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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple becomes the world's only company with a $1T market cap — Apple has officially become the world's only trillion dollar publicly traded company, in terms of market capitalization, which is simply the company's number of outstanding shares multiplied by its stock price.
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| Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
Cisco is buying Duo Security, a vendor of cloud-based two-factor authentication services, for $2.35B in cash — Cisco today announced its intent to buy Ann Arbor, MI-based security firm, Duo Security. Under the terms of agreement, Cisco is paying $2.35 billion in cash and assumed equity awards for Duo.
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True Ventures, The Duo Blog, Cisco, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, MarketWatch, The Duo Blog, Cisco Blog, SiliconANGLE, Cisco Blog, CNBC, Crain's Detroit Business, Forrester Blogs, Brian Neider, ZDNet, Silicon Valley Business …, The Register, Xconomy, CRN, Cyberscoop, PE Hub Blog, ITworld.com, Axios, Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times
Tweets: @duosec, @marshallk, @shaig, @startupmjackson, @om, and @ekp
| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Microsoft Surface Go review: thin and light with a gorgeous display, but its performance is wanting and there's a lack of great Windows tablet apps — The Surface Go is Microsoft's smallest and cheapest tablet yet, with specs that would make hardware nerds laugh.
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Tweets: @daniel_rubino, @tomwarren, @maryjofoley, and @backlon
| Kara Swisher / New York Times: |
Now that Facebook and other platforms have become “digital arms dealers”, Zuckerberg takes a crash course in free speech and propaganda, at a cost to the public — They have weaponized social media, and we are all paying the price. — Let me first state that I actually …
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Tweets: @spacekatgal and @kimmaicutler
| Natt Garun / The Verge: |
Motorola unveils modular 6-inch Moto Z3 with Snapdragon 835, 4GB RAM, dual cameras, and a 5G Moto Mod for upgrading to 5G, available on August 16 for $480 — We've already got a handful of new Moto phones this year, including some Amazon exclusives, and today Motorola is adding yet another device to the list: the Moto Z3.
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Tweets: @rdrv3, @starfire2258, @saschasegan, and @julianchokkattu
| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
IDC: in Q2, global tablet shipments were 33M, down 13.5% YoY; Huawei and Apple are the only companies that saw growth at 7.7% YoY and 0.9% YoY respectively — Other tablet makers like Amazon and Samsung, however? Ouch — The worldwide tablet market has been declining year after year for what feels like... forever.
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| Monica Mercuri / Billboard: |
Bytedance merges lip sync app Musical.ly, which it bought in November 2017, into its TikTok app, which has a new interface for easier video capture and editing — Musical.ly's new owner decides to nix the name and migrate the app's 100 million monthly active users to TikTok.
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The Verge, Engadget, Fast Company, Gizmodo, Variety, TechCrunch, Deadline, RAIN News, and The Next Web
Tweets: @jank0, @cheriehu42, and @kerrymflynn
| The Information: |
Sources: Google is developing a news aggregation app for use in China that will comply with the country's strict censorship laws — Google is developing a news-aggregation app for use in China that will comply with the country's strict censorship laws, part of a plan to re-enter …
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| Sara Salinas / CNBC: |
Sonos closes its first day of trading at $19.91, up 32% from its opening price of $15, giving the company a valuation of about $1.95B after today's IPO — - Sonos markets its high-end, web-connected speakers to audiophiles and music fans as the speaker industry moves toward smart assistants made by Amazon and Google.
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Axios, 9to5Mac, Variety, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacDailyNews, Variety, and Bloomberg. Tweets: @rolfewinkler
| Ben Fox Rubin / CNET: |
CIRP: Amazon has 70% of smart speaker market in US and Google has 24% as installed base hits 50M; Apple doubled its share in Q2 to 6% — Apple was late to bring out its own smart speaker, and it shows. — Only 6 percent of smart speaker users in the US had one of the tech titan's HomePod devices …
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CNBC, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Fortune, PhoneArena, and MacDailyNews
| Ry Crist / CNET: |
Charlie Kindel, who helped found Amazon's Alexa Smart Home division before leaving in April, has joined luxury home automation company Control4 as an SVP — Four months after leaving his position as Amazon's director of Alexa Smart Home, Charlie Kindel is back to work … | Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
As memes become more complex, creators say they usually have to rely on a suite of apps to craft their memes as no single app fully meets their needs — Last year, Alex, a 19-year-old in California who runs a network of Instagram pages dedicated to publishing memes, became so frustrated …
Tweets: @taylorlorenz, @tiffmkelly, @catesish, and @adriennelaf
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says apps and in-app purchases for macOS and iOS will be removed from its affiliate program on October 1; music, movies, books, and TV will remain — Apple announced in an email to publishers this evening that it is making changes to its iTunes Affiliate Program.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Facebook announces playable ads are now available globally in its News Feed, letting users try a game before they install it — Playable ads debuted four years ago as a new way to entice gamers to play mobile games. The ads were interactive, allowing people to try a game out before they downloaded it.
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Mashable, Facebook, Engadget, Marketing Land, Adweek, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNET, and Cult of Mac
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Arm buys US-based data analytics company Treasure Data to strengthen its IoT offerings; no price given, but an earlier report said Arm might pay $600M — Arm, the semiconductor firm you probably still remember as ARM, today announced that it has acquired Treasure Data, a data management platform for large enterprise customers.
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Arm, The Register, and ZDNet
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Naked Labs, maker of a $1,395 3D Fitness Tracker that uses a mirror and scale to scan a user's body in 3D to track changes over time, raises $14M Series A — When it comes to measuring your fitness progress, there's only so much your weight scale can tell you, actually there's only one thing it can convey.
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The Outline, The Next Web, Racked, Mashable, Business Insider, VentureBeat, and PE Hub Blog
| Richard Gao / Android Police: |
Acer says its latest business-focused Chromebooks, which both have 13.5-inch displays, will be available in September for $649+ — New Chromebooks will be available in September in robust configurations starting at $649.99; Ideal for professional environments, the Chromebooks are fast, secure, simple and easy to manage
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Engadget, The Verge, Thurrott.com, and 9to5Google
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Square announces Square Reader SDK that lets vendors accept payment in their own apps by integrating with Square Reader hardware — Square is opening up its payment processing tools to developers for the first time now thanks to its new Square Reader SDK. Square's new software development …
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Marketing Land and TechCrunch
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