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PayPal integrates with Skype's mobile app to enable sending money to users in 22 countries including, US, UK, Canada, and others in Europe — The PayPal partnerships keep coming. The still growing payments giant today announced a new deal with Skype that will allow users in 22 countries worldwide …
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Skype Blogs, The Verge, ZDNet, Android Police, Digital Trends, GeekWire, The Next Web, Engadget, BetaNews, Android Central, The Fire Hose, Ubergizmo, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, MSPoweruser, On MSFT, iPhone Hacks, Neowin, SlashGear, AppAdvice.com, Cult of Mac, 9to5Google, and Inquirer. Tweets: @skype
| Evan Blass / VentureBeat: |
Source: Note8 to have 6.3" SuperAMOLED screen, Snapdragon 835 in US or Exynos 8895 globally, IP68-certification, two 12MP rear cameras with OIS, 3300mAh battery — As Samsung prepares to announce its stylus-equipped Galaxy Note8 on August 23 in New York City, information about the phone …
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Android Authority, Business Insider, BGR, Android Police, The Verge, 9to5Google, MSPoweruser, Droid Life, Android and Me, SlashGear, TmoNews, Liliputing, PhoneDog.com, and Android Beat. Tweets: @amitbhawani
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram says users under 25 use the app for 32 minutes per day on average, while half of the businesses on it produced a story in the last month — Instagram Stories has blossomed from a Snapchat clone into an integral part of the world's largest dedicated visual communication app in the first year since its launch.
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Plex brings its Live TV streaming service and DVR to Apple TV and Android, adds “time-shifting” feature to pause, rewind, and fast-forward through live TV — Plex today is taking its Live TV service, including its DVR, out of beta, while also expanding to Apple TV and Android …
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Plex, BetaNews, Android Authority, Android Police, TechSpot, SlashGear, Engadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Pocket-lint, and The Verge
| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
HBO's security contractor says hackers stole “thousands of internal documents” in addition to episodes and have leaked personal info of a senior HBO executive — The HBO hack may have been worse than the initial leaks of a few unaired TV show episodes suggested.
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Hollywood Reporter, International Business Times, CNBC, IndieWire, Refinery29, and Gothamist
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Bitcoin Cash is now the 3rd most valuable cryptocurrency with market value of ~$7.7B; Coinbase users threaten to sue over lack of support for Bitcoin Cash — A new version of bitcoin hit the market on Tuesday and, on its second day of trading, it has already tripled in price and its market cap …
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Facebook says it will start ranking faster loading web pages higher in News Feed over the coming months — We're always listening to our community to understand how we can improve their experience of News Feed. We've heard from people that it's frustrating to click on a link that leads to a slow-loading webpage.
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Recode, ZDNet, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, The Verge, Facebook Media, Adweek, and Mashable
Tweets: @joshconstine, @kurtwagner8, @davisshaver, and @shanbow
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Report: Snap in talks to buy Zero Zero Robotics, best known for its Hover Camera Passport Drone, which uses facial recognition to photograph users from the air — Snap is still trying to get into the drone business. After reportedly buying LA-based drone company Ctrl Me Robotics earlier this year …
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Axios, The Information, Fortune, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, Mashable, Ubergizmo, CNET, Seeking Alpha, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, MacRumors, and Phandroid
Tweets: @jonrussell, @joshconstine, @davepell, and @tim
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Senators debut a bill requiring IoT devices sold to government are patchable and conform to basic security best practices, like avoiding hard-coded passwords — Lawmakers in the U.S. Senate today introduced a bill that would set baseline security standards for the government's purchase …
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The Hacker News, TechCrunch, New York Magazine, PaymentsSource, Data Center Knowledge, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, Healthcare IT News, RT, Computerworld News …, Recode, U.S. Senator Mark R. Warner, The Register, Gizmodo, Tom's Hardware, The Hill, DataBreaches.net, Engadget, and Federal Computer Week
Tweets: @zackwhittaker and @zackwhittaker
| Canalys: |
Samsung and Apple worldwide smartphone sales were mostly flat YoY in Q2, but Chinese makers saw big growth: Huawei up 20% to ~38M, Oppo up 44%, Xiaomi up 52% — Palo Alto, Shanghai, Singapore and Reading (UK) - Wednesday, 2 August 2017 — Samsung continued to lead the worldwide smartphone market …
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9to5Google, Business Wire, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Android Central, Engadget, iPhone Hacks, PhoneArena, MacRumors, Fortune, and VentureBeat
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Apple's shift towards services revenue has limited its freedom to maneuver, as the China-VPN example shows, while creating a formidable business — On October 5, 1999, Steve Jobs introduced the iMac DV and a new application called iMovie, declaring:
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MacRumors, Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Forbes
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
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Tweets: @panzer, @benbajarin, and @shiraovide
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AT&T says Glenn Lurie, who worked with Apple on the original AT&T-iPhone deal, is retiring, amid a broader management shakeup — Departure follows AT&T reorganization as it prepares for Time Warner merger — AT&T Inc. T -1.18% said veteran executive Glenn Lurie will retire next month … | Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
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