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August 12, 2015, 1:45 PM
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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
New OS X beta suggests iPad Mini 4 will be faster and support split-view apps  —  El Capitan file hints at faster iPad mini 4 with full split-view apps support  —  One of iOS 9's marquee additions is support for split-screen applications on the iPad.  This allows users to operate two iPad applications simultaneously, side-by-side.
Nancy Jo Sales / Vanity Fair:
Inside the hookup culture accelerated by the rapid rise of Tinder and other dating apps  —  Tinder and the Dawn of the “Dating Apocalypse”  —  As romance gets swiped from the screen, some twentysomethings aren't liking what they see.  —  It's a balmy night in Manhattan's financial district …
Bryan Logan / Business Insider:
Tinder's PR just went ballistic on Twitter over a Vanity Fair exposé  —  Tinder is not happy with Vanity Fair.  —  The tech company's PR just went on a 30+ tweet tweetstorm lambasting the magazine for a recent feature story in the September issue of Vanity Fair.
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google Launches New Site To Showcase Experimental Open Source Apps For Android And Android Wear  —  Google launched Android Experiments today, the mobile apps counterpart to its Chrome Experiments site.  —  Just like with Chrome Experiments, the idea behind Android experiments is to showcase apps …
Robert D. Hof / MIT Technology Review:
Why Google's Alphabet Is Nothing like Berkshire Hathaway - and Much Riskier  —  Google's new structure has few historical precedents, in tech or outside it.  —  Before Apple's Steve Jobs died in 2011, he told Google cofounder and CEO Larry Page that his company was trying to do too much.
Richa Naidu / Reuters:
Fidelity National to buy software maker SunGard in $9.1 billion deal  —  Financial industry software maker Fidelity National Information Services Inc (FIS.N) said it would buy SunGard Data Systems Inc for $9.1 billion including debt, scooping up one of the longest-held investments in private-equity history.
Owen Williams / The Next Web:
Lenovo shipped laptops with an “anti-theft” rootkit that reinstalled unwanted software, has issued manual, optional patch to remove the functionality  —  Lenovo used a hidden Windows feature to ensure its software could not be deleted  —  A recently uncovered feature …
Ryan Knutson / Wall Street Journal:
Inside SoftBank's Struggle to Turn Around Sprint  —  Two years after takeover, SoftBank's Masayoshi Son struggles to overhaul the U.S. carrier  —  Billionaire Masayoshi Son asked to speak with U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy right away one Saturday last year.
Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:
Pure Storage Files to Go Public Later This Year  —  Pure Storage, the company challenging established players in the enterprise storage business by using flash memory chips instead of hard drives, has filed for an initial public offering.  —  The company's filing with the U.S. Securities …
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
GitHub Desktop launches to replace Mac and Windows apps with a ‘unified experience’  —  GitHub today launched GitHub Desktop for Mac and Windows — you can download it right now from desktop.github.com.  Yet this debut begs the obvious question: Didn't GitHub already have apps for both platforms?
More: GitHub, ZDNet, PCWorld and The Next Web.  Tweets: @steipete
Colleen Wright / New York Times:
Neighborhood Car Service Companies Adopt Their Own Apps to Fend Off Uber  —  The chatty, frenetic dispatch hubs of neighborhood car services are getting quieter.  —  When the phone rings at High Class Limousine and Car Service in the Bronx, the conversation comes and goes in fleeting bursts …
Maren Kate / Medium:
Zirtual announces it has been acquired by startup launch platform Startups.co, and will resume service  —  Zirtual: What Happened and What's Next  —  First, let me start by telling you a story...  Over four years ago I moved to San Francisco from Reno, Nevada, with a backpacker's pack …

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