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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 … | 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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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: |
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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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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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 … | 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.| 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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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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| 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 …
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
RedKix gets $17M in seed funding for a Slack-like email service, launches private beta; investors include Salesforce Ventures, Wicklow Capital, Oren Zeev — Lots of startups want to reinvent email, and some, like Slack, occasionally manage to change the way we work.Thanks:@brewpr
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