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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple briefly became the first company to hit a $1T market cap, after its shares reached $207 in intraday trading on Thursday — Apple has officially become the world's only trillion dollar publicly traded company, in terms of market capitalization, which is simply the company's number …
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| Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
Cisco is buying Duo Security, a vendor of cloud-based two-factor authentication services, for $2.35B in cash — Cisco today announced its intent to buy Ann Arbor, MI-based security firm, Duo Security. Under the terms of agreement, Cisco is paying $2.35 billion in cash and assumed equity awards for Duo.
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Microsoft Surface Go review: thin and light with a gorgeous display, but its performance is wanting and there's a lack of great Windows tablet apps — The Surface Go is Microsoft's smallest and cheapest tablet yet, with specs that would make hardware nerds laugh.
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Tweets: @daniel_rubino, @maryjofoley, @tomwarren, and @backlon
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says apps and in-app purchases for macOS and iOS will be removed from its affiliate program on October 1; music, movies, books, and TV will remain — Apple announced in an email to publishers this evening that it is making changes to its iTunes Affiliate Program.
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| The Information: |
Sources: Google is developing a news aggregation app for use in China that will comply with the country's strict censorship laws — Google is developing a news-aggregation app for use in China that will comply with the country's strict censorship laws, part of a plan to re-enter …
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| Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept: |
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
IDC: in Q2, global tablet shipments were 33M, down 13.5% YoY; Huawei and Apple are the only companies that saw growth at 7.7% YoY and 0.9% YoY respectively — Other tablet makers like Amazon and Samsung, however? Ouch — The worldwide tablet market has been declining year after year for what feels like... forever.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Facebook announces playable ads are now available globally in its News Feed, letting users try a game before they install it — Playable ads debuted four years ago as a new way to entice gamers to play mobile games. The ads were interactive, allowing people to try a game out before they downloaded it.
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| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
As memes become more complex, creators says they usually have to rely on a suite of apps to craft their memes as no single app fully meets their needs — Last year, Alex, a 19-year-old in California who runs a network of Instagram pages dedicated to publishing memes, became so frustrated …
Tweets: @tiffmkelly, @catesish, @taylorlorenz, and @adriennelaf
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Naked Labs, maker of a $1,395 3D Fitness Tracker that uses a mirror and scale to scan a user's body in 3D to track changes over time, raises $14M Series A — When it comes to measuring your fitness progress, there's only so much your weight scale can tell you, actually there's only one thing it can convey.
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Apple is speaking with Chinese telecom firms to find ways to reduce spam messages, after state media alleged it was allowing illegal content on its platform — BEIJING (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) is speaking with Chinese telecom firms to find ways to reduce spam received through its messaging service … | Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac: |
Icon found in iOS 12 beta shows an unreleased iPad with thin bezels, no Home button, or notch — We've been expecting an update to the iPad Pro line for later this year. Rumors suggest that the new version will have no home button, Face ID and thinner bezels, following the design trend introduced by Apple with iPhone X.| Richard Gao / Android Police: |
Acer says its latest business-focused Chromebooks, which both have 13.5-inch displays, will be available in September for $649+ — New Chromebooks will be available in September in robust configurations starting at $649.99; Ideal for professional environments, the Chromebooks are fast, secure, simple and easy to manage
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
A federal jury in California orders Apple to pay $145.1M in damages to Canadian intellectual property company WiLan for infringing on two wireless patents — According to a report from Reuters this evening, a federal jury in California has found Apple guilty of infringing on two patents held … | Joel Schectman / Reuters: |
Senate approves bill that would make tech companies disclose if countries like Russia and China audited their source code; Trump is expected to sign the bill — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress is sending President Donald Trump legislation that would force technology companies … | Ben Fox Rubin / CNET: |
CIRP: Amazon has 70% of smart speaker market in US and Google has 24% as installed base hits 50M; Apple doubled its share in Q2 to 6% — Apple was late to bring out its own smart speaker, and it shows. — Only 6 percent of smart speaker users in the US had one of the tech titan's HomePod devices …
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Chainalysis data: amount of Bitcoin the 17 largest crypto processing services received has declined from a peak of $412M in September 2017 to $69M in June 2018 — - Chainalysis study shows payment usage peaked in September — Merchants seeing more transactions for bigger-ticket items| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Earnings statements from Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook and Microsoft show they are as strong as ever; the forces arrayed against them lack substantial impact — You may have heard that the tech giants are on their heels. — Over the last two years, lawmakers and the public around …
Tweets: @rasmus_kleis and @puiwingtam
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Verana Health, formerly known as DigiSight Technologies, raises $30M Series C led by GV to expand its platform that helps analyze clinical studies with big data — Verana Health, a platform that's setting out to help the life sciences industry enhance clinical studies with analytics and data … | Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
rideOS, which wants to build real-time routing and dispatch software for autonomous car fleets, raises $25M Series B led by Next47, the venture arm of Siemens — A mere sprinkling of autonomous vehicles exist in a few dozen cities today. A smattering in San Francisco and Silicon Valley.| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Square announces Square Reader SDK that lets vendors accept payment in their own apps by integrating with Square Reader hardware — Square is opening up its payment processing tools to developers for the first time now thanks to its new Square Reader SDK. Square's new software development …
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