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Apple asks manufacturers to supply between 70M-80M 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch iPhones by December 30 — Next iPhone Will Offer Bigger Screens — Apple Tells Suppliers to Gear Up for 4.7-inch and 5.5-Inch Screen Sizes — Apple Inc. is preparing for its largest initial production run of iPhones … | Scott Burke / Yahoo: |
Yahoo to Acquire Flurry to Strengthen Mobile Products — Over the past couple of years, Yahoo has been focused on re-imagining our users' daily habits, and mobile is at the center of everything we do. Today, I'm excited to announce the next step in our vision, that we have reached … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Source: Yahoo is paying $200M-$300M for Flurry — Yahoo Buys Mobile Analytics Firm Flurry For North Of $200M — Yahoo has made no secret of its ambitions and advances in mobile, earlier this month reporting 450 million monthly active users and search and display mobile ad revenues growing 100%.
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AddThis tests canvas fingerprinting, a powerful cookie alternative for online tracking, on thousands of sites — Meet the Online Tracking Device That is Virtually Impossible to Block — This story was co-published with Mashable. — A new, extremely persistent type of online tracking …
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$700 Sony Walkman with 128GB of storage for “high-resolution audio” finds niche in Japan — Sony's Walkman Makes Comeback — New $700 Device Is Aimed at Upscale Users — TOKYO—Thirty five years after its debut, Sony Corp.'s Walkman is enjoying a little comeback.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Leaked ‘Windows 9’ screenshots offer a closer look at the new Start Menu — An early look at Microsoft's next version of Windows — Microsoft provided an early look at its new Start Menu for a future version of Windows earlier this year, but freshly leaked screenshots are offering … | Hillary Reinsberg / BuzzFeed: |
One of the most-viewed YouTube channels worldwide is a woman unboxing toys for toddlers — YouTube's Biggest Star Is An Unknown Toy-Reviewing Toddler Whisperer — Is it possible an unknown, one-woman toy-reviewing YouTuber called “Disney Collector” is making more money than most CEOs?| Zach Miners / PC World: |
EFF's snoop-stopping, ad-smashing Privacy Badger plugin hits beta — The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital privacy rights group, has released a downloadable plugin for Chrome and Firefox designed to stop third parties from tracking people's Web browsing.
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iOS 8 beta 4 includes new Tips app with quick feature tutorials (Gallery) — iOS 8 beta 4 brings a new app to the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch called Tips. The application, as the name implies, provides quick tips and tutorials about iOS features. The app will be updated on a regular basis with new ways to use iOS device features.
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| Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
Profile of Brad Smith, Microsoft's general counsel and chief official on public policy matters — Microsoft's Top Lawyer Is the Tech World's Envoy — REDMOND, Wash. — Bradford L. Smith, Microsoft's general counsel, was in Berlin meeting with government officials this spring when a case kept popping up unexpectedly.| Danilo Masoni / Reuters: |
Italy gives Google 18 months to change data use practices — (Reuters) - Italy's data protection regulator has given Google 18 months to change the way it treats and stores user data, bringing to an end an investigation that is part of a European drive to reform the internet giant's privacy practices.
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Netflix ends Q2 with 50 million members, survives price hike without blemishes — Netflix ended the second quarter with a total of 50.05 million subscribers worldwide, up from 37.56 million in Q2 of 2013. The company added 570,000 subscribers in the U.S. last quarter, compared to 630,000 in Q2 of 2013.
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Forensic scientist identifies suspicious ‘back doors’ running on every iOS device — Summary: During his talk at HOPE/X Jonathan Zdziarski details several undocumented services (with names like “lockdownd,” “pcapd,” “mobile.file_relay,” and “house_arrest") that run in the background on over 600 million iOS devices.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's $2 Billion Acquisition Of Oculus Closes, Now Official — Facebook now owns Oculus. The $2 billion acquisition deal of the virtual reality pioneer announced in March has been approved by regulators and today become official. The FCC's anti-trust team greenlighted the deal in April.
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Explaining Continuity: The tech tying iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite together — Continuity changes how your iPhones, iPads, and Macs interact with one another. Let's look at the technology underneath all these features. — Apple — Apple wants you to buy Apple devices.| Timothy Stenovec / The Huffington Post: |
Netflix Is Going To Start Selling Gift Cards In Stores — You may soon be able to get a Netflix subscription at your neighborhood grocery store. — The streaming video service announced in a letter to investors Monday that it's going to start selling physical gift cards in “select stores” …
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Stripe CTO explains how a Bitcoin-based global payments network could improve the existing financial system — Bitcoin: the Stripe perspective — Many people have remarked that Bitcoin resembles the internet in the early 90s: we haven't yet built the Googles that will make it accessible … | Wall Street Journal: |
Verizon Offers Customers Rewards in Return for Ad Targeting Data — New research shows that consumers will set aside nervousness about being tracked if they get something out of it, like coupons or special offers. At least one company, Verizon Wireless, is doing exactly that.
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Facebook Launches Save, A Read-It-Later List For Links, Places, And Media Pages — Two years after acqhiring read-it-later startup Spool, Facebook today launched a basic Pocket competitor called Save. It's a feature for iOS, Android, and web that lets you store links from News Feed …
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