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Inside Sequoia's Scouts, and a list of the program's 70+ well-connected entrepreneurs and academics using capital from Sequoia to fund startups — Secretive, Sprawling Network of ‘Scouts’ Spreads Money Through Silicon Valley — Sequoia Capital has funneled millions of dollars to scores …
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| Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: |
Watchmaker Fossil Group to acquire Misfit for $260M; Fossil expects to incorporate Misfit's tech into traditional watches as soon as 2016 — Fossil Group to Buy Misfit for $260 Million … Watchmaker Fossil Group Inc. has agreed to acquire startup Misfit Inc., a maker of wearable fitness trackers, for $260 million.
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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Beats Music confirms it will fade out on November 30th — Now that Apple Music is firmly in place (and even on Android) it's time for Beats Music to go. An app update back in June greased the skids and an updated support page — as well as emails going out to Sonos users reiterating …
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
YouTube Music standalone app launches on iOS and Android; YouTube Red subscribers get offline listening and no ads — YouTube Music is here, and it's a game changer — YouTube is first and foremost a video portal, the world's largest and most popular online collection of moving images.
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OneNote can now record audio on iOS, embed videos on Windows, attach files on OneNote Online, more — OneNote in November—Embed video, record audio, insert files and more — It's been a big month for OneNote with updates across our web app to mobile devices to desktop.
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| Ben Woods / The Next Web: |
Amazon launches Pantry to deliver groceries in the UK, but only to Prime members — Amazon has launched a new delivery option for Prime subscribers in the UK today called Amazon Pantry. — The service, which follows trials a limited trial of AmazonFresh, has around 4,000 items available …
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Sources: Hulu in early talks to sell stake to Time Warner in deal valuing Hulu at $5B-$6B; Time Warner would invest cash, commit to license content — Hulu in Talks to Sell Stake to Time Warner — Deal could help streaming-video service compete with Netflix, Amazon| Ian Kar / Quartz: |
Sources: Apple partnering with banks for peer-to-peer payment program to avoid money transmitter licenses, company may use iMessage for money transfer — Apple is making a grab for Venmo's turf and might use iMessage to do it — Apple is wading into Venmo's main business … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Gmail Will Soon Warn Users When Emails Arrive Over Unencrypted Connections — Soon, you may see a warning in Gmail that tells you that an email has arrived over an unencrypted connection. — Gmail already defaults to using HTTPS for the connections between your browser and its servers …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Some apps installed from Mac App Store were temporarily unusable after Apple failed to renew security certificate — Some Mac App Store Apps ‘Damaged’ Due to Expired Security Certificates — A growing number of MacRumors readers and Twitter users have been experiencing an issue …
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Tweets: @tapbot_paul, @tapbot_paul and @allardice
| Greg Hartrell / Official Android Blog: |
Google Play Books improves comic book reading by adding vertical scrolling mode, curated pages for discovery, on Android in coming days, iOS soon — Solving the age-old question: Batman or Superman? — It's a multi-generational debate—are you team Batman or team Superman?| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
First Alert debuts Onelink, the first HomeKit-enabled smoke detector, available now from $109 — Apple's HomeKit now has a smoke detector to compete with Nest Protect — Nest is owned by Google, which means there's a chance its products will never integrate with Apple's smart home platform.
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