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Dick Costolo plans to step down from Twitter board by end of year or when new CEO is appointed — Dick Costolo Reportedly Plans to Step Down From Twitter's Board — Dick Costolo, the former chief executive of Twitter, plans to leave the company's board of directors by the end of the year … | Bloomberg Business: |
Square IPO bankers make preparations in case Jack Dorsey leaves to be full-time Twitter CEO — Dorsey's Dilemma: Running Twitter Seen Complicating Square IPO — Jack Dorsey, co-founder and interim CEO of Twitter Inc. and founder and chief executive officer of Square Inc. Photographer: Scott Eisen/Bloomberg
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Sources: Apple to hold an event on September 9 to unveil new iPhones, iPads, and Apple TV — Apple's Fall iPhone Event To Be Held Sept. 9 — Oh, one more thing: Apple TV. — BuzzFeed/ Warner Bros. — Apple hasn't yet officially announced its annual fall media event …
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Researchers gain complete control of electric skateboards by hijacking unencrypted Bluetooth communications between the board and the remote — Hackers Can Seize Control of Electric Skateboards and Toss Riders — Richard “Richo” Healey was riding his electric skateboard toward an intersection …
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Hackers may have accessed personal details of 2.4M Carphone Warehouse customers, along with 90K encrypted credit card records — Carphone Warehouse in customer data breach — Personal details of up to 2.4m Carphone Warehouse customers may have been accessed in a cyber-attack, the mobile phone retailer says.
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Silicon Valley investors have poured over $1B into freight-forwarding startups since 2014 in hopes of bringing the $160B/year industry online — Freight Startups Attract Silicon Valley's Attention — Investors are funding dozens of startups with plans to take the low-tech business … | Sean Portnoy / ZDNet: |
Intel bringing Xeon to laptops with E3-1500M v5 Skylake processor family — For the first time, the chip giant will be creating its enterprise CPUs in notebook friendly form factors for mobile workstations shipping this fall. — Intel's Xeon processors have powered servers and other enterprise PCs …
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In honor of its 20th anniversary, Yahoo reclaims iconic San Francisco billboard — Yahoo has reclaimed something that had been lost for the past few years. The company has installed a billboard along a stretch of Interstate 80 in San Francisco. While that may not seem like news … | Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Paribus connects to your email, monitors receipts and negotiates refunds when prices drop — Paribus launches an app to fight back against hidden price discrimination — E-commerce has created a world of incredible, even disturbing convenience. The average American living in a major city … | Dino Grandoni / New York Times: |
States compete for burgeoning self-driving car business by loosening regulations, building research centers and testing facilities — Among the States, Self-Driving Cars Have Ignited a Gold Rush — Whether it is fuel savings, safer commutes or freed-up time behind the wheel, drivers have many reasons to embrace self-driving cars.
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Ubuntu powered BQ Aquarius phones now available for order globally, do not support 4G in US — Ubuntu powered BQ Aquaris available in US — BQ just announced on their Google Plus page that their Aquaris Ubuntu Edition phones will be available ‘wherever you live’, this makes …
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Sidecar, trailing behind Uber and Lyft, becomes mainly a delivery service for other businesses — Sidecar Puts Passengers Aside, Pivots To A Mostly-Deliveries Company — The U.S. ride-hailing market may have room for two players, but apparently not for three.
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