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Leaked Ashley Madison emails suggest CTO hacked competitor nerve.com and exfiltrated its entire user database — Leaked AshleyMadison Emails Suggest Execs Hacked Competitors — Hacked online cheating service AshleyMadison.com is portraying itself as a victim of malicious cybercriminals …
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| Phil Wahba / Fortune: |
Best Buy beats quarterly earnings expectations, plans to expand Apple Watch availability to all 1,050 stores by October, start selling AppleCare — Best Buy deepens links to Apple, says watch has been a smash hit — Best Buy BBY continued its remarkable turnaround last quarter, with a big assist from Apple AAPL .
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Tests show it is easy to insert Galaxy Note5's S Pen backwards; doing so may damage device's stylus detection mechanism — [Video] Probable Note 5 Design Flaw Can Cause S Pen To Break Pen Detection When Inserted Backward, Or Get Hopelessly Stuck — We try not be hyperbolic here at Android Police …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce Lightning Ushers In New Design For Core CRM Product — Salesforce.com lifted the curtain on Salesforce Lightning today, the completely redesigned version of its core CRM product. As is often the case with Salesforce, the announcement included several pieces.
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| Joan E. Solsman / CNET: |
Tunein adds $8/month Premium subscription with access to over 40K audiobooks, 600 ad-free music stations, and live MLB broadcasts — TuneIn takes the ads out of your on-the-go real radio — TuneIn, long the Internet's main spot for AM/FM radio, adds an $8 subscription that swaps commercials … | Tom Maxwell / 9to5Google: |
Google Map Maker reopens in 45 more countries including the US — Google Map Maker, the tool which allows anyone around the world to contribute information to Google's worldwide map, has re-opened in 45 countries after going live again in 6 countries two weeks ago.| Allison Linn / TechNet Blogs: |
Microsoft Research unveils MobileFusion, a new technology that turns any mobile device into real-time 3D scanner — MobileFusion: Research project turns regular mobile phone into 3D scanner — A new Microsoft Research project lets people to create high-quality 3D images in real time … | Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
Add to Slack button lets users easily install Slack integrations, share content from other services to Slack — Slack's plan for world domination takes an important step forward — Enterprise chat app Slack has two killer features: Its user-friendly design, and the ability to customize …
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Coursera raises $49.5M to help it expand to Latin America, China, and India — Coursera wants to accelerate its global expansion, so it went out and raised some more cash. The online education service has raised $49.5 million in the first closing of its Series C round.
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| Takashi Mochizuki / Wall Street Journal: |
Aerosense, Sony's joint venture company with ZMP, unveils drone prototype that can carry 22 lbs. and travel 106 mph — Sony Venture Unveils Drone Prototype — Aerosense, Sony Corp.'s joint-venture drone company, Monday unveiled a prototype of the flying machines it will use to serve business customers.
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| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
Profile of PCH CEO Liam Casey, the supply chain expert of hardware manufacturing in China — Meet the tech industry's China fixer — His name isn't well-known in elite business circles, but in the tech hardware scene, Liam Casey is “the guy.” He's the one you call for a factory connection …
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| Andrew Brust / ZDNet: |
Hortonworks introduces DataFlow, acquires Apache NiFi-backer Onyara — Hortonworks is betting big on Apache NiFi, acquiring Onyara, the commercial entity behind it, and releasing DataFlow, a separate subscription alongside the Hadoop-based Hortonworks Data Platform.
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| Mario Trujillo / The Hill: |
Gogo's new antenna technology gets FAA clearance, can purportedly offer 20x faster inflight Wi-Fi; seven airlines have signed up to deploy the technology — Gogo promises faster inflight Wi-Fi after FAA clearance — The inflight Wi-Fi company Gogo is promising a faster connection …
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