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Sources: new Apple TV hardware will not be announced at WWDC — Apple to Unveil Tool Kit for Watch App Developers — SAN FRANCISCO — When Apple began selling the Apple Watch in April, Phillip Ryu did not rush to create an app for the gadget. Because the device has limited animation …
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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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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg Business: |
Twitter an “instant fit” for Google to buy, says Chris Sacca on CNBC, ahead of the company's shareholder meeting — Google Buying Twitter an ‘Instant Fit,’ Investor Sacca Says — Longtime Twitter Inc. investor Chris Sacca said it would be a good fit with Google Inc. in a merger scenario … | Ryan Knutson / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Dish in early stage merger talks with T-Mobile US; combined company likely to have Charlie Ergen as chairman, John Legere as CEO — Dish Network in Merger Talks With T-Mobile US — Dish, T-Mobile Have Agreed Charlie Ergen Would Be Chairman, John Legere CEO
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| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
How Facebook quadrupled its video traffic in one year to 4B video streams per day, and is reshaping advertising — How Facebook's video-traffic explosion is shaking up the advertising world — Cenk Uygur can pinpoint the day he realized that Facebook FB video was going to rewrite his business model.
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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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Twitter revokes API access for Sunlight Foundation's Politwhoops site, which showed politicians' deleted tweets, cites violation of developer agreement — Twitter Just Killed Politwoops — A Twitter spokesperson just provided the following statement to Gawker regarding the apparent suspension …
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| Micah Singleton / The Verge: |
Tidal introduces new Mac and Windows apps, 50% student discount, ticket feature, and improved search and social features as Apple readies new competing service — Jay Z's music service has new apps, concert tickets, and a lot to prove — Jay Z called me.| Mark Harris / Guardian: |
NASA and Verizon team up in $500K project to develop technology to monitor civilian and commercial drone use via cell tower, tests expected to begin in summer — Nasa and Verizon plan to monitor US drone network from phone towers — Exclusive: Federal agency is developing technology … | Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Spotify's sorting of tunes by moods and activities instead of rigid genres expands discovery but produces one-hit wonders — Spotify Sees a Future Where Music Genres Don't Really Matter — In the last few weeks, my two children, ages 4 and 2, have suddenly become obsessed with Simon and Garfunkel.| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Synaptics announces SmartBar, a technology that adds capacitive touch to the spacebar — Synaptics adds capacitive touch to your spacebar, because why not? — “SmartBar” tech and fingerprint readers for PC mice shown off at Computex. — Synaptics thinks your spacebar is “underutilized … | Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Sources: DST Global Led Mobile Shopping App Wish's $500M Round — DST Global, Yuri Milner's late stage VC fund, took the lead on the purported $500 million financing round invested in Wish, the mobile shopping app, according to people familiar with the matter.Thanks:@atechmemefan
| 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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| Kevin McCoy / USA Today: |
IRS: Cyberthieves stole up to $39M — Cyberthieves responsible for a large IRS data breach stole as much as $39 million in fraudulent tax refunds after gaining access to taxpayer information, the head of the nation's tax agency told Congress Tuesday. — IRS Commissioner John Koskinen provided …
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| 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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| 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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| Patrick McGreevy / Los Angeles Times: |
California Senate OKs requiring warrants to search smartphones, tablets — The state Senate on Wednesday approved a bill that would require law enforcement in California to obtain a search warrant or wiretap order before searching a person's smartphone, laptop or other electronic device …
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SiliconANGLE, RT, ACLU of Northern California and Senator Mark Leno
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Fantastical calendar app lands on the Apple Watch with full Reminders support — When Apple Watch and Watch OS 1.0 shipped in April, the definite omission of an Apple Reminders app on the platform was particularly surprising to me. The Apple Watch User Guide even highlights the app's absence:
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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 … | 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.Sponsor Posts
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