Apple Music has 11M trial subscribers with 2M on family plan; App Store has record month in July with $1.7B in transactions
Apple Music hooks 11 million trial members, App Store has record July — One month after unveiling its new streaming music service, Apple has locked in 11 million trial members …
Android fragmentation report finds 24,093 distinct devices from 1,294 different manufacturers
Android Fragmentation Visualized — Fragmentation is both a strength and weakness of the Android ecosystem, a headache for developers that also provides the basis for Android's global reach.
Google announces it will provide monthly OTA security updates to Nexus devices, starting today with Stagefright fixes
An Update to Nexus Devices — Security has always been a major focus for Android and Google Play: Android was built from day one with security in mind.
How the Stagefright bug changed Android security
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Hackers can remotely steal fingerprints from Android phones built by Samsung, HTC, and Huawei; affected vendors have provided patches
Hackers can remotely steal fingerprints from Android phones — Researchers outline how hackers can attack your smartphone to steal your fingerprint on a “large scale” — without anybody noticing.
Microsoft expands its Bug Bounty schemes with higher rewards, bonuses, and new eligible software
Microsoft Bounty Programs Expansion - Bounty for Defense, Authentication Bonus, and RemoteApp — I am very pleased to be releasing additional expansions of the Microsoft Bounty Programs.
Garmin's Forerunner 25 fitness tracker includes GPS and smartphone alerts, starts at $170
Garmin debuts entry-level Forerunner 25 with smartphone alerts — Garmin's latest running watch includes GPS activity tracking, and smartphone notifications without breaking the bank.
Outlook email app for Apple Watch makes it easier to see full emails and reply on the watch
Microsoft's Outlook email app arrives on the Apple Watch — Microsoft has been a strong supporter of the Apple Watch, and that's continuing today with the release of Outlook for Apple Watch.
Tinder's First Non-Dating Feature Is Speed Networking For Forbes' 30 Under 30
Tinder is tiptoeing into the friendzone, and the work place. After years of saying “We want to overcome all the issues of meeting new people”, not just dating them, today Tinder will announce its fir...
Google Slides Now Lets You Present From Your Android Device To Hangouts Video Calls
Earlier this year, Google Slides — the company's PowerPoint competitor — gained the ability to cast presentations to any screen with Chromecast or AirPlay. Today it's expanding this feature by also l...
Disney, Time Warner, Fox, CBS, Viacom, other media shares down as investors worry about digital rivals like Netflix, Facebook
Disney, Time Warner and Other Media Shares Fall as Investors Worry About TV's Future — If ESPN is in trouble, is the rest of television burnt toast?
8i is a VR video platform that uses off-the-shelf cameras to stitch together 3D light fields
‘Come Invent This New Medium’: 8i Wants to Be Vine for Virtual Reality — Will we want to socialize in virtual reality? Maybe. Will we want to watch musicians and comedians performing for our enter...
Twitter Will Offer ‘Buy’ Buttons to as Many as 100,000 Merchants With New Shopify Deal
Twitter has been deliberate in its rollout of Buy buttons. But it's about to make a bigger splash. — The social network is in the process of integrating with Shopify and other e-commerce software c...
Why Google's antitrust deal with the EU fell apart
Google's $6 Billion Miscalculation on the EU — Why the search leader's antitrust deal fell apart August 6, 2015 by Brad StoneVernon Silver Share on FacebookShare on Twitter Source: Google As the glo...
You can now look up ER wait times, hospital noise levels and nursing home fines on Yelp
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Indian Health Search Portal Practo Lands $90M Led By Tencent For Global Expansion
Chinese internet giant Tencent is getting its tentacles into India's healthcare space after it lead a $90 million Series C round for medical search startup Practo. The startup raised $30 million in F...
Reddit Finally Bans Racist r/CoonTown And Other Hateful Communities, Updates User Policies
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Apple updates TestFlight app with support for testing native Watch apps and iOS 9 App Thinning
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Kantar: iPhone market share drops 2.3 points in the US to 30.5% but climbs in Europe and China
Lance Whitney / CNET :
Good Eggs Will Shut Down All Operations Outside San Francisco, Lay Off Nearly 140 Employees
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch :
Google Fiber plans service in San Antonio, its biggest city yet
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GoDaddy beats with Q2 revenue of $394.5M, but losses widen to $71.3M, missing estimates
Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet :
Leaked internal documents show Uber lost $20.4M in 2012, $56M in 2013, and more than $160M in the first half of 2014
and It Will Lose More Alex Hern / Guardian : Uber losing millions of dollars, documents reveal Nate Swanner / The Next Web : Here's why it's okay that Uber is losing a lot of cash right now Maya Kosof...
Fitbit shares sink more than 10% despite strong Q2 earnings of $0.21/share on $400M revenue
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A problem with AT&T's landline network is to blame for yesterday's cellular outage in the Southeast US
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Affirm Acquires Coding Bootcamp Lending Startup LendLayer
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EMC Considers a Buyout by Its Own Subsidiary VMware
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Samsung Kills Top-Secret Plan to Reinvent the Remote Control, Lays Off Boxee Staff
Janko Roettgers / Variety :
Target tests Bluetooth beacons in 50 stores to send customers deals based on precise in-store location
Brendan Klinkenberg / BuzzFeed :
YouTube ditches “301+” video view counter, introduces new method for keeping views up-to-date
Mike Beasley / 9to5Google :
Adidas acquires mobile fitness company Runtastic for $239M
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