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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 …
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Sen. Franken writes to Niantic about Pokémon Go privacy policy scope, 3rd-party sharing, whether some practices could be opt-in, collection of child data, more — Always with his finger on the pulse, Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) today sent an official letter to Niantic asking …
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| 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.| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
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| 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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| 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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| Nathan Donato-Weinstein / Silicon Valley Business …: |
Google, LinkedIn announce real-estate swap giving Google LinkedIn's Mountain View headquarters and LinkedIn several buildings to consolidate staff in Sunnyvale — Putting aside years of fierce competition for scarce real estate in Mountain View, Google Inc. and LinkedIn Corp. have struck a …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google acquires Kifi, a sharing and recommendation app, team to join Spaces, app will be shut down over next few weeks — Google has made another small acquisition to help it continue building out its latest efforts in social apps. The search and Android giant has hired the team behind Kifi …
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
As Vine's userbase fails to grow, nearly all of the top product and business leaders have left over the past four months — What's Twitter doing with its six-second video app? — Nearly all of the top product and business leaders at Vine, Twitter's three-year-old short-form video service … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google Fiber now offers three plans for small businesses: $250 for 1 Gbps, $100 for 250 Mbps, $70 for 100 Mbps — Google has announced a new triumvirate of payment plans for businesses looking to sign up to the internet giant's superfast Fiber internet service.
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Google Fiber Blog, 9to5Google, DSLreports and CNET
| 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 … | Mathew Ingram / Fortune: |
Twitter signs deal with Bloomberg to livestream three of its daily shows, will share revenue on ads sold alongside videos — Twitter has been ramping up its commitment to streaming live video fairly rapidly over the past week or so, rolling out an experiment from the Wimbledon tennis tournament followed …
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