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Source: Snapchat to buy recommendation app Vurb for around $110M plus retention payouts totaling nearly as much — Snapchat is tiptoeing into search. — The company is acquiring recommendation app Vurb for around $110 million plus additional team retention payouts totaling nearly as much … | Jessica Conditt / Engadget: |
Minecraft gets Oculus Rift support today as part of an update to Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta — Minecraft has landed on the Oculus Rift as part of a free update to the Windows 10 Edition beta. Anyone who owns the PC or Mac version of Minecraft is automatically granted access …
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| Garett Sloane / Ad Age: |
Twitter debuts Promoted #Stickers for brands, starting with Pepsi; clicking on a Promoted Sticker takes you to tweets containing the same sticker — Platform Pursuing Its Turn Toward the Visual — Twitter has introduced its first “#Promoted Stickers” campaign, with Pepsi as its inaugural customer.| Alison Griswold / Quartz: |
Postmates has failed to make Uber-for-anything cheap, passes the expense to customers in fees that often don't match the “estimate” — In late June, Shawn Cook had a cold and needed some cough medicine. The mobile game developer turned to on-demand delivery startup Postmates …
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
KGI: Apple planning three new iPads in 2017 including a 10.5" iPad Pro, and an iPad with flexible AMOLED in 2018 at the earliest — Noted analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has released a new research report outlining his expectations for the future of Apple's iPad lineup, predicting three new iPads ranging …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Sources: Twitter in talks with Apple to bring its app to Apple TV, hoping to fully capitalize on its live-streaming deals with NFL, MLB, NBA, Wimbledon, others — SAN FRANCISCO — Last March, Twitter and Facebook, along with other tech companies, faced off over which of them would get the rights …
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US court documents show Australian authorities hacked Tor users in US as part of a child pornography investigation and shared the findings with the FBI — Australian authorities hacked Tor users in the US as part of a child pornography investigation, Motherboard has learned.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Linux bug lets attackers remotely hijack internet traffic on phones running Android 4.4 or later — Off-path attack means malicious hackers can be located anywhere on the Internet. — An estimated 80 percent of Android phones contain a recently discovered vulnerability that allows attackers …
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New Zealand intel requested and received emails, Facebook chats of Fiji pro-democracy activists from NSA; first publicly confirmed PRISM target is a NZ citizen — Tony Fullman is a middle-aged former tax man and a pro-democracy activist. But four years ago, a botched operation launched …
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| Kate Conger / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn files suit against 100 anonymous data scrapers, invoking the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act — LinkedIn is trying to lock down its exclusive relationship with its users. — The professional networking company filed suit against 100 unnamed individuals last week for using bots to harvest user profiles from its website.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google is discontinuing Google+ Hangouts On Air on September 12, pushes users to YouTube Live — Google today quietly announced that Google+ Hangouts On Air will no longer be available on September 12. Four weeks from now, Google users will be asked to use YouTube Live instead.
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| Fitz Tepper / TechCrunch: |
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