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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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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, TechCrunch, Tech Times, NPR, Ars Technica, POPSUGAR, CNBC, Search Engine Journal, Ubergizmo, The Daily Dot, Cult of Mac, WebProNews, App Advice, VentureBeat, Engadget, SlashGear, SocialTimes 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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| 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 … | 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Mark Hachman / PCWorld: |
AMD's new 28nm Carrizo chips for mainstream notebooks use half the power of last-gen chips and improve performance 1.5x — AMD's Carrizo chip targets the one thing every laptop user wants: Longer battery life — Think of Intel's Core chips as the giant's massive broadsword … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sony Mobile cuts 1K jobs, nearly half of staff, in its Sweden R&D and manufacturing center — Confirmed: Sony Mobile Cuts 1,000 Workers In Sweden As Handset Maker Restructures — The shakeout among less successful mobile handset makers continues apace.
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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, Wired, New York Times, TechCrunch, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Guardian, The Verge, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Ars Technica and PCWorld. Tweets: @drudge_report_
| 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 …
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| 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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| 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| Adam Gross / Facebook Developers: |
Facebook to remove support for SHA-1 certificate signatures Oct. 1, will require SHA-2 — Moving to a More Secure Standard: Please Update your Apps To Support Certificates Signed with SHA-2 — As part of our commitments to helping developers build secure apps and protecting the people who use Facebook …
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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” … | 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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| 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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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Sprinklr acquires text analytics software provider NewBrand, its seventh purchase in 18 months — Sprinklr Acquires NewBrand, The $1 Billion Social Startup's Seventh Buy In 18 Months — Sprinklr founder Ragy Thomas believes that patience at large companies for fragmented social media partners is running out.| 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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