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Amazon to stop selling Apple TV and Google Chromecast Oct. 29 as devices don't allow for Amazon Prime video streaming; Roku, Xbox, PlayStation sales unaffected — Amazon Will Ban Sale of Apple, Google Video-Streaming Devices — Amazon.com Inc. is flexing its e-commerce muscles to gain …
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See also Mediagazer| Nathan Donato-Weinstein / SV Business Journal: |
Sources: Apple to lease planned curvaceous 777K-square-foot office project at Central and Wolfe in Sunnyvale — Second Apple “spaceship” to land in Sunnyvale — deal sealed with Landbank Investments (Slideshow) — Apple Inc. has landed its second spaceship — this time, in Sunnyvale …
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| Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post: |
Peeple, a Yelp-like app that lets you rate other people with no opt out, faces backlash before potential November release — Everyone you know will be able to rate you on the terrifying ‘Yelp for people’ — whether you want them to or not — You can already rate restaurants, hotels …
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| Darren Orf / Gizmodo: |
LG V10 hands-on: solid build quality, second screen proves to be useful but awkwardly placed — LG's V10 Smartphone Is One Big Handful of Weird, But I Kind Of Love It — How do you make a smartphone different? Over the past decade, smartphones have evolved so that there's little room for surprise anymore.| Brian X. Chen / New York Times: |
Tests of top 50 news sites with three ad-blockers on iPhone show significant decrease in load times for many sites, modest increase in battery life — Putting Mobile Ad Blockers to the Test — To block ads or not to block ads on your mobile device? That's the philosophical dilemma …
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See also Mediagazer| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
New Stagefright Bugs Leave More Than 1 Billion Android Users Vulnerable — In July, a security researcher revealed that Android phones could be hacked with a simple text, thanks to a series of bugs in the Android operating system that are now commonly known as Stagefright.
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| Robin Wauters / Tech.eu: |
My advice for startups: don't attend Web Summit, which relies on deceptive sales and marketing practices — Is Web Summit a scam? Well, if you have to ask ... After Neil's opinion piece about some of Web Summit's practices, the event organiser responded on its blog. In a way that triggered this response from us.| Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
Lithium Technologies shuts down Klout Perks, but will honor remaining commitments — Klout Perks Is No More — Sad news for those who like free stuff - Klout Perks, the swag offered by social media scoring platform Klout, has quietly shut down. Lithium Technologies … | Hannah Kuchler / Financial Times: |
Sources: Snapchat to sell “sponsored lenses” for selfies which will cost advertisers up to $750K for peak days like Halloween, Thanksgiving, or Black Friday — Snapchat to launch new advertising format — Snapchat is preparing to launch a new advertising format that will allow brands …
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Amazon adds 11 partners, including Samsung, GE, and August, to its Dash Replenishment Service, which lets connected devices automatically reorder supplies — Amazon's Supply Reordering Service Gets Integrated In Nearly A Dozen More Household Devices From GE, Samsung, Oster And More
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| Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal: |
Alphabet using Nest, with its own infrastructure, recruiters, marketing, legal teams, as a model for its other projects to maintain efficiency of a startup — At Google, Breathing Room for New Ideas — Nest Labs unit insisted on autonomy, and is now a model for Alphabet Inc. reorganization
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| Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal: |
A growing number of new media companies like Vice Media, BuzzFeed, and Vox Media are avoiding automated ad sales from third-party firms — Publishers That Say No to Automated Ad Sales — Some websites believe they can make more money on their own and reduce annoyance
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| Reem Nasr / CNBC: |
Experian reports data breach affecting personal information including social security numbers of about 15M T-Mobile customers — Experian reports data breach; more than 15M T-Mobile customers affected — Global information services group Experian announced that one of its business units has been hacked.
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