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Sources: Walmart is buying Jet.com for $3B and will announce the deal on Monday; Jet CEO Marc Lore will run Walmart's US e-commerce operations after deal closes — Jet.com CEO Marc Lore will also run Walmart.com — Walmart, the world's largest retailer, is set to acquire … | Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Every Mac in Apple's current lineup except the 12-inch MacBook is outdated; the 13-inch non-Retina MacBook Pro was last updated in June 2012, still costs $1,099 — One thousand, five hundred and fourteen days. Or: four years, one month, and twenty-four days.
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| Joel Hruska / ExtremeTech: |
Apple's slow Mac refresh cycle is mostly driven by the low rate of improvements in the PC hardware today — Most of Apple's product lines are severely overdue for a refresh. Apart from the recently refreshed MacBook, many of the company's Mac products are well over a year old.| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
China floods Silicon Valley with cash: $6B+ invested total, $3B+ in the last 18 months; Alibaba's troubled investment in Quixey shows how such deals can go bad — SAN FRANCISCO — Mountain View, Calif., start-up Quixey was the envy of many in Silicon Valley when the company announced …
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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Elite dealmakers like Carmen Chang and Connie Chan facilitate the deluge of deals between China and Silicon Valley — SAN FRANCISCO — When Uber chief executive Travis Kalanick wanted advice about whom to hire to run his ride-hailing business in China, he asked Carmen Chang …
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Researchers disclose four Qualcomm chipset driver flaws dubbed “Quadrooter” allowing malicious apps to gain root access on Android phones with Qualcomm chipsets — All versions of Android are vulnerable to these flaws, which won't be fully patched until the September security release next month.
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FTC to crack down on sponsored celebrity social media posts that aren't explicitly disclosed — The agency says brands and the social media stars who promote their products need to be more transparent about sponsored content — Snapchat star DJ Khaled raves about Ciroc vodka.| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
Hardware makers and credit card firms are speeding up checkout time for EMV cards, but mobile payments like Apple Pay and Android Pay are still the future — Chip cards, also known as EMV cards, are getting faster at the register, but mobile payments like Apple Pay are the real answer
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Sources: Amazon Japan raided by Japan's Fair Trade Commission on anti-trust grounds, suspected of having forced price-fixing on partners — TOKYO — Amazon Japan's offices were raided by Japan's anti-monopoly watchdog agency on suspicion of having unfairly forced retailers to favor …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom gives full credit to Snapchat for Stories format, and looks at how tech companies build on each others' innovations — The one thing you never hear in Silicon Valley is an entrepreneur admit they copied someone else. Yet there in the headquarters of Facebook …
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Thanks:@joshconstine. See also Mediagazer| Rich / Securosis Highlights: |
Apple's bug bounty program is a good start, focuses on finding high-quality exploits in a few key areas on iOS and iCloud, will grow and evolve over time — It should surprise no one that Apple is writing their own playbook for bug bounties. Both bigger, with the largest potential payout I'm aware of …
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Chris Urmson, CTO of Google's self-driving car project, announces he is leaving after seven years — A key executive of Google's self-driving car project is leaving the company. Chris Urmson, who serves as CTO and technical lead, announced that he was leaving after seven years.
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