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Marco della Cava / USA Today:
Apple Music has 11M trial subscribers with 2M on family plan; App Store has record month in July with $1.7B in transactions  —  Apple Music hooks 11 million trial members, App Store has record July  —  One month after unveiling its new streaming music service, Apple has locked in 11 million trial members …
Bloomberg Business:
Why Google's antitrust deal with the EU fell apart  —  Google's $6 Billion Miscalculation on the EU  —  Why the search leader's antitrust deal fell apart August 6, 2015 by Brad StoneVernon Silver Share on FacebookShare on Twitter Source: Google As the global elite gathered at the World Economic Forum …
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Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:
Hackers can remotely steal fingerprints from Android phones built by Samsung, HTC, and Huawei; affected vendors have provided patches  —  Hackers can remotely steal fingerprints from Android phones  —  Researchers outline how hackers can attack your smartphone to steal your fingerprint on a “large scale” — without anybody noticing.
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Android fragmentation report finds 24,093 distinct devices from 1,294 different manufacturers  —  Android Fragmentation Visualized  —  Fragmentation is both a strength and weakness of the Android ecosystem, a headache for developers that also provides the basis for Android's global reach.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Outlook email app for Apple Watch makes it easier to see full emails and reply on the watch  —  Microsoft's Outlook email app arrives on the Apple Watch  —  Microsoft has been a strong supporter of the Apple Watch, and that's continuing today with the release of Outlook for Apple Watch.
Jason Del Rey / Re/code:
Twitter Will Offer ‘Buy’ Buttons to as Many as 100,000 Merchants With New Shopify Deal  —  Twitter has been deliberate in its rollout of Buy buttons.  But it's about to make a bigger splash.  —  The social network is in the process of integrating with Shopify and other e-commerce software companies …
Official Android Blog:
Google announces it will provide monthly OTA security updates to Nexus devices, starting today with Stagefright fixes  —  An Update to Nexus Devices  —  Security has always been a major focus for Android and Google Play: Android was built from day one with security in mind.
Russell Brandom / The Verge:
How the Stagefright bug changed Android security
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
Indian Health Search Portal Practo Lands $90M Led By Tencent For Global Expansion  —  Chinese Internet giant Tencent is getting its tentacles into India's healthcare space after it led a $90 million Series C round for medical search startup Practo.  The startup raised $30 million in February …
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google Slides Now Lets You Present From Your Android Device To Hangouts Video Calls  —  Earlier this year, Google Slides — the company's PowerPoint competitor — gained the ability to cast presentations to any screen with Chromecast or AirPlay.  Today it's expanding this feature by also letting …

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New York Times:
Sources detail NPR's struggles with declining audiences, falling sponsorship revenue, internal conflicts over turning things around, and a diversity push

Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
The FTC bans noncompete clauses that restrict job switching, potentially complicating hiring in Hollywood as firms try to protect trade secrets and other info

Tom Jones / Poynter:
How the Columbia Daily Spectator, the independent student newspaper of Columbia University, is covering the tense protests over the Israel-Hamas war

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