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Interview with Sony Mobile CEO Hiroki Totoki: we will never ever sell or exit from the current mobile business — Billion dollar turnaround: Sony Mobile CEO — The phrase ‘thrown in at the deep end’ might have been invented for Hiroki Totoki. — The CEO and president of Sony Mobile … | Leo Kelion / BBC: |
BBC reveals final design of the Micro Bit, a pocket-sized computer to be given to 1M UK-based children in October — BBC Micro Bit computer's final design revealed — The BBC has revealed the final design of the Micro Bit, a pocket-sized computer set to be given to about one million UK-based children in October.
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Bill Veghte, HP's former head of Enterprise Group and COO, named CEO of SurveyMonkey — HP's Veghte Named CEO of SurveyMonkey — Friends since college, the late Silicon Valley exec David Goldberg was a mentor and adviser to former Hewlett-Packard exec Bill Veghte throughout his career.
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Samsung's Q2 disappoints with 7th straight profit decline; revenues fall 8.4% as wrong sales forecast leads to glut of unsold Galaxy S6 and shortages of S6 Edge — Samsung Sees Seventh Straight Profit Decline — The world's largest smartphone maker by shipments said operating profit likely fell about 4%| Tinder Blog: |
Tinder introduces Verified Profiles for notable public figures, says 26M matches made daily — Introducing Verified Profiles — Tinder: it's how people meet. Each day, 26 million matches are made on Tinder, and we do our best to keep those matches real — that's why we're rolling out Verified Profiles.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
All Apple Stores to reduce third-party accessories selection to items sold in packaging co-designed by Apple, starting next week — All Apple Stores revamping third-party accessory selection with Apple designed boxes — Apple-designed packaging for the Mophie Juice Pack and Logitech iPad Keyboard
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Showtime now available on Apple TV w/o a cable subscription, iOS app soon — @ChanceHMiller July 7, 201542 minutes ago — CBS's channel Showtime is now available on Apple TV. The company this morning began rolled out its version of the service that does not require a cable subscription.
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| Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review: |
Study suggests Google's ad-targeting system discriminates based on gender and other personal traits — Probing the Dark Side of Google's Ad-Targeting System — Researchers say Google's ad-targeting system sometimes makes troubling decisions based on data about gender and other personal characteristics.| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
13 top cryptographers issue report opposing US, British proposals for circumventing encryption, say plans would put the world's digital communications at risk — Code Specialists Oppose U.S. and British Government Access to Encrypted Communication — SAN FRANCISCO — An elite group …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Samsung announces 2TB consumer-oriented SSDs; 2TB 850 Evo for $800, and 850 Pro for $1,000 — Samsung brings 2TB solid-state drives to your home PC — You no longer have to bend over backwards to get more than a terabyte of fast, flash-based storage in your home computer.
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| Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: |
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