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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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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.
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Facebook testing news feed update on mobile that shows cached stories on poor connections, particularly on 2G; starts rolling out offline commenting — Facebook to show cached stories on poor connections, allow offline commenting — Facebook announced late Wednesday that it's testing tweaks …
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| 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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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 … | 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 …
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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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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.| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Product Hunt launches redesigned iPhone app with 3D Touch, podcast playback, better discovery, more — Originally launched as a way to vote on new technology products, Product Hunt has since greatly expanded to include media like podcasts and books as well as games and other content.
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| Elyse Betters / Pocket-lint: |
Flickr VR app for Gear VR lets you jump into 360-degree immersive photos — Flickr has let people upload 360-degree photos for awhile now, but now it allows anyone to totally immerse themselves in them. — That's right. Starting today, you can experience Flickr in virtual reality. Sort of.
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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 … | 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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| 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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