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Apple Watch to be sold at Best Buy stores and online starting August 7 — Apple Watch to Be Sold at Best Buy — One month after Apple Inc. started selling Apple Watch at its own stores, the company said it will bring the device to Best Buy stores in August.
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Samsung unveils the first monitor that can wirelessly charge your phone — Ladies and gentlemen, we finally have a monitor that isn't just about more screen, more pixels, and more visuals. Samsung today unveiled the SE370, and claims it's the first monitor with an integrated wireless charging function for mobile devices.| Josephine Wolff / The Atlantic: |
How the Secret Service Internet Threat Desk deals with online threats to President Obama — How the Secret Service Protects Obama on the Internet — When President Obama launched his Twitter account in May, people noticed his rapid accumulation of followers, a silly back-and-forth with President Clinton … | Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Researches create a faster Tor alternative for anonymous Internet use called HORNET — Researchers claim they've developed a better, faster Tor — HORNET, a high-speed onion routing network, could be deployed on routers as part of the Internet. — Tor, the world's largest and most well-known …
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Homejoy couldn't retain customers enticed by promotional prices for its home cleaning service — What Really Killed Homejoy? It Couldn't Hold Onto Its Customers — A cleaning company charges north of $85 for a 2.5-hour house cleaning, but to rope in as many new customers as possible … | Jamie Rigg / Engadget: |
Ubuntu Phone review: years in the making, but still not consumer-ready — The smartphone arena is dominated by two operating systems. Gartner's latest figures show that during the first three months of 2015, iOS and Android devices accounted for almost 97 percent of global smartphone sales.| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
DraftKings Raises $300 Million, Promises to Spend Much of It With Fox Sports — Attention sports fans: Prepare to see a lot more DraftKings advertising over the next few years. — DraftKings, one of the top daily fantasy sports companies, has raised $300 million in new funding led by 21st Century Fox's Fox Sports unit.| Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal: |
YouTube offers money and help to top creators to ward off online video rivals like Facebook — YouTube Creates Stars. Can It Keep Them? — At VidCon, Google battles with Facebook and startups to woo ‘MyCupcakeAddiction’ and other popular online video creators — YouTube created a new kind of celebrity.| Re/code: |
Q&A with Baidu CEO Robin Li on moving away from desktop search to focus on online-to-offline commerce on mobile, investment in Uber, and more — China's Baidu, With Uber in Tow, Takes Search to the Offline World (Q&A) — In many ways, Baidu went through the same existential crisis three years ago that Google faces now.| Alexandra Wexler / Wall Street Journal: |
Vodafone and MTN strike interconnectivity deal for mobile money remittances between their networks in East and Central Africa — Africa Makes Leap in Cross-Border Mobile Payments — New partnerships aimed at getting a bigger slice of the $48 billion Africans sent and received last year| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Uber, Airbnb And The Conflict Between Policy's Ratchet Effect And Tech's Accelerating Speed — One day before New York's city council was about to vote on capping Uber's growth, the company and Mayor Bill de Blasio reached a last-minute agreement for a four-month study on the company's impact on city congestion.| Kyle VanHemert / Wired: |
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