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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Hackers remotely gain partial control of a Jeep Cherokee on the highway using vulnerability found in thousands of Chrysler cars, SUVs, and trucks — Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It — I was driving 70 mph on the edge of downtown St. Louis when the exploit began to take hold.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
| Apple: |
Apple Reports Record Third Quarter Results — iPhone, Apple Watch, Mac & App Store Drive Revenue Growth of 33% — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2015 third quarter ended June 27, 2015. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $49.6 billion and quarterly net profit …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Early Apple Watch sales beat the original iPhone and iPad, likely earning over $1B in revenue — Early Apple Watch sales beat the original iPhone and iPad, but no firm numbers yet — Nobody expected Apple to tell us how many Apple Watches it sold last quarter.
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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple Q3 revenue up 33% YoY to $49.6B, iPhone revenue up 59%, iPad units sold drops 18%, Mac units sold up 9%, stock down 7% after hours — Apple Earnings Boosted by iPhone Sales — ‘Gap is widening between us and our competitors,’ CEO Tim Cook says — Apple Inc. said its quarterly … | Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / ZDNet: |
| Microsoft: |
Earnings Release FY15 Q4: Microsoft Cloud and Hardware Results Drives Fourth Quarter Performance — Microsoft Cloud and Hardware Results Drives Fourth Quarter Performance Commercial cloud annualized revenue run rate now exceeds $8 billion; Computing and Gaming Hardware, including Xbox and Surface … | Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft posts $22.2B revenue, $2.1B operating loss in wake of huge Nokia writedown; stock slips 3% — Microsoft's FQ4 Beats Expectations, Investors Send Stock Lower On Phone Losses — Following the bell, Microsoft reported its fiscal fourth quarter financial performance … | Thomas Gryta / Wall Street Journal: |
FCC Poised to Approve AT&T's $49 Billion Acquisition of DirecTV — FCC Approval Would Clear Path for AT&T to Close Deal — Federal regulators are poised to approve AT&T Inc. 's $49 billion acquisition of DirecTV, according to people familiar with the matter, ending a review process …
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Jet launches, comparing its prices against Amazon's on 90% of product pages, the remaining 10% will be updated with the feature over the coming months — Jet.com Will Launch With Amazon Prices Front and Center — Jet, the new shopping site that launches on Tuesday, promises shoppers “the lowest prices on everything.”| Karissa Bell / Mashable: |
Twitter just removed your homepage wallpaper, and people are furious — If Twitter.com is looking a little different right now, it's not just you. — The company has removed wallpapers from users' home and notifications timelines on Twitter.com Monday, Twitter confirmed Monday.
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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Nokia Plans to Debut Virtual Reality Product Next Week — Nokia is set to unveil its first major virtual reality project next week at a VIP event in Los Angeles, according to sources familiar with the company's plans. — The effort, which Re/code reported in April, represents …
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| Stephen Hall / 9to5Google: |
Google Glass ‘Enterprise Edition’ is foldable, water resistant, more rugged for the workplace — As we've come to learn more about the next iteration of Google Glass, it's clear that this device isn't the “Google Glass 2.0″ that many diehard fans of the product — however many there are — have been longing for.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft Surface chief Panos Panay to take over engineering for all premium devices, including Surface, Windows Phone, Xbox, and HoloLens — Further consolidation coming across Microsoft devices, services — Microsoft Surface chief Panos Panay is taking over engineering for all of Microsoft's premium devices.
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| William Boston / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: Audi, BMW, and Daimler have agreed to buy Nokia's HERE mapping service for more than $2.71B — German Car Makers Audi, BMW and Daimler to Buy Nokia Here — Nokia has been negotiating exclusively with the auto firms; final signing could happen ‘in the next few days’
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
The open web can't flourish if vendors don't work towards closing the rendering performance gap between desktop and mobile web browsers — The mobile web sucks — I hate browsing the web on my phone. — I do it all the time, of course — we all do. Just looking at the stats for The Verge … | Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Ashley Madison had a serious data management problem and the data breach is entirely its fault — Ashley Madison's data breach is everyone's problem — Late last night, the 37 million users of the adultery-themed dating site Ashley Madison got some very bad news.
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| Giuseppe Macri / InsideSources: |
Group of big Silicon Valley firms, including Facebook, Google, Dell, HP, and eBay, filed amicus brief siding with Samsung in Apple patent case — Silicon Valley's Biggest Companies Take Samsung's Side in Apple Patent Fight — A group of Silicon Valley's biggest companies including Facebook …
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| Bloomberg Business: |
FBI and Israel arrest four tied to JPMorgan hack, unveiling a complex securities fraud scheme — FBI, Israel Securities Fraud Arrests Tied to JPMorgan Hack … Law enforcement authorities arrested four people in Israel and Florida and revealed a complex securities fraud scheme tied …
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| Owen Williams / The Next Web: |
Google kills Streamus, a third party Chrome extension with 300K users that queued YouTube songs to play in background — How YouTube killed an extension with 300,000 users — Streamus, the Chrome extension that turns YouTube into a serious music service, has been neutered by Google …
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| AnandTech: |
Apple Watch review: best wearable ever, but hard to recommend this first generation version — The Apple Watch Review — Prior to the launch of the Apple Watch, there had been rumors that Apple would make a watch for quite some time. In a broader sense, the wearables industry has become …
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| Paul Thurrott / Thurrott.com: |
AT&T Will Be First Carrier to Offer Surface 3 with 4G LTE in the US — AT&T Wireless announced today that it will be the first wireless carrier in the United States to offer Microsoft's Surface 3 tablet with 4G LTE capabilities. The device goes on sale Friday, July 24. — Pricing is ... complicated.| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo Q2 beats estimates with revenue of $1.04B, misses on earnings with $0.16 EPS — Yahoo's Q2 Manages A Slim Revenue Beat, But Its Per-Share Profit Of $0.16 Disappoints — Today, Yahoo reported its second-quarter financial performance, including $1.04 billion in revenue after discounting …
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See also Mediagazer| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Square Launches Dashboard App For iOS So Businesses Can Track Sales In Real-Time — Over the past few years, Square has evolved from being “that payment company with the recognizable dongle”, to an indispensable part of the technology stack for quite a few businesses.
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| Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
Profile of Omid Kordestani, Google's chief business officer, who has the absolute trust of Larry Page — ‘The Soul of Google’: What the Return of Omid Kordestani Says About the Mountain View Monolith — It is no exaggeration to say that Omid Kordestani may be the most likable person in Silicon Valley.Sponsor Posts
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