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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.| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft beats Google to the punch: Bing for Android update does what Now on Tap will do — Microsoft today is introducing a major new capability to its Bing Search app for Android. Now when you want more information on the people, places, and things you're reading about … | Ricardo Bilton / Digiday: |
Amazon will no longer accept Flash ads on its site or advertising platform as of September — Amazon puts another nail in Flash's coffin — Adobe Flash is having a rough month. — Amazon said this week that starting in September, it will no longer accept Flash ads on Amazon.com …
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| Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
Sources: Google Express to shut down its two Bay Area delivery hubs, looks to outsource delivery to on-demand startups — Google Express Plans to Shut Down Its Two Delivery Hubs — Google Express, the search giant's same-day delivery service, is shutting down its two delivery hubs … | James Vincent / The Verge: |
Sony's SmartBand 2 monitors heart rate, is waterproof, will be available in September for $132 — Sony's SmartBand 2 will monitor your heart rate and field your calls — Sony has officially unveiled its SmartBand 2 after accidentally publishing details about the activity tracker earlier this year.
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| Andy / TorrentFreak: |
Danish police arrest operators of two Popcorn Time guide websites that didn't link to any copyright-infringing material — Police Arrest Men For Spreading Popcorn Time Information — More than a year after its 2014 launch and the popularity of the now famous Popcorn Time video streaming application …
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| Maeve Duggan / Pew Internet: |
Pew: 70% of Facebook users log in daily, 36% of smartphone owners use messaging apps, Instagram and other social sites see increase in engagement — Mobile Messaging and Social Media 2015 — In today's world, people — particularly young people — are continually finding and adapting … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Expands Its Program For Ads Outside Twitter — Twitter is unveiling several new features for advertisers who want their campaigns to go beyond Twitter itself. And it's giving the program a new name, the Twitter Audience Platform. — Last year, the company launched something called …
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| Gina Hall / Silicon Valley Business Journal: |
Mobile marketing automation startup Kahuna raises $45 million in Series B funding to grow its platform — Mobile marketing automation startup Kahuna raised $45 million in Series B funding Wednesday to grow its platform. — Tenaya Capital led the round with participation from previous investors …
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
96.8 percent of new smartphones sold are either iPhone or Android devices — The latest quarterly smartphone sales data from Gartner is out today, and it tells a very familiar story. BlackBerry keeps shrinking, Microsoft is stagnating, and Google and Apple are tightening their already dominant grip over the entire market.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Ashley Madison's data breach could have profound consequences for users and will likely be catastrophic for the company — The mind-bending messiness of the Ashley Madison data dump — Massive data breaches have become so routine as to become background noise.| Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed: |
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| Mark Wilson / BetaNews: |
Google releases version 1.5 of its programming language Go, removes last vestiges of C from code base — Go, Google's C-killing programming language, hits version 1.5 — Six years and six updates later, Google's own programming language, Go, has reached version 1.5.
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eWeek, blog.golang.org, VentureBeat, SD Times, ReadWrite, Wired, InfoWorld and Slashdot. Thanks:@sparklemarkle
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Here Are The 52 Startups That Launched At Y Combinator Summer 2015 Demo Day 2 — Hardware was the clear-cut theme of Day 1, but Demo Day 2 of Y Combinator's Summer 2015 was a bit more... eclectic. Moving services! Streaming services! Hotel booking, augmented reality, esports!
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Grand Rounds Raises $55M to Connect Patients With Specialists — Grand Rounds, a service companies use to give employees access to healthcare advice and treatment around the U.S. irrespective of where they live, has raised $55 million in a new financing round.Sponsor Posts
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