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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
| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
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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| Mehedi Hassan / MSPoweruser: |
Sources: Microsoft working on Skype Teams, a Slack competitor; service will 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, is a messaging app …
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Thanks:@pradeepviswav| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
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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See also Mediagazer| 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
| TechCrunch: |
Sources: Postmates raising $100M+ led by Founders Fund with a valuation at least as high as last round — Sep 6, 2016, 12:27 pmSep 6, 2016, 1:15 pm — We're hearing from sources that Postmates, which is among a few companies that are seen as operating in the difficult on-demand space …
Tweets: @caseynewton
| David Smith: |
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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TechCrunch, MacStories, Daring Fireball and Inquirer
Tweets: @jacktreseler, @digwhich, @sch, @linusedwards, @nacran, @_davidsmith, @drbarnard, @somospostpc and @marcoarment
| 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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Engadget, TechCrunch, ZDNet, Business Wire, MobileSyrup.com, TechSpot, Reuters and PYMNTS.com. Tweets: @brianroemmele
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
eMarketer: Snapchat will generate $367M in ad revenues this year and $935M in 2017 — A new report out this morning from analysts at eMarketer is forecasting explosive growth for Snapchat's ad revenue by next year. The firm estimates the mobile social application will generate $366.69 million in 2016 … | Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Qualcomm, AT&T to test drones' capabilities on 4G LTE networks using Qualcomm's Snapdragon Flight development platform — Qualcomm said its researchers will team up with AT&T to test how unmanned aircraft systems can utilize cellular networks for processing, navigation and flying beyond line of sight.
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PR Newswire, Computerworld, Fortune, Fast Company, socalTECH.com, Latest, VentureBeat, Xconomy and Engadget
| 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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Business Insider, The Verge, 9to5Google, TechnoBuffalo, PhoneDog.com and Ubergizmo
| LeakedSource: |
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 …
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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 …
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VentureBeat, The Verge, Android Police and AndroidHeadlines.com
| Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal: |
Subscription video news startup Cheddar raises $10M Series B, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and including Comcast Ventures and Ribbit Capital — Cheddar, the self-described “CNBC for millennials” founded by former BuzzFeed executive Jon Steinberg, has raised $10 million in Series B funding … | Kate Conger / TechCrunch: |
Yelp debuts bug bounty program with rewards ranging from $100 to $15K, coordinated through the HackerOne platform — Hackers, start your engines. — Yelp launched a public bug bounty program today, inviting the world's hackers to pick apart its websites and mobile app in search … Sponsor Posts
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