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June 2, 2015, 11:10 PM

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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.
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.
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 …
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.
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” …
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.
Josh Lowensohn / The Verge:
SoundHound's new Hound voice search app handles complex queries faster than Siri, Cortana, and Google Voice Search  —  SoundHound's new voice search app makes Siri and Cortana look slow  —  Nearly a decade ago, SoundHound founder Keyvan Mohajer took an idea to a group of investors.
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.”
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / ZDNet:
Intel updates fifth-gen Core chips with Iris Pro graphics  —  Intel has revamped its fifth-generation Core lineup of silicon for desktops and mobile, adding an Iris Pro 6200 graphics chip to the CPUs.  —  Intel has revamped its fifth-generation Core lineup of silicon for desktops and mobile …
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.
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 …
Natt Garun / The Next Web:
GameFly debuts a new video game streaming service exclusively on the Amazon Fire TV  —  The days of Blockbuster DVD-by-mail rental service may be far behind us, but GameFly is still trucking on with its game rental service.  To keep up with the times, GameFly today launched a video game streaming service …
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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