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Uber launches on-demand delivery service UberRush, goes live in Chicago and San Francisco — Uber Expands Its Same-Day Delivery Service: 'It's No Longer an Experiment' — Local delivery is one of the most crowded spaces in tech right now, and ride-hailing giant Uber wants a piece of it.
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| Praveen Maloo / Office Blogs: |
Skype for Business iOS app comes out of preview, Android public release later this year — Skype for Business iOS app now available — It's never been more important to be able to get work done and collaborate with others from anywhere—be it participating in an important meeting …
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| Fred Imbert / CNBC: |
Twitter appoints former Google chief business officer Omid Kordestani as executive chairman — Twitter names Omid Kordestani as executive chairman — Twitter named Omid Kordestani, Google's chief business officer, as its new executive chairman on Wednesday.
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| Andrew Chung / Reuters: |
Jury finds Apple infringes University of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation patents on chip technology, faces $862M in damages — Apple loses patent lawsuit to University of Wisconsin, faces hefty damages — Apple Inc could be facing up to $862 million in damages after a U.S. jury …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Loan Platform Kabbage Raises $135M At A $1B Valuation, Grows Credit Line to $900M — Kabbage — the online platform that loans money to businesses and individuals using a wide set of online data and algorithms to measure credit-worthiness — is growing once more.
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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
AT&T to launch NumberSync, a service that lets multiple devices share one phone number, removing friction from owning multiple devices with cellular — AT&T Readies Technology to Let Multiple Devices Share One Phone Number — AT&T is nearly ready to launch a feature that will allow …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LivingSocial Lays Off 200, 20% Of Staff, As It Shifts From Deals To ‘Experiences’ — Its been crunch time for daily deals sites for a while now, and today one of the bigger and older of those platforms is announcing a round of layoffs as it looks to cut costs, reorganise its operations, and push itself into profitability.
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| Benedict Evans: |
The implications of mobile operating systems controlled by Apple and Google succeeding the neutral web browser as the primary platform for Internet services — Mobile is not a neutral platform — For a decade or two, for most people ‘the internet’ meant a web browser, a mouse and a keyboard.
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Beyond Search, THE EQUITY KICKER and The Overspill
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Study finds Uber displacing cabs in Manhattan, supplementing them in outer boroughs, not increasing city congestion — Uber Is Taking Millions Of Manhattan Rides Away From Taxis — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio took aim at Uber this summer, trying (and failing) … | Ben Kepes / Computerworld: |
EverString raises $65M to deliver predictive analytics to B2B — One of the more generously funded areas in the technology industry is predictive analytics. Depending on your perspective that is either a frothy bubble just waiting to burst or an indication of a massive market opportunity that people are jumping to get on board with.
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| Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
August announces partner app integrations, new $299 smart lock with Siri support, $79 smart keypad, $199 doorbell cam, preorders today, shipping in 4-8 weeks — August announces Siri-enabled smart locks and a doorbell camera — August, the San Francisco-based maker of smart door locks … | Steven Levy / Backchannel: |
How Apple designs, prototypes, and tests Macintosh accessories inside its Input Design Lab — What I Saw Inside Apple's Top-Secret Input Lab — An exclusive look at how Macintosh accessories are prototyped and tested — Insiders call it Vallco Parkway.
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BGR, Engadget, SlashGear, Gizmodo, iMore, Tech Insider, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Daring Fireball, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacStories and Cult of Mac
| Jay Greene / The Seattle Times: |
Amazon shuts down Destinations hotel booking service six months after launching it — Amazon closes its Destinations travel service — The service was launched just six months ago, selling close-to-home vacations and featuring destinations within a customer's driving distance.
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