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Sources: Microsoft working on a Slack competitor called Skype Teams; service to include threaded messages, channels, DMs, video calls, meeting scheduling, more — It was recently reported that Microsoft wanted to buy Slack for $8 billion. Slack, for those unfamiliar …
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KGI: Apple to announce new wireless earbuds called AirPods, which will target the premium headphone market and use custom “Bluetooth-like” low-power tech — Apple's new wireless earbuds, expected to be announced this week as “AirPods,” are said to feature a custom-designed wireless chip …
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| Ina Fried / Recode: |
Intel is buying Movidius, a startup with about 180 employees that makes vision chips for drones and virtual reality — It's the latest in a string of acquisitions for the chip giant. — Intel announced late Monday that it is buying Movidius, a small chipmaker that makes computer vision processors used …
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Tweets: @jimcramer, @brianroemmele and @movidius
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Indie developer maps App Store revenue from paid to ads, says advertising in his apps made up around 10% of sales in 2012 whereas now it accounts for nearly 80% — I've been thinking this past week (as I often do) about the ever-changing landscape of the App Store.
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| Emma Hinchliffe / Mashable: |
Instagram kills its photo maps feature, citing low usage — Instagram is taking away your photo maps. — The photo-sharing app has begun to kill its photo map feature, with some users already seeing the option removed when visiting other profiles. — Instagram confirmed the changes to Mashable on Tuesday.
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Tweets: @joshconstine and @_emmahinchliffe
| Ginny Marvin / Search Engine Land: |
Google tests mobile Shop the Look ads for apparel and home products in search results, which offer products via partners like LIKEtoKNOW.it, Polyvore, Curalate — Google is mixing up the mobile shopping experience in search again with a new format called shop the look.
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Inside AdWords, Digital Trends, Philly.com and internetretailer.com
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Sources: Twitter's board of directors will meet this Thursday and discuss the company's options, including potential sale, trimming or selling off MoPub, Vine — Talk of a sale continues to rumble, but finding a buyer won't be easy. — Twitter's quiet summer may soon be coming to an end.
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Tweets: @mathewi, @fromedome, @jaycuthrell, @stoweboyd, @andrewwrites, @bdeskin, @jim_edwards and @carlquintanilla
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Sources: Postmates raising $100M+ led by Founders Fund with a valuation at least as high as last round — We're hearing from sources that Postmates, which is among a few companies that are seen as operating in the difficult on-demand space, is raising at least $100 million in a round led by Founders Fund.
Tweets: @caseynewton
| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Pinterest hires Li Fan, former head of image search at Google and VP of search at Baidu, to lead engineering — Pinterest announced that it has hired Li Fan as its new head of engineering, where it's likely that she'll utilize her experience in image search, infrastructure …
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Amazon updates Fire TV and Fire TV Stick with personalized recommendations from streaming sites like HBO and Netflix; Alexa voice search now works in 75+ apps — Amazon announced an update to Fire TV and its smaller companion, the Fire TV Stick, which will bring expanded Alexa-powered voice search … | Telis Demos / Wall Street Journal: |
PayPal strikes deal with MasterCard to allow payments in stores, will share data on any transactions using MasterCard mobile tap — Move comes at expense of short-term profitability, analysts say — PayPal Holdings Inc. has struck another deal with a payments network, this time MasterCard Inc. …
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TechCrunch, Engadget, Business Wire, MobileSyrup.com, Reuters, ZDNet, PYMNTS.com and TechSpot. Tweets: @brianroemmele
| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
IDC: Fitbit leads wearables as Apple Watch shipments drop 58% YoY; basic wearable devices like simple fitness bands rise 48% YoY; smart wearables down 27.2% YoY — According to new data from IDC, Apple Watch shipments plunged nearly 58 percent compared to the same quarter last year.
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Xiaomi's Android set-top box, Mi Box, to launch as soon as October for less than $100 and will be its first mainstream product on sale in the US — There's much anticipation about Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi's long-awaited entry into the U.S. market. And we don't have long to wait. Kinda.
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Over 98M records leaked online from 2012 hack of Russia's Yahoo-like service Rambler.ru, each record contains: username/email address, plaintext password, more — Nearly 100 million records have been leaked online in yet another “mega breach”, this time from the website Rambler.ru …
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