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iPhone 6 Plus sells out within hours, Apple reports “record number” of pre-orders for new iPhones, AT&T says demand is higher than past two years — Larger iPhone 6 Plus Sells Out, “Record Number” of iPhone Pre-orders — Yep, lots of people tried to order new iPhones as pre-sales began just after midnight on Friday.
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| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Apple Pay charged a lower transaction rate by banks than typical for credit card transactions, won't be accepted by Walmart and Best Buy — Banks Did It Apple's Way in Payments by Mobile — JPMorgan Chase's chief financial officer, Marianne Lake, took the stage at a financial conference …
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| Michael Carney / PandoDaily: |
Merchants equipped for Apple Pay likely to surge in US as Oct 2015 deadline for EMV support spurs point of sale system upgrades — The hidden brilliance behind the timing of Apple's adoption of NFC — There's a brilliance to the timing of Apple's adoption of near field communication (NFC) technology.| Johana Bhuiyan / BuzzFeed: |
About 1000 New York Uber drivers plan to strike on Monday over fares and working conditions — Uber Drivers “Strike” — And Switch To Lyft — Over Fares And Conditions — Testing the labor market. “Uber is not doing anything — it's only an application on our phones.” — Facebook: uberdriversnetwork| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Offers Early-Stage Startups $100,000 In Cloud Platform Credits For 1 Year — If you are an early stage startup, Google wants to give you $100,000 in Cloud Platform credits for one year so you can host your applications on its servers (and not on AWS or Azure).| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows 9's new Start menu demonstrated on video — Microsoft may have demonstrated its new Start menu earlier this year, but thanks to a recent “Windows 9” leak we're now seeing every single part of the company's plans for bringing back this popular feature.| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
AT&T plans to offer Wi-Fi calling in 2015 — AT&T's Ralph de la Vega also said he expects customer turnover to remain low in the third quarter. — AT&T will embrace Wi-Fi calling in 2015. — That's according to Ralph De la Vega, CEO of the company's mobility and enterprise business.
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Y Combinator requests applications from startups in certain areas including energy, A.I., robotics, biotech, and healthcare — New Requests for Startups — INTRODUCTION There are a lot of startup ideas we've been waiting for people to apply with, sometimes for years.
| Craig Timberg / Washington Post: |
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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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Square raises $100 million at $6 billion valuation — Payments company Square has raised $100 million in new funding at a valuation of nearly $6 billion, according to a Delaware filing obtained by VCExperts.com and shared with Fortune. — The San Francisco-based company issued 6.4 million … | Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook is trying to lure YouTube's biggest content creators, discussing advertising — Facebook Tries to Muscle In on YouTube — Social Network Makes a Pitch to Lure Content Creators, Discusses How Ads Might Be Used — In what may be another signal that Facebook Inc. wants to take on YouTube … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Google changes stance, now says net neutrality rules should apply to cellular networks — Google changes stance on net neutrality four years after Verizon deal — Four years ago, Google teamed up with Verizon to argue that most network neutrality rules should not apply to cellular networks.| New York Times: |
Alibaba to Close Order Books Early and May Lift Price of I.P.O. — Demand for shares in the Alibaba Group, the Chinese e-commerce giant, was long expected to be strong. But the orders have come in so quickly that the company's banks expect to close their order books early.
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| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
California Regulator Says Commercial Carpooling — Like What Uber and Lyft Are Doing — Isn't Legal — The California Public Utilities Commission is apparently not a fan of the new trend in mobile-enabled ride-sharing: helping two or more people with similar origins and destinations share a car across town.| Xiomara Blanco / CNET: |
Dell Venue 8 7000 tablet: 8.4", 2,560x1,600-pixel OLED display, 3D camera, slim yet sturdy — Dell Venue 8 7000 packs 3D camera, slim and sturdy design — 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 — Smartphones slowly but surely usurped digital cameras as the popular way to take photos …
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says new iOS 8 SMS Continuity feature won't arrive until October — Apple's website detailing Continuity features arriving with iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite in the coming weeks has been updated to announce SMS support won't arrive until October. — The feature, which allows users to send …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe Donates $31M To Build VR Lab At His Alma Mater University Of Maryland — Brendan Iribe dropped out of University Of Maryland his freshman year to launch a startup before going on to form Oculus. But now inspired by Mark Zuckerberg's philanthropy and made rich … | Associated Press: |
HP fined $59M for bribing Russian officials as part of $108M plea deal for bribes in Mexico, Poland, and Russia — HP fined $58.7M for bribery of Russian government — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hewlett-Packard Co. pleaded guilty Thursday to felony charges that former employees bribed Russian …
| Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
Google is promoting Chromebooks to US students with a traveling Lending Library — Google is making moves to promote Chromebooks in colleges later this year, as it announces a new Chromebook Lending Library initiative. — However, the library won't be available internationally, or even nationally.| Meg P. Bernhard / Harvard News: |
Harvard's Introduction to Computer Science course attracts 818 students, up from 700 last year, the most in 30 years — CS50 Logs Record-Breaking Enrollment Numbers — Nearly 12 percent of Harvard College is enrolled in a single course, according to data released by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Registrar's Office on Wednesday.
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| Joseph Ax / Reuters: |
Mexican companies sue Yahoo, law firm, allege conspiracy to avoid $2.7 billion judgment — (Reuters) - Two Mexican companies have sued Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) and law firm Baker & McKenzie in New York federal court, accusing them of engineering a conspiracy to avoid a $2.7 billion judgment issued by a Mexican court in 2012.
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