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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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Apple, iFixit, Mashable, Mercury News, Guardian, TechnoBuffalo, Pocket-lint, Fortune, TheStreet.com, CNNMoney, Washington Post, Tech Times, InvestorPlace, ExtremeTech, iDownloadBlog.com, Digital Trends, TechSpot, BetaNews, iLounge, Consumerist, TechEye, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, Business Insider and 512 Pixels. Tweets: @_hairforceone
| Todd Haselton / TechnoBuffalo: |
Nest updates mobile apps with “instaclips” to easily share video, brings live video feeds to Android TV, and says Apple TV support coming soon — Nest announced a big update to its Nest Camera application on Friday that's focused on sharing video clips you've captured.
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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VentureBeat, PR Newswire, Tech.eu, SiliconANGLE, The Register and FinSMEs. Tweets: @diogomonica. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| 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.| 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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eWeek, Medium, The New Stack, Fortune, theWHIR.com, EnterpriseTech, Medium, GeekWire, SiliconANGLE, SiliconANGLE, SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs, Madrona Venture Group, InfoWorld, PE Hub Blog and VentureBeat. Thanks:@larry_y
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Intel planning large number of layoffs in New Devices Group, its wearables division — According to sources close to the company, Intel is about to step back from wearables in a big way. — In 2014, the company purchased Basis, a little-known producer of some truly excellent fitness watches.Sponsor Posts
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