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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
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 …
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| David Pierce / Wired: |
Google partners with TP-LINK on OnHub, an easy to use $199 Wi-Fi router that makes sure your devices are connecting efficiently — Rejoice: Google Just Created a Stupidly Simple Wi-Fi Router — It's actually pretty easy to deal with your wireless router.
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| Jonah Peretti / BuzzFeed: |
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.| 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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| 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.
Tweets: @adamjbarton
| Chris Granger: |
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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| Wish Wu / TrendLabs Security Intelligence Blog: |
Another serious exploit found in Android's mediaserver component, where Stagefright bugs were found — MediaServer Takes Another Hit with Latest Android Vulnerability — The “hits” keep on coming for Android's mediaserver component. We have discovered yet another Android mediaserver vulnerability …
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
EShares, a startup that digitizes share certificates to make it easy to know who owns a company, raises $17M Series B at a post-money valuation of $77M — EShares, Now Valued At $77 Million, Looks Far Beyond Silicon Valley — EShares, which digitizes paper stock options …
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| Evie Nagy / Fast Company: |
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.| 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.
| 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 … | 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.| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Study: 11% of iOS users report actually using Apple Music, while 52% have stuck with service — Early Apple Music stats show major opportunities for growth, user retention, conversion from rival services — A new study from research firm MusicWatch shares some insight into Apple Music usage …
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