychernova, @jasonlk, @sallyshin, @ychernova and @danprimack
| Andrea Shalal / Reuters: |
Pentagon invites vetted experts to hack some DOD websites in a pilot program later this month; the rules and compensation have not been finalized — U.S. military invites vetted experts to ‘Hack the Pentagon’ — The Pentagon said on Wednesday it would invite vetted outside hackers to test … | Andrea Shalal / Reuters: |
Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Alphabet, to head new Pentagon advisory board aimed at bringing Silicon Valley innovation and best practices to the military — Former Google CEO Schmidt to head new Pentagon innovation board — Eric Schmidt, the former chief executive officer of Google …
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Tweets: @johnharris1969, @juliapowles, @7im and @creightonkelly2
| Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider: |
Blippar raises $55M Series D led by Malaysian government to build out its AR tech that uses a phone's camera to identify objects — Blippar raises $54 million to continue its mission to ‘build something bigger than the internet itself’ — Blippar, the company best known for its augmented reality app …
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VentureBeat, livemint.com, MediaPost, Financial Times, The Economic Times, Business Standard, TechCrunch, VCCircle, The Memo and BBC. Thanks:@0_magtastic_0
| Chris Ciaccia / TheStreet.com: |
HBO to launch its streaming services in Brazil and Argentina by year end — Move Over Netflix — HBO Is Coming For You — Mover over Netflix (NFLX - Get Report) — Time Warner's (TWX - Get Report) HBO is coming. — HBO CEO Richard Plepler announced that HBO is expanding …
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Variety, BGR, Deadline, Hollywood Reporter, Bloomberg Business, Multichannel News, Business Insider and TechCrunch. Thanks:@chris_ciaccia. See also Mediagazer
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Inside indie photo app developer Pixite's struggle as US app market reaches saturation — Life and death in the App Store — As last year began, the app developer Pixite held its company retreat at a converted Old West movie set outside of Palm Springs.
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