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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: new iPhones to be unveiled next month with haptic feedback on the home button, no headphone jack, and a dual-camera system on the larger model — Apple shifts from two-year redesign cycle for latest models — New camera on larger phone sharpens low-light photographs
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| Walmart: |
Walmart to buy Jet.com for $3B in cash and $300M in stock — Deal Positions Walmart for Expanded e-Commerce Growth and Customer Reach — Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. and Jet.com, Inc. today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement for Walmart to acquire Jet for approximately $3 billion in cash …
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Tweets: @dannysullivan, @jet, @delrey, @fmanjoo, @tim_stevens and @nytimesbusiness
| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Sources: Jet CEO Marc Lore will run Walmart's US e-commerce operations after the acquisition closes — Jet.com CEO Marc Lore will also run Walmart.com — Walmart, the world's largest retailer, announced it will acquire two-year-old online retailer Jet.com for $3.3 billion in cash and stock …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Hulu phases out its own free streaming service, inks deal with Yahoo to provide TV episodes to Yahoo View, Yahoo's new ad-supported TV streaming site — Hulu inks deal with Yahoo to provide free, ad-supported episodes of TV shows — Hulu is moving to an all-subscription model …
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Researchers disclose four Qualcomm chipset driver flaws dubbed “Quadrooter” allowing malicious apps to gain root access on Android phones with Qualcomm chipsets — All versions of Android are vulnerable to these flaws, which won't be fully patched until the September security release next month.
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Thanks:@zackwhittaker| Joel Hruska / ExtremeTech: |
Apple's slow Mac refresh cycle is mostly driven by the low rate of improvements in the PC hardware today — Most of Apple's product lines are severely overdue for a refresh. Apart from the recently refreshed MacBook, many of the company's Mac products are well over a year old.| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
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Tweets: @isforat, @antumbral, @davemcclure, @thatgoatie, @benedictevans, @kfury, @tapbot_paul, @maxniederhofer, @stevesi and @roddrury
| Chris Berdik / The Hechinger Report: |
How Virtual Learning Academy Charter School's focus on student-teacher relationships and offline projects sets it apart from other online schools — Hint: it takes strong relationships and a strong dose of reality — EXETER, N.H. — Emily Duggan, 16, spends most afternoons …
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| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
HP Chromebook 13 review: great display, design, and performance, but lacks touch screen, has mediocre battery, and is pricey with models from $499 up to $1,029 — Just over a year ago, you basically had two options for buying a Chromebook: Spend $999 on Google's excellent but overpriced Pixel …
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| Nikkei: |
Sources: Amazon Japan raided by Japan's Fair Trade Commission on anti-trust grounds, suspected of having forced price-fixing on partners — TOKYO — Amazon Japan's offices were raided by Japan's anti-monopoly watchdog agency on suspicion of having unfairly forced retailers to favor … | Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Elite dealmakers like Carmen Chang and Connie Chan facilitate the deluge of deals between China and Silicon Valley — SAN FRANCISCO — When Uber chief executive Travis Kalanick wanted advice about whom to hire to run his ride-hailing business in China, he asked Carmen Chang … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Open-source video platform Kaltura raises $50M from Goldman Sachs, confirms plans to IPO — Open-source video platform Kaltura has raised $50 million from Goldman Sachs, as the New York-based technology company finally confirmed its plans to go public. — Founded in 2006 …
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| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
Hardware makers and credit card firms are speeding up checkout time for EMV cards, but mobile payments like Apple Pay and Android Pay are still the future — Chip cards, also known as EMV cards, are getting faster at the register, but mobile payments like Apple Pay are the real answer
Tweets: @brianroemmele
| Bloomberg: |
FTC to crack down on sponsored celebrity social media posts that aren't explicitly disclosed — The agency says brands and the social media stars who promote their products need to be more transparent about sponsored content — Snapchat star DJ Khaled raves about Ciroc vodka.
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Silicon Valley Business …, Engadget, SiliconANGLE and Tech Times
Tweets: @davemcclure, @jason and @sarahfrier
| Rich / Securosis Highlights: |
Apple's bug bounty program is a good start, focuses on finding high-quality exploits in a few key areas on iOS and iCloud, will grow and evolve over time — It should surprise no one that Apple is writing their own playbook for bug bounties. Both bigger, with the largest potential payout I'm aware of …
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom gives full credit to Snapchat for Stories format, and looks at how tech companies build on each others' innovations — The one thing you never hear in Silicon Valley is an entrepreneur admit they copied someone else. Yet there in the headquarters of Facebook …
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