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Apple Music nightmare: adding music doesn't work as expected, lost access to 4,700 songs after turning off the service — Apple Music is a nightmare and I'm done with it — I love Apple. I love them because they take difficult problems and come up with innovative, simple solutions.
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Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Sales up 20% to $23.18 Billion — SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2015. — Operating cash flow increased 69% to $8.98 billion for the trailing twelve months …
| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg Business: |
Amazon beats estimates with Q2 revenue of $23.2B, up 20% YoY, and net income of $92M; shares surge as much as 16% after hours — Amazon Posts Surprise Profit; Shares Soar … Amazon.com Inc.'s second-quarter sales topped analysts' estimates, buoyed by its fast-growing cloud computing business … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google Offers To Give Away Patents To Startups In Its Push Against Patent Trolls — Back in April, Google launched a pop-up, temporary marketplace for companies to sell patents, with Google being the sole buyer. Today, the search and mobile giant is expanding that marketplace in the other direction …
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Google Brings Its 360-Degree Movies App, Spotlight Stories, To iOS — Google Spotlight Stories, a mobile app featuring immersive, 360 degree animated films originally developed by Motorola ahead of its 2011 Google acquisition, has now made its way to iOS devices.
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| Julia Boorstin / CNBC: |
Meerkat to launch feature on iOS that lets GoPro3 and, soon, GoPro4 owners stream from camera — Meerkat launches GoPro integration — Streaming video app Meerkat will now allow some GoPro owners to stream directly from their cameras—the first time Meerkat has extended the ability to broadcast beyond a mobile device.
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple launches 2015 back-to-school promotion, offers free Beats Solo2 headphones with purchase of an eligible Mac — Apple Launches 2015 Back to School Promotion, Offers Free Beats Solo2 Headphones With Mac Purchase — Apple today launched its annual Back to School promotion …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
IBM Acquires Database-As-A-Service Startup Compose — IBM today announced that it has acquired Compose, the Y Combinator-backed database-as-a-service startup originally known as MongoHQ. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. — Compose had raised $6.4 million since …
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| Aaron Tilley / Forbes: |
Apple's strict Bluetooth LE encryption requirements result in long lag times, slowing the rollout of some HomeKit devices — What's Behind The Hold Up For Apple's HomeKit? — It's been more than a year since Apple announced HomeKit, its system for connecting smart home devices through iOS.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google's Nearline Cold Data Storage Service Hits General Availability, Adds On-Demand I/O — Earlier this year, Google announced its new low-cost Nearline cold storage service and today, the company is taking it out of beta and making it generally available.| KPMG and CB Insights: |
Global VC report says mega-rounds of $100M+ are on the rise with 61 in Q2 2015 raising $16B — Venture Pulse Q2'15 Global Analysis of Venture Funding — KPMG and CB Insights: VC-backed Companies Haul in US$32 Billion Globally in Q2 2015 Due to Mega Financing and Rise of Non-Traditional Investors.
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| Kellex / Droid Life: |
Leaked Moto X images suggest the device will come with front-facing flash and a fingerprint sensor built into the front speaker — Is This Our First Look at the Front of the Moto X (3rd Gen)? (Updated: More Pics!) — Next Tuesday, Motorola is going to show off new products to us at an event in New York.| Martin Beck / Marketing Land: |
Twitter adds new advertiser tools to make it easier to target ads based on events — Twitter's Event Targeting Helps Marketers Zero In On Live Audiences — New ad tool will take the guesswork out of targeting people following live events on Twitter. — Twitter, long the leading social network …
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