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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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| New York Times: |
Russian Gang Said to Amass More Than a Billion Stolen Internet Credentials — A Russian crime ring has amassed the largest known collection of stolen Internet credentials, including 1.2 billion username and password combinations and more than 500 million email addresses, security researchers say.
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| CNBC: |
Apple touts record App Store revenue, record number of customers making 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 … | 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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| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Groupon disappoints on weak Q2 revenue of $751.6M, investors quickly send it packing — NOTE: GrowthBeat — VentureBeat's provocative new marketing-tech event — is going on now! We've gathered the best and brightest to explore the data, apps, and science of successful marketing.
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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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| 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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| Linette Lopez / Business Insider: |
Fox Withdraws Proposal To Buy Time Warner — And Time Warner Shares Are Crashing — Fox has withdrawn its plans to purchase Time Warner, according to an announcement the company made Tuesday. — Time Warner shares are down 11% post-market on the news. — Reports of an original proposal …
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See also Mediagazer| 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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| 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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| 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 …
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