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Amazon offers free shipping to all customers on small goods without requiring a minimum order — Amazon Debuts Free Shipping on Small Goods Without Minimum Order — Not just for Prime members — Amazon.com Inc. is introducing free shipping on thousands of popular, smaller items …
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Engadget, Fortune, Mashable, USA Today, Consumerist, Tech Times, BGR, TechSpot, GeekWire and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @ldrogen
| Chao Wang / Pinterest: |
Pinterest to launch Buyable Pins in US to let you buy pinned products without leaving the app — Coming soon: Buyable Pins! — We're always looking for ways to help you go out and do the creative ideas you Pin—whether that's figuring out the ingredients for a new dish or installing an app to mix up your workouts.
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ReadWrite, USA Today, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Cult of Mac, Tech Times, NPR, The Geek Byte, POPSUGAR, VentureBeat, WebProNews, CNBC, Search Engine Journal, Ubergizmo, Engadget, Marketing Land, SocialTimes, SlashGear, The Daily Dot, App Advice and iMore. Thanks:@malliegator
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Pinterest doesn't plan on taking a cut of retailers transactions with Buyable Pins, will instead make money promoting the pins — Pinterest Brings E-Commerce to Social Scrapbooking With ‘Buy It’ Button — Pinterest, the online social scrapbooking service, has long claimed to help people discover new things in the real world.
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Pinterest for Business, The Verge, TechCrunch, Re/code, Search Engine Watch, ZDNet, BuzzFeed, 9to5Mac and CNET
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Magic Leap announces augmented reality SDK that supports Unity and Unreal game engines, no release date given but company says “soon” — Magic Leap Announces Its Augmented Reality Developer Platform — Magic Leap wants game makers, filmmakers, and other creators …
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MIT Technology Review, VentureBeat, PCWorld, Mashable, Business Insider and Engadget. Tweets: @magicleap. Thanks:@joshconstine
| Eran Megiddo / The Official Microsoft Blog: |
Microsoft confirms it has bought 6Wunderkinder, maker of the Wunderlist to-do list app — Welcome 6Wunderkinder! Microsoft acquires Wunderlist — What's better than completing that last important task on your to-do list? Doing so with a beautiful and useful productivity app.
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Wunderlist, TechnoBuffalo, ITworld.com, Business Insider, Computerworld, SuperSite for Windows, AppleInsider, SocialTimes, eWeek, FierceMobileIT News, Wall Street Journal, PhoneDog.com, MacStories, Office Blogs, Thurrott.com, WinBeta, GeekWire, MobileSyrup.com, Tech.eu, BetaNews, Neowin, iPhone in Canada Blog, Windows Central, PC Magazine, VentureBeat and TechCrunch
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| Paul Thurrott / Thurrott.com: |
Skype Wi-Fi rebranding as Microsoft Wi-Fi, with 10M hotspots worldwide, available to individuals on a pay-as-you-go basis and to Office 365 Enterprise customers — Microsoft to Rebrand Skype Wi-Fi as Microsoft Wi-Fi, Expand to Office 365 — Microsoft hasn't announced this yet …
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| National Journal: |
Senate passes the USA Freedom Act to restore and revise some Patriot Act spying provisions, ending bulk collection of US call metadata — Senate Passes Major NSA Reform Bill — The USA Freedom Act, which will restore but reform the expired Patriot Act's spy authorities …
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Wired, New York Times, TechCrunch, Electronic Frontier Foundation, The Verge, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Ars Technica, Guardian and PCWorld. Tweets: @drudge_report_
| Hannah Jane Parkinson / Guardian: |
Google is developing a tool called Im2Calories to identify food in pictures and determine its calorie count — Google wants to count the calories in your Instagram food porn — Artificial intelligence technology Im2Calories aims to identify pictures of food posted to Instagram, and tell users the calorie count of their meals
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| TechCrunch: |
Instagram Beefs Up Ads With App Install And Buy Buttons, Interest Targeting, API — Instagram is ready to make some serious money. After a year and half of format experiments and basic targeting, Instagram is giving advertisers much more powerful tools. Those include “Shop Now” …
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Instagram for Business, Re/code, New York Times, Marketing Land, Forbes, TIME, Business Insider, SlashGear, internetretailer.com, Ubergizmo, PC Magazine, SocialTimes, Consumerist and Engadget. Tweets: @joshconstine
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
First HomeKit-Compatible Products Launching Today, Led by Lutron, iHome and Elgato — Ahead of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, several of the company's HomeKit partners are today announcing the availability of the first HomeKit-compatible products.
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The Verge, ZDNet, TechCrunch, Re/code, Forbes, 9to5Mac, Business Wire, 9to5Mac, ReadWrite, PCWorld, iMore, MacNN, Tech Times, Business Insider, TWICE, Apple World Today, The Mac Observer, MacStories, Cult of Mac, MacDailyNews, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone Hacks, EH Network, Digital Trends, The Next Web, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, MobileSyrup.com, bizjournals, Smart WiFi Thermostats and Engadget
| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft bringing SSH to Windows and PowerShell — Will contribute to OpenSSH to make it run well on Windows. — SSH, or secure shell, is the mainstay of remote access and administration in the Linux world, and the lack of any straightforward equivalent has always been an awkward feature of the Windows world.
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| Takashi Mochizuki / Wall Street Journal: |
Nintendo denies Nikkei report that its next-generation console code-named NX will run Android — Nintendo Nixes Android Rumors — Nintendo Co. shot down a report that said it was planning on using the Android operating system to run its top secret next-generation console, which has been codenamed “NX.”| Christine Magee / TechCrunch: |
Udemy raises $65M Series D led by Stripes Group to more quickly grow Udemy for Business — Udemy Raises Another $65 Million To Help Anyone Learn Anything — Udemy, the online education marketplace that wants to help anyone learn anything, has pulled in $65 million in new venture funding.
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Tim Cook talks data encryption and criticizes competitors' stances on customer privacy at Washington event — Apple's Tim Cook Delivers Blistering Speech On Encryption, Privacy — Yesterday evening, Apple CEO Tim Cook was honored for ‘corporate leadership’ during EPIC's Champions of Freedom event in Washington.
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The Verge, CNET, AppleInsider, MacRumors, iMore, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, The Mac Observer and Patently Apple
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Imgur introduces promoted posts, releases fully native Android app, updated iOS app with upload feature coming soon — Imgur Introduces Native Ads On The Web And Overhauls Its Android App — There's lots of news from Imgur, one of the internet's most popular places for funny images and GIFs, today.
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The Next Web, The Verge, Phandroid, Fast Company, AndroidHeadlines.com, 9to5Google, 9to5Mac, PhoneArena, Virtual-Strategy Magazine and PCWorld. Thanks:@_yuriekwon
| Elizabeth Weise / USA Today: |
Comcast says hardware in its backbone network caused outage on West Coast on Monday, will send $5 refunds to customers — Comcast to send $5 refunds for West coast outage — SAN FRANCISCO - Comcast plans to send proactive $5 refunds to customers on the West coast who dealt … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google plans expansion of Baseline Study for later this year with Study Kit apps that enable collection of health data on iOS, Android, and Chrome — Google Tests ‘Study Kit’ Apps To Collect Health Data Before Wider Launch Of Baseline Study This Year — In July 2014, Google announced Baseline Study …
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| Lisa Rein / Washington Post: |
IRS failed to address computer security weaknesses, making attack on 104,000 taxpayers more likely, watchdog says — A government watchdog told lawmakers Tuesday that the Internal Revenue Service has failed to put in place dozens of security upgrades to fight cyberattacks …
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New York Times, CBS News, NASDAQ.com, Dallas Morning News and Washington Times
| Robin Sidel / Wall Street Journal: |
Biggest MasterCard issuers reject $19M settlement with Target over hacked credit-card data — Biggest MasterCard Issuers Scuttled Deal on Target Data Breach — Citigroup, Capital One and J.P. Morgan Chase vetoed MasterCard's deal with Target over hacked credit-card data
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Fortune and SC Magazine
| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
AT&T is prepared to abide by the new net neutrality rules under the DirecTV deal — Randall Stephenson, chief executive of AT&T Inc., speaks during a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing in Washington last summer. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg) — In a few weeks, federal regulators are likely …
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