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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
HTC's One A9 has a high-quality look and feel, similar to an iPhone, available this November for $399 with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage — HTC's One A9 is a $399 iPhone running Android 6.0 — The HTC One M9 introduced earlier this year was a disappointment, both to fans of high-end smartphones and, consequently, to HTC itself.
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| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Nexus 5X review: great value, quick and accurate fingerprint sensor, but mediocre battery, and no microSD card slot — Nexus 5X review: Google's triumphant return to smaller, cheaper phones — While the Nexus 6 received plenty of praise when it debuted last year, it also got its fair share of flack.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Yahoo and Google make search deal: Yahoo will call on Google to provide some results and ads for Yahoo search queries — Yahoo reaches search deal with Google after loosening Microsoft ties … BREAKING NEWS: Yahoo just announced a search deal with Google, taking advantage an earlier revision …
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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Uber nabs Jill Hazelbaker, the Snapchat communications head poached from Google just one year ago, to be VP of communications and public policy — Uber Nabs Snapchat Communications Head Hazelbaker for Key Policy and PR Role — Jill Hazelbaker, the high-profile Google communications … | Joe Palazzolo / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple tells federal judge it's impossible to access user data on locked iPhone running iOS 8 or higher — Apple Tells Judge It Can't Unlock New iPhones — Apple Inc. told a federal judge that it “would be impossible” to access user data on a locked iPhone running one of the newer operating systems …
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Sky-high valuations begin to backfire on some Silicon Valley companies trying to raise more money or go public — Tech Startups Feel an IPO Chill — Sky-high valuations are starting to backfire on some Silicon Valley companies that are trying to raise more money or go public; Dropbox stalls
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook rolls out instant articles to all iOS users and announces an Android beta — Five months after introducing its fast-loading instant articles into the News Feed, Facebook is now rolling out the format to all iPhone users, the company said today. Speaking at The Wall Street Journal's …
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| Ravi Somaiya / New York Times: |
New York Times partners with Google on virtual reality project, will distribute over 1M cardboard VR viewers to subscribers, and will release new VR film — The Times Partners With Google on Virtual Reality Project — The New York Times announced on Tuesday a virtual reality project …
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| Brad Smith / Microsoft on the Issues: |
Microsoft outlines four-step proposal in wake of Safe Harbor decision, to balance privacy, a global Internet, and public safety, in a new legal framework — The collapse of the US-EU Safe Harbor: Solving the new privacy Rubik's Cube — When people who care about technology look back at the year 2015 …
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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg Business: |
Former YouTube exec's startup, Krypton, now valued at $400M, has raised at least $25M to compete against Microsoft Office; latest round led by Khosla Ventures — Former YouTube Exec's Startup Said to Be Valued at $400 Million — Krypton plans to create a mobile Microsoft Office competitior
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| Office Blogs: |
OneNote adds support for FiftyThree's Pencil stylus on iPad, announces Ink Shape Recognition feature coming in November — OneNote partners with FiftyThree to support Pencil and Paper, plus Shape Recognition coming soon — Digital handwriting—or inking as we like to call it …
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| Charles Arthur / The Overspill: |
Google's growing problem: 50% of people do zero searches per day on mobile — Amit Singhal in 2011 showing a comparison of search volumes from mobile and “early desktop years”. Photo by Niall Kennedy on Flickr. — Amit Singhal, Google's head of search, let slip a couple of interesting statistics … | Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
Collective Health Closes On $81 Million, Adds Google Ventures To List Of High-Profile Investors — Enterprise health insurance services platform Collective Health has raised a healthy $81 million in Series C funding to help the startup continue to grow its team as well as cover the U.S. market.| Andy / TorrentFreak: |
BrowserPopcorn Shut Down By the MPAA, Dev Says — Last Friday, TorrentFreak was contacted by Milan Kragujevi, a web developer with a brand new service up his sleeve. As the name implies, BrowserPopcorn.xyz looked very similar to the Popcorn Time application that has gained so much publicity in recent times.
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BGR, Motherboard, The Verge, Network World, Plagiarism Today, Fortune, Gizmodo, TechSpot and SiliconANGLE. Tweets: @mathewi
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
New Android phones and tablets that ship with Marshmallow must enable full-disk encryption by default if their AES crypto perfomance exceeds 50 MiB/s — Android 6.0 re-implements mandatory storage encryption for new devices — As long as you meet the minimum speed requirements, that is.Sponsor Posts
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