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| Tyler Kugler / Official Android Blog: |
Google brings Project Fi subscribers high speed data service in over 135 countries — When you're traveling abroad, your phone is an essential tool - for finding a great restaurant, posting pics of your trip online, or translating a sign. But the data we have access to when traveling abroad often … | Greg Barbosa / 9to5Mac: |
Pokémon Go on iOS update fixes Google account permissions issue, which had originally requested full account access at log-in, and addresses crashing bugs — Pokémon GO has just received an update on iOS that will hopefully address some of the biggest complaints it has received in the past week.
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| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
Niantic CEO John Hanke interview: Pokémon Go's goals are to nudge players to exercise, explore real world, and team up — On Saturday night, my girlfriend and I snuck away from the cocktail reception at a charity dinner because “Pokémon Go” informed us there might be a Pikachu nearby, and we were on the hunt.
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Washington Post, Recode, Techdirt, Washington Post, Engadget, Mashable, Digital Trends, CNET, Vox, AppleInsider, Trail of Bits Blog, Forbes, The Verge, The FADER, Engadget, TIME, New York Times, Tech Insider, Singularity HUB, Bloomberg, ExtremeTech, Silicon Valley Business …, Wired, Techmamas, SiliconANGLE, 9to5Mac and Fusion. Tweets: @sub8u. Thanks:@mattrosoff
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Gartner and IDC numbers show PC shipments grew year-over-year in the US in Q2 2016 but declined worldwide — It's not all doom and gloom in the PC world... for once. Both Gartner and IDC estimate that PC shipments actually grew in the US for the first time in over a year …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft announces “Surface as a Service,” an enterprise leasing program that bundles a Surface device, Office 365, and Windows 10 — Microsoft announced this morning a new program aimed at expanding Surface's footprint in the enterprise, dubbed “Surface as a Service.”
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Windows Blog, Windows Blog, VentureBeat, The Register, Windows Central, PCWorld, The Official Microsoft Blog, ZDNet, Forbes, WinBeta, MSPoweruser and Neowin
Tweets: @benbajarin, @mgsiegler and @stevekovach
| Oculus: |
Oculus says it's finished shipping pre-orders and delivery time is now 2-4 business days, announces Oculus Connect 3 dev. conference for Oct. 5-7 in San Jose — Save the date for Oculus Connect 3, coming to San Jose, California, October 5-7! — This year's Connect will be our largest …
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| Jay Greene / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook signs deal to use Microsoft's Office 365 including its email and calendar for its 13K employees, as it continues to develop Facebook at Work — Social network will move its 13,000 employees to Microsoft's web-based tools — Facebook Inc. has signed a deal to use Microsoft Corp. 's online email … | Mark Bergen / Recode: |
Google, LinkedIn announce real-estate swap giving Google LinkedIn's Mountain View headquarters and LinkedIn seven buildings to consolidate staff in Sunnyvale — With the deal, LinkedIn is handing over its Mountain View headquarters. — Google couldn't score LinkedIn's business.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft prices Windows 10 Enterprise E3, the lower-end version, at $84 per user per year; pricing for the E5 version not yet announced — Microsoft is making its renamed Windows 10 Enterprise version available as a subscription that's available for $84 per user per year and purchasable directly and through reseller partners.
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PCWorld, The Register, Ars Technica, BetaNews, MSPoweruser, MSPoweruser, Neowin, Windows Blog and VentureBeat
| Steven Loeb / VatorNews: |
eBay acquires predictive analytics company SalesPredict for its machine learning and natural language processing expertise and tech — eBay will be putting the SalesPredict team to work on understanding what inventory to show customers — For eBay, one of the company's most important initiatives …
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eBay Newsroom, VentureBeat, silicontap.com, The Next Web, GeekTime, ZDNet and PE Hub Blog
| Wall Street Journal: |
Source: SEC investigating Tesla for possible securities law breach after it failed to disclose Autopilot-related crash to investors — Authorities probing whether auto maker should have disclosed Autopilot-related crash to investors — The Securities and Exchange Commission … | Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Google aims to train 2M developers in India with free “Android Skilling” program across hundreds of universities and training schools — Android push adds new front to battle with Apple for talent — Training capacity may reach 250,000 students annuallySponsor Posts
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