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Apple offers qualified users $150 repairs for iPhone 6 Plus devices with “touch disease” or unresponsive screens, will give refunds to users who have paid more — Apple today launched a new repair program for the iPhone 6 Plus, addressing complaints about a manufacturing issue …
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| Will Hobson / Washington Post: |
DraftKings and FanDuel agree to merge; DraftKings CEO Jason Robins to run the new company, and FanDuel CEO Nigel Eccles to become chairman of the board — DraftKings and FanDuel, the two largest companies in the daily fantasy sports market that exploded into national consciousness last fall …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
AT&T customers will be able to send messages via Echo after Amazon adds the Send Message skill to Alexa on November 19 — Alexa's on a quite a roll of late. Amazon's AI assistant is adding new skills all the time, and this week the company's adding one of its highest profile partners.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Surface Studio review: impressive screen and design, old CPU and GPU a slight letdown, Dial needs more app support, but overall the device is good for artists — Touch, pen, and Dial all in one display — The last desktop PC I owned was a 2009 iMac. I now use a laptop every day for work …
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Facebook SEC filings reveal $6B stock buyback program that starts Q1 2017, and chief accounting officer's resignation, effective February 17 — Facebook today said it is authorizing a $6 billion stock buyback that will go into effect in the first quarter next year.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
French IoT startup Sigfox raises $160M Series E, sources say at a $637M valuation; Sigfox says it has around 10M devices registered on its network — Sigfox, the IoT company based out of France that is building a dedicated, global network to connect, monitor and control devices like smart-home alarms …
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| Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web: |
Amazon expanding Prime Video worldwide in December, promoting the expansion through the show The Grand Tour from former Top Gear hosts — Until now, Amazon's streaming video service has mostly been a nice add-on to sweeten the deal on its Prime subscription plan, which grants customers quicker shipping … | Lora Kolodny / TechCrunch: |
Sprinklr acquires Little Bird, a tool for finding experts on anything via Twitter, co-founded by Marshall Kirkpatrick — New York marketing tech firm Sprinklr has acquired Portland-based Little Bird, according to Sprinklr founder and CEO Ragy Thomas. — Little Bird was founded in 2011 … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Heptio, founded by ex-Google Kubernetes founders, launches with $8.5M Series A led by Accel Partners to bring Kubernetes to the enterprise — For years, the public face of Kubernetes was one of the project's founders: Google group product manager Craig McLuckie.
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Medium, The New Stack, Fortune, theWHIR.com, EnterpriseTech, GeekWire, Medium, SiliconANGLE, SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, Madrona Venture Group, InfoWorld and PE Hub Blog. Thanks:@larry_y
| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
IRS seeks identities of Coinbase US customers who traded bitcoin between 2013 and 2015 — In bitcoin-related investigations, authorities will often follow the digital trail of an illegal transaction or suspicious user back to a specific account at a bitcoin trading company.| Jane McCallion / IT PRO: |
Three UK says nearly 134K customers were affected by hack, but no bank details, passwords, pin numbers, payment or credit/debit card information was accessed — Names, addresses and other information may have been accessed by criminals — Nearly 134,000 customers of the Three mobile network …
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Tweets: @wendyknowler and @rdgmartin
| Katrina Brooker / Vanity Fair: |
Airbnb launches 500+ guide-led experiences called Trips, available in-app to guests; initial set includes samurai lessons in Japan, running in Kenya, more — Airbnb shook up the hotel business by giving anyone with a spare bed and a mobile phone a way to start a business.
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Airbnb Newsroom, Engadget, TechSpot, Skift, Mashable, Digital Trends, Los Angeles Times and Business Insider. Tweets: @ajs
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Any.Do adds real-time sync, integrated calendars, and a personal assistant for select users to its app, available on iOS now and Android soon — Plus a calendar and real-time sync — Any.do is releasing a powerful new version of its popular to-do app. Available first on iOS and coming soon …
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