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Sources: Spotify is in advanced talks to acquire SoundCloud after its two earlier attempts proved unsuccessful — Spotify, the music streaming service, is in advanced talks to acquire SoundCloud, as competition heats up with Apple for the future of digital music, said people briefed on the discussions.
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Multiple Android Wear smartwatches including Tag Heuer, Moto 360 v2, ASUS ZenWatch are unable to pair with iPhone 7; Google reported issue to Apple a week ago — Android Wear is a fantastic platform, but one of its best aspects is that it works not just on Android, but also on iOS.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
KGI: ‘Increasing likelihood’ iPhone 8 will feature glass front and back, stainless steel metal for premium models — Reliable analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities has released a new report further forecasting that the 2017 iPhone will likely adopt and glass front and back design like the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4s.
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Microsoft consolidates multiple groups to create new combined AI and Research group, which will include Bing and Cortana teams — This week at Microsoft Ignite, we showed how we are infusing artificial intelligence (AI) broadly across Microsoft to help our customers.
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Sources: Qi Lu, Microsoft's EVP of applications and services, is leaving the company due to health issues; Corporate VP Rajesh Jha to assume many of Lu's duties — Rajesh Jha will assume many of Lu's responsibilities — Longtime Microsoft executive Qi Lu is leaving the company following medical issues …
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Skype iOS app updated with Siri and CallKit support, allowing incoming calls to be displayed and answered on lock screen — Skype today updated its iOS app to version 6.25, adding support for new features that were introduced with iOS 10. Skype now integrates with Siri … | Wall Street Journal: |
Apple to open $45M R&D center in Beijing with 500 employees to focus on developing hardware — New center will employ 500 workers, Zhongguancun Science Park Administrative Committee says — BEIJING— Apple Inc. 's first research center in China will be a $45 million facility located … | Roger Parloff / Fortune: |
Amazon, Facebook, Google, IBM, Microsoft launch Partnership on AI, a nonprofit to advance best practices in AI; the group isn't intended to lobby government — Five tech giants announced on Wednesday that they are launching a nonprofit to “advance public understanding” …
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| Marius Nestor / Softpedia News: |
Raspberry Pi Foundation unveils PIXEL, a new LXDE-based desktop for Raspbian that is designed to be more appealing with new theme, application icons, more — The new desktop environment can be installed right now — Raspberry Pi Foundation's Simon Long proudly unveiled a new desktop environment …
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| Akin Oyedele / Business Insider: |
Report: Qualcomm is in talks to acquire NXP Semiconductors in deal likely to be worth over $30B — Qualcomm is in talks to buy NXP Semiconductors, according to Eyk Henning, Dana Mattioli and Dana Cimilluca over at The Wall Street Journal. — Qualcomm is worth $95 billion, while NXP has market cap of $32 billion.| Michael Kan / PCWorld: |
Security firm InfoArmor says hackers-for-hire, not state-sponsored actors, breached Yahoo, and have sold the entire database three times, once for $300K+ — Elite hackers-for-hire were actually behind the breach, according to InfoArmor — Common criminals, not state-sponsored hackers …
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| John Voorhees / MacStories: |
Apple says Search Ads will go live in the App Store on October 5, offers developers $100 credit towards first campaign — First announced at WWDC in June and beta-tested over the Summer, Apple launched Search Ads for iOS apps today. The ads will appear at the top of App Store customers …
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| P. Claire Dodson / Fast Company: |
AOL launches Alto, an email app that shows relevant information like boarding passes, reservation numbers, more in a card-based dashboard, on iOS and Android — Alto's Dashboard makes it easy to access useful items from emails, like boarding passes and reservations.
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