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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 …
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| Megan Geuss / Ars Technica: |
Amazon announces $50 7" Fire tablet, available in a six-pack for $250, and updated versions of Fire HD 8, HD 10, Kids Edition tablets, all shipping in October — Amazon introduces a slew of cheap tablets starting at $50, upgraded Fire TV — New devices include a bargain basement 7-inch tablet, as predicted.| Susan Decker / Bloomberg Business: |
Federal appeals court rules Apple was entitled to block Samsung from using Apple's patented slide-to-unlock, autocorrect, and quicklinks features — Apple Wins Ruling to Force Samsung to Change Products — Apple Inc. won an appeals court ruling that may force Samsung Electronics Co …
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Facebook launches Signal, a discovery and curation tool for journalists to find and embed content from Facebook and Instagram — Introducing Signal for Facebook and Instagram — By Andy Mitchell, Director of Media Partnerships — We've heard from journalists that they want an easy …
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See also Mediagazer| Roger Parloff / Fortune: |
Apple will ask Supreme Court to hear its ebooks price-fixing case — Defying the expectations and desires of some—who thought it might be time to move on—Apple AAPL will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a federal judge's finding that it conspired to fix the prices of ebooks …
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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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See also Mediagazer| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
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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Marketing Land, CNET, Pinterest Blog, Social Media Today, VentureBeat, PYMNTS.com and WebProNews
| 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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Wall Street Journal, Computerworld, SiliconBeat, GeekWire, PC Magazine, Engadget, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, InvestorPlace, TechnoBuffalo, Re/code, SlashGear, Wearable Tech Insider, Digital Trends, Wired.co.uk, Pocketnow, Fortune, Tech Times, Fone Arena, VatorNews, Mashable, Entrepreneur, Android Authority, Wareable, Pocket-lint, MobileSyrup.com, The Next Web, Phandroid, Android Central, The Verge, Seeking Alpha and 9to5Google. Thanks:@lexnfx
| 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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9to5Mac, eWeek, iMore, Macworld, ZDNet, SlashGear, iPhone Hacks, Ubergizmo, Pocketnow, TechnoBuffalo, Tech Times, AppleInsider and Ubergizmo
| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Software needed to run every Google internet service 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 …
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| Kyle Cheney / Politico: |
Carly Fiorina's record as CEO at HP assailed during second Republican debate — Trump and Fiorina pummel each other over business record — The two CEOs on the Republican debate stage — Donald Trump and Carly Fiorina — took turns thrashing each other's business records … | Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
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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Re/code, Quartz, AdExchanger, Gizmodo, Gigaom, International Business Times, TechCrunch, Guardian, Marketing Land, The Verge, BGR, CNET, Tech Insider, BetaNews, The Next Web, The Loop, Lifehacker, Business Insider, iMore, Macworld, Pocketnow and MacStories
Tweets: @alexeheath, @marcoarment, @rjonesy, @craigmod, @lukebrewster, @stop, @mims and @dannysullivan
| 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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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Website-to-app converter platform DWNLD raises $12M Series A round led by Greylock Partners — DWNLD, The Easy-Bake Oven For Apps, Picks Up $12M In Series A — DWNLD, the publishing platform that takes any website and seamlessly turns it into an app, has today announced the close …
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VentureBeat, Business Insider and Greylock Partners
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
F-Secure report says Russian government behind widespread seven-year Duke malware campaign, which targeted NATO governments — A new report ties the Russian government to a seven-year malware campaign — A new report from F Secure has found evidence that the Russian government is behind … | Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Snapchat signs one-year deal with NFL, will curate Live Stories including league and fan content; both Snapchat and NFL will sell ads and split revenue — Snapchat Inks NFL Deal to Bring Football Into Its Live Stories — Are you ready for some football? Snapchat is!| 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 … | Wall Street Journal: |
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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