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January 6, 2016, 7:30 PM
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Apple announces record $1.1B App Store sales during holiday season, $20B during 2015, and has paid developers $40B since 2008 — Record-Breaking Holiday Season for the App Store — App Store Has Now Paid Developers Nearly $40B and Continues to Drive Incredible Job Growth
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Pre-orders open for Oculus Rift consumer edition, on sale for $599, shipping in March; orders already backlogged until May — Virtually a reality: Oculus Rift goes on sale for $599 — Pre-orders are open ahead of March ship date for consumer version — After dozens of trade-show demos …
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| Natt Garun / The Next Web: |
Netflix expands to 130 new countries including India, Vietnam, Turkey, South Korea, Poland, and Russia, but not China; stock up over 7% — Netflix officially arrives in India, Russia, Vietnam and more - totaling 130 new countries — At the opening keynote at CES, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings …
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See also Mediagazer| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Entrepreneurs and investors turn to bots in messaging platforms to disrupt web services, apps, and search — The search for the killer bot — The first bot I ever befriended went by the name of GooglyMinotaur. The Minotaur appeared in 2001 to promote Amnesiac, the latest album from Radiohead … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Facebook giving some developers access to Chat SDK to build bots in Messenger for shopping, booking travel, more — Facebook's Secret Chat SDK Lets Developers Build Messenger Bots — M won't be the only artificial intelligence on Facebook Messenger.
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Mashable, Seeking Alpha, The Verge, Social Media Today, The Next Web, The Tech Portal, Engadget, Gizmodo, The Stack, Business Insider, NFC World+ and WebProNews
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Snapchat is shutting down its lens store on Friday, only two months after its launch — Snapchat is killing its lens store — We barely knew Snapchat's lens store, and it's already time to say goodbye. The social media platform is shutting down the store on Friday, only two months after its launch.
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TechCrunch, MacNN, The Daily Dot, Fortune, BuzzFeed, The Next Web, PhoneDog.com, Engadget, Digiday, iPhone Hacks, Mashable, SocialTimes, ECPM BLOG and Business Insider. Tweets: @joshconstine
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| Johana Bhuiyan / BuzzFeed: |
Uber agrees to overhaul privacy and security practices and pay a $20K fine in settlement over “God View” with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman — Uber Settles With New York Attorney General Over “God View” Tracking Program — The ride-hailing company agrees to overhaul … | Owen Williams / The Next Web: |
Microsoft will stop supporting Internet Explorer 8, 9, and 10 on January 12 — Web developers rejoice; Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 die on Tuesday — Internet Explorer has long been the bane of many Web developers' existence, but here's some news to brighten your day: Internet Explorer 8 …
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| Eva Dou / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple has cut order forecasts to iPhone suppliers in past several months — Apple Scales Back Orders for Its iPhones — Component suppliers that rode the iPhone's boom are now bracing for lower sales — BEIJING— Apple Inc. is scaling back orders for its iPhones …
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Tweets: @scottthurm and @edbott
| Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
Dell unveils refreshed Latitude 7000 series of business notebooks with Core M and Core i7 options, USB Type-C, lighter frame, starting from $1,079-$1299 — Dell refreshes Latitude 7000 line, adds USB Type-C and a hint of style — After refreshing the 5000 work notebook series, Dell is back with new 7000s too.
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Tango, the faltering messaging app unicorn, gets a new CEO in co-founder and former CTO, Eric Setton — Faltering Messaging App Unicorn Tango Gets A New CEO To Turn Things Around — Fresh from laying off 9 percent of its 200 staff and closing down its e-commerce service at the end of 2015 … | Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Indiegogo announces Enterprise Crowdfunding for big companies like GE and Hasbro to test and launch new products — Indiegogo Now Wants Fortune 500 Companies To Create Pre-Order Campaigns — Indiegogo has historically been about helping the young and scrappy entrepreneur to put their idea …
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Computerworld, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, The Verge, BetaNews, Engadget, CNET, CNET and Crowdfund Insider
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
David Chaum, known for inventing cryptographic protocols, introduces PrivaTegrity, an encryption scheme for messaging with a “carefully controlled backdoor” — The Father of Online Anonymity Has a Plan to End the Crypto War — It's been more than 30 years since David Chaum launched …
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Yuneec unveils six rotor Typhoon H drone for $1,799, which shoots 4K video and 12MP stills, has ultrasonic proximity detection to avoid collisions — Yuneec's new Typhoon H drone is the biggest challenge yet to DJI's supremacy — For the past three years our favorite drone has consistently been produced by one company, DJI.
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PR Newswire, Tech Times, SlashGear and Engadget
| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Double Robotics unveils a faster telepresence robot with an attachable camera — Double Robotics has introduced the next generation of its telepresence robot for the enterprise. Called the Double 2, this $2,499 robot comes equipped with better controls for navigating around common floor obstacles …
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