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Facebook is working on a Twitter-like app that lets publishers send mobile breaking news alerts to the masses — Facebook is working on a stand-alone mobile news application that seems to be part of its Facebook for Business initiative. — This product, which sounds similar to Twitter …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Brings Auto-Play Video Ads To Apps In Its Mobile Ad Network — Facebook's making a killing with its native, in-feed, auto-play video ads, and now it's going to let other developers earn money off them too. Today Facebook announced that it's opening up its own best-performing ad units … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers hack a Corvette's brakes via an insurance dongle used in many modern vehicles to monitor speed, location; affected systems are receiving OTA updates — Hackers Cut a Corvette's Brakes Via a Common Car Gadget — Car hacking demos like last month's over-the-internet hijacking …
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Digital Trends, Geek.com, Ars Technica, Ubergizmo, The Verge, Gizmodo and Engadget. Tweets: @dangillmor
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Firefox 40 arrives with Windows 10 support, expanded malware protection, and new Android navigation gestures — Mozilla today launched Firefox 40 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Notable additions to the browser include official Windows 10 support, added protection against unwanted software downloads … | Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Source: StumbleUpon to lay off about 70 of its 100 employees this week after failing to raise new round — StumbleUpon lays off dozens after failing to raise new round, source says — EXCLUSIVE: — Content discovery company StumbleUpon was unable to secure additional venture capital funding …
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| Steven Levy / Backchannel: |
Buried in the Wordplay: Life Sciences Graduates From Google X — Buried in the Alphabet announcement was a significant piece of news: one of the new portfolio companies in Larry Page's Scrabble game is Life Sciences. Until yesterday, the medical research operation had been one of the major …
| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
iOS slips to 64% global enterprise share in Q2 2015, Android hits 32%, and Windows stays flat at 4% — iOS slips to 64% enterprise share in Q2 2015, Android hits 32%, and Windows stays flat at 4% — Apple continues to rule the mobile enterprise space, but its grip might be starting …
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
CurrentC-backer Rite Aid to reverse its stance, start accepting Apple Pay, as well as Google Wallet and Android Pay — CurrentC backer Rite Aid will soon start accepting Apple Pay after initially blocking it — [Update: Statement from CVS below the fold...]
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Rite Aid Pharmacy, MacRumors, Fortune, Computerworld, Android Police, CNET, BuzzFeed, TechnoBuffalo, Associated Press, International Business Times, Digital Trends, Macworld, SlashGear, Re/code, Phandroid, ZDNet, USA Today, iDownloadBlog.com, Tech Insider, Pocketnow, iPhone Hacks, The Verge, New York Times, PhoneDog.com and iLounge. Tweets: @mikeisaac
| Biz Carson / Business Insider: |
Zirtual, a virtual assistant startup that raised $5.5M, dissolved overnight and laid off its 400 employees via email with no warning — A startup blew up overnight and laid off its 400 employees via email with no warning — In the middle of the night, a startup that had raised $5.5 million dissolved and disappeared.
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TechCrunch, The Next Web, Entrepreneur, Pando, Spend Matters, LasVegasWeekly.com and tech.co
Tweets: @mattrosoff, @glennf, @jason, @joshconstine and @mdudas
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Nine charged in SEC insider trading case that alleges Business Wire, PR Newswire, others were hacked over a five year period, leaking over 150K press releases — Nine Charged in Insider Trading Case Tied to Hackers — Federal authorities announced on Tuesday that they had broken … | Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
The profusion of privacy-violating web trackers invalidates the already-shaky theory that ad-blocking violates an implied contract — The ethics of modern web ad-blocking — More than fifteen years ago, in response to decreasing ad rates and banner blindness, web advertisers and publishers adopted pop-up ads.
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Daring Fireball. Tweets: @choire, @beep, @mattbuchanan, @ctd, @felixsalmon, @jensimmons, @bbhlabs and @abrams. See also Mediagazer
| Brett Howse / AnandTech: |
Lenovo announces laptops with new mobile Xeon processors starting at $1599, available Q4 2015 — Lenovo Launches New P50 And P70 Mobile Workstations With First Mobile Xeon Chips — Today at the SIGGRAPH 2015 Conference and Exhibition, Lenovo unveiled some new mobile workstations.| Cody Toombs / Android Police: |
Android Wear v1.3 update includes new watch faces “Interactive” and “Together”, which allows users to pair watches, share updates, pictures and activities — Android Wear v1.3 Includes ‘Device To Debug’ Picker, Reveals Upcoming “Together” And Interactive Watch Faces, New Apps, And More [APK Teardown + Download]Sponsor Posts
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