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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's ‘Hey Siri’ Event Roundup: Upgraded iPhone 6s, Bigger iPad Pro, Revamped Apple TV + Apple Watch updates — Apple's Wednesday, September 9th event is shaping up to be one of the largest in the company's history. The Cupertino-based company is planning to unveil several major new products on stage …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple Planning Revamped iPad Keyboard, New Metal Finishes for Apple Watch — Accompanying the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, iPad Pro and next-generation Apple TV set to be announced next week, Apple is also planning a revamped iPad keyboard and new metal finishes for the Apple Watch Sport … | Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Sources: Google plans to launch a special China version of Google Play as early as this fall, marking its re-entry into China, compliance with censorship laws — Google Nears Re-entry to Mainland China — After a five year absence, Google expects to return shortly to mainland China … | Curt Woodward / BetaBoston: |
Sources: feds open criminal probe over claims that HubSpot execs tried to get pre-release copy of book about the firm; cofounder fined, two execs have left — Feds open criminal investigation of HubSpot book incident — Federal law enforcement officials have opened a criminal investigation …
| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Sources: Uber to unveil e-commerce delivery program with retailers as early as this month, likely to roll out in NYC and partner with luxury stores — Uber to Unveil Big E-Commerce Delivery Program With Retailers in the Fall — For at least a year, Uber has experimented with transporting packages in addition to people.
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Business Insider, The Next Web, Consumerist, Seeking Alpha, Fortune and Racked. Tweets: @delrey
| John Markoff / New York Times: |
Toyota to invest $50M in AI research at Stanford and MIT over five years, to develop “intelligent” car technology; Dr. Gill Pratt leaves DARPA to head effort — Toyota to Finance $50 Million ‘Intelligent’ Car Project — Toyota Motor Corporation announced on Friday …
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Toyota, Re/code, VentureBeat, Quartz, Computerworld, GeekWire, Inc.com, SlashGear, BetaBoston and Consumerist
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| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Adobe survey: 61.9% of streamed pay TV, generally content owned by cable networks, is viewed on Apple devices — Survey: 61.9% of streamed pay TV is viewed on Apple devices — TV Everywhere (sometimes called authenticated streaming) is the entertainment industry's clunky term … | Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: |
Dave McClure's 500 Startups closes its third global fund with $85M, 15% below its original target — Dave McClure's 500 Startups Closes Fund III With $85M … Startup investor Dave McClure isn't slowing down, despite changes in the public markets and the skeptical reception …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
BlackBerry acquires mobile security firm Good Technology for $425M in cash — BlackBerry acquires mobile security company Good Technology for $425M, despite their thorny past — BlackBerry has acquired mobile security company Good Technology in a $425 million cash transaction.
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Inside BlackBerry, BlackBerry Press Room, TechCrunch, The Daily Dot, New York Times, eWeek, The Next Web, The Verge, TechCrunch, Tech Trader Daily, tech.co, 9to5Mac, MacNN, Seeking Alpha, Network World, Inquirer, Re/code, FedScoop, FierceMobileIT News, TechEye, TechnoBuffalo, Data Center Knowledge, Globe and Mail, The Register, The Tech Portal, MobileSyrup.com, ZDNet, TechSpective, SiliconANGLE, Fortune and CNET. Tweets: @charlesarthur
| Bloomberg Business: |
Sources: Microsoft weighing multibillion-dollar revamp of Seattle campus to add more open work spaces — Microsoft Said to Weigh Multibillion-Dollar Headquarters Revamp — Skidmore, Owings & Merrill hired to design campus overhaul — Plan could create more open offices and add amenities
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Windows Central, GeekWire, Microsoft News, WinBeta, Neowin and Seeking Alpha
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Pwn2Own loses HP as its sponsor amid concerns of compliance with the Wassenaar Arrangement, an international treaty that has rules governing software exploits — Pwn2Own loses HP as its sponsor amid new cyberweapon restrictions — Concerns about violating international arms treaty behind pull-out.
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Threatpost, The Register, ZDNet, SC Magazine and linux.com
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn Open-Sources FeatureFu, A Toolkit For Building Machine Learning Models — LinkedIn today announced that it is open-sourcing an internal tool called FeatureFu. The FeatureFu toolkit is meant to make it easier for developers to build their machine learning models around statistical modeling and decision engines.
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SiliconANGLE, The Tech Portal and VentureBeat
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