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Sources: Apple Pay coming to mobile websites, will be available to Safari users on iPad and iPhone with Touch ID this year — Apple Pay Coming to Mobile Websites Before Holiday Shopping Season — Apple Pay is finally ready to move beyond apps. — Apple has been telling potential partners … | Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Sources: Google building Periscope-like live streaming app YouTube Connect for iOS and Android — Google is building YouTube Connect, a live streaming app to take on Periscope — Google has quietly been building a new live streaming app called YouTube Connect, VentureBeat has learned.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google debuts Cloud Machine Learning Platform to assist in developing pre-trained machine learning models and building new models from scratch — Google launches new machine learning platform — Google today announced a new machine learning platform for developers at its NEXT Google Cloud Platform user conference in San Francisco.
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Google Cloud Platform Blog, SiliconANGLE, Google Research Blog, International Business Times, Light Reading, Fortune, The Tech Portal, Kubernetes, eWeek, Google Cloud Platform Blog, Tech Trader Daily, ITworld.com, InfoWorld, The Next Web, Silicon Republic, 9to5Google, The Register, VentureBeat and The Verge. Tweets: @googlecloud
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Sony forms mobile gaming firm ForwardWorks to make PlayStation games for iOS and Android devices in Asia — Sony announces plans to make PlayStation games for iOS and Android — It looks like Sony will follow Nintendo's cue and focus on mobile gaming. The company announced today … | Steve Kovach / Tech Insider: |
Pebble lays off 40 employees, about 25% of staff, blames tough fundraising climate, has raised $26M over last 8 months on top of $20M Kickstarter campaign — Smartwatch company Pebble is laying off 25% of its staff — Pebble, the buzzy startup credited for being one of the first companies …
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Thanks:@alexeheath| AppleInsider: |
Apple's iPhone SE and 9.7-inch iPad Pro now available for preorder in 13 territories — As previously announced, Apple on Thursday activated online preorder sales for its new 4-inch iPhone SE and 9.7-inch iPad Pro in 13 territories, including key markets in North America, Europe and Asia.
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| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Rising prices, declining service, and shifting business models signal that other on-demand companies can't duplicate Uber's unique success — The Uber Model, It Turns Out, Doesn't Translate — In San Francisco, as in most cities, parking is an expensive daily grind that saps the soul.
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| Itika Sharma Punit / Quartz: |
Uber sues India competitor Ola, alleges it booked over 400K fake rides from 90K spam accounts, seeks $7.4M in damages — Uber sues Ola for allegedly using the same dirty tricks Uber was accused of using on Lyft and Gett — The race in the Indian taxi app business may have entered a second—and more intense—lap.| Karissa Bell / Mashable: |
Facebook impersonation tool is now live in 75% of the world, alerting users when their names and profile pictures are being used by someone else — Facebook is testing a feature that alerts you if someone is impersonating your account — Facebook is working on a new tool to help stem one source of harassment on its platform.| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Apple is selling Microsoft Office 365 as an accessory for the iPad Pro — Apple wants the iPad Pro to replace Windows, and to convince customers it's bringing in a familiar face or two: Microsoft's Office Suite. As part of the ordering process for the new iPad Pro, buyers are given the option … | Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Report: Apple is developing at least six cloud infrastructure projects, driven partly by the suspicion that servers from third parties can be compromised — Report: Apple developing at least 6 cloud infrastructure projects incl. servers to prevent snooping
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| Kwame Opam / The Verge: |
Pornhub launches new channel devoted to VR porn, offers free 180-degree, 360-degree content — Pornhub launches a new channel devoted to VR porn — Pornhub, one of the largest porn sites online, has just launched a new section devoted to VR porn. The company is partnering …
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