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Nokia enters the digital health realm with $192 million acquisition of France's Withings — Nokia has today announced that it is acquiring Withings, the company behind a range of connected health products, including watches, fitness bands, sleep-trackers, thermometers, and scales.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple's Upgrade Program Now Available for iPhones Purchased Through Online Store — With the launch of the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, Apple introduced an iPhone Upgrade Program in the U.S. designed to let Apple customers pay a monthly installment fee for a new iPhone and trade it in after 12 months …
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| Gerry Smith / Bloomberg: |
Turner to launch ad-free subscription streaming video service, FilmStruck, this fall, to be managed by TCM and the Criterion Collection; price not yet finalized — Time Warner's Turner Appeals to Film Nerds With Web-Only Service — Ad-free FilmStruck will be managed by Turner Classic Movies
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Microsoft releases Skype for Business Mac Preview with Outlook calendar integration today, plans to add instant messaging, telephony, and more this summer — Microsoft introducing Skype for Business Mac Preview w/ Outlook calendar integration — Microsoft is getting serious with the Mac today …
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| Dan Frommer / Re/code: |
Analysts expect Apple to post its first quarterly year-over-year revenue decline today since 2003, down about 10% to $52B, driven by shrinking iPhone sales — Apple is about to post its first quarterly revenue decline since 2003 — Apple's incredible growth streak is expected to officially come …
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| Kane Wu / Wall Street Journal: |
Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial closes the world's largest private fundraising round for an Internet company at $4.5B, giving it a roughly $60B valuation — Alibaba Affiliate Ant Financial Raises $4.5 Billion in World's Largest Private Tech Funding Round — China's Ant Financial raises fresh funds at a roughly $60 billion valuation
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| Katie Roof / TechCrunch: |
Leaked Postmates financials show gross margins above 20%, doubling of revenues in six months ending Q1 2016 — Leaked Postmates financials suggest company might be doing better than everyone thought — Postmates, the delivery app, has almost become the poster child for struggling on-demand businesses.
Tweets: @rsarver
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
2016 MacBook review: Marginally better CPU, GPU and much better SSD than previous version, but expensive for features and performance it provides — Review: The 2016 Retina MacBook is a faster version of the same machine — Improved CPUs, GPUs, and SSDs are all welcome, but the core compromises remain.
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Google, Ford, Volvo, Uber, and Lyft join coalition to push federal action to help speed self-driving cars to market — Google, Ford, Uber join coalition to further self-driving cars — Alphabet Inc's Google unit (GOOGL.O), Ford Motor Co (F.N), the ride-sharing service Uber [UBER.UL] …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google updates Gmail app for Android with Microsoft Exchange support for all devices — Gmail for Android gets Microsoft Exchange support — Google today updated Gmail for Android with a very notable feature: support for Microsoft Exchange. You can download the latest version of the app … | Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News: |
Techmeme now publishing its events list in iCalendar format, letting readers subscribe to it in Google Calendar, Outlook.com calendar, and more — You can now add Techmeme's events list to your own calendar — As tech news events and industry conferences proliferate …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Hundreds of Spotify users' credentials appear online, and users report accounts hacked; Spotify denies being hacked — Hundreds of Spotify credentials appear online - users report accounts hacked, emails changed — A list containing hundreds of Spotify account credentials - including emails …
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