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Amazon announces updated Fire TV with Alexa and 4K support for $100, Fire TV Stick and voice remote bundle for $50, all shipping in October — Amazon's answer to Apple TV: a Fire TV box with Alexa and 4K video support — Last week Apple sucked up most of the air in the tech press with its newest gadgets … | Megan Geuss / Ars Technica: |
Amazon announces new 7-inch Fire tablet for $50, available in six-pack for $250, and updated Fire HD models — Amazon introduces a slew of cheap tablets starting at $50, upgraded Fire TV — New devices include a bargain basement 7-inch tablet, as predicted.| Re/code: |
Sources: Apple acquires mapping analytics and visualization startup Mapsense for $25M-$30M — Apple Acquires Mapsense, a Mapping Visualization Startup — Apple's steady stealth campaign to rival Google in maps continues apace. This month, the company acquired Mapsense … | Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider: |
Google hiring engineers, including three from Amazon's Lab126, for Project Aura, a new wearable tech initiative that builds on Glass — Google has hired a bunch of engineers from Amazon's Lab126 for a new wearable tech initiative called ‘Project Aura’ — Google is working …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Independent publishers are collateral damage in the war over ad revenues between Google, Apple, and Facebook — Welcome to hell: Apple vs Google vs Facebook and the slow death of the web — So let's talk about ad blocking. — You might think the conversation about ad blocking …
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Marco Arment launches Peace, a $2.99 privacy-focused content blocker for iOS 9 that uses Ghostery's robust tracker database — Introducing Peace, my privacy-focused iOS 9 ad blocker — Running the Ghostery browser add-on in my Mac browsers has been illuminating:
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Didi Kuaidi and Lyft in discussions with India's Ola and Singapore's GrabTaxi to expand ride share alliance internationally — Uber Rivals Form International Alliance — San Francisco's Lyft, China's Didi agree to allow their apps to work in respective countries
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Pinterest discloses user numbers for the first time, says it crossed 100M monthly active users — Pinterest Crosses User Milestone of 100 Million — Pinterest said on Wednesday that it has surpassed 100 million monthly active members, in a milestone for the digital scrapbooking start-up …
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| Husain Sumra / MacRumors: |
T-Mobile and Sprint to Start Selling Apple Watch on September 25 — While T-Mobile CEO John Legere announced last week that the carrier would begin selling the Apple Watch he did not provide a specific release date. MacRumors has learned that T-Mobile will begin selling the Apple Watch on September 25.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple's first Android app ‘Move to iOS’ is now available in Google Play store — Apple's ‘Move to iOS’ app is now available on Android — The first Android app credited to “Apple Inc.” has arrived. Apple's still working on Apple Music for Google's mobile OS …
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Official Apple Support, 9to5Mac, BGR, Inquirer, CIO.com, MacRumors, Ars Technica, The Next Web, NEWS.com.au, Engadget, TechnoBuffalo, Droid Life, Macworld, Phandroid, AppleInsider and BGR
| Ginny Marvin / Search Engine Land: |
Google Files Suit Against SEO Firm Accused Of Robocalling, Launches Complaint Center For Users — After years of near inaction, Google is stepping up to take on robocallers that claim affiliation with the company in order to prey on small businesses. In addition to launching a new page … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Malicious Cisco router backdoor found on 79 more devices, 25 in the US — SYNful Knock implant appears to be much bigger than first reported, researchers say. — The highly clandestine attacks hitting Cisco Systems routers are much more active than previously reported.
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Software needed to run all of Google's services spans 2B lines of source code, all in a single repository available to all 25K engineers — Google Is 2 Billion Lines of Code—And It's All in One Place — How big is Google? We can answer that question in terms of revenue or stock price or customers or …
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Facebook to allow Shopify merchants to sell products directly through a new Shop section on Facebook pages in coming weeks — Facebook, Shopify tighten e-commerce ties with merchant page Shop section — The feature is part of Facebook's effort to merge together social and mobile commerce … | Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Facebook will likely launch a freemium version of its workplace product Facebook at Work by the end of the year in attempt to compete with Slack, Yammer — Facebook Is About to Take the Training Wheels off Facebook at Work — Facebook is preparing to push its new workplace product into a lot more cubicles.| Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter: |
News Corp to Acquire Social Video Ad Platform Unruly for up to $176 Million — Rupert Murdoch's News Corp will acquire social video advertising platform Unruly for up to $176 million, the company said Wednesday. — “Unruly is a feisty and creative company with a start-up sensibility … | Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 9 for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch; many users reporting issue downloading the update — Apple releases iOS 9 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch — here's a full walkthrough of all the new features — After a few months in beta, Apple has today released iOS 9 to the world …
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ZDNet, AppleInsider, iMore, The Verge, Fortune, Search Engine Land, SiliconANGLE, SlashGear, Computerworld, Gigaom, eWeek, MacRumors, Ars Technica, Business Insider, TechCrunch, The Next Web, BGR and Wall Street Journal. Thanks:@apollozac
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