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| Jack Nicas / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: Google opening Waze-based carpooling service previously in testing to all SF-area Waze users this fall; current pilot charges riders at most 54¢/mile — Alphabet's carpooling program in San Francisco offers rides at cheaper rates — Google is moving onto Uber Technologies Inc.'s turf …
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Thanks:@larrychiang| Fortune: |
Sources: Nest's platform team to become part of Google to create a unified IoT platform led by Hiroshi Lockheimer, currently SVP of Android — Alphabet subsidiary Nest Labs, maker of Internet-connected thermostats and smoke detectors, is undergoing yet another restructuring, Fortune has learned.
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| Jeff Benjamin / 9to5Mac: |
Apple launches $20/mo 2TB iCloud storage plan ahead of iPhone 7 event — Apple has launched a new 2TB iCloud storage tier a little over a week out from the iPhone 7 launch event. The new 2TB plan, which is its largest plan available, will set users back $19.99 a month.| Andrew Martonik / Android Central: |
Sources: this year's Google-branded Android phones will not use “Nexus” name, will feature additional software and a tweaked interface atop “vanilla” Android — The ‘Nexus’ brand is going away, but the biggest deal here is the large change in software experience that will accompany the new branding.
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| Fortune: |
Uber hires Target's CMO Jeff Jones as president, overseeing global marketing, customer service, and operations — Uber, the global ride-hailing giant whose reputation has see-sawed at times from brash to boorish, has plucked an image maker from a leading U.S. retailer to be one of its top executives.
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| Will Oremus / Slate: |
Three former Facebook contractors say Trending news algorithm was not ready to run autonomously, user testing was overwhelmingly negative — How Facebook's foray into automated news went from messy to disastrous. — It seems Facebook's human news editors weren't quite as expendable as the company thought.
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See also Mediagazer| Tanya Dua / Digiday: |
| Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal: |
Nearly half of the trustees of CIA's In-Q-Tel have financial conflict of interest with a firm funded by In-Q-Tel; trustee-connected firms funded on 17 occasions — In-Q-Tel provides only limited information about its investments, and some of its trustees have ties to funded companies
Tweets: @damianpaletta, @bbcleishachi, @mtthwrose and @doctorparadox
| John Biggs / TechCrunch: |
Sonos speakers will integrate with Amazon's Alexa next year and will let Spotify's app control audio starting this October — Wireless speaker system maker Sonos announced two software partnerships today with Spotify and Amazon. The Spotify integration allows users to control …
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USA newsroom, The Verge, Bloomberg, The Verge, TechnoBuffalo, The Register, Six Colors, Android Police, MacStories, Lifehacker, MobileSyrup.com, GeekWire, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Digital Trends, TechHive, VentureBeat, Engadget, Business Insider, BGR, VentureBeat and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @counternotions
| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
San Francisco-based WrkRiot goes offline amid allegations it lied about back pay by giving employees PDFs of fake wire transfers, which ex-CTO corroborates — Penny Kim, a marketing professional with a one-month career at a Silicon Valley startup, shared a detailed account of one of the ugliest startup stories we've ever heard.
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Tweets: @ryanlawler, @dtunkelang, @pennykim, @ikai, @_jujujuli, @spacekatgal, @johnhratajczak and @jillianiles
Thanks:@mattrosoff| Tim Cook / Apple: |
Apple: EU's claim that Ireland gave Apple a special tax deal “has no basis in fact or in law” and will be harmful for investment and job creation in Europe — Thirty-six years ago, long before introducing iPhone, iPod or even the Mac, Steve Jobs established Apple's first operations in Europe.
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Tweets: @telegraph, @wsj and @naomiohreally
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
PlayStation Now streaming service that lets you play legacy titles on Windows PCs launches today with promo price of $100/year, less than half normal price — You don't need a PlayStation to play PlayStation games anymore: Sony's Playstation Now subscription-based game streaming service is now out for PC … | Nathan Olivarez-Giles / Wall Street Journal: |
An early look at using Siri to control third-party app functions, like paying with Square Cash or sending messages with LinkedIn — We used Apple's voice-controlled assistant to send messages with LinkedIn and make mobile payments with Square Cash — You're going to have a lot more to talk about with Siri this fall.| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Researchers say version 2.92 of third-party BitTorrrent client Transmission, offered for a day for download from Transmission, was infected with OS X malware — Just five months after Transmission was infected with the first “ransomware” ever found on the Mac, the popular BitTorrent client …
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English, Gizmodo, iMore, AppleInsider, ITworld.com, Engadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, SecurityWeek and Softpedia News
Tweets: @thomasareed and @gcluley
| Associated Press: |
LA judge dismisses key claims in lawsuit against headphone maker Beats by former partner Noel Lee ahead of scheduled trial next week — LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge has dismissed the key claims in a lawsuit alleging that headphone maker Beats Electronics duped one of its early partners …
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