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Sources: Russian government hackers had access to computer network of the Democratic National Committee for about a year, stole opposition research on Trump — Russian government hackers penetrated the computer network of the Democratic National Committee and gained access to the entire database …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Net neutrality and Title II win in court, as ISPs lose case against FCC — Appeals court decision upholds FCC's net neutrality order. — The broadband industry has lost its lawsuit attempting to overturn the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules and the related reclassification …
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OnePlus 3 review: excellent performance, 6GB of RAM, sharp 16MP camera, clean interface design, and fast battery charging; at $400, this is a great phone — With a new aluminum unibody design, the OnePlus 3 looks better than all of OnePlus' past devices (which either had a plastic or glass backing).| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Rhapsody rebrands itself as Napster, the service it acquired in 2011 — Rhapsody is part of the old guard of music streaming services, launched way back in 2001 as Listen.com. It never got the traction of it's rival Spotify, and is now competing against titans like Apple and Google as well.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook adds SMS support back to Facebook Messenger for Android after pulling it in 2012; SMS support is not currently planned for Messenger on iOS — Surround and conquer is Facebook's new strategy for getting people to switch from SMS to Messenger. You can now read and send old-school text messages …
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Zenefits is laying off 106 more employees, and will pay others to quit, following February's layoff of about 250 staff — The human resources startup Zenefits will shutter its remote sales office in Arizona, restructure its operational division, and offer to pay employees to quit … | Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times: |
LinkedIn's struggling stock price and its reliance on stock-based compensation may be a factor in its sale to Microsoft — “Let me explain why.” — Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn's chief executive, wrote a lengthy memorandum to his employees Monday morning, ticking off a list of reasons behind …
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Facebook now offers a Store Locator ad unit and tracks in-store visits and purchases through GPS, Wi-Fi, and a partnership with Square, with no user opt out — Facebook has found the Holy Grail of advertising in a set of new partnerships with point-of-sale systems like Square and Marketo …
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Twitter Ventures invests in SoundCloud; sources say investment is $70M in a round valuing SoundCloud at about $700M — Twitter wanted to buy the company a couple years ago; now it has invested $70 million instead. — Two years ago Twitter thought about buying SoundCloud, but ended up walking away from the music service.
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Sources: Uber has hired Morgan Stanley, Barclays PLC to sell a leveraged loan of $1B-$2B to institutional investors — Loan would bring to some $15 billion the funds the cash-hungry ride-sharing firm has raised — Uber Technologies Inc. is turning to the so-called leveraged-loan market … | Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 10 and tvOS ReplayKit API now allows live streaming from apps for gameplay and screencast videos — Apple introduced ReplayKit with iOS 9, allowing apps to offer users the ability to record and share gameplay or screencast videos directly from within the app.
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| Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / ZDNet: |
Around 40% of iPads in use will not be supported by iOS 10, according to Localytics, whereas all but the first-gen iPad supported iOS 9 — iPad sales have been declining for over two years, but iOS 10 could finally be the catalyst needed to trigger an wave of upgrades. Or it could push the iPad into irrelevance.
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Barefoot Networks, founded by Stanford professor Nick McKeown, plans to sell networking chips, discloses a $57M funding round led by Google and Goldman Sachs — Prof. Nick McKeown's Barefoot Networks to unveil programmable ultrafast chips for switching systems| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
iOS 10 Tidbits: Individual Read Receipts, Wake Alarm, Music Storage Optimization, and More — Apple today announced iOS 10, the next major version of its iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch software platform. The update is available in beta for Apple developers starting today …
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