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Microsoft launches short-form email app Send for iPhone that works like instant messaging, coming later to Android and Windows Phone — Introducing Send—designed for in-and-out email — Sometimes you just need to send a quick, short note to your co-worker.
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| Gerard Sanz / Google Lat Long: |
Google Maps adds Your Timeline view, showing where you've been on any given day — Your Timeline: Revisiting the world that you've explored — Have you ever wanted a way to easily remember all the places you've been — whether it's a museum you visited during your last vacation or that fun bar you stumbled upon a few months ago?
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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Beta testers can no longer post app reviews in prerelease iOS versions — It appears that Apple is disallowing iOS 9 beta users to submit app reviews — positive or negative — with the latest build released on Tuesday, a feature that was becoming an increasingly irritating thorn in the side …
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Macworld, Ars Technica, International Business Times, 9to5Mac, The Verge, iDownloadBlog.com, TouchArcade, O'Grady's PowerPage, MacRumors, Business Insider, ARC, Inquirer, TechCrunch and iPhone Hacks. Tweets: @orbuch. Thanks:@mikeycampbell81
| Jena McGregor / Washington Post: |
Ex-Google engineer stirs debate about sharing salary details in Silicon Valley after revealing she made an internal salary spreadsheet, to management's dismay — In Silicon Valley, many want sharing salary info to be less taboo — Talking openly about salaries is still viewed as taboo …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Early Apple Watch sales beat the original iPhone and iPad, likely earning over $1B in revenue; June was the best month of sales for the Watch so far — 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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| Brett Howse / AnandTech: |
Microsoft's Edge browser performs as well as competitors in most tests, sees big improvements in WebGL performance — Examining Microsoft Edge Browser Performance — In what seems like forever ago, Microsoft's Project Spartan was announced at the January 21st event in Redmond.
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Google Acquires Mobile App Prototyping Tool Pixate — Google has acquired mobile app prototyping tool Pixate today, both companies have confirmed. Pixate had raised $3.8M from Accel Partners in 2013. It had popped out of the Y-Combinator oven previously (YC S12).
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Pixate, The Register, SlashGear, Fone Arena, Bloomberg Business, Android Police, ProgrammableWeb.com, VatorNews, Droid Life, 9to5Google, ITworld.com, NASDAQ.com, The Next Web and VentureBeat. Thanks:@lucas_matney
| Yimou Lee / Reuters: |
Huawei says it shipped 48.2M smartphones in the first half of 2015, a 39% increase YoY — Huawei says smartphone shipments jumped 39 percent in first half — HONG KONG — China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL], the world's fourth-biggest smartphone manufacturer … | Nate Swanner / The Next Web: |
New York Times will offer free articles on the Starbucks app starting next year — Starting next year, the Starbucks app will have reading material from The New York Times. — The feature will be made available to My Starbucks Rewards members, and may even reward them for reading NYT articles in-app.| Katie Collins / Wired.co.uk: |
Jimmy Wales launches charitable social network TPO.com — Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and mobile network The People's Operator are launching a new charitable social network called TPO.com. — The ad-free social network is primarily designed to make it simple for people to donate to charity.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Home Services, an on-demand handyman service, expands to a total of 15 metro regions and adds a custom-jobs option — Amazon Expands Its On-Demand Home Services Marketplace, Adds Support For Custom Service Requests — Amazon Home Services, Amazon's own Angie's List competitor of sorts … | Daniel Wiessner / Reuters: |
Appeals court: Facebook cannot challenge search warrants New York prosecutors used to gather info on 381 users suspected of Social Security fraud — Facebook must hand over New York users' info to prosecutors, court rules — Facebook Inc cannot challenge search warrants New York prosecutors used …
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| Jacqueline Beauchere / Microsoft on the Issues: |
Microsoft makes it easier for revenge porn victims to report images and videos for removal from Bing, OneDrive, and Xbox Live — ‘Revenge porn:’ Putting victims back in control — When someone shares intimate images of another person online without that person's consent, the effects can be truly devastating.
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Flipboard Has Filed To Raise Another $50M — Flipboard's 75% jump in the last 6 months has it clocking in at over 70 million monthly active users. And it looks like that is not the only recent bump for the startup: It appears to have quietly raised another $50 million in funding.
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