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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft acquires AI scheduling service Genee, will shut it down on September 1, says it will integrate the tech into Office 365 — Microsoft today announced the acquisition of Genee, an artificial-intelligence-powered scheduling service. The company is planning to integrate …
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The Official Microsoft Blog, Genee Blog, TechCrunch, CNET, Inquirer, BetaNews, The Register, SiliconANGLE, Recode, TechCrunch and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @inafried and @brianroemmele
| Fast Company: |
Apple acquired personal health data startup Gliimpse, which lets users collect, personalize, and share a picture of their health data, earlier this year — In the last three years, Gliimpse has built a secure platform where consumers can manage and share their own medical records and info.
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The Next Web, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Data Center Knowledge, AppleInsider, CNET, Engadget, TIME, MacRumors, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Forbes, iLounge, iPhone in Canada Blog, Fortune, Patently Apple, O'Grady's PowerPage, Mashable, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, MacStories and MacDailyNews. Thanks:@cayleighp
| Takashi Mochizuki / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Sony to debut a new PlayStation 4 standard model alongside a high-end version on September 7 — Japanese tech company to introduce a standard and high-end version of the console next month — TOKYO— Sony Corp. plans to introduce a new PlayStation 4 standard model alongside … | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Netgear launches Orbi, a multi-unit WiFi router to cover whole home, which will go on sale this month at $400 for a two-pack and $250 for a single unit add-on — For as long as there have been Wi-Fi routers, setting up Wi-Fi has been pretty much the same. You buy a router at the store, plug it into your modem, and that's it.
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VentureBeat, SiliconBeat, TechHive, NETGEAR, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Engadget and Liliputing
| David Ingram / Reuters: |
New Massachusetts law will impose 20¢ fee per trip on ride-hailing apps such as Uber until 2026, 5¢ of which will pay for taxi subsidies until 2021 — Massachusetts is preparing to levy a 5-cent fee per trip on ride-hailing apps such as Uber and Lyft and spend the money …
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Consumerist, SlashGear, CNET, Hit & Run, Popular Mechanics, Engadget, BostonGlobe.com and Vocativ
Tweets: @km, @davemcclure, @englishpaulm, @halr9000, @todddomke, @texfischer and @nrellas
| Conor Dougherty / New York Times: |
How San Francisco's tech business is spilling over into other metro areas across the US, based on job growth — PHOENIX — Three years ago, Kate Rogers was caught in the Bay Area struggle. She paid the astronomical rents. She did the crushing commute. She lived the frustration … | Reuters: |
Source: Samsung to launch refurbished smartphone program as early as next year in an effort to boost revenue, fight off mid-tier competitors — Samsung Electronics Co Ltd plans to launch a program to sell refurbished used versions of its premium smartphones as early as next year …
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The Verge, Engadget, 9to5Google, Inquirer, Phandroid, Pocket-lint, Tech Times, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, Consumerist, Ubergizmo, ZDNet, Android Central, PhonesReviews UK, TalkAndroid.com, Patently Apple, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, TechSpot, International Business Times, Softpedia News, Guiding Tech, Android Beat, CNET, Tom's Guide, AOL, TechnoBuffalo, BetaNews, PhoneDog.com, MacRumors, Fortune, Pocketnow, Computerworld, PhoneArena and Mashable
| Dennis K. Berman / Wall Street Journal: |
Kobe Bryant and Jeff Stibel launch $100M venture capital fund based in Los Angeles, to invest in tech, media, and data companies — The retired NBA star and his partner today will unveil their vehicle for investing in technology, media and data companies — Meet Kobe Bryant, venture capitalist.
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USA Today, CNET, Business Insider, AOL, Tech Times and tech.co
Tweets: @ashleymayer and @jasonnazar
| Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: |
Ad tech startup Media.net, which powers contextual ads offered by Yahoo, sells to group of Chinese investors for $900M — The startup, which powers contextual ads offered by Yahoo! and Microsoft's Bing, plans a move akin to a reverse merger that would make it a public company in China.| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
Amazon's Echo stands out as antithetical to the typical cheap consumer electronics approach in IoT, from buggy Nest products to insecure lightbulbs — In the mythical Land of Theory, where everything ‘just works’, we can connect all the objects in our lives.| Dave McClure / 500 Hats: |
Expect more non-tech public companies to buy tech unicorns as a hedge against disruption — Yeah, There's a Bubble... But it Ain't in Tech … Everybody in the press loves to write stories about the next “Tech Bubble”. — Of course, they all think they've seen this movie before—twice in fact, in 2000 and in 2008.
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Business Insider and Andreessen Horowitz. Tweets: @mikeguimarin, @patio11 and @martinsfp. Thanks:@davemcclure
| Ben Ratliff / New York Times: |
Bandcamp, the online music site known for its equitable treatment of artists, is one of the greatest underground-culture bazaars of our time — A lesser-known artist you love makes a new recording — say, the hip-hop group Clipping or the Chicago punk band Mace or the electronic composer Kaitlin Aurelia Smith.Sponsor Posts
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Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
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