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Apple in talks with Mount Sinai, the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins, and Allscripts about its HealthKit service — Exclusive: Apple prepares Healthkit rollout amid tangled regulatory web — (Reuters) - Apple Inc has been discussing how its “HealthKit” service will work with health providers … | Bloomberg: |
Apple suppliers begin production of new iPads, 9.7-inch to feature anti-reflective coating — Apple's Suppliers Said to Begin Production of New IPad Tablets — Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s suppliers have started manufacturing new iPads, according to people with knowledge of the matter …
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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Apple's Diversity Report: 70 percent Male, 55 percent White in U.S. — Apple is the latest company to release a report on the diversity of its workforce, saying Tuesday that its numbers represent a work in progress to the diversity it hopes to achieve over time. — Currently 7 in 10 of its workers globally are male.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo Acquires ‘Pandora For Places’ App Zofari — Another acquisition for Yahoo, this one focused on improving the company's local search capabilities: it has bought Zofari, a local recommendation app that uses machine learning, natural language processing and third-party data from sources … | Zachary M. Seward / Quartz: |
Twitter admits that as many as 23 million of its active users are actually bots — Twitter raised eyebrows last month when it suggested that many of its active users aren't actually human. Now we know how many. — In a new filing, the company said that “up to approximately 8.5%” …
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iOS drops to 67% enterprise share in Q2 2014, Android grows to 32%, and Windows Phone stays flat at 1% — Apple's iOS still rules the enterprise space, even after having fallen 5 percentage points to 67 percent of total device activations in Q2 2014. Android device activations increased …
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Lyft says 177 Uber employees have ordered and cancelled 5,560 Lyft rides since last October — Uber's dirty tricks quantified: Rival counts 5,560 canceled rides — Uber is using a pattern of aggressive and questionable tactics in its effort to control the car-on-demand market, according to rivals.
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Ex-Siri engineers promise consumer-friendly digital assistant “Viv” that can teach itself — Forget Siri: This Radical New AI Teaches Itself and Reads Your Mind — Viv was named after the Latin root meaning live. Its San Jose, California, offices are decorated with tsotchkes bearing …
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| Austin Carr / Fast Company: |
Square killed prototype credit card due to legal hurdles and fear it would alienate partners — Why Jack Dorsey Killed The Square Credit Card — Square, the payments startup from Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey, has prototyped a Square credit card. The plastic card is all black … | Austin Carr / Fast Company: |
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Xbox One to offer TV streaming on SmartGlass, video playback via USB and DLNA network streaming — Just before its Gamescom presentation kicked off, Microsoft announced some hefty updates for its Xbox One video game console affecting some of the core apps, SmartGlass and live TV.| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
OnePlus asks women to participate in degrading contest to get a smartphone — The startup OnePlus recently launched its first smartphone, the One, and to deal with production issues it's been letting people buy them by invitation-only, slowly offering them to more people as more are produced.
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| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
Activision to break with past, release Skylanders for consoles, tablets — For the first time, the game giant will launch a top-tier console title on a tablet at the same time it's coming out for the PlayStation, Xbox, and Wii. Skylanders toys will, of course, join the fray.| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Twitter launches Promoted Video ads in beta, only charging advertisers when a user hits play — Twitter today introduced Promoted Video ads in beta. The company is offering advertisers a new Cost Per View (CPV) ad buying model which means they only get charged when a user starts playing the video in question.
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| Dave Smith / Business Insider: |
Meet Marques Brownlee, the 20-year-old tech reviewer with over 1.5M subscribers on YouTube — Meet ‘The Best Technology Reviewer On The Planet,’ Who Is Only 20 Years Old — Marques Brownlee is just 20 years old, but there's arguably no one better on the internet when it comes to explaining new technologies to the average consumer.| Ben Casselman / FiveThirtyEight: |
Corporate America hasn't been disrupted: startup rate continues decline as failure rate grows — Corporate America Hasn't Been Disrupted — Talk to anyone in Silicon Valley these days, and it's hard to go more than two minutes without hearing about “disruption.” Uber is disrupting the taxi business.| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Yo now lets you send links, “Yo” hashtags and set up IFTTT-style alerts with other services — Yo, a simple messaging app that sends nothing but the word “Yo,” just got a little more complicated. — In its first major update, the iOS app now gives you the option to show a photo and your full name.
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Exclusive: 5-inch Moto G2 to ship on Sept 10 for €250 — The successor of Motorola Moto G, rumored as Moto G2 and Moto G+1, should be available for purchase on September 10. The information comes from a retailer, which got the info straight from a Motorola rep.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Gartner: Chromebook sales will grow 79% to 5.2 million units in 2014, but ‘will remain a niche market’ — Chromebooks are expected to reach 5.2 million units in 2014, a 79 percent increase from 2013, according to Gartner. While the growth is certainly notable, the overall figures aren't impressive just yet.
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| Kaylene Hong / The Next Web: |
The war Uber faces: how it's battling GrabTaxi and Easy Taxi in Southeast Asia — Whoever could have predicted that private car-for-hire and taxi-booking apps would one day be one of the hottest things in the tech scene? In Southeast Asia, a fierce battle is unfolding between three players … | Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Bitcoin Slips As US Consumer Finance Agency Warns Of Cryptocurrency Risks — Remember bitcoin? Today the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a lengthy set of risks that the cryptocurrency poses to early adopters. The list is somewhat decent in its content … | Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
RelayRides Adds $10 Million From Trinity And Looks To Expand Peer-To-Peer Airport Rentals — When we last checked in with peer-to-peer car rental startup RelayRides about six weeks ago, it had raised $25 million in Series B funding led by Canaan Partners. Well, it wasn't quite finished raising money … Sponsor Posts
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