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Best Buy to sell Apple Watch in all 1,050 stores instead of planned 300 by October amid strong demand; will begin selling AppleCare this quarter — 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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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
YouTube Gaming launches Wednesday on iOS, Android, and web to compete with Twitch — YouTube Gaming—Google's Twitch.tv competitor—launches tomorrow — Twitch.tv finally gets some real competition in the game live streaming market. — One year and one day after Google lost Twitch.tv to Amazon, YouTube Gaming is going public.| Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg Business: |
Man pleads guilty to sending over 27M unsolicited messages through Facebook in 2008 and 2009, could face up to three years in prison and a $250K fine — Facebook ‘Spam King’ Guilty for Sending 27 Million Messages — A Las Vegas man pleaded guilty to sending more than 27 million unsolicited …
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| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
Tests show it's easy to insert Galaxy Note5's S Pen backwards, which may damage device's stylus detection mechanism; Samsung responds: “follow the instructions” — [Video] Probable Note 5 Design Flaw Can Cause S Pen To Break Pen Detection When Inserted Backward, Or Get Hopelessly Stuck
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
VMWare updates Fusion and Workstation with graphics boost, support for Windows 10, Cortana, and El Capitan — VMware brings Windows 10 and graphics boost to Fusion and Workstation — Virtualization software upgraded, but you might have to watch out for bugs.
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Amazon launches Prime Now with one- and two-hour alcohol delivery in Seattle — Amazon Will Bring You Booze in One Hour, Starting in Seattle — Finally, a really good reason to use Amazon's one-hour delivery service. — The e-commerce company has started to offer one- and two-hour delivery of beer …
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| 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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| 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.| M. Alex Johnson / NBC News: |
Ashley Madison faces at least five lawsuits seeking class action status: one asks for $500M in damages, others have anonymous plaintiffs and unspecified damages — Ashley Madison Faces Multiple Suits Seeking More Than a Half-Billion Dollars — At least five lawsuits seeking class-action status …
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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 …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Uber will partner with University of Arizona for self-driving car research — Uber is setting up a new self-driving car project at the University of Arizona, according to an email sent out today to university employees. The new project will focus on self-driving car technology …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's New Moments App Now Automatically Creates Music Videos From Your Photos — Facebook Moments, the social network's recently launched photo-sharing app that aims to address the problem of getting friends to send each other the photos they've been hoarding on their own phones, is expanding to video.
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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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