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Niantic CEO says the company is going to add “sponsored locations” to Pokémon Go, letting retailers and other companies sponsor places on the virtual map — The developer behind Pokémon Go , the smash hit location-based mobile game that has dominated US …
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Tweets: @mikeisaac, @film_girl, @wu_tang_finance and @unbibs
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Apple puts out open casting call for app creators for reality show “Planet of the Apps”, sheds more light on the series — Earlier this year it was announced that Apple was planning to launch its first original TV series about the “app economy.”
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Tweets: @chantiellemac, @bzamayo, @rrhoover, @vladsavov, @johnpaczkowski, @counternotions and @tim
See also Mediagazer| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Inside Facebook's Mobile Device Lab, which houses about 60 server racks to test its apps for performance and battery consumption on older phones — Deep inside Facebook's very first data center, located in a sprawling facility in the hills of Prineville, OR, lies a series of about 60 server racks.
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Facebook Code, TechCrunch, Android Authority, Computerworld, Data Center Knowledge, SlashGear, The Next Web, ZDNet and Mashable. Tweets: @steipete
| Maureen Morrison / Ad Age: |
BitTorrent to launch live-streamed TV news network on July 18 at the Republican National Convention as part of broader effort to become a video content company — Move Is Part of Larger Effort to Refocus Business on Becoming Video Content Company — 6 Ways You Can Put Behavioral Automation to Work for Your Clients Today| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
Tor Project replaces its board with a new slate of directors including Bruce Schneier and Matt Blaze, in the wake of Jacob Appelbaum's resignation — SAN FRANCISCO — The Tor Project, a nonprofit digital privacy group, on Wednesday replaced its board with a new slate of directors as part …
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Tweets: @torproject, @xeni, @trevortimm and @asher_wolf
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Unity Technologies, which makes the game engine behind Pokémon Go and others, raises $181M at a $1.5B valuation — Most game players have never heard of Unity Technologies, but its software was used in the creation of a large number of the world's top mobile games, including the current hit Pokémon Go.| Tom Mendelsohn / Ars Technica UK: |
HP Inc. follows Dell in raising UK prices by 10% after Brexit weakens the pound; Lenovo and Cisco are reportedly still considering a price hike — HP plans to bump up its UK prices up by 10 percent across the board due to the pound's volatility against the dollar in the weeks following …
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Microsoft and Twitch announce capture card support for all Twitch Xbox One users broadcasting on Xbox Live — Today, in partnership with Twitch, we're pleased to announce capture card support for Twitch Xbox One broadcasters on Xbox Live. Previously, only Xbox One players broadcasting …
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Digital Trends, VentureBeat, Engadget, Tech Times, MSPoweruser, MSPoweruser, Windows Central, Twitch Blog and bit-tech.net. Tweets: @majornelson
| Andrew Byrne / Financial Times: |
Uber pulls out of Hungary, where it had 1,200 drivers, over government legislation that penalizes drivers, blocks access to “illegal dispatcher services” — Ride-hailing app Uber is pulling out of Hungary after the introduction of tough new laws by prime minister Viktor Orban which the company said put its drivers at risk.
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Reuters, The Verge, CNET, Bloomberg, Hungary Today, BBJ on the web and Fortune
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google acquires Kifi, a sharing and recommendation app, team to join Spaces, app will be shut down over next few weeks — Google has made another small acquisition to help it continue building out its latest efforts in social apps. The search and Android giant has hired the team behind Kifi …
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On the Same Page with Kifi, Digital Trends, Inquirer, Tech Times, Computerworld, VatorNews, Android Central, The Next Web, 9to5Google, ZDNet, Ausdroid, Engadget and VentureBeat
Tweets: @connerdelights and @jeng24
| Krystina Gustafson / CNBC: |
Amazon's sales rise 60% YoY worldwide, 50% in the US, on Prime Day, making it the biggest sales day ever — So much for concerns that the second Prime Day event didn't live up to Amazon's expectations. — The online retailer said Wednesday that the self-created holiday was its biggest sales day ever …
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Tweets: @ccheddarberk, @kantrowitz, @brettmolina23 and @mylesudland
| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Recent events show how Facebook and Twitter serve complementary roles during breaking news, strengthening each other — For years, Facebook and Twitter have been at odds over news. But if we've learned anything in the past week it might be that it's not clear that either service has to lose for the other to win.Sponsor Posts
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