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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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Tweets: @stevesi, @jonrussell, @amir, @rajupp and @cdixon
| Chris Sacca / LOWERCASE capital: |
Chris Sacca offers 8,500 words of criticism and advice for Twitter, says he's not an activist investor — What Twitter Can Be. — Disclaimers: 1) This is a very long read. Thinking about a company and using its product obsessively for nine years straight will do that to you. 2) My funds and I own a lot of Twitter stock.
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| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Yahoo to livestream web's first NFL game on Oct. 25, pays reported $20M for free broadcast — Yahoo Will Stream the NFL's First Web Game, for Free — A couple of months ago, when the NFL announced that for the first time ever, it would show a regular season game (almost) …
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New York Times, The Verge, Yahoo, The Daily Dot, Engadget, GeekWire, Mercury News and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @amir, @besvinick, @nichcarlson and @danshanoff
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HomeKit documented officially by Apple, as Apple TV confirmed as gateway device — A new Apple support document for HomeKit has now officially confirmed our earlier report that the Apple TV would serve as a hub for HomeKit devices. The document confirms an Apple TV is needed … | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Showtime to launch streaming service offering full back catalog and livestreams for $10.99 a month on July 12, first available on iPhones, iPads, Apple TV, web — Showtime undercuts HBO with $10.99 stand-alone streaming service — Showtime is launching an internet TV service …
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| Quentin Hardy / New York Times: |
Meg Whitman confirms HP split for Nov. 1; HP Enterprise gets new logo but future vision remains vague — Whitman Paints a Vague Picture of Hewlett Packard Enterprise — LAS VEGAS — Meg Whitman, chairwoman and chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, explained her dream Tuesday for Hewlett Packard Enterprise …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Skype crashes after specific 8-char string is received in chat, updates released with fix — These 8 characters crash Skype, and once they're in your chat history, the app can't start (Update: fixed) — Skype users have discovered a rather nasty bug in the app.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Tests “Saved Replies,” A Tool That Lets Pages Respond To Customers With Canned Messages — Facebook is testing a new feature called “Saved Replies,” which will allow business Page owners the ability to write, save and then re-use canned messages when communicating with their customers over Facebook.| TechCrunch: |
Piston Goes To Cisco, Blue Box to IBM As OpenStack Consolidation Accelerates — Cisco announced this morning it has purchased private cloud — and OpenStack — specialist Piston Cloud Computing. The acquisition comes on the heels of its Metacloud purchase last Fall, and the acquisition marks … | David Kravets / Ars Technica: |
Obama signs USA Freedom Act into law, surveillance measures of Patriot Act now resume — Let the snooping resume: Senate revives Patriot Act surveillance measures — Lawmakers approve a variation of the phone-records spy program Snowden revealed. — The Senate on Tuesday revived three …
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eWeek, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Inquirer, PCWorld and Help Net Security
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Apple Recalls Beats Pill XL Due To “Rare” Fire Safety Risk — Apple has issued a voluntary recall for the Beats Pill XL Bluetooth speaker, which is made by the company it acquired last year. The speaker, originally created pre-acquisition, apparently poses a potential fire safety risk … | Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
Pharmacy Delivery Startup PillPack Locks In $50 Million To Take On Walgreens — Pharmaceutical delivery startup PillPack has raised a $50 million growth round in Series C financing to start building retail pharmacies and take on other retail drugstores like RiteAid and Walgreens.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
YouTube's new Music Insights tool tells artists where their songs are most popular and tracks statistics of user-uploaded content that contains their music — YouTube's New “Music Insights” Tell Artists Where To Tour — As big as billion-user YouTube is, its ad revenue sharing is not where musicians make their money.
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YouTube Creator Blog, VentureBeat, The Next Web and Engadget. Tweets: @joshconstine. See also Mediagazer
| Walt Mossberg / Re/code: |
Google Photos review: best photo backup-and-sync cloud service, but free only applies to images up to 16MP, and videos 1080p or less, more than enough for most — The New Google Photos: Free at Last, and Very Smart — Last Thursday was liberation day for Google Photos …
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Gizmodo, Wall Street Journal, Backchannel and Hongkiat.com
| Cale Guthrie Weissman / Business Insider: |
Sources: nearly all of Medium's sites are undergoing major upheavals; employees quiet on changes due to NDA — Medium, the publishing platform started by one of Twitter's cofounders, is gutting some of its most popular sites — Two weeks ago, publishing platform Medium … | Kia Kokalitcheva / Fortune: |
Opendoor launches service for home buyers, enables them to browse listings, organize a site visit, even make an offer — Is this the future of shopping for a house? — Imagine selling your house almost as soon as you decide to list it, and for a fair price.
Tweets: @ericwu01
| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Groupon CFO Jason Child leaves to take same position at Jawbone — Groupon CFO Jumps to Jawbone in Latest Talent Grab — Jason Child, the CFO of Groupon, will be joining Jawbone in the same job. — The departure from the Chicago-based online discounts company was made this morning …
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GeekWire, Yahoo! Finance, TechCrunch and Fortune
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Amazon offers free shipping on select small goods to all customers 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 … | James Risley / GeekWire: |
Amazon brings Minions ads to delivery boxes, marking its first advertising deal on packaging … Your next Amazon box might double as a billboard. The company has started sending boxes featuring advertisements for the new Minions movie — the first non-Amazon ads to appear on the company's delivery boxes.| Ryan Mac / Forbes: |
Korean E-commerce Leader Coupang To Raise $1 Billion From SoftBank At $5 Billion Valuation — As a Harvard undergraduate student, Bom Kim signed off on most emails with a quote from his entrepreneurial hero, SoftBank leader Masayoshi Son. “All I had was a dream and confidence for which I had no basis … | Allison Schiff / AdExchanger: |
Yahoo brings third-party verification tags from comScore, Moat, DoubleVerify, and others to its ads in order to independently verify viewability rates — Yahoo Says Welcome To Third-Party Fraud And Viewability Tags — Brands need to feel confident that their ads are being seen - and “because we said so” is not an acceptable answer.| Zeljka Zorz / Help Net Security: |
SourceForge hijacks inactive accounts of popular software, adds 3rd party bundle-ware installers — SourceForge hijacks popular accounts to distribute 3rd-party software — Online source code repository SourceForge has apparently started taking over inactive accounts for popular software …
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Nmap Development, ITworld.com and InfoWorld
| Se Young Lee / Reuters: |
Samsung Pay will launch in US, South Korea in “September time frame”, China, Europe afterwards — Samsung Electronics to expand mobile payments service to China, Europe — Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Wednesday that it will expand its Samsung Pay mobile payments service …
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Bloomberg Business, CNET, ZDNet, Ubergizmo and SamMobile
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Google demands movie studios comply with subpoenas in case against Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood — Google demands movie studios comply with subpoenas — Google Inc (GOOGL.O) has asked a federal judge to require three major movie studios to comply with subpoenas it believes … | Michael J. Casey / Wall Street Journal: |
NY Financial Regulator Lawsky Releases Final BitLicense Rules for Bitcoin Firms — Rules to only regulate intermediaries with custody of customer funds, not software developers — Outgoing New York Superintendent of Financial Services Benjamin Lawsky released sweeping new rules …
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