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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 … | 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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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, which included a long-awaited, new Apple TV. This week, Amazon has some TV box news of its own.
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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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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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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 … | Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
Updating to iOS 9 and El Capitan partially mitigates AirDrop exploit on iOS and OS X; otherwise disable AirDrop until patch issued — One Great Reason To Update To iOS 9 - A Nasty Silent AirDrop Attack Is In Town — It's another big Apple AAPL -0.04% launch week with iOS 9 landing today …
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Help Net Security, ZDNet, Wired, Threatpost, Silicon Republic, The Hacker News, Gizmodo, The Overspill, ReadWrite, Telegraph, BGR, Tech Insider, Tech Times, Ubergizmo, Pocketnow, The Stack, Wired.co.uk, Cult of Mac and Business Insider. Tweets: @jabolins
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| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
China asks US tech firms to pledge compliance for questionable practices including sharing user data and intellectual property — China Tries to Extract Pledge of Compliance From U.S. Tech Firms — HONG KONG — The Chinese government, which has long used its country's vast market as leverage …
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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 … | Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
Germany's HelloFresh raises $85M, values Rocket Internet company at $2.9B — Hello Fresh, the Berlin-based company that delivers meal kits and recipes to subscribers, announced today that it has raised another $85 million. — The company, which is a product of Germany's Rocket Internet's startup factory …
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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.
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Business Insider, Social Media Today, The Verge, WebProNews and BuzzFeed
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Leak of Amazon 10-inch Fire tablet shows repositioned front-facing cam, new button placement, lightweight UI, more — Amazon ten-inch Fire tablet leak hints at lightweight new UI — It's been about a year now since Amazon's last big refresh of its Fire tablet lineup …
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AFTVnews, Digital Trends, Good E-Reader and TechnoBuffalo
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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 … | Nathan Olivarez-Giles / Wall Street Journal: |
iRobot's WiFi-connected Roomba 980 maps your home via camera and can be controlled with an app, available in October for $900 — iRobot's Roomba 980 Maps Your Home Via Camera and Takes Smartphone Commands — iRobot Corp. decided to straighten its Roomba robot vacuum out.
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