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August 21, 2015, 12:15 AM

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Joseph Cox / Motherboard:
Ashley Madison hackers post new 20GB archive that appears to include company emails and internal documents  —  Hackers Dump More Ashley Madison Data  —  Over the past few days, people have been digging through 10GB of data apparently sourced from the extramarital dating site Ashley Madison, and its parent site Avid Life Media.
Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes:
New Spotify privacy policy says it can collect data on location, sensors, and photos from your phone  —  Location, Sensors, Voice, Photos?!  Spotify Just Got Real Creepy With The Data It Collects On You  —  Spotify has updated its privacy policy, and users should be careful about what they agree to.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft's Surface Pro 4, Band 2, and new Lumias set for October launch event  —  Microsoft is planning to hold a massive hardware launch event in October.  Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans tell The Verge that the software giant will use the event to unveil two new Lumia handsets, the Surface Pro 4, and a Microsoft Band 2.
Samuel Gibbs / Guardian:
Google ordered by UK's ICO to remove nine links to ‘right to be forgotten’ removal stories  —  Google ordered to remove links to stories about ‘right to be forgotten’ removals  —  UK data protection watchdog orders search engine to remove search result links to news stories about right to be forgotten link removals
ZDNet:
Intuit announces it will divest Demandforce, QuickBase, and Quicken as it reports mixed Q4 earnings  —  Intuit reports mixed bag on Q4 earnings; divestitures on deck  —  Wall Street expected a loss of 12 cents per share, with revenues of $738.9 million.  —  Intuit published its fourth quarter …
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Andrew Chung / Reuters:
Microsoft files federal antitrust lawsuit against Interdigital for “abusive licensing practices”  —  Microsoft files antitrust suit against InterDigital in patent feud  —  InterDigital Inc has violated U.S. antitrust law by failing to keep its promise to fairly license …
Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet:
Oracle to acquire cloud-based consumer personalization software firm Maxymiser  —  Oracle nabs marketing software maker Maxymiser  —  Oracle plans to integrate Maxymiser's software into the Oracle Marketing Cloud and use it to better compete with rivals Salesforce and Adobe.
Tom Cheredar / Gigaom:
Flipboard update brings personalization to news feed with voting options using Zite technology  —  Ahead of Apple News launch, Flipboard adds voting to its news feed  —  Digital magazine app Flipboard is getting an update that will allow users to fine-tune the news feed that appears …
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
Outlook for iOS now lets you open, edit, and send attachments with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint  —  Microsoft today detailed an update to its Office for iOS apps that tightens the integration that Outlook has with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.  The new versions have been on Apple's App Store since last week …
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google Brings Interactive Watch Faces And Built-In Google Translate Support To Android Wear  —  Android Wear's watch faces are getting a bit more interesting today.  Developers were always able to display a lot of information on their watch faces, but users couldn't interact with it.
Jared Newman / TechHive:
HBO Now lands on Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick  —  One more connected TV platform down, but more to go for HBO's standalone streaming video service.  —  HBO Now is ticking a couple more media streamers off its “coming soon” list, with the arrival of Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick support.
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook to allow businesses to post GIFs as ads and Page posts, begins testing with Wendy's and Coca-Cola's Brazilian brand Kuat  —  After Years Of Restraint, Facebook Tries Allowing GIFs In Ads And Page Posts  —  Facebook refused to fill its site with flashy animated banner ads for a decade.
Rachel King / ZDNet:
Salesforce beats Q2 targets, with revenue of $1.63B, up 24% year-over-year; outlook strong  —  Salesforce.com delivers above Q2 targets, outlook strong  —  Wall Street was looking for earnings of 18 cents per share with $1.60 billion in revenue.  —  Salesforce.com published better …

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