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September 7, 2016, 11:55 AM

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Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch:
Amazon launches restaurant delivery service in London via the Prime Now app; delivery is free on all orders over £15  —  Back in July we reported that Amazon was set to launch a restaurant delivery service in London for its Amazon Prime customers and now the e-commerce giant has done just that.
Joseph Cox / Motherboard:
Adult site Brazzers forum hacked, 800K account details leaked including emails, usernames and plaintext passwords  —  Nearly 800,000 accounts for popular porn site Brazzers have been exposed in a data breach.  Although the data originated from the company's separate forum …
Alex Dobie / Android Central:
LG unveils V20 5.7-inch phone with Android 7.0 Nougat, secondary “ticker” screen, 3200mAh removable battery, available in Korea this month, other regions later  —  LG's latest big-screened handset boasts a metal body and removable battery — along with new cameras and a secondary ticker display.
Jake Smith / ZDNet:
Oracle acquires cloud-based warehouse management company LogFire to boost its Supply Chain Management division  —  As Oracle looks to take on SAP, it has acquired LogFire to boost its SCM division.  —  Oracle announced Tuesday it's acquiring LogFire, an Atlanta, Ga.-based company …
Mehedi Hassan / MSPoweruser:
Sources: Microsoft working on a Slack competitor called Skype Teams; service to 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 …
Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet:
IDC: Fitbit leads wearables as Apple Watch shipments drop 58% YoY; basic wearable devices like simple fitness bands rise 48% YoY; smart wearables down 27.2% YoY  —  According to new data from IDC, Apple Watch shipments plunged nearly 58 percent compared to the same quarter last year.
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
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 …
Mike Wuerthele / AppleInsider:
David Ruddock / Android Police:
Huawei Honor 8 smartphone review: great performance for price, solid camera, excellent battery life, but is buggy, has subpar LTE performance, slow to charge  —  Huawei's budget sub-brand Honor is the subject of increasing chatter in phone geek circles of late.

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