Sources: Samsung's Tizen-based Gear A smartwatch will feature a 1.2 GHz Exynos processor, Bluetooth 4.1, a digital crown, and more
Exclusive: Samsung Gear A (Orbis) specifications — With all the Galaxy Note 5 news flooding the internet of late, Samsung's upcoming smartwatch hasn't been in the limelight for some time now.
Facebook tests shops within Pages that bring entire shopping experience from product discovery to checkout inside Facebook
Facebook Takes Big Step Forward On Commerce, Builds Shops Into Pages — A test with the potential to transform online commerce. — Mock-up of Facebook's new shop pages.
eBay Reports Q2 Revenues Of $4.4B, EPS Of $0.76, Sells Enterprise Division For $925M
In its last quarter before the spin off of PayPal as a separate company, e-commerce giant eBay today reported its Q2 earnings for the quarter that ended June 30. — The company reported total revenue...
EBay confirms agreement to sell eBay Enterprise to investment consortium for $925M
EBay has confirmed previous rumors that it's selling its enterprise services business, eBay Enterprise, for $925 million. — The unit specializes in developing and managing e-commerce sites for retai...
Pushbullet Android update brings full SMS syncing to your desktop
Pushbullet Update Brings Full SMS Messaging Support To Your Desktop — It's been scarcely two weeks since Pushbullet had its last big update, and here we are again. An update is rolling out in the P...
Intel shows Moore's Law is slowing with plans for a third generation of 14nm chips, delays switch to 10nm process to 2017
Intel confirms tick-tock-shattering Kaby Lake processor as Moore's Law falters — Company will make three generations of 14nm processors, delaying the switch to 10nm.
Facebook to Pay About $60 Million for Gesture-Control Firm Pebbles
Facebook Inc. Thursday agreed to buy Israel-based gesture-control company Pebbles Ltd., according to people familiar with the matter. — Facebook agreed to pay around $60 million for the company, acc...
Android M will feature visual voicemail in the native dialer, support T-Mobile US and French carrier Orange at launch
[Android M Feature Spotlight] Android M Will Have Proper Visual Voicemail Support In The Dialer — Voicemails are terrible. Anyone willing to sit through the message …
Intel beats Q2 estimates with revenue of $13.2B; CEO credits growth to Internet of Things, memory, and data center departments
Rachel King / ZDNet :
To Boost Video Views, Facebook Tests A New “Watch Later” Button
Video has been one of the fastest-growing content categories on Facebook of late, with 4 billion daily video views on the site as of last quarter. Now, the social network wants to expand that even mo...
FireEye suspends intern Morgan Culbertson from future work after Justice Department charges him with creating Dendroid, a remote access toolkit for Android
Darkode Shutdown: FireEye Intern Accused Of Creating $65,000 Android Malware — One of the more successful English-speaking cybercrime forums …
HBO Now launches on Android phones and tablets and Amazon Fire as exclusivity with Apple ends; Chromecast and Fire TV support coming soon
HBO Now moves beyond Apple, arrives on Android and Amazon devices — Three months ago, HBO made its programming available to consumers without a cable subscription …
App Annie: iOS lags Google Play in app downloads but still generated 70% more revenue on strength in China
App Annie report: Google Play's downloads top the App Store as Apple retains revenue lead — While the Google Play store crushed Apple's App Store in worldwide downloads …
Vietnamese hacker running online identity theft service affecting 200M Americans sentenced to 13 years
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security :
E.U. Opens Antitrust Investigations Into Qualcomm
again Carly Page / Inquirer : Qualcomm faces EU probe over alleged ‘predatory’ pricing Ryan Smith / AnandTech : European Union Opens Up Antitrust Investigation Into Qualcomm Gary Cutlack / Gizmodo : Q...
Microsoft to acquire FieldOne Systems, expanding Dynamics business in mobile customer service
including mobile apps and cloud services for automated scheduling …
Cybercrime forum site Darkode shut down in joint international operation between FBI, Europol, others, leading to 28 arrests worldwide so far
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Despite customer complaints of limited supplies and low-quality deals, Amazon's Prime Day US sales were up around 80% by noon
and some shoppers are not impressed Tricia Duryee / GeekWire : Amazon's Prime Day order rates surpassing Black Friday despite customer complaints Ryan Mac / Forbes : Amazon Gets Defensive As Customers...
Misfit Unveils $20 Flash Link Activity Tracker and Link App, Drops Prices on Shine and Flash
Juli Clover / MacRumors :
California Public Utilities Commission fines Uber $7.3M for failing to provide accessibility data, Uber to appeal
Carmel DeAmicis / Re/code :
Apple and Samsung are in advanced talks with GSMA telecom association about standardized electronic SIM cards with support from AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, more
Financial Times :
Neil Young, whose Pono high fidelity music player was released in January, pulls his music from all streaming services, citing poor audio quality
Jamieson Cox / The Verge :
Yik Yak will let users share photos but will moderate them to avoid inappropriate and illegal content; faces won't be allowed in local feeds
Over the past couple months … Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : Yik Yak Adds Ability to Add Photos to Yaks - Growing Opportunity in “the Yak” Ariha Setalvad / The Verge : Yik Yak lets you post ...
Twitter's new data dashboard shows users which devices have accessed their account, login history
Mollie Vandor / The Twitter Blog :
Netflix supports Charter's Time Warner Cable merger after Charter pledges not to charge peering fees for content providers through 2018
Alex Sherman / Bloomberg Business :
Flipagram cuts deal with Universal Music, Sony Music, Warner Music, and more for clips, raises $70M Series B led by Sequoia; John Doerr, Mike Moritz join board
only then—will the centicorn be born. http://techcrunch.com/... http://twitter.com/... Mike Rundle / @flyosity : “It's Instagram for Flipboard. Or Flipboard for Instagram. I dunno, whatever gets us fu...
Kongregate announces Launchpad, a web-to-mobile incubator program for independent game developers
Alex Wawro / Gamasutra :
Netflix Shares Spike 10% After The Company Reports 3.3M New Subs, Better-Than-Expected Q2 Profit
Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch :
Banners are useful for brand marketers despite “fraud”, because they're cheap and effective for raising awareness
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Report shows Google's mobilegeddon tweak has resulted in advertisers paying 16% more for ads, but click-through traffic down 9% since last year
Larry Dignan / ZDNet :
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