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Apple to hold iPhone event on Sept. 9 — Code/red: Apple to Hold iPhone Event on Sept. 9 — New iPhones to Suck All the Air Out of the Tech News Cycle on Sept. 9 Onstage at our inaugural Code conference earlier this summer, Apple SVP Eddy Cue described the company's fall product pipeline …
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Apple: record-setting app store revenues, number of customers who made transactions in July — Apple says July was record-setting month for app store revenue — Apple's app store saw record-setting revenue numbers in July, the company told CNBC. The Cupertino-based company …
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| Euan Rocha / Reuters: |
BlackBerry completes restructuring process, expects to start recruitment in “modest numbers” — BlackBerry closes chapter on restructuring process : internal memo — (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd has concluded a protracted and painful restructuring process and is back on a growth footing … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Justin.tv shuts down after 7 years amid reports Google is acquiring Twitch — Twitch today announced that the Justin.tv website, mobile apps, and APIs are no longer in service. A very simple explanation is given for the shutdown: since rebranding the company to Twitch Interactive in February 2014 …
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Google under threat as forked Android devices rise to 20% of smartphone shipments — Android dominates the world's smartphone market. A new report from analyst firm Strategy Analytics pegs the Google-owned operating system's global market share at 85 percent.
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| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Google quietly introduces a 64-bit version of its Chrome Canary browser for Mac OS X — After releasing a beta version of its 64-bit Chrome browser for Windows 7 and Windows 8, Google is turning its attention to Mac OS X. As iClarified reports, the company has quietly switched …
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| Roberto Baldwin / The Next Web: |
Navdy puts a smartphone-connected heads-up display in your car — While Apple and Google are making a push into the automobile with CarPlay and Android Auto, they both require use the center dashboard as the main display. Navdy wants you to keep an eye on the road at all times and while doing so, see exactly where you're going.
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| Jeremy Kirk / PC World: |
Researcher says PayPal's two-factor authentication is easily beaten — A security feature offered by PayPal to help prevent accounts from being taken over by hackers can be easily circumvented, an Australian security researcher has found. — PayPal users can elect to receive …
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| Rich Trenholm / CNET: |
LG G3 Stylus leaks in official video, takes on Galaxy Note with big screen and pen — An official video reveals the as-yet-unannounced phablet-sized spin-off from LG's flagship smartphone. — The LG G3 Stylus, on the right, alongside its stablemates the G3 and G3 Beat.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Danny Zappin, Ousted CEO of Maker Studios, Raises $25 Million to Launch Digital Studio — Danny Zappin, who was fired as CEO of Maker Studios and unsuccessfully tried to block a shareholder vote on Disney's acquisition of the mulitchannel network he co-founded, has raised $25 million … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Gmail Now Works With Addresses With Non-Latin Characters — Google has taken a step towards globalizing its Gmail service today, with new support for non-Latin characters and accented characters. Google is adopting an email standard introduced by the Internet Engineering Task Force in 2012 … | Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple files for HealthKit trademarks w/ classifications for watches, fitness sensors, & medical devices — Apple has just filed for Healthkit trademarks in both the US and Europe ahead of iOS 8's launch this fall and in at least one filing includes watches in a list of goods that could take advantage of the health-tracking software.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Satya Nadella's first big hire: Microsoft confirms ex-Qualcomm exec Peggy Johnson as biz dev chief — Microsoft just confirmed that it has hired Peggy Johnson, a 24-year Qualcomm veteran, as the Redmond company's new executive vice president of global business development, reporting to CEO Satya Nadella.
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