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Apple acquired personal health data startup Gliimpse, which lets users collect, personalize, and share a picture of their health data, earlier this year — In the last three years, Gliimpse has built a secure platform where consumers can manage and share their own medical records and info.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft acquires A.I. scheduling service Genee, will shut it down on September 1 — Microsoft today announced the acquisition of Genee, an artificial-intelligence-powered scheduling service. The company is planning to integrate the intelligence technology into Office 365 and shut down the Genee service on September 1, 2016.
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Sources: Sony to debut a new PlayStation 4 standard model alongside a high-end version on September 7 — Japanese tech company to introduce a standard and high-end version of the console next month — TOKYO— Sony Corp. plans to introduce a new PlayStation 4 standard model alongside … | Conor Dougherty / New York Times: |
How San Francisco's tech business is spilling over into other metro areas across the US, based on job growth — PHOENIX — Three years ago, Kate Rogers was caught in the Bay Area struggle. She paid the astronomical rents. She did the crushing commute. She lived the frustration … | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Netgear launches Orbi WiFi multi-unit router to cover whole home, starting at $399.99 — For as long as there have been Wi-Fi routers, setting up Wi-Fi has been pretty much the same. You buy a router at the store, plug it into your modem, and that's it. Wi-Fi may even be built into your modem in the first place.
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New Massachusetts law will impose 20¢ fee per trip on ride-hailing apps such as Uber until 2026, 5¢ of which will pay for taxi subsidies until 2021 — Massachusetts is preparing to levy a 5-cent fee per trip on ride-hailing apps such as Uber and Lyft and spend the money …
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| Dave McClure / 500 Hats: |
Expect more non-tech public companies to buy tech unicorns as a hedge against disruption — Yeah, There's a Bubble... But it Ain't in Tech … Everybody in the press loves to write stories about the next “Tech Bubble”. — Of course, they all think they've seen this movie before—twice in fact, in 2000 and in 2008.
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Source: Samsung to launch refurbished smartphone program as early as next year in an effort to boost revenue, fight off mid-tier competitors — Samsung Electronics Co Ltd plans to launch a program to sell refurbished used versions of its premium smartphones as early as next year …
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| Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: |
Ad tech startup Media.net, which powers contextual ads offered by Yahoo, sells to group of Chinese investors for $900M — The startup, which powers contextual ads offered by Yahoo! and Microsoft's Bing, plans a move akin to a reverse merger that would make it a public company in China.| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
Amazon Echo stands out as antithetical to the typical cheap consumer electronics IoT approach amid industry missteps — In the mythical Land of Theory, where everything ‘just works’, we can connect all the objects in our lives. We have the sensors, the wireless networks, and the computing power … | Ben Ratliff / New York Times: |
Bandcamp, the online music site known for its equitable treatment of artists, is one of the greatest underground-culture bazaars of our time — A lesser-known artist you love makes a new recording — say, the hip-hop group Clipping or the Chicago punk band Mace or the electronic composer Kaitlin Aurelia Smith.| Brett Scott / The Long and Short: |
Inside the war for cashless society, pushed by the likes of Visa and PayPal, which will leave many without bank accounts behind — Long — Banks, governments, credit card companies and fintech evangelists all want us to believe a cashless future is inevitable and good.
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