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Niantic CEO says the company is going to add “sponsored locations” to Pokémon Go, letting retailers and other companies sponsor places on the virtual map — The developer behind Pokémon Go , the smash hit location-based mobile game that has dominated US …
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Skype announces new WebRTC alpha version for Linux; Chromebook users can now make voice calls too — Skype has announced a brand-new version of Skype for Linux users today, as the Microsoft-owned VoIP client looks to play catch up with its brethren on other platforms.| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple puts out open casting call for app creators for reality show “Planet of the Apps”, sheds more light on the series — Earlier this year it was announced that Apple was planning to launch its first original TV series about the “app economy.”
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Inside Facebook's Mobile Device Lab, which houses about 60 server racks to test its apps for performance and battery consumption on older phones — Deep inside Facebook's very first data center, located in a sprawling facility in the hills of Prineville, OR, lies a series of about 60 server racks.
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| Maureen Morrison / Ad Age: |
BitTorrent to launch live-streamed TV news network on July 18 at the Republican National Convention as part of broader effort to become a video content company — Move Is Part of Larger Effort to Refocus Business on Becoming Video Content Company — 6 Ways You Can Put Behavioral Automation to Work for Your Clients Today| Yolanda Redrup / Financial Review: |
Android Pay launches in Australia with 25+ partners but ANZ is the only big four bank signed up — Google's digital wallet Android Pay has its official Australian launch on Thursday, and like with Apple Pay's earlier launch Australia and New Zealand Banking Group is the first big four bank signed up.| Reuters: |
House committee report claims banking regulator FDIC was hacked in 2010, 2011, 2013, likely by China, accuses FDIC of covering up breach for political reasons — The Chinese government likely hacked computers at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in 2010, 2011 and 2013 and employees …
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Tor Project replaces its board with a new slate of directors including Bruce Schneier and Matt Blaze, in the wake of Jacob Appelbaum's resignation — SAN FRANCISCO — The Tor Project, a nonprofit digital privacy group, on Wednesday replaced its board with a new slate of directors as part …
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| Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
Unity Technologies, which makes the game engine behind Pokémon Go and others, raises $181M at a $1.5B valuation — Most game players have never heard of Unity Technologies, but its software was used in the creation of a large number of the world's top mobile games, including the current hit Pokémon Go.
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TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, WinBeta, Marketwire, iPhone in Canada Blog and Bloomberg. Thanks:@kylakeefe
| Andrew Byrne / Financial Times: |
Uber pulls out of Hungary, where it had 1,200 drivers, over government legislation that penalizes drivers, blocks access to “illegal dispatcher services” — Ride-hailing app Uber is pulling out of Hungary after the introduction of tough new laws by prime minister Viktor Orban which the company said put its drivers at risk.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft is partnering with HPE, Dell, and Lenovo to roll-out Azure Stack in mid-2017 — Microsoft is repositioning Azure Stack as a turnkey product that will be available in mid-2017 in conjunction with HPE, Dell and Lenovo. Here's why. — Microsoft plans to make its Azure Stack …
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Thought Machine, led by former head of text-to-speech group at Google Paul Taylor, comes out of stealth, launches blockchain-based banking backend Vault OS — Despite holding the vast majority of the world's wealth (or perhaps because of that), banks aren't exactly hotbeds of cutting-edge tech …
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