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Google acquires Fly Labs, maker of video editing iOS apps, to join its Photos team — Google Acquires Fly Labs To Join Its Photos Team — Today, Google acquired Fly Labs to join its Google Photos team. The company aimed to help people edit videos and photos and it sported 3 million downloads over the past 18 months.
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Fly Labs, The Verge, Android Beat, Phandroid, Pocket-lint, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, PhoneDog.com, TechnoBuffalo, The Next Web, Engadget, 9to5Google, Business Insider, Re/code, Android Central and VentureBeat. Tweets: @dflieb. Thanks:@alex
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PageFair anti-ad-blocking service was hacked a week ago, temporarily pushing malware to visitors of over 500 sites including the Economist — A prominent ad-blocker-blocker served malware to Economist readers — One of the web's most prominent ad-blocking tools has been serving malware to Economist readers.| Sean Farrell / Guardian: |
TalkTalk says 156,959 customers were affected by attack, or about 4% of its customer base including 15,656 whose bank account numbers and sort codes were hacked — Nearly 157,000 had data breached in TalkTalk cyber-attack — Company says over 15,000 also had financial details hacked … | Garett Sloane / Digiday: |
Sources: Instagram is testing ads that use 3D Touch and Apple Pay — Instagram's testing new ads that drive sales — Instagram doesn't want to be just a platform for pretty brand photos. It wants to prove it can drive sales, developing new ads that showcase a variety of product offerings …
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Gamergate film based on Zoe Quinn's memoir in the works from Amy Pascal's production company — Amy Pascal Wins Zoe Quinn's Gamergate Memoir ‘Crash Override’ — EXCLUSIVE: Amy Pascal's Pascal Pictures has won a bidding battle for Crash Override: How To Save The Internet From Itself …
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The Wrap, VentureBeat, Engadget, The Verge, GamesIndustry.biz, Re/code, Refinery29, GamePolitics and Polygon
Tweets: @thequinnspiracy, @mikeisaac, @samfbiddle and @patrickklepek
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FCC rejects petition to require services like Google, Facebook, YouTube, Pandora, Netflix, and LinkedIn to honor “Do Not Track” requests — Websites can keep ignoring “Do Not Track” requests after FCC ruling — Petition to impose Do Not Track requirements rejected by commission.
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Square sets IPO price range at $11-13 per share, at a valuation up to $4.19B, well below its last private round — Square sets IPO price range, would be valued below last private round — Payments company Square this morning filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission …
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Tweets: @levie, @benkepes and @sarahfrier
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Motorola Droid Turbo 2 review: truly shatterproof display, battery life of 36-40 hours, but low light camera results are inconsistent, and price is high at $624 — Motorola Droid Turbo 2 review — I'm biking through Brooklyn when the Droid Turbo 2 slips from my hand and smacks the pavement.| Reuters: |
Sources: Verizon weighs $10B sale of enterprise assets, which include the business formerly known as MCI and Terremark, its data center unit — Exclusive: Verizon weighing $10 billion sale of enterprise assets - sources — Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) is exploring a sale …
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
E-commerce startup Gumroad lays off most of its staff after failing to realize rapid growth, says it will stay in business — Layoffs Hit Gumroad As The Payments Startup Restructures — San Francisco startup Gumroad, which lets people sell products directly to consumers by way of quick and simple links …
Tweets: @amyhoy
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple debuts Shopping category on the App Store, helping spotlight apps that use Apple Pay and were formerly in the Lifestyle category — Apple Debuts A New “Shopping” Category On The App Store — Confirming earlier reports, Apple today is debuting a new category to its App Store … | Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: |
Alibaba reaches deal to buy online video service Youku Tudou, valuing the company at about $4.4B — Alibaba Reaches Deal to Buy Youku Tudou — Following an earlier approach, a raised bid secures a deal for the Chinese online video provider — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. said Friday … Sponsor Posts
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