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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 …
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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.| 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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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.
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| 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 Shirk / Microsoft Security Response Center: |
Microsoft expands its Bug Bounty schemes with higher rewards, bonuses, and new eligible software — Microsoft Bounty Programs Expansion - Bounty for Defense, Authentication Bonus, and RemoteApp — I am very pleased to be releasing additional expansions of the Microsoft Bounty Programs.
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TechCrunch Apple reporter Darrell Etherington hired by Apple for PR — TechCrunch's lead Apple reporter Darrell Etherington quietly stopped writing for the news site at the end of June, and we've learned that he left to take up a job in Apple's PR office in Toronto, Canada.| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
IBM Adds Medical Images to Watson, Buying Merge Healthcare for $1 Billion — IBM is adding medical images to the health data its Watson artificial-intelligence can mine to help doctors make diagnoses. — The big technology company announced on Thursday morning that it was buying Merge Healthcare … | New York Times: |
Disney, Time Warner, Fox, CBS, Viacom, other media shares down as investors worry about digital rivals like Netflix, Facebook — Disney, Time Warner and Other Media Shares Fall as Investors Worry About TV's Future — If ESPN is in trouble, is the rest of television burnt toast?
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Enjoy Technology, ex-Apple retail boss Ron Johnson's electronics e-commerce company, raises $50M led by Highland Capital — Ron Johnson Raises $50 Million For E-commerce Venture Enjoy — The man who built Apple's brick-and-mortar stores is back at it again.
| Dan Graziano / CNET: |
Garmin's Forerunner 25 fitness tracker includes GPS and smartphone alerts, starts at $170 — Garmin debuts entry-level Forerunner 25 with smartphone alerts — Garmin's latest running watch includes GPS activity tracking, and smartphone notifications without breaking the bank.
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8i is a VR video platform that uses off-the-shelf cameras to stitch together 3D light fields — ‘Come Invent This New Medium’: 8i Wants to Be Vine for Virtual Reality — Will we want to socialize in virtual reality? Maybe. Will we want to watch musicians and comedians performing for our entertainment?| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Tinder's First Non-Dating Feature Is Speed Networking For Forbes' 30 Under 30 — Tinder is tiptoeing into the friendzone, and the work place. After years of saying “We want to overcome all the issues of meeting new people”, not just dating them, today Tinder will announce its first explicitly non-romantic feature.| Carmel DeAmicis / Re/code: |
Meal delivery service Sprig is the latest on-demand service to switch to classifying its workforce as employees rather than contractors — Another One Bites the Bullet: Sprig Switches to Employee Model — The on-demand meal company Sprig has caved to the pressures of the contractor model …
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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 …
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