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| Leena Rao / Fortune: |
Sources: Jawbone is trying to sell its wireless speaker business, will focus on health and wearables — Fitness tracker maker Jawbone has put its speaker business up for sale, according to multiple sources. — The company has been pitching potential buyers for its Jambox wireless speaker business … | Steve Kovach / Tech Insider: |
Sources: Jawbone has stopped making UP fitness trackers, sold the remaining inventory to a reseller at a discount to raise cash — Jawbone has stopped making its UP fitness trackers and sold its remaining inventory to a third-party reseller, sources familiar with the matter told Tech Insider.
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Facebook starts selling offsite ads targeting non-users too — Facebook's advertising network is already a colossal business — it helped the social network bring in over $5 billion in revenue in its most recent quarter alone — but it is about to take a step towards become …
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See also Mediagazer| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Investigation of SWIFT breach expands to 12 more banks; Symantec corroborates BAE's report that hackers used code similar to North Korean Sony hack — Symantec becomes the second firm to link the hack to the Sony Pictures attack. — The investigation into the attempted $1 billion electronic heist …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google app on iOS gets faster load times, AMP articles in search, keyboard shortcuts, more — Faster load and search times are the highlight feature of an update to the Google app on iOS. Like on the mobile web and Android, AMP articles will now show up in search results.
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| Nick Denton / Gawker: |
Nick Denton challenges Peter Thiel to a public debate in open letter, says decade-long campaign by Thiel is out of proportion, asks about ultimate intent — Nearly a decade ago, after you had opened up to friends and colleagues, a gay writer for Gawker shared an item with the readers of Valleywag …
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See also Mediagazer| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Hacker behind LinkedIn's 117M e-mail database claims to have 360M Myspace user emails with passwords — There's an oft-repeated adage in the world of cybersecurity: There are two types of companies, those that have been hacked, and those that don't yet know they have been hacked.
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Facebook and Microsoft partner to lay highest capacity transatlantic internet cable yet, connecting Virginia and Spain with a bandwidth of 160Tbps — Facebook and Microsoft are laying a massive Internet cable across the middle of the Atlantic. — Dubbed MAREA—Spanish for “tide” …
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| The Intercept: |
Sen. Wyden: this year's annual intelligence authorization, just passed in Senate committee and not yet public, allows FBI warrantless access to email records — A provision snuck into the still-secret text of the Senate's annual intelligence authorization would give the FBI the ability … | Barb Darrow / Fortune: |
Intel buys computer vision company Itseez, co-founded by two former Intel researchers, in IoT and autonomous car push — Chip maker Intel, in its bid to expand from its core PC and server business to all manner of devices, is buying Itseez, a machine vision specialist co-founded by two former Intel techies.| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
Jury in Oracle suit unanimously finds Google's use of Java APIs in Android was fair use; Oracle vows to appeal — Oracle has spent many millions trying to get a chunk of Android, to no avail. — SAN FRANCISCO—Following a two-week trial, a jury has found that Google's Android operating system does …
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| Evan Blass / VentureBeat: |
ZTE launches 5.5-inch Google Daydream-ready Axon 7 for $450 alongside its first VR headset — ZTE has launched its second Axon-branded flagship, the Axon 7, alongside a compatible virtual reality headset, known as ZTE VR. The 5.5-inch, Android 6. Marshmallow-powered handset aims to deliver top …
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| Nick Summers / Engadget: |
UK carrier Three to test 24 hour, opt-in, network level mobile ad blocking during the week of June 13 — Three will soon trial network-level ad blocking in the UK. Such a move was telegraphed back in February, when the carrier inked a deal with Shine, a company that specialises in the practice.
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