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Apple to disable plug-ins like Flash, Java, Silverlight, and Quicktime by default in Safari 10, to focus on HTML5 content — In Safari 10, set to ship with macOS Sierra, Apple plans to disable common plug-ins like Adobe Flash, Java, Silverlight, and QuickTime by default in an effort to focus …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
AT&T brings WiFi calling to Android phones, starting with LG's G4, seven months after introducing it to iOS devices — AT&T is bringing Wi-Fi calling to Android devices, starting first with LG's G4. The company introduced the feature for iOS devices last October … | Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Fleksy announces its team is joining Pinterest, its keyboard app will remain in App Store, and it plans to open source some of its technology for the blind — Pinterest announced today that it has acquired the team behind the smart keyboard app Fleksy. The visual search engine company is not picking up the technology.
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Sources: Didi Chuxing raises $7B round, including the $1B announced by Apple, valuing it at over $25B — Ride-sharing company will have more than $10 billion in cash on hand to fend off U.S. competitor — HONG KONG—China's homegrown competitor to Uber Technologies Inc. has raised $7 billion … | Michael del Castillo / CoinDesk: |
Microsoft's Project Bletchley is an Azure-powered enterprise blockchain architecture with blockchain middleware and “cryptlets”, which can add info to contracts — Microsoft today unveiled a new project designed to make it easier for businesses across a wide range of industries …
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Dating app Bumble is partnering with Spotify so you can swipe based on someone's favorite music — Bumble, the fast growing female-led dating app, is partnering with Spotify. — Bumble users will soon have the option of connecting their dating profile to their Spotify account so it can include …
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YouTube debuts new tools for SMBs to make video ads, including Director, a free app with a number of templates and editing tools — YouTube wants to turn video ads on its platform into a DIY possibility for small- and medium-sized businesses. — Today, Google is launching three ways …
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Q&A with Apple's Iovine, Reznor, Cue, and Kondrk on Apple Music, Beats 1, and YouTube's “disingenuous” business model, and more — Eddy Cue, Apple senior vice president of internet software and services, helps introduce the new iOS software at an Apple event …
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| Morgen Peck / Backchannel: |
Profile of Vitalik Buterin, inventor of Ethereum, the cryptocurrency rivaling Bitcoin and inspiring a movement — Vitalik Buterin invented the world's hottest new cryptocurrency and inspired a movement—before he'd turned 20. — I met Vitalik Buterin for the first time in Miami, during a Bitcoin conference in 2014.
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Sources: Tencent nears $9B+ deal to buy Clash of Clans maker Supercell Oy from SoftBank; deal could be disclosed as early as next week — Transaction would exceed $9 billion — HONG KONG— Tencent Holdings Ltd. is nearing a more than $9 billion deal to buy Supercell Oy …
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
IBM, The Weather Company use machine learning to create hyper-local, short-term weather forecasts with a resolution of between 0.2-1.2 miles — Their new, hyper-local predictive model, called Deep Thunder, will use historical weather data to train machine learning models.
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| Bloomberg: |
Dropbox says it is now cash-flow positive but not profitable, not in rush to IPO — Drew Houston said at the Bloomberg Technology Conference that the company is cash-flow positive. — Since attaining a $10 billion valuation from investors in 2014, Dropbox Inc. has become a symbol of unicorn startup exuberance.
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| 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.
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| Kate Conger / TechCrunch: |
Apple says apps submitted to App Store must enforce App Transport Security by Jan. 1, 2017 — During a security presentation at Apple's Worldwide Developers' Conference, the company revealed the deadline for all apps in its App Store to switch on an important security feature called App Transport Security — January 1, 2017.
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