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Samsung Said to Introduce Wristwatch-Like Smartphone Next Month — Samsung will introduce a wristwatch-like device named the Galaxy Gear next month that can make phone calls, surf the Web and handle e-mails, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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SamMobile, eWeek, Telegraph, GigaOM, WebProNews, TechnoBuffalo, BGR, Digits, ReadWrite, Businessweek, PC Magazine, TechSpot, PhoneArena, Slashdot, InvestorPlace, SlashGear, TechHive, The Verge, Gotta Be Mobile, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Engadget, MobileSyrup.com, Sammy Hub, dailywireless.org, Mashable and iClarified. Tweets: @bloombergnews
| David Talbot / MIT Technology Review: |
Remotely Assembled Malware Blows Past Apple's Screening Process — Research unmasks a weakness of Apple's App Store: new apps apparently are run for only a few seconds before approval. — WHY IT MATTERS — More than 600 million devices with Apple's iOS have been sold.
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iMore, AppleInsider, CNET, MacRumors, The Next Web, The Mac Security Blog, The Mac Observer and BGR. Tweets: @packetknife
| Matt McGee / Marketing Land: |
EdgeRank Is Dead: Facebook's News Feed Algorithm Now Has Close To 100K Weight Factors — The next time you tell a client how Facebook selects and ranks the content that shows up in the News Feed, you'll need to do it without using the word EdgeRank. — EdgeRank, Facebook's original News Feed ranking system, is dead.
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Build-a-Phone Workshop: my first encounter with Moto Maker and a customized Moto X — Turns out 18 is a lot of choices. — As one of the first people allowed into Motorola's Moto Maker program, I had a chance to design the phone I always wanted, to order a phone made by Motorola but designed by me.
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The Verge, Macgasm, 9to5Google, TechHive, CNET, Yahoo! News, Engadget, SlashGear, VentureBeat, LAPTOP Magazine, ReadWrite, Gizmodo, Gotta Be Mobile and GigaOM. Tweets: @tomwarren
| Mark Hosenball / Reuters: |
Snowden downloaded NSA secrets while working for Dell, sources say — (Reuters) - Former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden began downloading documents describing the U.S. government's electronic spying programs while he was working for Dell Inc in April 2012, almost a year earlier …
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Gizmodo, The Verge, Daily Dot, Ars Technica, ZDNet and Hillicon Valley. Tweets: @charlie_simpson
| Andrew Allemann / Domain Name Wire: |
ICANN officially kills Google's plan for dotless Search top level domain name — Board resolution quashes dotless domains again, at least for now. — ICANN's New gTLD Program Committee has passed a resolution confirming a prohibition on so-called dotless domain names …
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ICANN, CNET, The Verge, Web Host Industry Review, Marketing Land, ZDNet, TheDomains.com, DomainIncite and CircleID
| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Carl Icahn Denied in Bid to Upend Dell Buyout Vote — Carl Icahn, the activist investor, can't seem to get a break from the Delaware Chancery Court. — A judge in that court turned away Icahn's petition asking it to intervene and stop a buyout vote scheduled for Sept. 12.
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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Yahoo Names Maynard Webb Permanent Board Chairman — “Maynard Webb's leadership and guidance have been an invaluable part of our board since he joined it in 2012,” a Yahoo spokesperson said in a statement. “We are honored that Maynard will continue to serve as Chairman of the Board.”| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
AOL Starts Patch Cuts, and Up to 500 People May Lose Their Jobs — AOL has begun making mass layoffs at its Patch unit. — By the time the cuts are over, AOL could end up reducing the local news network's 1,000-worker labor force by half, according to people familiar with the plans.
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TechCrunch, Poynter, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Valleywag, BuzzFeed, TechnoBuffalo, JIMROMENESKO.COM, GigaOM, Business Insider and GeekWire
Tweets: @edmundlee and @kurtfliegelpro
See also Mediagazer| Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg: |
Apple iPhone Antitrust Complaint Dismissed by U.S. Judge — Apple (AAPL) Inc. won dismissal on procedural grounds of a lawsuit claiming the company maintains a monopoly over iPhone applications. — U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California, ruled today that the plaintiffs …
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AppleInsider, Macworld, TechnoBuffalo, AllThingsD, Macgasm, InvestorPlace, Digits, TUAW, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, iLounge, MacNN and MacRumors
| Greg Bensinger / Digits: |
China's Alibaba Invests In ShopRunner, Amazon.com Rival — Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. recently agreed to what could be a major investment in website ShopRunner Inc., a U.S.-based competitor to Amazon.com Inc. in offering two-day shipping, according to people familiar with the deal.
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The Next Web and Reuters
| Hugo Miller / Bloomberg: |
BlackBerry CEO to Make $55.6 Million If He Sells Company — BlackBerry Ltd. (BB) Chief Executive Officer Thorsten Heins stands to make $55.6 million if he sells the company and is ousted. — That's the amount he's entitled to receive if BlackBerry has a change of control and Heins is pushed …
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Business Insider, BGR, Tech Trader Daily, CrackBerry.com, AllThingsD, MobileSyrup.com and ValueWalk. Thanks:@sarahfrier
| Jim Finkle / Reuters: |
Virus targets the social network in new fraud twist — (Reuters) - In the world of cyber fraud, a fake fan on Instagram can be worth five times more than a stolen credit card number. — As social media has become increasingly influential in shaping reputations, hackers have used …
Tweets: @josephmenn
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