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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Apple, Facebook, Google, other tech stocks down sharply on China worries, while Tim Cook, in an email to Jim Cramer, says Apple is still growing in China — Facebook Down 12.1%, Apple Down 10%, Google Down 6.5%, Microsoft Down 5.8% As Stock Markets Plummet
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| Susan Hendrich / Windows Blog: |
Cortana Now Available on Android in Public Beta — In May, we announced that Cortana, the first personal digital-assistant who works across your PC & your phone, will be coming to Android and iOS devices. Today, we're pleased to make the beta of the Cortana app available to all Android phone users.| Steven Johnson / New York Times: |
How creative work in music, TV, movies, and books persists and often thrives in the post-Napster era, contrary to initial fears by some — The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn't — In the digital economy, it was supposed to be impossible to make money by making art.| Open State Foundation: |
Twitter suspends API access for Diplotwoops and Politwoops, which displayed deleted tweets of politicians, in all remaining 30 countries — Twitter cuts off Diplotwoops and Politwoops in all remaining 30 countries — Popular web service that tracked politicians' deleted tweets shut down in 30 countries
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Tweets: @mikeisaac and @gaberivera
See also Mediagazer| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Zulily's $2.4B acquisition, below $9B peak and IPO price, disappoints some who saw it as a model for successful public e-commerce company competing with Amazon — Why Zulily's $2.4 Billion Acquisition is Actually a Disappointment — A $2.4 billion sale is rarely going to be viewed as a failure.| BBC: |
Ashley Madison offers C$500K reward as police investigate reports of two suicides possibly connected to leak — ‘Suicides’ over Ashley Madison hack — Two Ashley Madison clients are reported to have taken their lives after hackers published their details according to police in Canada.| Cam Bunton / 9to5Google: |
LG G Pad II 10.1 announced: 2GB RAM, Snapdragon 800 chip and 7,400mAh battery in tow — LG has announced a brand new tablet ready to compete at the 10-inch screen size category, and by all accounts, it looks to be a decent piece of hardware. The LG G Pad II 10.1 is going to make a full appearance at IFA in a couple of weeks.| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg Business: |
Uber says Tencent, owner of WeChat and an investor in competitor Didi Kuaidi, banned or froze all its accounts on WeChat, halting Uber's progress in China — In Uber's Quest to Win Over China, Tencent Blocks the Way — The car-booking company speaks out for the first time about getting blocked by WeChat …
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| Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider: |
How Udacity, profitable as of August, is using nanodegrees to drive student engagement and retention — The founder of Google's top secret project lab has a new plan to double the world's GDP (Goog) — More than seven years ago, Larry Page and Sergey Brin tapped Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun …
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| Liam Spradlin / Android Police: |
New Google Maps notification encourages users to share restaurant food photos — Google's Foodie Photo Ambitions Live On In New Maps Feature In Testing — Back in February, we told you about a new experimental service at Google called Tablescape. The app, which at the time served …
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| Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
Google Now, deprioritized by Sundar Pichai, saw exodus of key staff after the team was transferred from the Android group to search — Google Now's Staff Exodus Reveals Hurdles for New CEO Pichai — On Thursday, Microsoft fired up an old rivalry. The Redmond giant released an update …
Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Christine Magee / TechCrunch: |
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