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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
CVS and Rite Aid reportedly disabling NFC in stores to shut down Apple Pay and Google Wallet, as they prepare to roll out MCX's rival payment system — CVS Stores Reportedly Disabling NFC to Shut Down Apple Pay and Google Wallet — Earlier this week, pharmacy chain Rite Aid shut …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
A look at CurrentC, the clunky and creepy mobile payments app that Walmart, CVS, and other big retailers hope will help them sidestep credit card fees — CurrentC Is The Big Retailers' Clunky Attempt To Kill Apple Pay And Credit Card Fees — Long before Apple Pay, big brick …
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
CVS and Rite Aid blocking Apple Pay is a defensive move to buttress a cumbersome and ultimately doomed rival payment system — Retailers Are Disabling NFC to Block Apple Pay — Eric Slivka, reporting for MacRumors: … These retailers are part of a group (Merchant Customer Exchange …
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| Noah Everett / Twitpic Blog: |
Twitpic agrees to give Twitter the Twitpic.com domain and photo archive, site to remain in read-only mode — Twitpic's Future — First off I want to say thank you to everyone who has used Twitpic over the years and for your patience with us over the last couple of months.
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How Uber helps black riders bypass the difficult and often humiliating act of hailing a taxi — Ubering While Black — The comedian Hannibal Buress has a bit in his act about trying to hail a cab in New York as a black man. He walks up to the taxi and tries to open the door …
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| Jeff Sommer / New York Times: |
iPhone sales estimated to add a quarter to a third of a percent to annualized US GDP growth — When iPhones Ring, the Economy Listens — Gloomy economic news and the wild swings of the stock market may be getting you down. But at least you can count on this: We've entered the sweet spot of the iPhone cycle.| Adrian Chen / Wired: |
“It's like PTSD”: inside the army of outsourced moderators cleaning gore, porn, and hate speech from the Internet — The Laborers Who Keep Dick Pics and Beheadings Out of Your Facebook Feed — The campuses of — the tech industry are famous for their lavish cafeterias, cushy shuttles, and on-site laundry services.
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| Michelle Quinn / Mercury News: |
Sean Parker building an app aiding beachgoers as part of his settlment with Coastal Commission — Sean Parker s novel restitution - a statewide beach access mobile app — Sean Parker is working on a California public access mobile app as part of his settlement last year with the state Coastal Commission over his wedding at Big Sur.
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| Kristen V. Brown / San Francisco Chronicle: |
App startup founder seeking coverage sends journalist a swag basket including a vibrator, K-Y Jelly, and liquor — Tech companies haven't gotten past sexism 1.0 — A vibrator is seen on Friday, Oct. 17, 2014 in San Francisco, Calif. — Tech startups often ply journalists with swag …
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| Victor Fiorillo / Philadelphia Magazine: |
Philadelphia Parking Authority makes good on threat, impounds five UberX vehicles — PPA Impounds UberX Vehicles in Undercover Sting Operation — On Saturday, we told you that Uber had announced the arrival of UberX — the cheaper version of Uber — in Philadelphia proper …
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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Wall Street Journal: |
Study shows e-commerce sites vary prices depending on device type, OS, other factors — Are Online Vendors Giving You Their Best Price? Maybe Not, Research Says — A new study found that e-commerce sites vary online pricing depending on whether customers use mobile or desktop devices, iOS or Android, and other factors.
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| Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review: |
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