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HTC market valuation falls below its cash on hand; brand, factories, and other assets deemed to have no value by investors — HTC Trading Below Cash Leaves a Smartphone Brand With No Value — An HTC M9 smartphone. Photographer: Pau Barrena/Bloomberg — A 60 percent plunge … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Sources explain how Force Touch on iPhone 6S will be different from Watch or MacBook, and they say it will work with the upcoming 12.9" iPad stylus — Force Touch on iPhone 6S revealed: expect shortcuts, faster actions across iOS — While Force Touch on the Apple Watch allowed Apple …
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MacRumors, ABC News, Computerworld, iPhone Hacks and The Digital Reader
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Purported iPhone 6S case analysis suggests stronger, Bendgate-proof frame [Video] — While rumors out of the supply chain have claimed for a while that the next iPhone hardware will include a more durable build, a new video analyzing a purported iPhone 6S shell shows some expected …
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AppleInsider, TechCrunch, MacRumors, VentureBeat, BGR, Business Insider, The Next Digit, Mashable, iClarified, Ubergizmo, App Advice and Forbes
| Mark Scott / New York Times: |
PageFair study claims ad-blocking, regularly used by 200M people worldwide, will lead to $22B of lost ad revenue this year — Study of Ad-Blocking Software Suggests Wide Use — Guillermo Beltrà spends a lot of time surfing the web. — Yet like many avid Internet users … | Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
OEMs and carriers make Android's security update strategy ineffective at Android's scale; a major attack on unpatched phones seems inevitable — Waiting for Android's inevitable security Armageddon — Editorial: Android's update strategy doesn't scale, and that's recipe for disaster.
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PCWorld
| Hunter Scott: |
How a Twitter bot written to automatically enter contests won 1000 prizes in 9 months, or about 4 contests per day — Twitter Contest Winning as a Service — This is the story of how I wrote a Twitter bot to automatically enter contests and ended up winning on average 4 contests per day, every day, for about 9 months straight.
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CNNMoney, Engadget, Cult of Mac, PCMag Australia Feed, Guardian, Techweez, Business Insider, Fox News and TechSpot. Tweets: @jkupferman
| Connie Chan / Andreessen Horowitz: |
How WeChat works, and how it became so popular in China: millions of apps within the WeChat app, built-in payments, and more — When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China — This post is all about WeChat, but it's also about more than just WeChat.
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Business Insider and Forbes. Tweets: @mgsiegler, @stevecheney and @jonrussell. Thanks:@larrychiang
| Owen Williams / The Next Web: |
Plex for iOS gets total redesign, better sync and Rotten Tomatoes integration — It's been a long time since Plex updated its iOS app, but today it's announced a major overhaul that brings a number of new features and makes the app available for free. — The first thing you'll notice is the revamp of how the app actually works.
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Plex Blog, 9to5Mac, Engadget, The Verge, iMore, TechHive, iPhone in Canada Blog, SlashGear and Pocket-lint
| Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
Vainglory creator Super Evil Megacorp raises $26M round led by Index Ventures — Vainglory Breaks Through in E-Sports on a Tablet — Under everyone's noses, the competitive video game scene has gotten huge, with more than 113 million fans globally by some estimates.
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Super Evil Megacorp, bizjournals, PE Hub Blog, The Verge and VentureBeat
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Google goes with Vulkan as Android's low-overhead graphics API — Khronos also announces OpenGL ES 3.2, which Android already partially supports. — Low-overhead graphics APIs are all the rage these days, at least if you're the sort of person who gets excited about graphics APIs. iOS 8 introduced Metal …
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Android Developers Blog, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, ReadWrite, 9to5Google, The Khronos Group Inc., Engadget and AnandTech. Tweets: @rauschma
| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
One year after the relaunch: Dennis Crowley on the future of Foursquare, privacy, and Yelp — Nearly a year after Foursquare's relaunch, we caught up with chief executive Dennis Crowley to talk Foursquare's future, its plan to cash in on ad tech, privacy, burrito discovery, and why the six-year-old startup doesn't have to kill Yelp.| Sophie Curtis / Telegraph: |
Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Yahoo now use IWF hash list to identify and block child porn images — Facebook, Google and Twitter block ‘hash list’ of child porn images — Some of the world's biggest internet companies are joining forces to crack down on the sharing of child abuse imagesSponsor Posts
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