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Walmart announces its mobile payment service Walmart Pay, will be introduced in select US stores on Thursday and nationwide by the first half of 2016 — Wal-Mart enters mobile payment with launch of Walmart Pay — Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) said it would launch 'Walmart Pay …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Widens Its Advertising Net, Tests Promoted Tweets With Logged-Out Users — It's been over a year since Twitter first said it planned to monetize logged-out users — that is, make money off the 500 million or so people who dip in and read Tweets without being signed in or even registered.| Deepak Rao / The Twitter Blog: |
Testing Promoted Tweets on our logged-out experience — Earlier this year we broadened the availability of ad syndication, so that marketers can —with a single click — expand their campaigns from Twitter to a much larger audience. Now, we're taking this a step further with a test …
| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
Apple's 2015 apps of the year include Periscope for iPhone, Robot Factory for iPad, HBO Now for Apple TV, Dark Sky for Apple Watch, and Affinity Photo for Mac — Apple Publishes Best of 2015 App Store Lists for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV — Early this morning …
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Google launches new Data Loss Prevention tool for Google Apps Unlimited users to help keep sensitive information out of emails — New Google Apps Feature Helps Businesses Keep Sensitive Information Out Of Emails — Google is launching a new privacy tool for Google Apps Unlimited users today.| Reuters: |
Samsung Electronics to form automotive team with initial focus on infotainment, autonomous driving — Samsung Electronics to form auto team in search of growth driver — * Initial focus on infotainment, autonomous driving — * Firm in need of growth driver as smartphones falter …
| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
YouTube's new Trending tab shows you viral videos “as they take off”, on iOS, Android, and desktop — YouTube's new trending tab shows you viral videos ‘as they take off’ — YouTube has long showcased popular videos on its homepage. Now, the company's algorithm … | Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
Google publishes results for its D-Wave 2X quantum computer, says tests show it performs 100M times faster than conventional computing for some problems — Google's quantum computer can blitz a normal PC - but it's not ready for production just yet — Google's latest tests show there's light …
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| Ariel / appFigures: |
One month in, Apple TV App Store has 2,624 apps, with games the single largest category with 1,002 apps — Everything You Need to Know About the New Apple TV App Store — The long awaited Apple TV App Store opened about a month ago, and since we happen to be into apps that got us pretty excited.
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| Patrick Howell O'Neill / The Daily Dot: |
Senator Dianne Feinstein to seek legislation to “pierce” through encryption with warrant, working with Judiciary Committee Chairman Richard Burr, others — Top Democratic senator will seek legislation to ‘pierce’ through encryption — A leading Democratic senator …
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| Ryan Barnes / SwiftKey Blog: |
SwiftKey Symbols, a symbol-based communications app for people with special needs, available for Android — SwiftKey launches SwiftKey Symbols: an assistive app for good — Today we're releasing SwiftKey Symbols, a symbol-based assistive communication app, running on Android, targeted at … | Andy Weir / Neowin: |
Automattic releases new WordPress.com desktop app for Windows, says number of Windows users is twice that of Mac and Linux combined — WordPress.com launches new app for Windows — WordPress is the world's most popular blogging platform, and WordPress.com is where tens of millions … | Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Verizon to start testing sponsored data in coming days, allowing a third party to pay for data consumed when accessing certain content, commercial launch in Q1 — Verizon to Start Testing ‘Toll-Free’ Data in Coming Days — Verizon plans in the next few days to start testing so-called sponsored data …
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