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Sources: New Apple TV will run a full-blown iOS core, specifically a TV-optimized version of iOS 9 — What will September's new iOS 9-based Apple TV bring to the living room? — Apple plans to hold one of its annual fall media events on Wednesday, September 9th to introduce the new iPhone 6S … | Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Verizon Edges AT&T in Network Quality, While Sprint Makes Improvements — Price competition is intense in the cellular business, and increasingly, so is the competition for top ratings in network quality. — Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure, for example, said at Code Conference that his company …
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Visual programming tool Eve launches first public release — Eve Version 0 — Never heard of Eve? Read more here. — Today marks a huge milestone for us - the first public release of Eve. After a ton of research, dozens of prototypes, and a slew of tests we've finally come to something that we think is the beginning of Eve.
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BuzzFeed gets $200M from NBCUniversal to expand its reach to TV and film, and partners with Yahoo Japan — Big News — I'm very excited to share that NBCUniversal has agreed to invest $200M in BuzzFeed and partner with us to extend our reach to TV and film.| Ryan Knutson / Wall Street Journal: |
Sprint to abandon two year-contracts by end of 2015; announces iPhone Forever leasing plan for iPhones priced from $22/month — Sprint to Abandon Two-Year Contracts — Two-year contracts are disappearing from the U.S. wireless industry.Sprint Corp. said Monday it is doing away …
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| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Reddit Names Marty Weiner, Founding Engineer At Pinterest, Its First CTO — There are plenty of things on Steve Huffman's to-do list since returning to Reddit as its CEO. Having a gifted technical mind himself, currently doing double duty as Hipmunk's CTO, the need for a technical lead at Reddit was glaring.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
One year after launch, Google brings Android One to Africa, starting with 6 countries — Google has finally launched Android One, a standard created for Android devices in developing countries, in Africa. — First revealed last September, Android One launched in India initially … | Jeff Elder / Wall Street Journal: |
U.S. Delays Giving Up Oversight of Internet Administrator Icann — The U.S. Commerce Department on Monday delayed for at least a year its plans to give up oversight of Icann, a key component of Internet governance.
| Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
Product Hunt launches LIVE: scheduled Ask Me Anythings with different product makers and celebrities — Product Hunt Takes AMAs A Step Further With The Launch Of LIVE — Product Hunt, the online community where members upvote products, games and books they like, is helping that community …
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Midroll relaunches Howl podcast app: get access to recent episodes for free, or pay $4.99/mo to access archives of Midroll podcasts, WTF With Marc Maron, more — Is Howl The “Netflix Of Podcasts” We've Been Waiting For? — There's no true one-stop, all-you-can-eat shop for podcast distribution.| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Nuance launches cloud-based Dragon Anywhere iOS app, new Mac app — Nuance, the voice recognition and productivity software company behind the iOS keyboard's Dictation feature, today has revealed a series of updates to its applications and a new cloud-based synchronization service at the core.| John Callaham / Windows Central: |
Comcast's Xfinity app for Xbox 360 to shut down on September 1 — Xbox 360 console owners who use Comcast's Xfinity app got some bad news over the weekend. Microsoft sent messages to those users stating that the app would be removed from the console on September 1.| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
You can now pay anyone using Square Cash right from your Apple Watch — It's probably going to be more convenient to pay your friends now. Square has updated its peer-to-peer payment iOS app that enables users to transfer money to anyone through their Apple Watch.
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