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Intel is buying Movidius, a startup with about 180 employees that makes vision chips for drones and virtual reality — It's the latest in a string of acquisitions for the chip giant. — Intel announced late Monday that it is buying Movidius, a small chipmaker that makes computer vision processors used …
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Sources: Twitter's board of directors will meet this Thursday and discuss the company's options, including potential sale, trimming or selling off MoPub, Vine — Talk of a sale continues to rumble, but finding a buyer won't be easy. — Twitter's quiet summer may soon be coming to an end.
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KGI: Apple to announce new wireless earbuds called AirPods, which will target the premium headphone market and use custom “Bluetooth-like” low-power tech — Apple's new wireless earbuds, expected to be announced this week as “AirPods,” are said to feature a custom-designed wireless chip … | LeakedSource: |
Over 98M records leaked online from 2012 hack of Russia's Yahoo-like service Rambler.ru, each record contains: username/email address, plaintext password, more — Nearly 100 million records have been leaked online in yet another “mega breach”, this time from the website Rambler.ru …
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| Telis Demos / Wall Street Journal: |
PayPal strikes deal with MasterCard to allow payments in stores, will share data on any transactions using MasterCard mobile tap — Move comes at expense of short-term profitability, analysts say — PayPal Holdings Inc. has struck another deal with a payments network, this time MasterCard Inc. …
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Engadget, TechCrunch, Global Hub, MobileSyrup.com, Reuters and PYMNTS.com. Tweets: @brianroemmele
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Xiaomi's Android set-top box, Mi Box, to launch as soon as October for less than $100 and will be its first mainstream product on sale in the US — There's much anticipation about Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi's long-awaited entry into the U.S. market. And we don't have long to wait. Kinda.
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| Mehedi Hassan / MSPoweruser: |
Sources: Microsoft working on Skype Teams, a Slack competitor; service will include threaded messages, channels, DMs, video calls, meeting scheduling, more — It was recently reported that Microsoft wanted to buy Slack for $8 billion. Slack, for those unfamiliar, is a messaging app … Thanks:@pradeepviswav
| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Qualcomm, AT&T to test drones' capabilities on 4G LTE networks using Qualcomm's Snapdragon Flight development platform — Qualcomm said its researchers will team up with AT&T to test how unmanned aircraft systems can utilize cellular networks for processing, navigation and flying beyond line of sight.
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| Emma Hinchliffe / Mashable: |
Instagram kills its photo maps feature, citing low usage — Instagram is taking away your photo maps. — The photo-sharing app has begun to kill its photo map feature, with some users already seeing the option removed when visiting other profiles. — Instagram confirmed the changes to Mashable on Tuesday.| Kate Conger / TechCrunch: |
Yelp debuts bug bounty program with rewards ranging from $100 to $15K, coordinated through the HackerOne platform — Hackers, start your engines. — Yelp launched a public bug bounty program today, inviting the world's hackers to pick apart its websites and mobile app in search … | Mike Wuerthele / AppleInsider: |
Apple allegedly files for 50+ trademarks including Iris Engine, AirPod Case, Home Hub, Control Strip, Touch Bar, Smart Button, Swift Lab — A wide array of international trademark filings allegedly connected to Apple could reveal the branding for new products and services …
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General Electric launches all-cash tender offers for European companies Arcam, worth about $700M, and SLM, worth about $761M, as it boosts 3D printing business — Deals mark U.S. company's push into new ways of making aircraft and other components — General Electric Co. is pushing further …
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