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iOS 9 to support Force Touch with haptic feedback for iPhone 6S, feature new keyboard, Apple Pay for Canada, iMessage read receipts on contact-by-contact basis — iOS 9 supports ‘iPhone 6S’ Force Touch, may enhance iMessage, Keyboard & Apple Pay — Some of iOS 9's more important planned …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 9 Maps Transit navigation to include San Francisco, New York City, Toronto, London, Paris, and Berlin, in addition to China, at launch — iOS 9 Transit Maps to launch in a handful of cities in North America, Europe & China — While Apple plans to debut its own mass transit directions service …
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Microsoft's bringing Cortana to iPhone and Android, announces Phone Companion app for Windows 10, which helps automatically sync your smartphone with your PC — Your Windows 10 PC will love all the devices you own — Whether it's a 3-year-old printer or projecting to your brand new TV with Miracast …
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| Sydney Ember / New York Times: |
Vox Media acquires ReCode in all-stock deal, Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher to stay at ReCode after merger — Vox Media Acquiring ReCode — ReCode, the news website led by the veteran journalists Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, is being acquired by Vox Media, a deal that reflects … | Stephen Ohlemacher / Associated Press: |
IRS says hackers gained access to tax returns, other info of more than 100K taxpayers by targeting “Get Transcript” service and using SSNs, birth dates, more — APNewsBreak: IRS says thieves stole tax info from 100,000 — WASHINGTON (AP) — Thieves used an online service provided …
| Edmund Lee / Re/code: |
AOL was approached by three bidders other than Verizon, considered selling Huffington Post, TechCrunch; CEO Armstrong gets bonus of about $59M for making deal — AOL Was Approached by Three Other Bidders After Verizon — AOL was approached by three other companies for a possible acquisition …
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Android Auto review: maps, speech recognition, Google Now are great, but limited availability on Android and Hyundai Sonata is frustrating — Android Auto Review: The Smartphone Finally Finds Its Rightful Home in the Car — A future without slow, unintuitive in-dash navigation systems is on the horizon| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Twitter brings live-streaming app Periscope to Android — Periscope, the promising live-streaming app owned by Twitter, arrives on Android today. Like its cousin on iOS, which debuted two months ago to the day, Periscope for Android lets you watch and record broadcasts from your mobile device.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook adds critics' reviews to select restaurant pages in a pilot with seven publications including Bon Appetit, Conde Nast Traveler, and Eater — Facebook begins adding critics' reviews to restaurant pages — Two weeks after starting to host news articles on its servers …
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| Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter: |
Charter to acquire Time Warner Cable for $55B in cash and stock, including debt, valuing TWC at $78.7B, also buys Bright House for $10.4B — It's Official: Charter to Acquire Time Warner Cable in Deal Valued at $78.7 Billion — Charter Communications, in which John Malone's Liberty Media owns … | Barb Darrow / Fortune: |
EMC expands cloud push with $1.2 billion buy of Virtustream — Joe Tucci is at it again. The longtime EMC chief executive and chairman has made another purchase, buying Virtustream, an enterprise-oriented cloud computing company, for $1.2 billion in cash.| Ben Lang / Road to VR: |
Oculus Acquires Computer Vision Company Surreal Vision for 3D Scene Reconstruction — Oculus today announced that they've acquired Surreal Vision, a computer vision company that's using technology to interpret the real world in a way that can be visualized and interacted with within virtual reality.
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