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SmartThings' new hub supports 200 sensors and switches, video monitoring, has 10 hour battery backup, goes on sale today for $99 — SmartThings' new hub uses Samsung cameras to monitor your home — SmartThings, the open-platform smart home company that sold itself to Samsung a year ago … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Samsung launches SleepSense, a smart sleep-tracker that connects to your home appliances — Samsung has launched a new “Internet of Things” (IoT) healthcare device designed to improve your sleep. — At the IFA consumer technology event in Berlin, Samsung unveiled the cylindrical device …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
AOL Confirms It Is Buying Millennial Media In $238M Deal To Expand In Mobile Ads — This just in: AOL, itself acquired by Verizon for $4.4 billion earlier this year, has announced that it is making another purchase of its own. It is buying Millennial Media as it continues to build …
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Judge gives final approval to $415M settlement from Apple, Google, Adobe, and Intel for anti-poaching suit — U.S. judge approves $415 mln settlement in tech worker lawsuit — A U.S. judge on Wednesday granted final approval to a $415 million settlement that ends a high profile lawsuit …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
New iPhone 6S/6S Plus to retain same storage tiers as iPhone 6: 16GB, 64GB, and 128GB, despite 4K video, increased photo resolution, and other improvements — Apple Event: New Apple Watch bands, 16GB iPhones confirmed with 7000 series aluminum — Starting with the iPhone 3GS …
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| Charles Armstrong / Google Lat Long: |
Google launches standalone Street View app with ability to post 360-degree photos to Maps — Introducing the new Street View app from Google Maps — For all the Street View fans out there: exploring the world just got even easier. Today we are introducing the new Street View app for Android and iOS … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
T-Mobile launches native video calling starting with Samsung's latest phones — Starting today, T-Mobile customers with a Galaxy Note 5 or Galaxy S6 Edge+ can place video calls right from their phone's dialer. The Uncarrier is introducing T-Mobile Video Calling, a VoLTE-powered feature … | Alyssa Bereznak / Yahoo! News: |
Men's rights activists are using a 1950s California law to file lawsuits against women-only tech events — These men's rights activists are using a 1950s law to shut down women in tech — Stephanie Burns came up with the idea for Chic CEO, a free online platform for female entrepreneurs, in 2008, when she was getting her MBA.
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| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google to more than double the number of health conditions in search results from 400 to 900, add downloadable PDFs — Google To Double The Number Of Health Conditions In Search Results — Google announced they are more than doubling their health conditions database …
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| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Twitter names developer platform lead Jeff Seibert head of consumer product in product team restructure — Twitter Restructures Product Team, Promotes Jeff Seibert — Twitter has promoted Jeff Seibert, the man who's been running the company's developer products for over a year.
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| Michael Mimoso / Threatpost: |
Netflix releases Sleepy Puppy, an open-source tool to track XSS vulnerabilities across multiple apps — Netflix Sleepy Puppy Awakens XSS Vulnerabilities in Secondary Applications — Most automated scanning and security tools that ferret out cross-site scripting vulnerabilities don't do much analysis beyond the target application.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook partners with Summit, a public K-12 charter school, to build a suite of personalized learning software that will eventually be free for any US school — Inside Facebook's plan to build a better school — Looking back, Mike Sego says, he was always meant to work in education.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Acquires Organizational Analytics Service VoloMetrix — Microsoft today announced that it has acquired VoloMetrix, a service that specializes in analyzing organizational performance using anonymized data it gathers from across a company's corporate communications systems.
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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Improved Simplocker Android malware disguises as an NSA app, has infected tens of thousands of devices using XMPP — Android ransomware uses XMPP chat to call home, claims it's from NSA — Improved Simplocker lurks disguised as legitimate Flash or video player app.
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Check Point Blog, Threatpost and Help Net Security
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Skype redesigns its Android and iOS apps with easier navigation, enhanced search, and better multi-tasking — Microsoft today updated its Skype apps for Android and iOS with a big focus on the look and feel. You can download the new apps now directly from Google Play and Apple App Store (iPhone, iPad).
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Skype Blogs, TechCrunch, MacRumors, PCWorld, ZDNet, Android Police, Engadget, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, The Verge, WinBeta and iClarified
| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Cloud security firm Netskope raises $75M round led by Iconiq Capital — Security Financings Continue Their Heat Wave With A New $75M Round For Netskope — Netskope, which sells a technology service protecting businesses' cloud-based software, has joined the ranks of the massively funded …
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VatorNews, Wall Street Journal, FinSMEs, FierceCIO News, PE Hub Blog and silicontap.com
| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
PhantomAlert files suit against Waze, claims Waze copied its database, incorporated it into its own application before sale to Google — Rival traffic app PhantomAlert wants to shut Waze down after alleged theft — CEO says he was “crushed” by Waze, which Google bought in 2013 for over $1B.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Samsung and Barnes & Noble launch the Galaxy Tab S2 Nook, a $400 8-inch tablet for readers — Barnes & Noble and Samsung have launched the latest iteration from their joint mission to combine tablets and e-readers. — The Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 Nook follows the $150 Galaxy Tab 4 Nook tablet …
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