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Facebook to display “related articles” for popular stories, including ones flagged as false by fact checkers, to combat misinformation, after months of testing — Social-media giant will display related articles to limit the damage of false news without censoring posts
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TechCrunch, Axios, Engadget, Business Insider, Reuters, TechSpot, New York Magazine, Financial Times, Digital Trends, and Android Police
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How Apple developed new Bluetooth Low Energy Audio tech to stream audio directly from iOS devices to hearing aids and cochlear implants — My conversation with Mathias Bahnmueller started as pretty much all my phone interviews do. “Can you hear me?” he asked, and I replied affirmatively.
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AppleInsider, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, Engadget, and 9to5Mac
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Greylock COO Tom Frangione out, source says due to “inappropriate” consensual relationship, just weeks after partner Reid Hoffman's proposed a “Decency Pledge” — Tom Frangione has stepped down as chief operating officer of Greylock Partners, after the Silicon Valley …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Smash.gg raises $11M for esports tournament platform, led by Nabeel Hyatt, partner at Spark Capital, along with Accel Partners and Horizon Ventures — Smash.gg has raised $11 million to help local esports fans create their own tournaments. — The idea is to enable organized esports competitions …
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eSports Pro, Esports Insider, Gamasutra, and PE Hub Blog
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook confirms it's testing Stories on desktop, with a wider rollout expected soon — Great news, folks. Facebook Stories, the shameless Snapchat clone that sits above the News Feed on Facebook's mobile app, is now rolling out to Facebook's desktop site.
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Engadget, MSPoweruser, Neowin, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechCrunch, and 9to5Google. Tweets: @mgsiegler
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Small business loan platform Kabbage raises $250M Series F from SoftBank, bringing its total raised to $500M — Kabbage, a company with some 115,000 customers and $3.5 billion in loans that has built an automated platform for lending money to small businesses and individuals using a large set …
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Reuters, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Crowdfund Insider, Financial Times, CNBC, Business Insider, and Seeking Alpha. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Strategy Analytics: Xiaomi was top wearables vendor in Q2 with 3.7M units, up 23% YoY, Fitbit was 2nd with 3.4M units, Apple was 3rd with 2.8M units, up 56% YoY — Apple shipped an estimated 2.8 million Apple Watch units in the June quarter, an increase of 56 percent from an estimated 1.8 million shipments …
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Business Wire, TechCrunch, Engadget, AppAdvice.com, Patently Apple, Fortune, Cult of Mac, and 9to5Mac
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Uber expands Uber Freight beyond Texas to California, Arizona, Chicago, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina and updates driver's app — Uber Freight, the on-demand trucking service created by Uber and introduced earlier this year, is expanding from its initial market of Texas to areas in California … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Asus ZenFone AR, which supports both Google's Tango AR and Daydream VR platforms, now available for pre-order from Verizon for $648 — Not a bad price for both augmented and virtual reality capabilities — Asus' new ZenFone AR, which supports both Google's Tango augmented reality tech … | Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Sources at ad agencies say a lack of analytics, disinterest of influencers, and other factors are driving clients from Snap, exacerbated by Instagram's strength — - Several agencies said advertiser interest in Snapchat is flat to dwindling, as many opt to move towards Instagram.| Chris Duckett / ZDNet: |
DigiCert to acquire Symantec's web certificate business for about $950M up front in cash, and a 30% stake in DigiCert stock at close — DigiCert will part with $950 million upfront in cash, and hand Symantec a 30 percent stake in exchange for its website security unit.
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Silicon Valley Business …, PE Hub Blog, The Register, Symantec, MarketWatch, MSPmentor, Fortune, TheStreet, and CRN
| Abigail Summerville / CNBC: |
Fitbit Q2: revenue of $353.3M, down from $586.5M YoY, vs. $341.6M est.; 3.4M devices sold; new smartwatch on track for launch ahead of holidays; stock up 6%+ — Fitbit reported quarterly results and revenue that beat analysts' expectations on Wednesday. — Here's how the company did compared to what Wall Street expected:
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VentureBeat, The Mac Observer, Fitbit Investor Relations, Neowin, The Verge, Stock Market News …, Ubergizmo, TechCrunch, and Reuters
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