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Court documents show US threatened Yahoo with $250K/day fine in 2008 if it refused to participate in NSA's PRISM program — U.S. threatened massive fine to force Yahoo to release data — The U.S. government threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day in 2008 if it failed to comply …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
iPhone 6 Pre-Orders to Kick off Tonight at 12:01 AM Pacific — Following Tuesday's announcement of both the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus, Apple announced plans to begin taking pre-orders for the devices on Friday, September 12. — Verizon, Sprint, and AT&T will all begin accepting pre-orders …
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AppleInsider, The Techolic, TUAW, SlashGear, Phones Review, BGR and 9to5Mac
| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's second wave of iPhone 6 sales starts Sept. 26 for long list of countries — When Apple announced its new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus models earlier this week, it only provided preorder and shipping info for a handful of initially launch countries. The company has now confirmed …
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| Ben Woods / The Next Web: |
Chromebooks can now run some Android apps for the first time, including Evernote and Vine — We knew that Google planned to add support for running Android apps on Chromebooks since the company announced it back at Google I/O in June, but today we've had confirmation that the first Android apps … | Roger Cheng / CNET: |
HTC's smartwatch is alive and kicking, and due in early 2015 — CNET has learned that HTC still plans to enter the burgeoning wearables business despite speculation its watch was scratched. — LAS VEGAS — HTC still wants in on the wearables game, even after Apple made its big move.| Max Eulenstein / Facebook: |
Facebook will now show better News Feed ads using data users report on why they hid ads — News Feed FYI: Listening to People's Feedback to Show Better Ads — Every day, there are millions of ads that are eligible to be shown in News Feed from more than 1.5 million active advertisers on Facebook … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Leaked Windows 9 screens reveal virtual desktops, windowed “modern” apps, search button on taskbar, and more — Leaked Windows 9 screenshots reveal the future of the desktop — Leaked Windows 9 screenshots have surfaced previously, but this time we're getting a closer look … | Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
HP acquires cloud startup Eucalyptus, for under $100M according to sources; CEO Marten Mickos will lead HP's cloud unit — HP Tests the M&A Waters With Acquisition of Cloud Startup Eucalyptus — Hewlett-Packard took another step back into the mergers and acquisitions market …
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| David Lieberman / Deadline: |
Verizon CEO Says Its Internet TV Service Will Be Up By Mid-2015 And Will Include “Custom Channels” — CEO Lowell McAdam offered a few more details this morning about Verizon's plan to offer a TV-like service over the Internet, a market that Sony and Dish Network also hope to lead.
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| Clayton Jones / Official Google for Work Blog: |
Google announces iOS Sync for Google Apps users for increased security on iPhones and iPads — Increasing security and productivity for iOS devices — Marvel and DC Comics, Star Wars and Star Trek, Emacs and VI—we all have our favorites. And then there's iOS and Android, each with dedicated fans.
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| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
Analyst who predicted sapphire displays for new iPhones reports displays missed the phones “by weeks” due to manufacturing issues — Analyst who cried sapphire takes another swing, despite whiffing on iPhone 6 predictions — A financial analyst focused almost exclusively … | Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Dropbox received hundreds of data requests from law enforcement, only told 91 users about them — Above: Dropbox cofounder and CEO Drew Houston. — Dropbox announced its first six-month transparency report today, revealing 268 law enforcement requests “for user information” …
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Uber's Revenue Is 12 Times The Size of Lyft's, New Study Says — The bitter battle between Uber and Lyft isn't exactly a close fight. — According to new research that draws on credit and debit card transactions by 3.8 million Americans, Uber's revenue was about 12 times that of its rival between May 2013 and May 2014.| Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal: |
Google acquires polling service Polar for Google+, will shut down service at end of the year — Google's Deal for Polar Shows it Has Not Given Up On Google+ — Google's social network Google+ has failed to catch Facebook, but the Web giant has not given up on the business entirely.
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| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
eBay is preparing to launch an advertising network for its mobile apps — EBay Prepping New Mobile Ad Network — EBay is set to launch an advertising network for its mobile app, opening up a new avenue for marketers to reach the app's roughly 4.6 million daily visitors.| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
Brad Garlinghouse Out as CEO of Hightail — Brad Garlinghouse, the former Yahoo executive tapped two years ago to transform the company formerly known as YouSendit into the file-sharing company Hightail, has left the company. — Garlinghouse confirmed the move to Re/code.| Kia Kokalitcheva / VentureBeat: |
Not to be outdone by rival Stripe, Braintree announces Apple Pay support — Yesterday was a huge — huge! — day for Apple, as it unveiled new and bigger phones, its first smartwatch, and a new wireless, NFC-based payments system: Apple Pay. — Apple announced a long list of financial …
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Blogtree, Re/code, Bank Innovation and ReadWrite
| Loek Essers / PC World: |
Libraries may digitize books without permission, EU top court rules — European libraries may digitize books and make them available at electronic reading points without first gaining consent of the copyright holder, the highest European Union court ruled Thursday.
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| Toby Wolpe / ZDNet: |
Jenkins is now sole focus for CloudBees as it drops PaaS and teams up with Pivotal — Summary: There'll be a 100 percent bump in the engineering resources CloudBees puts into the Jenkins tool now the firm has turned away from platform as a service. There will also be more partnerships like the one it's just signed with Pivotal.
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Yahoo News Digest arrives on iPad with weekly segments from Katie Couric — Yahoo's global new anchor will deliver short explainers every Sunday — Yahoo News Digest, which offers a twice-daily summary of current events delivered to your mobile device via push notification …
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| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
EMC Has No Plans to Sell VMware Stake — Shares of data storage and IT giant EMC rose by as much as one percent today after a report in the New York Post said the company was exploring the sale of its majority stake in cloud software firm VMware. — The trouble with the report is that it's not true.| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Review: In its second generation, the Moto X becomes a true flagship — The new Moto X is a worthy successor to the original. — At the end of last year's Moto X review, we concluded that it wasn't a perfect phone. Still, we wanted to see where Motorola would be in a year, and …
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ZDNet, The Verge, Engadget, Know Your Mobile, Ubergizmo and Business Insider
| Joseph Keller / iMore: |
Castro developer Supertop buys Unread RSS reader — Supertop, the developers behind podcast app Castro, have announced that they have acquired RSS reader Unread from Jared Sinclair. As Sinclair wrote earlier this year, being the independent, one-man development team has been difficult and unprofitable.
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